HIHI I'MI'M TAMTAM

I’m an artist, engineer, and game maker. Growing up in Burma where board games were hard to come by, making games was a creative outlet for me. Playing and play-testing games was something I enjoyed doing with my cousins every weekend during my teens.

Board games led to digital games and an early career in tech, where I developed software for financial and government institutions. With the intent of incorporating my passion for games into my profession, I co-founded Neuronic Games, a tech company that creates digital games for museums and educational institutions. I also co-founded a board game publishing company, UP Games, with the goal of bringing unique and innovative titles to gamers and non-gamers alike.

I currently live in New York City, where I organize gaming events targeted at people new to board gaming. I also serve on the board of Unpub, where I help new game designers bring their games to market.

BOARD GAMES GAMES

AVAILABLE NOW

LEGO/Dotted

Build your way to victory brick by brick.

Game and a Curry

A villainous base building game.

COMING SOON

Office Dog (2025)

Manipulate the properties of the universe to build the most beautiful galaxy — it doesn’t get any bigger!

UP (2025)

A quick, app-driven auction game for two rival flower shop owners.

Push Push Penguins

Wise Wizards (2025)

A pushy race for second place.

Inle

Play to Z (2026)

Lead a balanced life and make a living growing crops on floating farms.

(unnamed)

CMYK (~2026)

Play with probability by changing the path of dropping marbles.

(unnamed)

Friendly Skeleton (~2026)

Cooperative party game where you make imaginary words to describe your image.

LOOKING FOR PUBLISHERS

Contact me for details on the following games.

Spacetime

Navigate through multidimensional spacetime to explore the galaxy.

(Kristina Hedbacker, TAM)

Gnus

Guide your herd of gnus around the Serengeti in its annual migration — beware the deadly river crossings!

(David Gordon, TAM)

Reap!

They want your land. They want your crops, minerals, and cows. Colonization — with a twist!

(TAM)

Hero

Amass followers and liberate territory from the warlords in epic kung fu battles.

(Dave Beever, David Gordon, TAM)

Weighted Words

Give clues to help balance the scale using visually identical weights to win together.

(Danielle Reynolds, David Gordon, TAM)

Backyard Bugs

A cute, area-control game of bugs preparing for a party in the backyard.

(TAM)

Relic Scavengers

Twenty-questions + multi-player battleship + bingo. (Finalist for 2022 Cardboard Edison Awards)

(TAM)

Spooky Hallway

Escape the infinite corridor using magical door, while avoiding the ‘big bad’.

(David Gordon, TAM)

Bluffing Uncle Pennytop

A speedy real-estate game of quick wit, greed, and deception — with cats!

(David Gordon, TAM)

3-2-1 Goby!

Push your luck — and push others off ledges — as your school of goby fish races to the top.

(David Gordon, Elene Fengometidis, TAM)

Moon: 1969

Alternate-history base-building on the moon.

(TAM)

RECOGNITIONS

MUSEUM EXHIBITS EXHIBITS

I design games and playful experiences for museums. Below are some of my past projects.

CMH
Dance Cardio

Learn how dance activity affects your heart rate.

Children’s Museum of Houston, TX (2023)

Mars Navigator

Learn simple programming as you guide a robot around obstacles.

Qubein Children’s Museum, NC (2021)

Discovery Mine
Mine Hunt

Explore a potash mine in 3D and perform a safety check.

Children’s Discovery Museum, Saskatchewan (2018)

Agent Rescue

Learn about cardinal directions and following verbal instructions as you guide your agent to safety in this multiplayer game.

The DoSeum, TX (2018)

Power Grid

A multi-player real-time game  where players attempt to keep the power grid up.

The Clay Center, WV (2017)

Errand Race

Race around the city and learn how sometimes riding a bike, or walking is better than riding a car.

Center of Science and Industry, OH (2013)