PNP Friday for April 10, 2026 - What I Love About Teenyville. Plus PNP news.
Jason plays through one of the Gamecrafter contest finalists. Plus all the new print and play games you may have missed.
Welcome to Print & Play Friday! It’s April 10th and we’ve got a fresh batch of print and play news and games for your reading (and playing) pleasure.
Table of Contents
Main Feature: What I Love About Teenyville
New Games This Week
Community Spotlight: Building Custom Dice by Out Of The Box
Crowdfunding News (PNP Previews & Campaigns)
Where Are They Now?
What I Love About Teenyville
JASON GREENO // APRIL 10, 2026
While browsing The Game Crafter’s new print and play focused website, PNP Hero, I stumbled across a neat 2-player real estate developer-themed game. Teenyville (designed by RoRo Games) pits two players against each other in a ‘ruthless area control game’ with the goal of earning the most victory points.
Components You Will Need
Let’s get this out of the way from the start. Teenyville requires colored pencils, markers or erasable markers (if you sleeve the page in a sheet protector or laminate it). I grabbed this pack shown below at the Dollar General for $3 and think I’ll get good use out of them for future roll & write style games (I’ve got a Starcraft inspired roll & write game that I’m designing that will definitely use some of these!).
Additionally you will need 6 groups of 4 cubes (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple). A couple of extra cubes or meeples to track your score. A small bag and a 4-sided die (or you can use a 6-sided die like I did and just reroll when you get 5 or 6.
Ready, Set, Build!
After a quick setup (each player fills in two roads—creating a variable game state) you are off to the races deciding to either develop a piece of land as a Public space (with parks, lakes or roads) or as a Private lot (for you to build cubes on). It’s an interesting choice out of the gate because while you still have to pay for the lot either way, if you position your Public regions in a clever way you can discount regions you want to buy later (adjacent roads decrease the neighborhood’s land value) or increase the value of your existing property (adjacent parks and lakes increase the land value).
Gameplay
As I was thinking about my strategy I noticed that the victory points are awarded in (mostly) reverse value compared to the cost of each property type (cube) you build. So a Residential cube only costs 1K to build BUT only offers 1 VP at the end of the game. To score the most you’ll want to sneak in some Municipal and Industrial buildings IF you can build them adjacent to their preferred Public land type (Roads for Industrial and Parks for Municipal).
There’s some risk and reward centered around when you choose to complete a region (with cubes on all of the available building zones) because a full region is subject to maintenance costs if the roll of the die doesn’t go your way.
Pace and Prospect
The game moves quickly and comes to completion when both players have run out of cubes. This make Teenyville not over stay its welcome and justifies its light thematic rules.
If I had one request it would be for the game to include a touch more player control over who can build where. Since a player can build anywhere as long as they are building adjacent to a marked region, it makes it hard to preplan the use of Public lands (to drive costs down or up) without fear your opponent will swoop in to snag the property you are setting up to buy on a following turn. I wonder if allowing a player to take two actions during their turn wouldn’t be a fun variant in this way?
Where to get your copy? (It’s free!)
You can find the downloadable print and play at The Game Crafter’s print and play website, PNP Hero.
Hope you enjoy. I’d love to hear your thoughts at our Discord channel.
Each week we share the new releases in the world of Print and Play. Here’s what’s new this week:
We’re going to start with two games that are not necessarily new, but newly posted at PNPHero / The Game Crafter:
Everyone has been asking about Grey Gnome Games / Jason Glover’s PNPs and Desolate is the first to pop up. It’s available now for $3.99.
There had been no communication with station 04 on the distant moon X483. A rescue mission was mounted, and you were on that ship as it lost use of its controls and crashed but meters from the station’s entrance. After the smoke cleared, you realized you were the only survivor.
You made your way into the station in hopes of finding help, only to be shocked by the horrors within. You are alone. You must escape. You must survive... Link.
9-Card Rally Run: A solo rally racing game played in 30 minutes with 9 cards, a car and 6 dice. Drive through all 9 road cards and cross the finish line with the best possible score. Roll 3 dice to determine your movements and make strategic choices to optimize your speed and safety. Link.
