WHAT ARE YOU MAKING?

WHY WE ARE YOU MAKING IT?

You will start developing your 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!

؜Safety orientation, where you will learn to use the basic tools of prototyping such as gluing techniques and cutting tools

3nd

؜Start making! You will make a low-fidelity prototype of your chosen design. This prototype will allow you to:

1. test your idea on your site,
2. get user feedback (other groups will play test your game throughout the week - is your game informative and fun!)

4th

From Challenge 4 you have created a blueprint of your design, a drawing that will help you construct your structure.

؜By now you should have a blueprint which shows a:

1. Measurements!!!! You will need to add the dimensions of everything to your sketches.
2. Sketched a playing ground (board, stage...)
3. Sketched your game components (dice, counters, tokens, coins, figures, meeples, standees, cards)
4. Written game instructions with rules and a main rule of how to win the game.

5th

؜Work together to create a quick scale model prototype. 

Remember these are not supposed to ~look good~ but rather be able to explain your concepts and ideas.

DELIVERABLES to be posted to Seesaw:

1. Photos of your finished prototype
2. Video explainer of how to play your game.
3. Answer these analysis questions:

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

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

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

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.