Final Marbles Play Party

Team.ink!

Team Honey Badger (Andy & Maren)

Team Cloud Stream (John & Taylor)

Team Purple Nurple (Joel & Cody)

We won with our Fractal toy!

Maren and Andy won too.  Two first place winners!

STACK'D Video

STACK'D Solitaire Game Final Prototypes & Packaging

This game, when stacked in a 6x6 wall, can be played just like the card version of Solitaire, only instead of stacking cards, we're stacking blocks! 

The components of STACK'D

The Chute is where blocks that are left over from building the wall are placed, creating a "draw deck" like in the card Solitaire game.

The game of Solitaire works by stacking opposite colored blocks in descending numerical order. When aces, or in this case, "one" blocks are revealed, they can be placed on the "aces" tray. Once one blocks are placed on the aces tray, this begins your matching suits towers. Once these suits are all placed in their tower, the game is won!

The packaging is inspired by bookmaking, where the top and bottom are made like a hardcover book. It is meant to be a box that can be held onto, something that becomes a part of room decoration and heirloom quality keepsake to keep the game in.

FRACTAL Video

FRACTAL - Final Prototypes & Packaging

This prototype is made out of a 12"x12" tyvek sheet with cherry wood veneer triangles glued on both sides of the sheet.

The other prototype has magnets on both sides.  On top of the magnets are wenge veneer and styrene. 

The packaging is a square cardboard box lined with foam.  The sheet is folded into a 6"x6" square and placed in the box with a plastic top to cover it.  The sheet is flat on 2 sides and then folds up to showcase how it transforms.  The box is made to represent a "picture frame" and the plastic is a window showing the product.

Inside the box are instructions on how to make a 4 pointed star.

Finished! (Videos Coming Soon...)

Bah! that was a lot of work. Videos coming soon! (They're taking a while to render and upload) We're so thankful for everyone in the class, our teacher Carl Boyd, and Marbles for providing this contest we could all be a part of! Thanks so much for all of your support.

Cubes Underway! (stay tuned)

Our cubes have come in, and are now sanded and ready for staining! Sanding 36 cubes with 1000 grit paper takes the "wind" out of one's thumbs...

Basically, stay tuned this week.

Folding Art Developments

After our play parties, we listened to all the suggestions and critiques and took them into consideration when further developing more prototypes.  Here are some folding art sheets in progress exploring different materials and color:

Smaller triangles can create even more shapes.

adding color and using styrene

adding magnets

Solitaire Cubes Advancements

As we embark on our final revisions for the Marbles project, we have begun to explore some new ways to work the tower, and its box it will fit into. Remember those cool cases you get with your set of Mahjong and Dominos? Yea, thats kind of what we're after.

We also are adding in 3 card draw, just like the real game

Play Parties 3 & 4-Public & Marbles Staff

Columbia and Marbles Play Parties

We've put the games "on the road"! Its been so great to share our games with all of you, please continue to give us your thoughts, we appreciate it so much! The first play party began at Columbia College, students and faculty of the Art + Design Department came through and enjoyed an assortment of cookies as they played with the games and toys we have been working on.

Then, the next official Play Party commenced at Marbles' headquarters in Chicago! Check out the fun in these photos, thank you so much for checking out what we're designing, we had a blast!

 Videos to come soon!!