Figma is a popular design tool because of its ease of use and great user experience. But many people may not know that Figma is capable of more than design. I recently discovered that the Figma community has many games you can play, and in this article, I’m going to tell you about six classic games you can play with your team.

What is the Figma Community?

To those unfamiliar with the Figma community, I explain that it is a place where Figma users can share projects, plugins, widgets, and files, as well as download and use them.
In addition, users can also interact with each other through comments.

Pong

Creator: Caleb Denio

​​Here is a Figma version of Pong, the famous game released in 1972 by Atari. Move the arrows on the keyboard and play against the computer. The game works as a plugin.

Pong by Caleb Denio

Figma Catan

Creator: Not Karl

Catan is a famous multiplayer board game introduced in 1995 and has since become very popular worldwide.

The game’s objective is to build villages and cities and expand them by collecting resources (wheat, sheep, and stone) and trading them with other players and opponents.

It’s a great digital version built with Figma. You’ll need to duplicate the file and install two plugins to play it. No worries, the instructions are in the file.
If you work remotely, it might be a good idea to play it with your team.

Figma Catan by Not Karl

Figma Checkers

Creator: Nate Greenwall

Checkers is a popular game worldwide, and here there is a version built in a Figma file. Two players can play the game, so why not invite one of your teammates to a game?

Figma Checkers by Nate Greenwall

Backgammon

Creator: Mais

Backgammon is a board game of strategy for two players and is one of the world’s most popular board games. In this version, you will need to duplicate the file and use a plugin to throw the dices (The link to the plugin is inside the file)

Besides the great idea of building the game, the creator used auto layout to organize the tokens on the board, and it’s cool to see how he used the auto layout feature for it.

Backgammon by Mais

Snake

Snake is a game that was very famous on mobile phones at the end of the 90.

If you are unfamiliar with it, a snake eats food in the game and tries to avoid colliding with the wall or its body.

I found in Figma two versions:

Left: Snake For Figma by Antonio Serrano Martín | Right: Retro Snake by Stevanus Satria

Rock Paper Scissors

Creator: Alex Einarsson

A great Figma widget for playing Rock Paper Scissors with your teammate.

Rock Paper Scissors by Alex Einarsson

How to find games in Figma?

You can find a game in the Figma by:

1. You can search general words like games, card games, etc.
2. You can search for the exact name of a game, maybe you’re lucky, and someone built it.

Here’s one thing I want to tell the junior product designers

I want to point out that as I wrote this post, I was thinking about junior designers searching for their first job in the industry. From my point of view, you can use your creativity, and creating a classic game in Figma can give you confidence and a positive view in design managers’ eyes.