Week 13 Running into problems

Problems with Manufacturing

So we found out that the company we chose to manufacture our games charges an astronomical price for shipping because it's coming from China. We researched new companies and found that www.printplaygames.com can manufacture our board games for us at a more reasonable cost. As a result of switching companies, our dimensions have changed for the box. Also, our game board will be a quad-fold board which changes the size of box it goes in. The changes in dimensions made us redesign our box so that our game boards can fit better without moving around as much. The dimensions for our new box are going to be 11x11x2. As I found out in class, these types of problems arise more often than not in the art industry. 

PICTURE OF REVISED GAME BOX:

The process of designing the cards to the new company's specifications also changed. I had to download a template and drag each card onto their template to make them all on one sheet of 18. We had to switch over to Adobe Illustrator to do this process.

THIS IS THE BACK OF THE CARD:

As you can see, the card sheets have a background color that spans over the entire page. This process was used to compensate for bleeding. I would be very upset if the backgrounds of the cards came to me without the complete background of each card.

So this week we just basically redesigned the content that we already had in order to adjust for new dimensions.