Gambit – Chess & Board Game Generator for Blender

Gambit builds complete, photoreal chess sets and classic board games in one click: a real Staunton set on a walnut inlay board, a tournament club set on a roll-up vinyl mat with a digital clock, Morphy's Opera Game on a Dubrovnik set, a leather backgammon case, a kaya goban with slate and shell stones, a mahjong turtle or a poker night with chips.

Every piece is lathed from a real profile with crisp collars and beads, the knight is carved, and chess pieces stand on felt pads. Woods, marbles, felt and leather are photo textures from Poly Haven and ambientCG, with the grain turned square by square like real veneer. Everything is game-engine friendly: clean UVs, PBR materials, no procedural textures.

What it makes

• Chess: 13 piece patterns (Staunton, club plastic, Dubrovnik, Soviet, Regency, Lardy, Selenus, Bauhaus, Lewis chessmen, Art Deco, Modern, Onyx, magnetic travel)
• Chess boards: wood inlay with stringing, marble, folding with brass hinges, roll-up vinyl, folding card and glass, with coordinates
• Setups: start position, mid-game with captured pieces, endgame, the Opera Game, the Immortal Game, Scholar's Mate, or pieces knocked over and scattered
• Analog and digital chess clocks
• Checkers and 10x10 international draughts
• Backgammon: folding case, points, checkers, dice, cups and doubling cube, open or closed
• Go: table, floor and folding boards in 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19, bowls, lids and stones
• Mancala, Chinese checkers, dominoes (double 6, 9 and 12), ludo, snakes and ladders
• Mahjong: 144 two-layer tiles as walls, hands, the turtle or scattered
• Playing cards: stacked deck, fanned hand, solitaire, poker with chips, scattered
• Generic, unbranded game boxes with pawns, meeples, cubes, coins and a sand timer

How it works

• Pick a game and one of 51 designs in the Gambit sidebar tab, or press Add Random
• Change the setup, piece pattern, board and every material with picture buttons
• Randomize always gives a good-looking combination; Shuffle replays the mid-game and scattered layouts
• Every piece is its own object, so you can move pieces to stage your own position
• Copies made with Shift+D or Alt+D stay independent when you edit them

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.