Boda Games Manufacturing Blog

The most important thing with a game box is to remember the main purpose of the box: to hold the items from your game. This actually sounds easier than it is in reality. Particularly when you have odd-sized and larger components, you need to account for the total volume they all take up inside the box.

As a general rule of thumb, your box should be at least 15mm bigger than the largest component in the game. 15 mm bigger in every single possible direction.

Your Boda Games account manager will send you the required templates once we know all the sizes, or you can use our template generator to make a template sized to your exact specifications. This way you can adjust the artwork to perfectly fit with the box size wise. If you are unsure about box sizing, please consult your account manager and they will help you calculate it accordingly.

For game boxes, the printed sheets also wrap around the sides of the box. Similar to game boards, this hides the raw cardboard material.

Therefore, they need to have 18mm of bleed on every side. 15mm of bleed is reserved for the wrap around part. Then the remaining 3mm is the standard bleed.

Dieline files need to be submitted separately from the artwork. Because the department that makes the dieline mold is separated from the printing department. For the dieline files, this can either be in individual dielines PDF files or as a spot layer file.