What is this? Design Your Destiny: Running Out of Time is an interactive time travel story, multiple games and an activity book all wrapped up in one package. Throughout the story you’ll be asked to play a game using included components, but each game will be broken in some way. The book then provides insights and guidance on ways you could fix these problems. You’ll be asked to implement your own ideas and playtest your version of these games as you try to help our main characters through their story.

Read the Story:

Charlie and Natalie are chased by guards and some agents as they run around this futuristic city. They need to figure out a way to fix their time machine to get them back home. The story is humorous and action-packed and it has great characters and a fun plot! Amazing full page images accompany many of the chapters with art by Allan Ohr.

Fix the Games:

Every couple of chapters you’ll get to play a game as the main characters, Charlie and Natalie. But the games are broken and you’ll be guided on ways to fix each game.

Create new games:

After you play each game, you’ll notice that something wasn’t fun about the experience. It might be lack of player decision, or one player having an unfair advantage. The book then guides you on ways to fix these problems. At the start, the book really holds your hand and guides you, but it’s still up to you on how you want to fix it

  • Co-designed over 20 published games
  • Has taught board game design for over 10 years at Vancouver Film School
  • Has been in corporate training for over 15 years designing training material.
  • Wrote fiction for hundreds of newspapers across the world
  • Working on the Adventure Time RPG His most popular game, POOP: The Game, has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide.

Downloadable workbook that you can use forever. Sticker page replaced with page where readers colour in squares ontheir time machine.

Facilitator’s guide and slide deck so you can teach this out to a group! The entire course is already created for you!