WHAT WE ARE MAKING

WHY WE ARE MAKING IT

You will start developing prototypes, made quickly, that illustrate a form or idea.

؜To test ideas before using digital fabrication

ACTIVITY MATERIALS

Cardboard

Colored Acetate

Bristol Papers

Zip-ties

Straws

Metal Ruler

Pencil 

Markers 

Cutting Blade

Masking Tape

Hot Glue Gun

String

Brads

Popsicles and wooden skewers

1st

2nd

Select your final idea from your sketches, don't worry about selecting your final design, while building you will keep on iterating and changing!

You will undertake a safety orientation, where you will learn to use the basic tools of prototyping such as gluing techniques and cutting tools

**Refer to the "Safety prototyping" tab

3nd

Go over the presentation found in the "resources" tab and start making! You will make a low-fidelity prototype of your chosen design. This prototype will allow you to test your idea on your site, and actually get user feedback, and see if it creates delight.

Safety Orientation

Prototyping Presentation

4th

Create a blueprint of your design, a drawing that will help you construct your structure.

At the end you need to have have done the following:

• Sketched your main playing ground (board, stage...)
• Sketched your main game components (dice, counters, tokens, coins, figures, meeples, standees, cards)
• Written game instructions with main rule to win the game.

5th

؜Students will work together to create a quick scale model prototype. Use low fidelity materials such as cardboard, paper, tape, and wire for your first prototypes. Remember these are not supposed to ~look good~ but rather be able to explain your concepts and ideas.

Examples

Examples

؜Green War is a strategy cooperative yet competitive board game that mirrors the real world race toward renewable energy. Players take on the role competing with a shared mission of reducing global pollution. Building and upgrading green power plants earns players but collective success depends on how well everyone limits environmental damage. By blending strategy with collaboration, Green War turns climate awareness into an engaging and educational experience.

Examples

؜Light It Up! is an educational board game that combines interactive gameplay with Arduino-based electronics to teach players about e-waste management and energy efficiency. By moving through four zones, Collection, Hazard, Innovation, and Processing, players experience the challenges and rewards of sustainable practices.

Examples

؜Play Prosperity is a social-board game inspired by Qatar’s National Vision 2030. Through Introducing the concept of "Comprehensive Development", the players will engage in different roles through the historical world of the game and by dynamic interactions with the board, they strive to establish the 4 main pillars of social, human, economic and environmental development.

Initial Prototypes

DELIVERABLES:

Make your first prototype

These models are meant to show your ideas, provide proof-of-concept, and test variations of function. They are not meant to be perfect or final iterations.

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

Now that you have built it out of cardboard, what would be the best materials and methods for the next prototype?

You have built and tested one possible shape of your project idea. What other shapes could this concept take?

What do you need to learn to create the next, more developed prototype of this concept?