The Prototyping Box

Have you ever considered making a simple paper prototype of your idea for a video game? We offer a tool just for that!

What is The Prototyping Box?

The Prototyping Box is a basic set of analog material to test your ideas on paper before you even start a grey-box prototype and coding. The Box is also a useful source for board game designers. The Prototyping Box is our third product in the „Ideas For Games“ series. The two card decks that we developed before serve as brainstorming tools for game designers. It is not a bad idea to check them out in conjunction with this box. Together the three products make up a strong and comprehensive toolbox for game designers and developers.

Why shouldn’t you test your ideas first on paper? Paper Prototyping is a great way of testing gameplay ideas and find out if they do or do not work. You can also test game progress, level design or storyline. And you get some basic game experience. Or you can test individual actions and events or work out what scenarios suit your game best. Board game designers have always done mockups to test and convey their ideas and concepts. But this method is equally important for video game developers.

The Prototype Box is layed out for two different prototype levels:

• An Idea Testing Prototype

• A Conceptual Prototype

This Prototyping Box is a basic set of material for testing your ideas for digital and analog games by means of a paper prototype.

RULES & CONTENT

In any way, paper prototyping is an experiment that does not need any technical skills and code. And the resulting prototypes are quick (and dirty), cheap and flexible executions of initial ideas and concepts. Failure is part of the process but success is definitely part of it too.

How to start

The Box with its basic elements enables you to start the process right away. You may need some more material like scissors, erasers, colored pens, sticky tape etc. You can experimenting here and you can adjust your parameters right away and as many times as you wish.

Combine with Ideas for Games

The Prototyping Box is our third product in the „Ideas For Games“ series. The two card decks that we developed before serve as brainstorming tools for game designers. It is not a bad idea to check them out in conjunction with this box. Together the three products make up a strong and comprehensive toolbox for game designers and developers.

Box (310 x 220 x 35mm), printed booklet with instructions and impressum
4 material sheets with states and cut-out elements
Sample bag (Mixed pieces and counters 200-300 pieces
15 wooden figures (each 3x in the colors blue, yellow, green, red, black)
25 wooden resources (yellow or black)
Foldable game board 2-part (dimensions 369x276mm open or 185x276 mm closed)
Play money consisting of a total of 320 bills with a total value of 1.32 million

33 blank playing cards (59 x 91 mm)
2 blank colored dice cubes (16x16 mm)
6 dice with 6 sides (and dots)
20 Circle Counter (28 mm diameter)
1 paper sheet with hexagon pattern as playground
2 paper sheets with square patterns as playground
1 lined notepad A6
1 Pencil with rubber
Sticker points (small and large)
Post-it Notes
20 Elastic bands (rubbers)

Download the material sheets for print

Download and print the material sheets with states and cut-out elements used in The Prototyping Box. You can download and use them for free.

Sheet 1: State Sheet 2: State (Time and angles)Sheet 3: To Cut Sheet 4: To Cut

Graph Paper Design and print your own customized grid papers! Design now

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Buy a Prototyping Box

You can buy the Protoyping Box for EUR 39.90 or CHF 39.90 (shipping not included).

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