My Game

I made a board game using CNC, laser cutting and 3D printing and designed prototype game rules. It takes some ideas from Chess, Catan and Quoridor.

You start with a lord on the edge of the board and the first player to get their lord to the center wins. You gain money when your pieces occupy coin tiles. Coins are used to buy pieces and walls so you can expand and get your lord to the center.

I 3d printed all the pieces which allowed me to make complex geometries. The main limitation was to not include overhangs because I didn't want to print supports.

I made the board in 3 pieces that fit together into a large hexagon. The bases were CNC milled from wood with 3mm slots for the walls to fit into. Each hexagon had a small triangle on top that located the tile the tiles on the board. Like Catan the game was designed so that tiles can be moved to create a different map each time. The tiles were laser cut hexagons with scored symbols to represent coins. If you have a piece on coin symbol you get a coin each turn.

I made a lot of unique designs for the coins. Some are parametric, some are geometric, and some are my attempts at drawing in rhino. They are all double which required scoring on one side, flipping, then scoring and cutting out.