What size tiles do you want?

Square and Hex would be much more popular than circle, I would think.

As far as size goes I think somewhere around 2 inches is the sweet spot for me (give or take half an inch).

If you are making smaller tiles, you could use Carcassone as a standard square tile which is 1-1/2".

1-1/2 would be great for hexes too.

Hex tiles for sure. Settle of Catan size.

Oh man.. You guys are making me rethink the design I've been rolling around my notebook for the past couple days! I'm voting for squares and hexes, but all three shapes could be nice, though the current sticker chips are pretty good circles.

Size wise I agree with the above post. 1.5 to 2in AND a smaller size too to use as counters.

If these are going to be die cut from heavy stock board (like most cardboard chits) will it be possible to also order larger tiles, like the mats, made of this material?

If the single sided tiles would be unfinished chipboard on the non-printed side, I would rather have the option of double sided tiles even if the back side was just a printed logo or pattern.

have you started doing double-sided tiles yet? any chance that's in the near future?

I do. But if you´re going to use a die cutter ¿how do you make the blade cross themselves? I have done it by hand. The pro is less cuts and more tiles per sheet, and small triangles that could be recycled for tokens or counters. The con, a minimum error affects more than one tile.

I have recently made 150 hex tiles for a second proto. The first one was cut by aluminium ruler an cutter. The error is over 1mm.
For the second proto i used scissors and no rule. The result is almost perfect, less than 1/2 mm error. (apart of a certain pain in my fingers).

Anyway, for using a die cutter i thinks it´s better separate hex because you can include small circles or squares in the free space and get more pieces per sheet instead of waste.

I think that depending of the game, there should be no more than three sizes.

2,5cm for small hexes used as pawns

5 cm for hexes used as terrain tiles over a 60- 70 cm board, and many tiles

more than 5 for terrain tiles without board (Catan) and a few tiles.

The thickness of the tile is only important if you have to flip it during the game, if once placed you don´t touch it again, there´s no need for a 2mm cardboard.

But it´s true that a 2mm cardboard is near a DM fiber chipboard and so it´s more waterproof.

Once, a full glass of coke an bourbon fell over my Carcassone. I used a blanket and a hair dryer and the tiles remains perfect. You wouldn´t be able to say which ones were affected.

But is it worth for an autoedition?

I agree with the 1.5 inch size, similar to Carcassonne. Big enough, and small enough - long as they're thick enough. And ANY back-side printing is better than none... although full-color would be a wonderful option.

In case you are not offering them, I am over using 8"x8" tiles because that is the biggest board tile you can fint on a letter page. So if you do not support this, that could be a good idea.

Another thing I use is to split a letter page in 3 or 4 parts. In 3 parts it gives something like 8"x3.5", in 4 parts I think it's something like 5.25"x4".

I mostly use this for player/character sheet so they don't need a hard back necessarily.

My preference would be for either hexes or octagons. Is there anyone else that does octagons? If not, then that might be a growth niche for your company. An octagon tile would allow for north, south, east, and west directions, and for northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest directions, also. Because it doesn't seem to be all that common of a game tile, that would make it all the more unique, I think, and allow for more variety in the types of board games produced.

Even still, hexes would work fine, for me. I would much rather have hex tiles, than square tiles. That said, of no less importance to me would be to have some kind of mat or tray that can serve as a base for me to lay hex tiles on top of, and which would prevent them from sliding around. They wouldn't have to be all that big, as long as I could connect more than one of them, together, if I want to create a large playing area for a map/board game.

My personal board game design interest doesn't really lie with trying to create board games for profit. I don't have a desire to become an independent board game company. Rather, my interest is largely confined to trying my hand at creating some board games from scratch, for me and my son (and perhaps a few others) to play, together. Thus, I am more interested in what, from your perspective, might be viewed as prototypes, rather than in sizable production runs.

An inch or an inch-and-a-half tiles are probably too small for me. Why? Because, I feel that smaller tiles work better for games between adults, rather than for games where kids are participating. Also, because I am interested in miniatures/figures, larger tile sizes can better accommodate either a greater range of miniature sizes, or multiple game components placed within a given tile space.

Lots of companies make tiles, it seems. To me, what's really needed is a company that focuses on a base or foundation, whereupon tiles can be placed. Who likes a shifting board, particularly if the intention is for the various tiles to stay next to one another? If you can make such a thing, then perhaps you can make it fix with tiles produced by other companies, too, if there is anything resembling an industry standard, where tiles are concerned.

There are some really nice looking tiles on the market, already. There are also some fairly expensive tiles on the market, already, too. The actual material, I am flexible on. It is price and quality that will ultimately dictate my decision on what actual product from which actual company to buy.

Tiles less than two inches have virtually no appeal to me. Three inch or four inch tiles would likely be my first choice. It could be metric, as long as it is close to three or four inches. Most tiles that I see currently offered by companies tend to be lacking in choices, in the art department.

A little after the fact, I guess, but a little input, just the same.