Cili Padi Games has landed in Sabah

My games are now available in my home town of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah! Salt x Paper is a stationery and gift shop in town, near the old Tong Hing supermarket. I need to thank Choon Ean from LUMA (designer of Kaki Lima, Bansan) for this connection. She recently brought some stock to KK, and I have just delivered some more too when I returned to visit my parents. So friends in KK, please visit Salt x Paper to look for Malaysian designed boardgames! Location on Google Maps

When I delivered the top-up stock, I took the opportunity to check out the shop. It has a lot of nice merchandise and souvenirs. Post cards, stickers, tote bags. Lots of lovely art work. Tourists will love this place. If I were a tourist I would have bought a lot of stuff. Most of the art is based on local themes. 

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Snow White and the Eleven Dwarfs are in stock at Salt x Paper now. So are several other Malaysian games like Furmation of Rome, Kaki Lima Downtown KL, Petal Plotters and Trishaw Frenzy. 

20 Apr 2025. I participated in a local art festival at KEDAI KL. It was a three day event, but this time I couldn't booth for the whole event. I was only there Sunday afternoon. 

The crowd wasn't very big. Most visitors were young people. This wasn't a boardgame specific event, so the visitors are the general public and not gamers or people specifically interested in games. It is good and also important to introduce boardgames to non gamers. This is something we in the local game industry need to work on - create awareness of and love of boardgames. 

I need to thank Trixie of The Lepak Game for this connection. She is releasing a new edition of The Lepak Game. It has a more compact box and also new art. 

As is my standard practice now, whenever I have the chance to promote local Malaysian games, I bring my bag of local games to showcase. This time I managed to sell a copy of Knights and Rebels for Nick. 

The presentation day for the STTOS Sabah game design competition was Sat 19 Apr 2025. I took a screenshot when I did my presentation. The judges gathered in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. I did not fly to my hometown to do the presentation, so I did mine online. I was physically in Kuala Lumpur. Some contestants including two of my friends Jon and Buddhima flew all the way to KK to do the presentation. They did a day trip.