>Chaya Nisarga is also working on new designs such as hand-made cloth that replaces cardboard along with wooden pawns. This cloth can be rolled and slid into a pouch. The board occupies minimal space and is easy to carry. Apart from this, the attractive and colourful game boards can be hung on walls as well. They can be washed and ironed too.
http://www.bfirst.in/news/sports/14749/time-roll-dice
Are the Indians right?
Are cloth boardgames the way to go?
>Inb4 poo in loo
Makes you think
>>51260413
Let's extrapolate on that. Game board on a cloth takes minimal space, yes. But you still need to carry the cloth. Why not put the game board on something cloth-like you would be carrying anyway. Such as - clothes.
As for the game pieces / pawns. Perhaps you could re-purpose buttons. Or detachable zippers.
>>51263540
I don't want to have to game shirtless.
Not too farfetched, I used to own beach towels that had tic-tac-toe and checkers boards on them with plastic pieces in a travel bag.
>>51263540
Why would you play boardgames using somebody's sweaty shirt?
>>51260413
I didn't realize this was a new idea. I've been printing gameboards on cloth for years. I've done multipurpose boards like Chess and Go, copies of official boards for easy transport, and variant boards like a two-player Tigris and Euphrates or a Chaos in the Old World board that can actually be read in the low light of the pub.
When I was living in the US, I used spoonflower.com to print them. Now that I live in the UK, I use printmepretty.co.uk . I've had good results with both companies.
I actually have a game in metal and cloth, Dragoon. It's fun, although the cloth board honestly feels like more of a gimmick/alternative than a real improvement over a hard, solid board.
The game does have some cool space saving innovations though, like the victory track being printed on the bag you store the whole game in.