Prototypes

The four players will have their own individual coloured cubes. 50 cubes each. They are going to be used for creating a design on a white board in a game by following the instructions given.

The four players will have their own individual deck of cards. Each player's deck will contain all these different 'action cards'. Starting from the top to bottom and left to right:

1. 5 Plus One Cards
2. 2 Bonus Cards
3. 2 Freedom Cards
4. 2 Reverse Cards
5. 2 Drop Cards
6. 2 Opposite Cards

There will be 3 instruction manuals for 3 different exercises in the game. The manual will contain:

1. The age of people that can play this game.
2. How many players can play.
3. The object of the game.
4. How to play.
5. Different 'action cards' and their meanings.

Action Cards

Instruction Manuals

Here is an example of one of the 'action cards' and what the design will appear like with colour. The oval design is linked with the UNO game cards.

The first card is the back of the card. The stack of cubes is a logo of the game with the name 'Cuboid' at the bottom.

Cubes

Further Development for the Instruction Manuals

The idea of boxes to fill a page came from Chris Ware's building stories artwork. These boxes will be filled up with information about the specific exercise.
The design for the title of each exercise will be positioned as shown above. Changing the orientation of the letters makes the appearance of the whole page more playful to look at.

The idea of creating a dark shade on each side of the boxes creates a 3D effect. Also I considered the boxes might have a round edge instead of a corner.

4 colours have been chosen that links with the game cubes (pink, green, orange and purple).

Chris Ware Building Stories

Gerri Mahn (2013) Reading Chris Ware's Building Stories (Pantheon), [Online], Available: http://www.denofgeek.us/books-comics/building-stories/54827/reading-chris-wares-building-stories-pantheon [15th December 2015]