Garrity Games

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About Garrity Games

Learn how this blog blends industry commentary, design diaries, and updates on new original games.

A modern board game in mid-play spread across a dark walnut table, featuring a mix of colorful wooden meeples, chunky resource tokens, and neatly organized cards in protective sleeves. The central game board shows a detailed fantasy map with clear regions and paths. Soft, diffused daylight from an unseen window washes across the surface, creating gentle reflections on glossy card finishes and subtle shadows beneath components. Shot from a slightly elevated angle with shallow depth of field, the foreground pieces are in crisp focus while the background shelves of neatly stacked board game boxes blur softly. The mood is professional yet inviting, with clean photographic realism that emphasizes the quality and detail of the game components for a serious board gaming blog.
A focused close-up of an original prototype board game in development, featuring a sturdy cardboard board with clearly segmented areas, hand-cut but neatly aligned tiles, and sleeved cards with placeholder iconography. Small wooden cubes and discs in muted primary colors are clustered in specific zones, hinting at resource management mechanics. The scene is set on a clean white desk beside a closed laptop and a lined notebook filled with sketched diagrams, all slightly out of focus. Cool, indirect daylight from a nearby window creates soft, natural highlights on the components. Shot at eye level with a shallow depth of field, the composition emphasizes the prototype’s tactile details and conveys a thoughtful, work-in-progress atmosphere in photographic realism.

Behind the Games

Hi, I’m Chris Garrity, a lifelong board and card gamer turned indie designer. Here I share industry thoughts, deep dives into card and trick-taking games, and a transparent look at my game creation journey and original releases.

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Milestones

From first prototypes to polished releases, follow a clear timeline of playtests, rule overhauls, art passes, and launch milestones that map how each Garrity Games design evolves from napkin sketch to finished tabletop experience.

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A neatly arranged flat lay of card games and trick-taking titles on a light oak tabletop, featuring fanned-out custom card decks with distinct backs, a compact score pad with a sharpened pencil, and tidy piles of colorful plastic and wooden tokens. The composition also includes an elegant fabric playmat with subtle patterns beneath the cards. Soft studio lighting from above creates even illumination, minimal glare, and crisp, readable details on the card faces without showing text. The image is captured straight down in a bird’s-eye view, with precise alignment and balanced negative space around the edges. The atmosphere feels organized, analytical, and professional, ideal for illustrating strategy discussions and reviews on a specialist card and board game blog.
A designer’s board game development workspace on a large, matte black table, featuring multiple iterations of a game board laid out side by side: one vibrant, professionally printed playtest board and two earlier, simpler paper versions with clear geometric zones. Around them lie organized trays of custom wooden tokens, blank cards awaiting ideas, and a transparent plastic container holding dice of various shapes and colors. A grid cutting mat with a metal ruler and precision knife sits near the edge of the frame. Overhead, neutral-toned studio lighting illuminates the scene evenly, minimizing harsh shadows. Captured from an angled top-down perspective, the composition feels methodical and professional, highlighting the iterative process of board game design in a clean, photographic style.