About TV-Top Games
A new way to play tabletop games
Our Story
How TV-Top Games got started
Hi, we’re the Gayles! Board games are a huge part of our lives. We host game nights with friends, play with family over the holidays, and, honestly, we rarely travel anywhere without a suitcase packed full of game boxes.
Our favorite games are strategic ones—engine builders, worker placement, cooperative campaigns, and heavy trading games. We love how replayable they are; every match feels unique as strategies evolve.
But as much as we love these games, they come with a catch: setup takes forever, teaching the rules to new players can feel daunting, and, as a result, amazing games end up sitting on the shelf instead of the table.
That’s why we created TV-Top Games.
We wanted to bring board games directly to your TV using your phone or tablet as a controller. You get all the fun, laughter, and face-to-face social interaction of traditional game night without the headache of setup, teardown, or rulebook hunting.
“As a developer and an avid board gamer, I wanted to bring the game nights I love into a new format—one that keeps the magic of sitting around a table together without spending 45 minutes on setup and rule explanations.”
— Aaron Gayle, Founder
What We Build
Great platform tech, powered by tabletop passion
We’ll be the first to admit: our superpower is software engineering, not standalone game design. What we love building—and what we do best—is the tech platform itself: smooth TV casting, responsive phone controllers, automated rule handling, and creating multiplayer game options.
To showcase what our platform can do, we created our own initial catalog of digital games inspired by familiar tabletop mechanics, like area control, tile laying, wordplay, and worker placement.
We take intellectual property and creative original works very seriously. Every title currently on TV-Top Games features our own independent artwork, text, and code. No third-party publisher’s or designer’s official game is on our platform today, and TV-Top Games is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any other game publisher.
But our long-term dream isn’t just to make our own games; it’s to publish yours! We built TV-Top Games to give established board game designers and publishers a simple, modern platform to bring their official, licensed titles to digital screens everywhere.
Where We’re Headed
Bringing tabletop classics to your TV screens
While our own games show off what the platform can do, our ultimate vision is to serve as the digital living room engine for the entire board game industry.
TV-Top Games isn’t just another app store download, and it isn’t an online site designed purely for solo or remote play. It’s a completely new, shared-screen format. By putting the main board on the TV and private player hands on your smartphones, players keep their heads up, looking at each other, interacting, and engaging, preserving the active, social magic of a true game night rather than turning play into a passive screen distraction.
The best version of TV-Top Games, and the one we hope to one day have, is one that carries digital editions of your favorite games from the talented designers and publishers who make this hobby so special, compensating them for every sale.
We’re a small, independent team building a brand-new kind of platform, and building those publisher partnerships takes time. If you’re a game designer or publisher interested in bringing your official titles to shared screens, the door is open!
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We hope TV-Top Games helps bring your favorite people together for more face-to-face fun and less hassle.