Everything here starts with the same thing: your life.
We help people connect more deeply with the ones they love — by turning the life you've already lived together into the game you play together.
Everything below starts from the same short form — your places, your people, your inside jokes. Fill it once and the studio can build any of these from it.
The Journey of Us™ — the boardgame
Your real places painted onto a 16″ six-fold board, challenge cards written about the people playing, and a path that retraces your actual life. Roll the purple die, land on the Tokyo proposal, hear the story again. Every card passes the Table Test — our published bar for what's allowed in the box.
See the Table Test →from $58
The Illustrated Storybook
Twenty-four pages of your story, drawn and casewrap-hardbound — messy typed memories in, an heirloom out. Kids find themselves on page one and negotiate for it at every bedtime after.
hardcover $59.99 · digital $24.99
Story Maps
Every place your story has ever been, hand-inked into one labelled map — with the two of you sketched into the medallion above your names. Eight ink-and-background pairings, printed at home in true 300 DPI.
digital $24
Expert Card Decks
Seven decks designed to engineer a specific kind of closeness — Date Night to Bachelorette to Family & Legacy — each following a deliberate arc: light opens, personal builds, heartfelt lands. Personalized to your table, standalone anywhere, or slotted into your boardgame. Every card passes the Table Test — our published bar for what's allowed in the box.
See the Table Test →from $29
Gift Cards
Delivers in about a minute, printed certificate and all. They tell their story, the studio does the rest — and you get credit for the most personal gift at the party without knowing a single anecdote.
from $58
Most decks are written once and printed a million times. Yours is written once — for you.
The Beacon Engine takes the life you hand us — your places, your people, the argument you still bring up — and builds a deck around it. Every card is drafted against a bar we publish, passed by a human editor, and read by YOU before it prints.
52 cards. One table on Earth can play them.
- ✓Held to the Table Test — our published bar for what a card must do
- ✓Every deck played at a real table before its format ships
- ✓A human pass on every card, every order
- ✓You approve all 52 — or we redraw them
Little extras
Small things that make the box heavier.
Add them at checkout with any game, or from your review page after approval — each one is written from the same story you already told us.
★ The Party Pack (all three, save $3)
$14.99
Trivia night + word search + crossword, all from YOUR story. The printable game night.
See a real sample →Personalized Trivia Pack
$6.99
7 rounds and 51 questions about you two, host guide included.
Word Search
$5.5
Your places and inside jokes, hidden in the grid.
Crossword
$5.5
Clues only your table can solve.
Journey Map Art Print
$14.99
Your year as an illustrated map, names in script — four print sizes.
Rush
$29
Jump the studio's creative queue when the calendar is unkind.
New Cards Club
$29/year
Fresh cards as your story grows.
coming soon
Misc · free
How well do you know each other?
A free 10-question mini-quiz built from a 2-minute form — trivia about the two of you, and a small taste of what a deck written from your life feels like.
Ordering for a date? Boxed games arrive in about 2–3 weeks — Rush runs ~10 days ($29).
- You approve every card before it prints
- Not right? We redraw it — or your money back
- Free US shipping
We're new — and you'd be one of the first. StoryBeacon is a small studio, and every board so far has been made by hand for someone we know. No stock reviews, no borrowed hype. Just this: you see and approve every card and the full board before anything prints. If it isn't right, we redraw it.
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