Design
Rules, factions and pacing, prototyped in paper and cut hard. A mechanic that does not survive a table of strangers does not survive at all.
Independent game studio
We design, we publish,
we play
Beam Studios is two people in Barcelona making tabletop games with something to say. Every part of it happens in-house.
Our first game
Who Killed Mr. E
“Unfortunately, not only a game.”
A card game of protest and social criticism for up to 5 players, where bluffing, politics and hidden agendas expose how difficult it is to challenge the powerful.
How we are set up
Every part of the game, in-house.
Illustration
Every card painted by hand rather than assembled from stock, so the whole game speaks with one visual voice.
Publishing
Crowdfunding, manufacturing and fulfilment are ours. No external publisher sets our schedule or softens our subject matter.
Who Killed Mr. E is coming to Kickstarter.
We post work in progress as we go — paintings, prototypes and the rules we had to throw away.