‘Board’? Create your own DIY game

Updated On: 31 December, 2023 06:28 AM IST | Mumbai | Christalle Fernandes

mid-day gets Zain Memon, the creator of popular political game Shasn, to tell us how to conceptualise your own boardgame to play during the holiday season

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Creating your own board game is easy. Pick a defining theme, mix in rules from existing games, and above all, have fun creating!

Every year, when this writer’s young cousins fly down for the Christmas holidays, the most important ritual is creating a game that will last the duration of the holidays. Though it seems tedious and labour-intensive, building your own DIY game is actually all fun and games, literally and metaphorically speaking. As Zain Memon, co-founder of Memesys Culture Lab and designer of political game Shasn, puts it, “There’s fundamentally no difference between a trained game designer and someone who wants to build games. Everyone knows how to have fun.”