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. “I was really frustrated that I couldn’t make games,” said Gyory, a doctoral student at CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute. “I realized I was surrounded by cardboard. I thought: ‘How could I make a game out of that?’”