My brother and I recently created a game called "Pirate's Life". We don't believe that creating a solid board for the game for the purposes of prototyping and submission would be ideal, nor something we could achieve easily on our own.
To that end, we are trying to create a roll-up mat for a game board. We believe this will make the entire game more compact and more accessible to playtesters, as well as being somewhat more professional than the *sigh* index cards and counters we have at the moment. Ideally this mat would be similar to those used in many popular CCGs.
If anybody has an idea for a cheap method of creating such a "board" or an effective way to repurpose other game mats, we would greatly appreciate the advice.