Like many people across Colorado, Peter Gyory spent the height of the COVID-19 pandemic sitting at home with nothing to do. Then the researcher, a game designer by training, noticed all the random materials he had lying around his house. 鈥淚 was really frustrated that I couldn鈥檛 make games,鈥 said Gyory, a doctoral student at CU Boulder鈥檚 ATLAS Institute. 鈥淚 realized I was surrounded by cardboard. I thought: 鈥楬ow could I make a game out of that?鈥欌