Dungeon Pages: Underboss - Vilsa LaPree: The year-long set has been updated with the newest boss and dungeon. What the heck is a whelk? The internet says A whelk is a predatory marine snail—a gastropod mollusk—characterized by a spiral shell and a muscular foot used for movement and hunting. Actually that sounds pretty intense. Now imagine having a cosmic being take possession of one of these sea creatures and that’s what you get to play as this week with the Corrupt Whelk! Link.
Battle Pages - Kingdom of Gallisen Marching Order 3: This is it folks! The last kingdom in the year-long Battle Pages series. The Demon Lord has arrived and its up to you to field an army that can repel the evil forces. Each month introduces a new sheet, but each week changes up the enemy’s marching order to push you to try out new strategies. Link.
Publishers / designers submit your new PNP releases here: PNP Arcade Submission Form.
Building Custom Dice with Out Of The Box
Everyone has their own approach to making PNP cards, but what about custom dice? Out Of The Box uses wooden cubes and some markers to fill in the edges. Check it out below.
Here are a few PNP-related crowdfunding campaigns that we thought you might find interesting:
75 Interesting Print & Play Games from Joshua Mason. This one is wild. 75 PNPs for $75. And then it gets even wilder from there. According to Joshua: “And not only that, but as a backer of this campaign, you will automatically get a FREE copy of all new games I make in the future. Awesome!” Link.
Fomoria – Epic Folk Horror Roleplaying is slaying on Kickstarter right now. $171,000 and going strong with 12 days to go. And the art is so good. From the publisher: Fomoria stretches endlessly, a labyrinth of shifting tunnels and yawning caverns. Maps are lies, memories betray. Familiar paths twist. The promise of discovery leads to wonders and doom. Link.
Shinobi Spy & Supply (Kickstarter Preview) From the publisher: A small card game about 2 competing shops that sell all the gear Japanese fantasy spies need for espionage! However, when your clientele are Ninja, there’s literally spies around every corner. Will your shop be the most successful? A game for 1-2 players and 20-30 minutes, featuring multi-use and double-sided cards, set collection, resource management, a unique scoring system, and a knife-fight-in-a-phone-booth feel. Score points for both your tableau of customers, and the spies that you've sent over to your opponent's shop! Gain an advantage by playing the best cards to your tableau and spying on your opponent at the right moment. Link.
Submit your PNP crowdfunding projects here:
PNP Arcade Submission Form.
Are you looking for your favorite publishers from PNP Arcade? Check out this list.
New for this week:
Nathan Meunier has shared a link to his site, which features many of his games in both physical and PNP. You can grab Doom Machine, Mindbenders, Hot Garbage and more at doomthoughts.com. Link.
And some previous additions to the list:
Alexander Shen: If you’ve never played Quests Over Coffee or any of Alexander’s other fun games, be sure to check out his stuff on Itch.io. Link.
Button Shy Games: With hundreds of games on PNP Button Shy started uploading games on Itch.io and The Game Crafter. Expect regular releases of the older library of games as well as new content to come. Itch.io Link. The Game Crafter Link.
Cezar Capacle: Brazilian game designer, graphic designer, architect and musician. He’s been creating unique games for the past five years, on a variety of genres. Link
Clearly Sharp: Home page for Daniel Young, the designer of Gem Getter and Forest Floor. Link
Daws of Darkness: The Lost Village and its mini-expansion are now available at itch.io. The thick line art style of these co-op games really makes them stand out. Link
Epic Endeavor Games (Jason Greeno): The independent games by JG can be found on his Patreon page. Link.
Grimscribe: If you are looking for the year-long Grimlore series, you can find those here. Publisher Website. PNP Stash.
Jack Neal Games: Jack’s games about power, value, and systems (Rust and Revenue and Charters: Profit Through Public Works) are now available at JackNealGames.com. Link.
Kealf Games: The new location for all things from Kelvin Soong of Kealf Games. PNP Stash Link.
Mark Tuck: Mark has brought his collection of PNPs (from the beloved Orchard to Pocket Aquarium, and many more) to the Game Crafter. Link.
PNP Arcade Publishing: For everything Dungeon Pages (and more to come) check out the PNP Arcade page at Itch.io. Link
Shiny Pigeon Games: PNP Arcade previously hosted Around The World In 15 Minutes, but at their site you can pick up Starfront Scouting Academy and the Packing Party series of games. Link.
We Heart Games: The Itch store for Mike Berg’s games (Crownfell, Exobase, Exoship) has the entire catalog of games. Link.
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