the games maker

young ivan drago places first in a mail-in contest for board game inventors , only to be disappointed after receiving the grand prize of a temporary tattoo . however , he soon discovers his tattoo is permanent , prompting his father to reach out to ivans long estranged grandfather. soon after , ivans parents are lost in a balloon race , whereupon ivan is placed in a strict school , where classmates and teachers alike constantly show their dislike for him. ivan escapes the school to run away to his grandfather in zyl, the games capitol. once there , ivan learns that his tattoo matches a missing piece in the town jigsaw puzzle , and is a symbol of morodian , the man who stole the puzzle piece and is responsible for zyls downfall as the greastest game making town. ican runs off to confront morodian , who had been tracking ivan his whole life , and was responsible for the disappearance of ivans parents. morodian was puts ivan to work as his personal games maker, but ivan escapes with the missing puzzle piece and his parents , who morodian was keeping hostage. with morodian vanquish , ivan replaces the missing puzzle piece , hid father is reunited with ivans grandfather , and zyl is restored to its former glory