Arctic Clean Up Board Game Prototype V1

The goal of this board game is to raise public awareness on plastic pollution in the Arctic. This game took inspiration from the (real world ) program: The Ocean CleanUp but also from research papers on Arctic pollution. The Ocean Cleanup is a non-prot organization (NPO). They are developing and scaling technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic.

Machines:

• any laser that can cut through 3mm plywood

Materials:

• 3mm plywood
• paints and brush
• white wood glue

During a 10 days residency in the Joint Research Center of European Union in Ispra I designed and made this board game prototype.

Please note it is still a prototype, the first version of the game, it will need several iteration before becoming a finished board game.

I used openScad to make the design of the boats (note you need to change the file SeaBots.txt to SeaBots.scad).

I used again Inkscape, a free 2D software to make my own designs for the players boards.

I laser cut most of the components of the boards game:

• the boats,
• the main board,
• the players boards and tokens.

The wood cubes come from Amazon.

I used acrylic paints to decorate the boats and the main board.

Please note that this is a prototype and the first iteration of the board game.

It will need several play test reviews and improvement before reaching it final form.

The rules needs synthesis, but if you are curious of how the game play on this stage have a look in the pdf!

You can use components of this game in your own diy board game as long as you cite this instructables and do not use the game for a commercial use.

Happy board game making!

If you like to gain more information on Arctic pollution and the importance off indigenous knowledge bellow is a short list of articles and reports to begin:

•    Melanie Bergmann, France Collard, Joan Fabres, Geir W Gabrielsen, Jennifer F Provencher, Chelsea M Rochman, Erik van Sebille, and Mine B Tekman, Plastic pollution in the arctic, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3 (2022), no. 5, 323–337.
•    Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ethical and equitable engagement synthesis report: a collection of inuit rules, guidelines, protocols, and values for the engagement of inuit communities and indigenous knowledge from across inuit nunaat. 40 pp. available at: Synthesis report, Synthesis Report. International (2021).
• David Romero Manrique, Thomas Völker, Jade Zoghbi, and Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Arctic: Traditional knowledge, livelihoods and community engagement, Setting the Scene. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union (2018).
• Sebastian Primpke, Andy M Booth, Gunnar Gerdts, Alessio Gomiero, Tanja Kögel, Amy Lusher, Jakob Strand, Barbara M Scholz-Böttcher, Francois Galgani, Jennifer Provencher, et al., Monitoring of microplastic pollution in the arctic: recent developments in polymer identification, quality assurance and control, and data reporting, Arctic Science 9 (2022), no. 1, 176–197.
•    D Romero Manrique, J Zoghbi, and Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Arctic knowledge: Echoes from the north.