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From Prototype to Finished Game - Photo Comparisons of Well-Known Games
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This Geeklist is inspired by a recent Art in Prototypes thread. The basic question (and one that comes up fairly frequently among new designers) was "How much effort should be put into the art for a prototype before it gets submitted to publishers?" There are various answers to that question of course (and I'd encourage you to reply to the original thread with yours) but it prompted an interesting journey through the BGG image gallery.

This Geeklist provides some side-by-side image comparisons of original prototypes and the now-familiar games that they became.
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1. Board Game: Agricola [Average Rating:8.25 Overall Rank:2]
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I didn't realize that the original vegetable was going to be eggplant.
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Eggplants do grow well when planted on triscuits.
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The sheep are so much more realistic in the final product.
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2. Board Game: Le Havre [Average Rating:8.09 Overall Rank:7]
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I am missing the bottle of beer in the final product. A typical victim of "streamlining" the rules.
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I am missing the bottle of beer in the final product. A typical victim of "streamlining" the rules.


What were they thinking?!?!? Beer makes everything better.
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I am missing the bottle of beer in the final product. A typical victim of "streamlining" the rules.


What were they thinking?!?!? Beer makes everything better.


Absolutely! Although there are diminishing returns.
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duchamp wrote:
I am missing the bottle of beer in the final product. A typical victim of "streamlining" the rules.


What were they thinking?!?!? Beer makes everything better.


No kidding. The only way anyone could ever get me to play this one again was if I was completely plastered out of my mind...

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... Looks about the same to me.
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Actually, it was an Agricola bottle.
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3. Board Game: Race for the Galaxy [Average Rating:7.87 Overall Rank:14]
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The evolution of a couple of RftG cards (from Wei-Hwa Huang):


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From the original prototype:
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4. Board Game: Troyes [Average Rating:7.81 Overall Rank:35]
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Only cards for the first prototype

At the begining, there were 3 resources: wood, iron and wheat! No neutral player, 9 yellow dice,cathedral is on 3 cards,..

Board of the last prototype


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5. Board Game: Pandemic [Average Rating:7.62 Overall Rank:43]
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I really liked when Matt first posted these. However, I found the first version my favorite. Basically scribbled on the back of a napkin and supposedly used a standard deck of playing cards as to match the locations.

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I really liked when Matt first posted these. However, I found the first version my favorite. Basically scribbled on the back of a napkin and supposedly used a standard deck of playing cards as to match the locations.



Otherwise known as the Clearclaw edition!
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ColtsFan76 wrote:
I really liked when Matt first posted these. However, I found the first version my favorite. Basically scribbled on the back of a napkin and supposedly used a standard deck of playing cards as to match the locations.



This has been my desktop background, as inspiration
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6. Board Game: 1960: The Making of the President [Average Rating:7.65 Overall Rank:55]
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This prototype picture has always been one of my favorites. The map looks like something out of a 1960s geography textbook.
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Interesting flip of AK & HI on the map - no, you don't need to show all of the Aleutians...
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7. Board Game: Antiquity [Average Rating:7.91 Overall Rank:88]
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Doesn't look like too much changed except the color scheme. Thank goodness for that or the name of the game would have been renamed to "When quilts attack!"
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Doesn't look like too much changed except the color scheme. Thank goodness for that or the name of the game would have been renamed to "When quilts attack!"


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ColtsFan76 wrote:
Doesn't look like too much changed except the color scheme. Thank goodness for that or the name of the game would have been renamed to "When quilts attack!"


Do you think that would have sold?

I hear they also abandoned: "The game of struggling until you eventually die when your town fills up with bodies and the world fills up with pollution all cause you ran out of wood"

Aintiquity is much better!
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Doesn't look like too much changed except the color scheme. Thank goodness for that or the name of the game would have been renamed to "When quilts attack!"



That is really funny. In the words of my 13yo nephew OMG ROFL...
If you can call them words.
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8. Board Game: Cyclades [Average Rating:7.55 Overall Rank:98]
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Early prototype :


Later prototype :


Late prototype :


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9. Board Game: Fresco [Average Rating:7.43 Overall Rank:128]
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Not well-known yet, but soon.

See a prototype from 2008 compared with the final product:

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Dear Lord, from functional and vibrant to kingdom hell of brown shades. It's harder to distinguish stuff, it kills the mood. Why, oh, why?

I'd never play this game regardless of its design, but I still don't get the supposed attraction of the muted browns. We are geeks, if we were that serious as these brown palettes makes some of us believe to be, we wouldn't be gaming in the first place.

You want medieval get some green, some white, some blue, you know the world looked more nature-like at the time, not really as brown. Or if you want archive look, the middle ages are filled with colourful decorations, ornaments, heraldic, even renaissance, I mean the Italian renaissance, of course, is full of vibrant colours.

Oh, and quilted Antiquity seems better to me as well.
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10. Board Game: Carson City [Average Rating:7.40 Overall Rank:144]
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11. Board Game: Chicago Express [Average Rating:7.33 Overall Rank:156]
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You might call the original edition (under the title Wabash Cannonball) a prototype as it really looks like one.

Some say the new board is not really usable; maybe I'd say the same but having played the game I just can't agree. It looks really nice and still functions very well.

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Looks like "Through the Desert" with trains...
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I too find Winsome's original to be more usable. The lush overdetailing in Queen's edition is just distracting. Still, I prefer photocurio's redesign most of all, with hexes color-filled by terrain type. Oh, screw wood choo-choo's AND cubes -- I've switched over to stacking discs for all my cube rails games. Makes things even less cluttered.
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garygarison wrote:
I too find Winsome's original to be more usable. The lush overdetailing in Queen's edition is just distracting. Still, I prefer photocurio's redesign most of all, with hexes color-filled by terrain type. Oh, screw wood choo-choo's AND cubes -- I've switched over to stacking discs for all my cube rails games. Makes things even less cluttered.


