Reddit reviews Folding Blank Game Board with Blue Pebble Cover

This probably isn't what you're looking for, but if your son loves making his own games, you may want to consider helping him put together a prototyping kit. It's nothing fancy. It can start with several packs of note cards, plastic card sleeves, markers, grid paper, chipboard (I save all of my cereal boxes), rulers, various types of cutting tools, and tons and tons of fun little widgets. You can order bulk bags of meeples and wooden cubes, and you can walk into Dollar stores and craft shops and find lots of things that can spark a creative mind. Some folks like to raid charity shops and yard sales for games to cannibalize for components. Everything from dice, to pawns, to chips, to little pewter Scotty dogs.

On top of that, there are some products available that are marketed as components they can be used for dozens and dozens of games, like the way a Poker deck (also called a standard French deck or standard 52 card deck) or Dominoes are. They are often cleverly designed with solid statistical underpinnings that can give you lots of neat ways to experiment with your own designs without having to do statistical distributions or spend hours coloring on cards. Here are some suggestions:

Looney Pyramids / Pyramid Arcade - the Pyramids come in three nesting sizes and many different colors. With a few "stashes" of Pyramids and some glass beads or a deck of cards, you can play hundreds of games and easily come up with your own. These are great ways to explore designing games and finding inspiration. The Pyramid Arcade is a box that contains a lot of "Greatest Hits" along with lots of fun components that work well together and can be used to play with new concepts and designs.

Piecepack / The Infinite Board Game - Piecepack is a similar toolset. Piecepack is to boardgames as Poker decks are to card games, or at least that's their angle. It's essentially a specification the lays out the types and values of the pieces, so anyone can make their own. The Infinite Board Game is a somewhat spotty mass market version that you can find on Amazon or at Barnes and Noble.

Decktet / Non-French Decks of Cards - I just wanted to point out that there are lots and lots of decks of cards out there that aren't the standard 52 card, 4 suit, 13 rank decks most folks know. Tarot (non-mystical) decks are a lot of fun to play with and have a long history. Most printing companies that print board games use standard dies that cut cards printed 56 to a sheet. You'd be surprised how many games on the market can be fairly easily broken down into a 4 suit, 13 rank, 54 card structure, and that's because the designer started with a deck of playing cards and a marker.

Blank Game Boards - After you move beyond drawing on graph paper, you can go to a board like this. Most of them have a glossy finish that you can often get away with grease pencil or even dry/wet erase markers. (I can't specifically vouch for the one linked.)

But really, for many people, the first bit of designing a game is about having an idea and enough stuff at hand to very rapidly get the idea out of your head and onto the table. I counsel the Game Design Merit Badge for Scouts and it's super fun to cut a group of young people loose on a table covered in components that are bristling with possibility.

This one has decent has decent reviews on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Folding-Blank-Board-Pebble-Cover/dp/B005T3NWOY/

https://www.amazon.com/Folding-Blank-Board-Pebble-Cover/dp/B005T3NWOY

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Combine with blank cards, your own blank folding game board, some neutral pawns, and/or a set with pawns, tokens, timers, and more, and you're set!

Need inspiration? Do a Little. Reading.

You should be able to buy some blank ones on Amazon. It depends on how many you need. This seems expensive if you need a ton of them but workable if you only need one or so.

http://www.amazon.com/Folding-Blank-Board-Pebble-Cover/dp/B005T3NWOY/ref=sr_1_31?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1462990083&sr=1-31&keywords=board

In reply to the above: you only need artistic skill. Let amazon handle the board.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T3NWOY

Try this
http://www.amazon.com/Folding-Blank-Board-Pebble-Cover/dp/B005T3NWOY

If you are just proto typing amazon sells blank quad fold square boards that you can cut down. Print out what you want at any print shop and attach. More professional look would be to print on sticky backed paper.

https://www.amazon.com/Folding-Blank-Board-Pebble-Cover/dp/B005T3NWOY