We're launching an online course with SKVOT

Board game studio boardova and pop-culture online school SKVOT are launching a course on creating board games! Wow? Wow! 

In this course, you'll learn to create board games, promote them, and make money. You'll master gameplay, player psychology, and testing methods based on the real-world experience of boardova studio.

Course duration: 13 sessions (live online meetings with instructors)

As a result, you'll have a game ready for publication, a concept document, rules, and a Selling Sheet that will allow you to present the project to publishers or launch your own crowdfunding campaign.

Course lecturers — the boardova team:

• CEO & Founder Zholud Dobrovolskyy will tell you who's who in the industry, the chain of game creation from idea to store shelf, and the player's experience.
• Lead Game Designer Volodymyr Kuznietsov will immerse you in the process of game creation and working through the concept and component base. He'll talk about game mechanics and their combinations, game psychology, and what makes board games great board games.
• Tech Game Designer Yaroslav Kifor will introduce you to technical tools that help create first prototypes, game testing, and balancing.
• CMO Maryna Pinkevych will break down promotion and pitching for original and studio projects and share the inside story of crowdfunding for board games.

Who is this course for?

For gamedev specialists and those who want to enter the industry: you'll learn to create and test game mechanics, quickly make prototypes without large expenses, and expand your expertise in the direction of board games.

For teachers, psychologists, and businesses: you'll create your own board game as a tool for teaching, working with clients or teams, and be able to use it for promotion or team building.

For beginners and board game enthusiasts: you'll figure out how to find an idea "from scratch" or implement your own and go through the entire journey from prototype to pitching to publishers, to create your game and start earning from it.

What you can do after the course:

• Turn a board game idea into a working prototype, instead of keeping it in your head.
• Design mechanics that work and keep the player's interest.
• Know how to spot a quality board game on the market and apply this to your own ideas.
• Quickly test a game and understand what's breaking in it and how to fix it.
• Create a digital prototype and basic game components without a large budget.
• Write rules that don't need to be explained for half an hour.
• Form the game's positioning and understand who to sell it to and how.
• Present the game to publishers, partners, or for crowdfunding.

Course starts — June 9 2026.

Details and registration: on the SKVOT online school website