How We Make Games at TV-Top

Updated October 2026

We're Aaron and Natasha, and we love board games. We built TV-Top because game night at our house kept running into the same problems: long setup, longer cleanup, and friends who wanted to play but didn't want to sit through a rulebook first. So we put the board on the TV and the hands on everyone's phones.

What we make

The games on TV-Top are our own, built for a TV and a room full of phones. Some are in genres you'll recognize: trading and building, drafting, engine building, word games, cooperative adventures. That's because those are the kinds of games we love to play. Mechanisms and genres belong to everyone. Designers have always learned from each other's games, and the hobby is better for it.

What we try to bring is what only this format can do. Your hand is truly hidden on your phone. The board lives on the TV, where everyone can see it. The TV does the setup, the bookkeeping and the scoring, so the table can focus on each other. And some things that would be impossible on a table become possible, like cards that are made the moment you draw them, so you never see the same one twice.

We draw our own art and write our own rules, and we keep working on our games to make them more our own.

Where we want to go

Our dream is to bring official versions of great games to TV-Top and pay designers on every sale. We're actively working toward that. If you're a designer who holds the digital rights to your game and you'd like to see it on the TV, we'd love to hear from you.

And we still buy and play the physical games. Nothing beats a great game on the table. We just think the TV deserves a few too.