A board game designed to be played at family dinner tables to ensure children stay away from screens is among projects from New Designers.

Tabletop games had a massive influence on video games in 2021, from deckbuilding roguelites, to dungeon-crawler adaptations, to turn-based strategy titles on Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, and more.

Amabel Holland, a forty-one-year-old board-game designer from Dearborn, Michigan, believes that a chance discovery at a comic-book store saved her life. In 2010, she wandered into the shop with ...