Guides
How a card game gets made and printed, written to be useful whether or not you ever open Boardsmith. The documentation explains the app; these pages explain the work.
| Prototyping a card game | Which columns to start with, paper and scissors, and what to ask at the first playtest |
| Tabletop Simulator decks | Atlas sheets, backs and saved objects — and where the images have to live |
| Files for a print shop | The Game Crafter’s numbers: 300 DPI, ⅛ inch of bleed, one image per card |
They are in the order a project usually meets them: a table of numbers, a deck on a virtual table, a box of real cards. Looking for how a particular part of the app works instead? That is the documentation.
Boardsmith is a card deck editor for macOS and Windows. The editor is free — no card limit, no watermark, no account.
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