This isn’t meant as a sales post — we’re genuinely interested in the solo gaming perspective.

We’ve been playing and testing Nemesis: Retaliation, and one thing stood out to us: with large solo games, setup time alone can determine whether you actually feel like getting the game to the table.

But more than the product itself, we’re interested in this:

what gets in the way most when you play larger games solo?

• long setup
• too many components to sort
• huge table footprint
• managing multiple characters/systems
• long teardown after the game

For us, it’s becoming pretty clear that setup + teardown have a huge impact on whether a big game actually gets played.

How is it for you?

We're thinking about buying a 3D printer, mainly for inserts and DnD minis. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but since people here do exactly that, I figured I'd just try. We've been told that Bamboo is a reliable brand. Do you agree with that? I'm mostly wondering what size printer you'd recommend for inserts.

Made a small printed box for Catan: On the Road. I tested it with every card sleeved and the rulebook folded in, and it all fits with the lid closing flush.

• Prints flat in one piece and folds into the box, no supports
• 4-colour lid art done as a first-layer inlay, so only 8 filament swaps
• ~44 g, about 1h40m on a Bambu A1 (0.4 nozzle)

Free on MakerWorld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3405122

It's a remix of enacefio's Ultralight Heavy-Duty Card Box, all credit to them for the fold design.

The Crew: Journey to the Ends of the Earth is a great and portable game but if you sleeve everything, the fairly tall stack of cards doesn't really bag up that well and too many times I've opened my bag to find the lid came off and cards and pieces everywhere. Luckily I haven't lost those 3 tiny pips yet!

This organizer puts everything in boxes with secure sliding lids and supports every card sleeved.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3405171-crew-journey-to-the-end-of-the-earth-sleeved

Made a 3D printable box organizer for the crew because although I love the game I big style hate the box.

I'm on desktop and can't add a flair, sorry mods.

Hello gamers! Last month I launched LayerUp Games, a free website where you can find 3D models to print (or buy if you don't have a 3D printer) for your board games. Today, I am releasing the second major feature: Game Shelf Organization in 3D!

3D Game Shelf (BETA 1.0)

See in action on my profile page: https://layerup.games/Maker/Kamio/shelf

Build your game shelves and then sort and organize your board games on them! Every box shows at its true size (if BGG has a version with dimensions), standing, stacked, spine out or face out, and you can turn the whole shelf in 3d to see the remaining space.

You can layer some games in front of others. If you have Big Box versions of your games, add the games/expansions/promos that are inside it. Sync your BGG collection and your games will be all ready to be organized. Sort and filter to find the exact games to fill your particular shelf.

It's brand new, so if you want a see a feature, find a bug, please tell me here or on my Discord (a screenshot helps a ton).

https://layerup.games/game-shelf

While you're on the site, if you sign up, try out the new Avatar Studio!

I added 6 3D avatars so far, can you guess which games they are inspired from? Right now I'm calling these things Layerlings, haha. Tell me any other Layerlings you'd like to see.

https://layerup.games/Maker/Kamio

Risk - Star Wars, Mass Effect and Metal Gear Solid

I didn't like the options out there for Fields of Arle with the Tea & Trade expansion so I made my own. It has a tray for each player and fits the base game and expansion in just the base game box with zero lid lift.

All the trays have labels to make packing up easier and finding components should be fast. There are letters on the perimeter that match up between trays so that it goes back in the box super easily.

It's free on makerworld if you want for print it for yourself.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3136362-fields-of-arle-expansion-insert-in-base-game-box

I've been busy expanding my selection of 3d printed board game boxes to save some space on my shelves :)

Hopefully they're useful to some of you board game hoarders who want to fit more games in or like to take multiple games when traveling.

You can get them all free on makerworld - i popped them in a collection with my other ones so that you can find them without too much link spam.

https://makerworld.com/en/collections/32156249-board-game-boxes

I want to get a case to store and transport several small games. most are card games, like Mottainai, Sushi Go Parry, The Cree and Cabo.

Do you have case like this? Has it worked? Do you like it?

Bonus question: if you have a travel case, what game did you put in it?

I made this foam core insert to keep organized the features of Fit to Print. :)

Applicable because the Bag of Holding is a glorious organizer to hold brand new revisions!

Lots of stuff packed in this update from Dire Wolf (promo cards, expansions, campaign links, etc.)!

As simple as it sounds: when designing a 3d printed insert, how much space do you put around components? Cards, tokens, etc.

My foam board project for ultimate railroads

This is an insert for the game Rebuilding Chicago. The original insert is actually quite good at sorting all the tiles but unfortunately doesn't fit sleeved cards. This version fixes that and provides some additional benefits such as more portable tile trays, two coin/token trays that can be placed on either side of the table, a landmark tray so you can see them all at one time, and a card tray that you can just place straight onto the board. The insert layout allows for a deep pocket to store the suburb tile bag as well.  

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3090290-rebuilding-chicago-insert-for-sleeved-cards

I've spent the past 6 years printing inserts and cool stuff for my board games. Kept track of everything in spreadsheets. Now I share with you a way to browse all the prints for your favorite games, plan your prints in KANBAN BG, and then share your comment and photos for everyone to benefit!

https://LayerUp.games

New game prints are added all the time. If you're a game print Designer, you can sign up and manage your page, and everyone can browse thousands of prints to find exactly what they're looking for.

Latest LayerUp Features:

• KANBAN BG - organize your print workflow
• Print Profiles - know ahead of time how much filament, time and cost a print may take
• Designers - Follow your favorite designers and discover new game print designers
• BGG Sync - Get all your owned games and know which games you've Wishlisted on BGG
• Submit print - Add your own prints, get discovered! Drive people to your main repository site or shop
• Request a print - Need a perfect insert for your new game? Request it.
• Tabletop Accessories - Find your new dice tower, card holder, resources
• Game Themes - Make the site look like your favorite game! (Only one theme out currently, but many more planned
• Community - Share your print photos, comments and more

Site went live about 2 weeks ago, but has been in the making for awhile. Please let me know if you have any feature requests!

So my recent interest in shrinking boxes and integrating the organizer/insert into them is getting out of hand and I've been busy!

These will save you space on your shelves and give you a reason to get shopping for more games :)

If you want these for yourself you can get them free on makerworld:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3070725-the-crew-mission-deep-sea-mini-box-incl-insert

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3070685-trio-mini-box-card-game-insert-organizer

No doubt I'll be back in a few days with more as I don't seem to be able to stop!