Seaport Games enjoyed Pet Lover’s Day! The weather was perfect in sunny Sequim. We loved watching the constant parade of pets in Carrie Blake Park.
Kids of all ages played with our 3D printed games. Balance Blocks was a big hit. FourScore sold out.
Here are some pics of the 3D printed pets.
Seaport Games will be at the Holiday Market at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles on Saturday, December 13 from 10-3pm. Save the date! Look for the event on Facebook.
We will have special holiday themed ornaments and toys and unique gifts. Come see demos of our 3D printed games and indie card games. Hope to see you there!
Seaport Games will be a vendor at Pet Lover’s Day on Saturday, September 13, 2025. The free, family friendly event will be held in Carrie Blake Park in Sequim, WA from 11am – 4:00 pm.
Seeaport Games will have a booth to demonstrate our new 3D printed games and toys and our card games. We’ll debut new pet-themed toys, too!
Pet Lover’s Day celebrates our furry family members and supports the local nonprofit PetEmergencyGroup.org.
Check out the list of events. Hope to see you there!
Seaport Games is expanding into 3D printed games and toys. There are many fun and interactive games and toys available to print for general hobbyists and commercial businesses. This is just the starting point for Seaport Games. We are building our own game and toy designs using a 3D CAD program and will have new projects to preview here soon. It’s much faster to prototype and test game and toy designs this way. The best part is everything is built in the USA.
This desktop game is easy to learn and the whole family can play. it is very similar to the Tetris video game.
The goal of the game is to maintain the balance of the blocks on the base for as long as possible. Players take turns placing a block. The player who places the last block before the base topples wins.
3DPrinting
How does it work?
A 3D printer is a computer within a printer machine. First, load a file into the computer of the printer. Think of it like a recipe or a pattern of a 3D model. Add spools of filament – one for each color needed for the 3D model. Then tweak a few settings in the slicer.
Slicer
The slicer is a program or app that determines the amount of filament needed based on the recipe, slices the 3D model into many tiny horizontal layers, and shows how long it will take to print. There are ways to edit or customize the model and the various pieces of the project.
Print
During the printing process, a heated nozzle is slowly fed the filament, melts it into a tiny layer, and places it upon a heated plate in the machine. Each 3D model is built layer by layer. When the finished 3D model cools, remove the newly printed toy and enjoy!
Filament
Seaport Games only uses bio-based filaments from renewable resources in our 3D printed games and toys. Our games are good clean fun for your family and the environment.
Pirate Party Makes The Peninsula Daily News Sunday Paper
Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas and the Seaport Games story was featured on the front page of section B of the Peninsula Daily New Sunday paper on October 3, 2021. The article took the entire full page! This is an amazing amount of coverage for Seaport Games, a start-up business and the Pirate Party Kickstarter project. It is wonderful to receive this level of support from the community of Port Angeles and the entire North Olympic Peninsula. Everyone at Seaport Games is thrilled!
Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas is Launching!
Check out the Kickstarter project page now! You’ll see previews, reviews, play though videos, how-to-play videos and the rule book. Be sure to follow along. Thank you to those who have already backed the project. We have fun activities planned throughout the campaign!
The best way you can help make this game a reality is to back the project at whatever level is right for you. Every pledge helps. Share Kickstarter project link with your network of friends and family. We have social stretch goals to celebrate and reward hitting milestones such as 200 people joining the Pirate Party Facebook group. It’s easy and free!
My favorite part of designing a new game comes at the very beginning.
For my board game Be A Rockstar, I started with a theme I have a deep knowledge of – music.
All I needed was some inspiration, cardboard, a pencil, sticky notes, index cards, and a good eraser. Handmade games are fun, cheap, and easy to make. The image below is a very early example.
Handmade Game Board and Components
Take your creative spark, the inspiration for the game, and run with it!
Jot down a word or two that makes the game sound fun and exciting. The word that conjures up that feeling for me is “rockstar”. Sketch the board, cards, and other components.
Then think about the goal of the game. Will it be last meeple standing or most points or something else?
What game mechanics do you like?
Do you prefer the traditional board game where players roll dice and move tokens or miniatures? How about set collector or deck-building card games? Game maps for dungeons?
If the mechanics bog you down, keep it simple.
Sources of Inspiration
The inspiration for a new game can come from anywhere. Think about your favorite place or hobby. Trains and travel were the inspiration for the hit game Ticket to Ride.
Many people are inspired by being in nature. If you love the great outdoors, here are some new board games inspired by natural habitats: Cascadia, and Keystone: North America.
I bet you can name several games based on dragons, monsters or aliens, magic and wizards, space travel, and sci-fi themes.
What game or theme inspires you?
Customize and Modify Your Favorite Games
Take an existing game (simpler the better) and play it. Then tweak a rule or two and try the game again. How did game play change? Did it work? Do you like the game better?
As kids, we modified existing games all the time. We customized house rules to Monopoly, used handmade player tokens, and re-imagined game maps for Risk which kept the games fresh and fun.
Start with something you know. What games have you played that are now more fun after you changed an element or rule? What games do you already own?
Have fun messing with game rules and test things out. If you start with a card game, try combining rules from two different games into one new game. It could be a glorious disaster and a complete failure of a game, but you’re sure to have fun being creative and you will learn a lot in the process.
I’d love to hear about the board games you have customized and your source of inspiration for a new game.
TOP PHOTO CREDIT: Marge Rosen, Seattle, Washington.
