I’ve got a few boardgames from various kickstarters that came with build-in organizer (‘gametrayz’) …
I’ve also got a few boardgames that have more air than actual content, which kind of changes the problem from ‘not enough’ to ‘too much’ space for storage.

I think the problem is that boxes are designed to make shipping games easy.
There is either a magic minimum size (or maybe a factory standard?) that is supposed to make games look ‘big’ / ‘cool’ at retail.

As such ‘storage’ is the last thing on the list of things that they are designed for … so they tend to ignore it.
And it kind of sucks, because there are boxes with wonderful artwork that would look very cool if they could contain the game inside.

The insane amount of tokens and cards that (some) boardgames use also makes me wonder wether that is something manufacturers/designers do in order to make the game ‘worth its weight in gold’ …
I’m pretty sure that a lot of those tokens could be eliminated if they were to streamline the mechanics (do I really need a specific token for every status effect ?).

Which kind of reminds me of the idea that Warren had a while ago (I think it was before he moved house and was without internet) where he wanted to make a game with minimal rules.

Another way to eliminate clutter/tokens it to make an app that handles the rules … but I’m not a fan of apps that become essential for the game to work.

I haven’t had much time to work on my own app (and getting distracted by Cyberpunk 2077 … ), but I am hoping to have a little bit of me time this weekend.