I am in the process of putting together a prototype and was very pleased to discover your website.
Of necessity, my board will have to be as large as possible and I would like to know what the maximum acceptable board/box size would be. Any advice on this score would be greatly appreciated.
Board Size
Wed, 06/18/2003 - 12:28
Tue, 06/17/2003 - 09:20
#1
Board Size
The largest gameboards of the games that I have in my collection are 4 times A4 format (Andromeda, Union Pacific, Euphrates & Tigris). They can be folded back to A4 format and fit into an A4-sized box.
Perhaps you can go a little bit bigger than that and have a 6x A4 sized board, but I have never seen them so I don
Tue, 06/17/2003 - 09:22
#2
Board Size
It would depend upon what surface your players will be expecting to play on. I recently bought Eagle Games
Wed, 06/18/2003 - 12:28
#3
Board Size
Quote:
17-06-2003 at 06:20, zaiga wrote:
The largest gameboards of the games that I have in my collection are 4 times A4 format (Andromeda, Union Pacific, Euphrates & Tigris). They can be folded back to A4 format and fit into an A4-sized box.
That would be A2 then, would it? (A3 is A2 folded in half, and A4 is A3 folded in half, IYSWIM.)
I would certainly concur that A2 is about as large as you reasonably want if people are to be able to reach across it without trouble.
Wed, 07/30/2003 - 16:28
#5
Board Size
Gameguys, can you folks create European-style folding boards, where there's no gulley/valley on the board when it's unfolded?
Mon, 04/05/2004 - 16:10
#9
Board Size
Formula DE uses 2 boards that fit beside each other to get a large board size and relatively small box. The board is around 30x50", but 2 quad-fold boards let it fold to around 12x15.
Jason
Mon, 04/05/2004 - 16:18
#10
non-standard board
what would be the approximate cost for a custom die-cut board? there are 16 pieces to the completed board and the total size is 20 x 20. there are four large non-perfect hexagons that form the middle, 8 parallelagrams and 4 triangles that form the outer board. they all can go together into a box slightly smaller than 8.5 x 11 including the pawns. would we be better off in the beginning just cutting them out ourselves from foamcore or somesuch? the reasoning behind so many pieces is to provide a somewhat random board for each playing of the game. the hard part was getting the graphics to match up (paths, resources and such).
thanks
While Gameboards can be hand wrapped in much larger sizes, they are general run for mass production volumes on a Crathern and Smith Flatboard Laminator with Automatic Spotters.
These machines have a few size restrictions. The largest gameboard to be easily run is 23-1/2" x 23-1/2" This can then be die cut after it has been wrapped and labled to be a quad fold board of 12 x 12" ish.
Most production trivia style games will be a 20" quad fold to 10" x 10"
While monopoly style games will be a single fold 19" x 19".
I agree with above notes that while graphics play a part in game design, there are practical considerations such as sizes of kitchen tables at home play surfaces.
In addition costs of boards increase exponentially when they cannot be machine run. Cheers.