Boardgame Pieces

So last Game Design class we were told to start on the "scariest thing," the thing we're most intimidated to do for our boardgames. For me and most other people, it was the game pieces, because people have a lot to make and they're all different from one another. The main methods most people are trying are 3D printing, which can be done at a few places around the state/country but vary in price, how long it takes, and technicality, or sculpting with Super Sculpey and then baking and painting them and making molds for duplicating multiple pieces. I tried the former, because my pieces are fairly simple and I only need 2 different kinds (one for each side).

I just wanted to sculpt the rough shape, size, and proportions of the pieces, so these aren't the finals I've planned out. The box was made out of paper and plastic (cut from the cover of a pack of water bottles, lol) to store them in for class, because the paint never dried and was still sticky. The 3D labs were apparently closed yesterday and the day before, which is why I didn't get to bake them and they were still rubbery 8\  I used a quick symbol from a sketchbook page (when designing the final pieces) for the cover of the box just to give it a design element. Also regarding the pieces, the ears and horns are for tokens, and the back side of each piece will have an engraving of the final "demon symbol" on it.

Here's a picture I did for the Rank 4 piece:

Even though I had previously decided that I wanted the hairy monsters to be on the red team and the goblins to be on the blue team - because it just felt like their natural colors - after this I realized that for readability, the hairy monsters should really be blue. I think I'm going to just do upper-body busts for each character because the stickers with the character illustrations are going to be pretty small, so a full-body would be hard to see.

For next class I'm gonna do more character illustrations and hopefully have my game pieces cut out of wood, and then I'm gonna make a mold of them to cast all sixty pieces in plastic. Gonna be fun! 8]