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What do you use for player pieces in your prototypes?
updated 1 year, 2 months ago
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I have found several items that I would like to use in my prototype games. Decorative Buttons at the local hobby store is one example.
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I buy things from The Game Crafter including little figures and they have like grab bags of components which I find fun and interesting.
If I find old beat up games I salvage the pieces from them and put them in a drawer bin I have for all my pieces.
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I buy things from all over. I’ve bought bulk pieces from the Game Crafter at conventions, large packs of cubes, bags of random meeples from MeepleSource, etc. For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to collect them all in one place (a couple of stackable bins) so I have them available for my next prototype.
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Thrift shop games/toys/buttons/etc., pennies, LEGO bits.
My FLGS has two additional sources: Used games in a clearance bin (50% off the used price) & bins of random bits for 10 cents each.
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I use a lot of different things. I started my career in design so I’m really visual. A lot of time I will spend an hour and design some tokens or player pieces that fit the theme I am going for with the game. Probably overkill but it works for me. I will also pull pieces from other games I have in my collection. Finally, I keep a box full of random tokens that I 3D printed or found on Etsy or EBay.
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I use meeples that I bought off Amazon as well as buttons or pawns from old games.
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My local library has 3d printers. So I found some meeple designs already made and print them there! I’m not good enough to create my own 3d designs from scratch though
