Capture the World

Hello, I am a grade 11 student attending Northern Secondary School. Have you ever wanted to rule the world? Now you can. Play “Capture the World,” where you will be tasked to formulate an attack to defeat your opponent's army and capture their president.

This project was created with the use of Fusion 360.

I started by creating a rectangular base, which would serve as the playing board. I then created a grid of tiles which divides the playing board into sections. Using an SVG converter, I downloaded an image of the world map and laid it over the board. Following the outline of the map, I proceed to color each square a different color, effectively transferring the image of the world to the board. With the image laid out, I carefully selected 16 squares (8 on each half of the board), and colored them red to represent hot zones. Finally, I sketched a rectangular border around the grid and extruded it just past the height of the grid.

All of the playing pieces are unique, but they all stem from the same base shape. To create the playing pieces, I first created a cylinder using the sketch and extrude tool, then cut the cylinder down to create a flat face on the vertical plane. I then duplicated the piece 36 times to create a set of pieces. On each of those 28 pieces I created a sketch, and using the text tool, I added numbers/letters to all of the pieces. Once all the pieces had numbers, I duplicated the set of 28 pieces into 56 pieces. One half of the pieces I colored white, the other half I colored black.

I created the divider by simply creating a large, thin, rectangular prism. Then, I added clips that could attach to the bottom of the screen.

To finish off the game, I laid out all of the pieces on their respective tiles.