JG: James Gagliardi

Kaleidoscope: Board Game

As a follow up to last week's trivia questions, we needed to design a board game to facilitate the trivia. I volunteered to create the board.

I wanted elements of the The Game of Life, including "life moments", such as "You've just earned enough frequent flyer miles to take you and your family on a 'free' vacation. Jump ahead 2 spaces", and "While traveling abroad, you forgot your power converter and ruined your electronics. Start over."

I started with a plain blue background, which originally started as an "ocean blue" color. Next I added the game spaces, I then added in the latitude and longitude lines followed by a map both were originally aligned vertically and horizontally but after adding the the compass at an angle, I decide to shift the the lines and map at the same angle.

I transferred our team name to be the board game name as well, as I tweaked the name of the game and included a shadow, I decided to add the same shadow to the games spaces as well as add colors to the spaces.

Lastly I came up with the tag line "Passport to Global Success," which brought in the last embellishment of the passport stamps surrounding the board game.

To tie all of it together, I included passport stamps to the trivia cards, and for the game pieces we decided to use coins from around the world.

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