Luckily our group worked well together and when we started our 2nd project we had near enough done most of the fundamental work involved to make our boardgame. Shaun was doing a fantastic job with the board itself (photo's below) and everyone else was getting on great with their assigned pieces. All the remained to do was the box (which was dependant on the board being finished and still needs to be made), manual, player pieces and research document. Myself and Robin made a start on the research file this week and got the hefty part of my psychology based research into it as well as some of the groups research too which is fantastic as that is the bulk of it out the way. I am working on writing an introduction and sorting out anything else that needs to be put into it (contents, videos etc).
Today we were getting on with making the totem poles and guard towers as well as the player pieces. Robin and Charlie had been busy creating these out of special modelling clay, cooked them over night and brought them in for painting today. Below you will find photographs that I took inbetween painting some of them so you can have a sneaky preview of what thy are going to look like. We all really love them. They have this beautiful home touch feel to them that really just fits the whole theme of the game.
Here is an example of a totem pole for our game. We painted them an overall colour of brown but this totem pole is for the "yellow" player who will be an Native American/Indian character. The yellow is to separate this players totem pole pieces to the other Indians totem pole pieces. The other Indians pieces will be red, as will their movable character. The brown is just a universal colour to keep all the pieces tied in together and not look crazy.
Here are the 2 Indian player pieces. As you can see (and relate to what I just said about colour co ordination) one is red and the other is yellow. This is so the player knows what piece they are on the board and what colour their totem pole should be. The Cowboys will be colour coded green and blue and the same will go for their guard towers; everything will be universally brown with the desired colour (blue, green, red & yellow) to signify different players.
Yeah, I think our faces say it all really...
GO TEAM SUPER AWESOME
The Board
I don't think I have shown any photographs of the board on
my blog yet, Shaun has been pretty secretive of it, only showing us brief
unfinished sections. These are photographs I stole from his blog. All credit
goes to him, he did the art work, designed and physically created the board out
of cardboard and heavy duty tape. The whole team thinks he has done a fantastic
job!
This is the board from behind all folded up as it will most likely appear in the box at retail. It folds out beautifully well.
Shaun decided that he wanted to make the board out of card,
then do the artwork separately on a different piece of paper, stick the two
together and laminate it with the paths over the top. Here you can see the
artwork (sort of) and the paths that go over the top. You can also see where
the turn tables will go.
The Research File
I am still deciding how to upload my research onto my blog,
I don't really want it to be a huge text heavy post because it's boring to read
and look at. Plus it's 30 odd pages long. I am contemplating using a file
sharing service to link you to the document itself but it still might be too
big. I also need to talk to the tutors to see if a file sharing site is
appropriate/can be opened from uni so that my work is visible. If this is
unacceptable then I will obviously just have to either cherry pick the best
bits of research and blog about them or link the entire document via file share
so that it can be downloaded and read if needs be. While I am on here and
writing about the research file and it's on my brain I want to write down a
small reminder section on what we still have left to do so that I can come back
to it when talking to my group.
- Contents page documenting who has done what in the research file
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Make sure there is a chapter dedicated to our test play and feedback videos (these will be uploaded into the 'miscellaneous' folder for submission, unfortunately I couldn't get them to upload to YouTube and post them on here)
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Write an introduction and personal summary of the project, collect everyones summaries and include them at the end of the project
- Write a contents for the game manual and any other things the manual needs
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