I continue to design boardgame accessories for 3D printing; these two are
for Splendor and Cosmic Encounter. Images are
cc-by-sa by RogerBW
unless otherwise specified.
Splendor is a great game, but its box is far too large for the
bits you get: it's full of empty space, and the chips in particular
tend to get loose when the box is tilted. (Image by
Daniel Thurot on BoardGameGeek,
cc-by-sa.)
I spotted
a design on Thingiverse
which seemed promising, but when I measured the details it looked very
prone to rattling. So mine is sized to be a close fit for the chips,
with U-shaped trays for them to sit in, one of them shorter than the
other.
The noble tiles, and cards, go on the other side, with "shoulders" to
support the cards.
The lid is rather simpler, but since I had all that space, I thought I
might as well put in a reminder of the setup rules.
The end result is less than a quarter of the volume of the original.
The lid fits reasonably closely, though one could hold it on with a
rubber band if needed. The rulebooks don't fit, but there are
reference sheets on boardgamegeek which can be folded in.
And then there's Cosmic Encounter, for which there's a standard set of
player pieces in each colour (five planet discs, 20 ships, one score
marker, one "special ship" marker). Wouldn't it be nice to store them
all together?
Rather than mess with hinged lids that could come loose, I decided to
go with a screw-top jar, using a
screw library I also found on
Thingiverse (learning to get the desired results out of it was
something of a challenge). The pot is just wide enough to let the
planets fit loosely, and short enough that two of them can be stacked
in the box. The lid is lightly carved, to make it obvious which way up
the pot is, and to make it easier to grip. (I have since designed an
improved version with diamond-pattern knurling, but not yet committed
it to print.)
This isn't quite as space-efficient as having stacks of all the
planets and plastic bags for the other pieces, since the wall of the
pot takes up a non-trivial amount of space, but everything still fits
in the box, and I have reasonably good approximations for seven of the
eight player colours (a pity about the purple, but there you go;
that'll have to wait until I'm in a position to make my own filament,
which given the cost of an extruder may be quite a while yet).
If you fancy copies of these, I will make them and sell them to you.
See Shapes in the Flame.
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