About Game Tribe

We put the tribe together.

Game Tribe is an independent studio in Melbourne, Australia. We make strategy games with worlds worth getting lost in, and we build the tools that help every designer get theirs made.

An early paper prototype of Nataterra laid out on a kitchen table

How it started

It started with one world.

Game Tribe began with Nataterra: a world of four civilisations, built one rule, one map tile and one story at a time. Amir Kamal designed it as the strategy game he always wanted at his own table.

Taking it from a homemade prototype to a box on a shelf meant learning everything the hard way: art direction, rulebooks in six languages, die lines, factory proofs, a Kickstarter that raised three times its goal, and shipping to players around the world.

Fellow game designers together at PAX Australia

Why a tribe

No game is made alone.

Behind every box are designers, illustrators, 3D artists, writers, translators, playtesters and the people who show up to game nights. A game is only as good as the people it brings together.

That is the idea behind the name, and our mission: to put the tribe together. The people who make games, and the people who play them.

Afterfall being made in Game Tribe Studio

Why we are here today

We are building the road we walked.

Too many good games never reach a table. Not because the idea is weak, but because the path from idea to factory is long, technical and easy to get wrong.

So we turned everything we learned into Game Tribe Studio, a design tool that takes a game from first prototype to files a factory can print, and we keep making our own games with it.

What we bring

Games, tools and a table to share.

Games

Nataterra is out now, Afterfall is in development, and Nataterra Tactics plays free in your browser.

Tools

Game Tribe Studio: cards, tokens, punchboards, boxes and rulebooks, ready for the factory.

Community

Tournaments, playtest nights, free rulebooks in six languages and token trays to print.

The Game Tribe motto

Don’t chase your dreams, hunt them down.

Join the Tribe.

Early access to Game Tribe Studio, studio news, and the prologue and first chapter of Beyond Stone and Blood, a Nataterra story, free.

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