Hi, my name is Stan van Rooijen

I'm an independent game designer from The Netherlands (Amersfoort). You may know me from Locus, The Royal Study and Losers, Wheepers! I would like to be in touch with publishers to market other game ideas and I'm happy to share some of my prototypes of which Oqido and Bon! are in the final design state (see below)

My mission

To reinvigorate the joy of leaning, by creating accessible, fun, unique boardgames.During my school time, my joy for learning slowly faded. Where as a kid I enjoyed leaning by playing; just doing and making mistakes. The goal oriented mindset of school (and later work) slowely took this joy away. This made me less creative, more anxious and even less productive... Luckely for me boardgames kept me in touch with a play oriented mindset. And the past few years I've let this mindset reinvigorated my life and in turn it has made me more joyfull, less anxious and more productive.Now Im designing boardgames with the intent to bring this play oriented mindset to as many people as possible.

Published boardgames

In Locus, is a flip and write game. The goal is to strategically fit shapes on your own scoresheet, to maximize your points!Publisher: Tuckers Fun Factory

The Royal Study is a two player puzzle game. Its a accessible and fun twist on the famous game of Chess.Publisher: HOT-Games

Losers, Wheepers! (Dutch: Ruilen = Huilen) is a social interaction, card exchanging game for 4 to 8 players.Publisher: 999 Games

Prototypes looking for a publisher

Oqido is an accesible two player abstract game. Like 'Connect 4' but with a little twist. Fun for beginners and experienced abstract thinkers.

In Bon! 1 to 6 players will solve Bongard problems. Visual logic puzzles with scaling difficulty.

Get in touch!

Stan van Rooijen
Appelweg 38
3818 NN, Amersfoort
The Netherlands
KvK-number: 71262024