Ferro Giocattoli · 2014
BlindBox Il Gioco Di Legno
- A' Design Award di Ferro 2014 in Giocattoli
- CLIENT: Ufuk Bircan Özkan
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 28,096
- Verification code 50C940D143 · Verify this award
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About BlindBox Il Gioco Di Legno
BlindBox è un gioco in legno che combina puzzle con giochi di memoria e rafforza le sensazioni come sentire e toccare. È un gioco a turni per due giocatori. Il giocatore che raccoglie le proprie biglie prima che vinca l'altro giocatore. I cassetti orizzontali vengono spostati dai giocatori per allineare i fori al centro di essi per creare percorsi verticali per far cadere le biglie.Il gioco richiede capacità di pensiero strategico per bloccare il tuo avversario, una buona memoria per le mosse giuste e un'elevata attenzione per capire dove il tuo le biglie si spostano.
About the A' Design Award di Ferro
BlindBox Il Gioco Di Legno ha vinto l'A' Design Award di Ferro, un riconoscimento prestigioso conferito a buoni design che soddisfano i requisiti professionali e industriali attesi da creazioni ben progettate. I vincitori di Ferro dimostrano la grande abilità, l'elevata specializzazione, la comprensione esperta e la capacità creativa dei loro creatori. Ci si aspetta che BlindBox Il Gioco Di Legno sia una creazione molto apprezzata, ammirata e amata, pratica e innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award di Ferro integra le migliori pratiche del settore e ha caratteristiche tecniche competenti legate a know-how e talento. BlindBox Il Gioco Di Legno è rispettato per la sua accuratezza ed è progettato per offrire miglioramenti della qualità della vita che aiutano a rendere il mondo un posto migliore.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- BlindBox is a wooden game which combines puzzles with memory games. Because of the natural materials used, it strengthens feelings like hearing and touching. Players change the 3D maze in each move during the game in order to gather their own marbles. Players need to consider the position of their opponent's marble too, when making moves. Because of the unique game scenario, players may score for their opponents by causing their opponent's marble fall down first. Causing a marble to fall out of the structure requires the marble to start from top layer.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Proposed package dimensions are mm x mm x mm
- Tags
- wood, game, puzzle, maze, turn based, marbles, sound
- Production Technology
- BlindBox can be produced by conventional production techniques as it requires basic geometrical shapes to be formed in wood, glass and steel.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part was checking the game against any bugs which will effect the gameplay. As far as I experienced, there are no bugs that allow cheating or stucking.
- Research
- User and market research es are done at the first stages of the esign studies. 3-dimensional gameplay, risk of scoring for your opponent and selection of the natural materials used in production are the results of these researches.
- Inspiration
- I wondered if I will be able to add a 3rd dimension to classic maze games. A static 3D maze would be boring as it would have just one solution; so I created one where users change the path in each turn. As it contains small parts, it is suitible for children aged over 6.
- Project Duration
- The design was an old student project of mine from 2006 in Ankara. I revised it in Bursa in February 2014 to make it a commercial product.
- Operation Flow
- Placing the drawers randomly to the storeys, and marbles diagonally to the holes on top are the preperation stages of the game. One player plays with glass marbles and the other player plays with steel ones. Players can choose any classic method to select who will start. The aim is to collect your marbles before your opponent does. What you can do is to slide the drawers in turns in order to align holes in the drawers with the ones in the storey below to make marbles fall down. Because you don't see where the marbles are in the construction; you need to remember or guess their places by the help of the sounds they create when hitting the wooden drawers. You can recognize your own marbles by the different sound they create than your opponent's because of their different materials.
During the gameflow, you may fall your own or your opponent's marbles outside the box which means they need to be placed in and start from the holes at the top. Similarly, you may accidentally gather your opponent's marble from bottom, which means an own-goal.
The next game set can start with the last winner's move after replacing the marbles. - Image Credits
- Image #1: Industrial Designer Ufuk Bircan Özkan, BlindBox, 2014.
Image #2: Industrial Designer Ufuk Bircan Özkan, BlindBox, 2014.
Image #3: Industrial Designer Ufuk Bircan Özkan, BlindBox, 2014.
Image #4: Industrial Designer Ufuk Bircan Özkan, BlindBox, 2014.
Image #5: Industrial Designer Ufuk Bircan Özkan, BlindBox, 2014.
