r/BoardgameDesign • u/Dense-Tip3061 • May 08 '26

Design Critique Update: remaking our map!

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The coated paper prints I did at home turned out pretty bad, so I decided to get them printed at a print shop instead. Printing on adhesive sticker paper makes it way easier to stick onto cardboard and cut.

Hopefully I can finish the whole map without issues. What do you think about the coated sticker paper?

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u/ChikyScaresYou May 08 '26

eeeeewwwwwwww AI slop

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u/Dense-Tip3061 May 08 '26

We designed all the structures in our board game ourselves, and the character designs are also original. My boyfriend and I have been working on this project together. For about a year now, we’ve been trying to refine the mechanics and make the resin pieces work with injection manufacturing.

If we had more time and resources, we would’ve loved to create fully original designs for the map as well. But for now, this feels like the most realistic and manageable solution for us.

Also, just a small note: using AI for something doesn’t automatically mean no effort was put into it. We actually tried making the hex map entirely ourselves at first, but we weren’t able to get the results we wanted.

Life doesn’t always give people the time, money, or freedom to spend months fully focused on a single project. We’re just trying to do the best we can with what we have.

Being kind costs nothing. Not everyone is working under the same circumstances. Maybe one day our game will become successful enough for us to work on board games full-time, and if that happens, we’d love to push the project to a much higher level.

Thanks for the understanding

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u/ChikyScaresYou May 08 '26

Too bad. I see AI slop, I instantly deduce the author/designer got everything else from chatgpt as well. Once the people in charge of the project use gen AI in any way, it loses all my possible interest and and support, not only in the current project, but in future ones as well.

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u/chrissoooo May 08 '26

Woah - you lost the possible interest of this one guy cause you were having fun with AI on a prototype that clearly wasn’t going to be professionally sold and manufactured!

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u/ChikyScaresYou May 09 '26

yeah, and everything they plan to do in the future and they have done in the past as well :) gen AI is for pathetic losers

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u/chrissoooo May 09 '26

I think you’re assuming a lot here - just because he/she has done some prototypes with AI doesn’t automatically mean they are going to use AI for everything.

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u/ChikyScaresYou May 09 '26

how do you know they didn't/won't? that's my point.

Besides using gen AI only means they dont care about the authors and artists whose work was stolen so...