Every Tile Tells a Story.
Yours Begins Here.
A smart tabletop tile that detects your miniatures, narrates the adventure through light and sound, then connects to your friends' tiles to bring your own adventure. No screen. No rulebook. Just play.
Join The Expedition What's in the BoxWhat is Tiny Expeditions?
A Dungeon That Thinks,
Speaks, and Grows.
Each tile is a smart room — it detects your miniatures, runs the rules, and tells the story through light and sound. Bring your friends' tiles and snap them together: the dungeon expands, the adventure deepens.
Place & Play
A custom PCB engineered beneath the terrain. Miniatures are tracked by magnetic sensors. LEDs, speaker, and microphone shape the physical experience. Every move is registered by the ESP32. Under the hood →
An Invisible Game Master
Markdown scenarios are interpreted by an embedded JS game engine for branching storytelling and combat logic, with cloud AI infrastructure to elevate and persist the experience. Write your own →
Snap Together, Grow Together
Rooms connect through smartlinks, daisy-chaining power and data to expand the map, while the community expands the universe with new 3D shells and custom campaigns.
One Engine, Infinite Worlds
A Living Diorama That Transforms Into an Adventure
On your shelf, it's a breathing art piece — day/night cycles, ambient sounds, subtle light animations. A "book nook" that lives.
Open Platform
We are not building a closed catalogue of 3D worlds. We publish an open integration spec — dimensions, connectors, mounting points — so the existing ecosystem of terrain makers and scenario authors can bring their universes to life on our platform. The goal is not to replace them. It is to give every creator a smart stage. Explore the creator program →
Cloud Companion
Lea, Your Tactical Sidekick
Lea is not in the current tabletop demo yet. She is the next layer: cloud memory, tactical context, and a persistent companion across your sessions.
The Living Artefact
The board doesn't reset when you shelve it. Your tile, your hero, your loot — persistent forever.
One PCB, One ID
A unique factory ID, bound to your account. Traceable. Tradeable. Forever.
Living Artefact
The tile has memory. Play it, it brightens. Neglect it, it sulks. Your battles, stored on-board.
Persistent Characters
Stats, scars, inventory — your hero grows across every scenario, synced to the cloud.
Loot That Stays
Win a scenario, earn an artifact. Registered to your hero. Rarity tiers. Trade markets.
More Than a Game
A Platform Built Around You
Every tile is a room, a canvas, and a collectible. Play it. Paint it. Trade it. Share it.
Play
Plug in and start. The tile runs the scenario — solo escape, co-op raid, or competitive dungeon crawl. The AI is your game master.
- Solo, co-op, or competitive
- Campaigns & one-shots
- AI-driven narrative
Collect
Each tile has a unique factory ID. Loot cards ship with every box — monsters, items, abilities, with rarity tiers. Hunt, trade, complete your sets.
- Rarity tiers on cards
- Trade with other players
- Quarterly themed LootBoxes
Craft
The scenery is yours to shape. Paint it, mod it, 3D-print your own designs. The PCB is universal — the art on top is your creation.
- Paintable scenery & miniatures
- Custom 3D-printable skins
- The hobbyist's playground
Share
Everyone brings their own tile. Snap them together at the table — the dungeon grows. Like the era when you brought your console to a friend’s place: same spirit, on a table.
- Each player owns a piece of the world
- Community mods & scenarios
- The more players, the bigger the adventure
What's in the box?
Your First Expedition
Your starter box is not just components in cardboard. It is a ready-to-play scene with collectible depth, maker potential, and room to grow every quarter.
Current plan: 1 smart tile for your first playable setup.
Place your miniatures directly on the board with stable magnetic positioning.
Mixed sizes to connect your board with additional tiles and setups.
Download the STL files and the launch scenario content.
Be Part of the Build
Join the Founding Crew
Three ways in. Pick the depth that fits.
The Scout
Watch the build from the outside.
- Public devlog — occasional posts
- Prototype photos & milestone updates
- Early announcements before social
The Explorer
On the journey, not just watching it.
- Full build diary — subscriber-only archive
- Community threads & direct comments
- Vote on quarterly drop themes
- Priority access at launch
The Architect
You don't just back it — you build it.
- Early devkit — pre-production hardware, shipped before public launch
- Monthly dev session — small group, direct feedback loop
- Vote on platform direction
$30/yr is Substack's minimum for paid plans — and a deliberate filter: Explorers want the full build story, not just the highlights. The Architect tier ships real pre-production hardware — not a perk, a contract: you test it, you break it, and share feedback.
Honest Answers