{"id":337,"date":"2022-02-05T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd-fundamentals-22\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:04:01","slug":"laser-game-piece-qianlin-duanmu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd-fundamentals-22\/qduanmu\/laser-game-piece-qianlin-duanmu\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Game Piece — Qianlin Duanmu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve always wanted to play a board game in the background of ancient Chinese mythology. But no one has done it, so I figured I could take this opportunity to think of one myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My idea is basically like Monopoly, players need to keep moving forward in a circular map. Collect elements\uff08Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth\uff09along the way to level up your character, whoever reaches the highest level first wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Five<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But that’s not the point of this assignment, what I want to do in this assignment is the spell cards in this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we all know, board games like this usually need to introduce some functional cards to frustrate other players or benefit yourselves. In Monopoly, they named those cards Chance Cards<\/strong>. Some other board games call them spells, magic, omens, etc, depending on the background of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my case, I call them Blessings<\/strong>\uff0c blessings from ancient gods. So I wanted the art style from a very long time ago. I studied some ancient buildings and I found this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are the decorations at the end of the eaves, called Wadang<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The picture I showed earlier is the totem of mythical beasts, from Qin(221- 206 BCE) and Han Dynasties(202 BCE- 220 CE). I feel like this is exactly what I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, as an item that players need to use. I wanted to make this prop more distinctive, rather than just a normal card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I thought of ancient coins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The coin that was used in Han Dynasty was a round coin with a square hole in the middle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Combining the pattern of the Wadang<\/strong> and the shape of the coin, I ended up with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the finished product of laser cutting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The effect is even better than I imagined. There is a small problem, that is, I want to highlight the outer circle of the coin, I burned a deeper line at the end. So the powder fell into this crevice. And it makes it seems not very clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted to play a board game in the background of ancient Chinese mythology. But no one has done it, so I figured I could take this opportunity to think of one myself. My idea is basically like Monopoly, players need to keep moving forward in a circular map. Collect elements\uff08Metal, Wood, Water, Fire,… <\/p>\n

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