Hello there!
I'm working on an idea where players roll dice and have to arrange them to gain an advantage (like rolling what passengers you have on a plane and placing the chatty old lady next to the person with headphones). How do you go about prototyping this? Glueing paper on D6's? Crumbling it up into a cube then writing on it?
Thanks in advance, and have a great day!
*bonus: What theme does this mechanic fit well with in your mind?
Check this out at "The Game Crafter" (TGC):
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/parts/d6-indented-blank-black
$0.41 each.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/publish/product/DiceSticker
3 dice (6 faces x 3 = 18 stickers) = $2.15 (I believe)
Create a new game and put placeholder blank images (PNGs or JPGs) and you should be able to get an inexpensive quote...
Cheers!
Most designers I know of just use standard D6 that they have and put circle or small square labels on them (usually from a dollar store) and write whatever they need to on that.
Easy, cheap and re-purpose-able.
There are various ways to do that
There are blank dice that you can either glue stuff on it, or write with a permanent market on it (and clean it with alcohol)
I also had large wooden cubes that I stick label on them then draw my symbol on it.
In fact as an example, recently I made a prototype using both the sticker on cube, and the marker on a blank die. Look at the left of the picture
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/4762845/larienna
The numbered die is the blank die. The surface feels like porcelain.
https://www.bgdf.com/blog/prototyping
Blank dice from spielpro (if you need a variety of colors), and paint pens.
https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/020/991/955/7a68793303477aa1cdee7a9038d...
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