I'm surprised you like discs. With some discs under others, it seems visualizing the tracks would be harder, not easier. You'd *have* to look at it from the side -- and of course, if there is a stack in front of another stack, you might not see it.

And add to that the likelihood of them being knocked over.
 
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Yes, but people play sitting at the table, not standing above it. So our default perspective is from the side a bit. And we've never had knock over problems. However, back in the cube days, we routinely had nudge over problems, leaving us wondering whether the B&O was in this farm space or that farm space.

It bears mentioning that I use small discs like seen in Descartes Vinci, not bigger chunkier ones like in Warfrog Age of Steam. Try it out once and see what you think.
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I, for one, am greatly thankful for lush, overdone design Queen games made as I could never get the game onto the table in the original format. It's the same reason I have trouble getting Power Grid to table, although it looks, hm, better?, less spartan? than wabash cannonball. (words fail me when trying to compare 2 not so greatly executed designs. Even if you're into minimal design and I like minimal, wabash indeed looks like a prototype not a design. The point is proven by almost all usermade designs here on BGG being more functional (colored hexes) and better looking than the so-called winstone design.)

But I do preffer the Queen games version, as it will get people excited to try it out, before the game reveals it's (not-so-friendly) charms and subtleties. Also I don't have trouble reading the map, illustrative as it is, at least I can tell from a glance what territory is where, maybe there could be a more elegant solution for putting all these numbers on the board, but at least players look at the board instead of the rules. But hey, we're the ones playing with hidden money and free table talk so as J C claims, we are apparently playing a different game (which appears to be CE, not WC .p)
 
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12. Board Game: Vinhos [Average Rating:7.69 Overall Rank:149]
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First approach of the game



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Last Prototype



Final version

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Lol at the early game name; Vinicola.
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13. Board Game: Kingsburg [Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:166]
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It's a prototype...


And it's a prototype! Incredible!


And finished game:


And again...
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14. Board Game: La Città [Average Rating:7.24 Overall Rank:200]
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Okay, I don`t have the photos right here, but on its designer`s homepage under "Historie" you can see two prototypes.

The first, "Alpha Centauri" was a Sci-Fi game taking place in the galaxy of the same name, ...

... after this it took place in antique Greece ...

http://lacitta.freepage.de/

... and then here:

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Man, while this is already on my want list, I'd've already purchased had it been published as set in space.
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15. Board Game: Stronghold [Average Rating:7.44 Overall Rank:202]
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Technically, this is not the final version of the board. From Ignacy's caption of the image: Stronghold board - early version. Some parts will be changed.
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From Bruno Faidutti's website:



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I like the finished product better.
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17. Board Game: Wits & Wagers [Average Rating:7.08 Overall Rank:254]
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Testing an early prototype at EuroQuest in 2004. The game was still called Trivia Casino at the time. Dan Karp is the one with glasses in the back right. DomCrap (me) is the one with glasses on the top left. We mostly see the back of Satish on the far left.


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Are you supposed to write the numbers oriented that way, so your slate is portrait style and not landscape style? I've been teaching this game all wrong!!
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Are you supposed to write the numbers oriented that way, so your slate is portrait style and not landscape style? I've been teaching this game all wrong!!


You know what? So have I! laugh
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18. Board Game: Power Grid: Factory Manager [Average Rating:7.09 Overall Rank:261]
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The published game :

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Thanks for all of your excellent additions to the list, Bruno!
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19. Board Game: Metropolys [Average Rating:7.07 Overall Rank:304]
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First it was "Oklahoma" ...

...then "Parys" ...

...then "Metropolys":

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And maybe there was a very first phase with cards only...
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/37645/item/872556#item...
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banyan wrote:
Metroypolys was originally called Oklahoma? What's the story there?

Do you know how hard it is to get the Y and S to fit in Oklahoma?
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Actually I heard Metropoly was first a majority game when it won the Boulogne Billancourt award for prototypes.

Then, it evolved to become the game we know. I hope I don't confuse too many stories here
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TGov wrote:
I want the Oklahoma version!

Me wants Parys. But hey. I'm European (and city planning does look somewhat like that around here laugh )
 
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ColtsFan76 wrote:
Do you know how hard it is to get the Y and S to fit in Oklahoma?


Take the capital, Oklahoma Sity whistle
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The first one wasn’t actually a prototype, but rather the first (indie published) version. I would like to add this game anyway to stress the visual improvements brought by Asmodee. Stunning.




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My first prototype:



The one showed to would-be publishers:



The published stuff:

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A really nice prototype - and you don't see the box.


The published game looks similar :
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Very first prototype :



More advanced version :



Published game - but it looks much nicer on a dark table.
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Alan How
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What colour were the glasses in the final version? (Clear -> Black -> ?)
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John Brock
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It's interesting to me how totally the shape of each territory changed, and how much of the peninsula becomes "neutral territory" (out of the game) in the final version. I wonder if the provinces all kept the same boundaries with each other?
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Yeah, I found that an odd change too. The final published gameboard has a lot of wasted space.

I still need to pick up a copy of this one someday, though, as it sounds like one I'd really like.
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jwb3 wrote:
It's interesting to me how totally the shape of each territory changed, and how much of the peninsula becomes "neutral territory" (out of the game) in the final version. I wonder if the provinces all kept the same boundaries with each other?


Yes they did :-)
The new layout is historicly more accurat.

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25. Board Game: Jamaica [Average Rating:6.82 Overall Rank:496]
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The prototype :


The published game :
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Keith Medlin
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Love the concept for this list
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nice idea !
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Why this so good list doesn't go on? It's a sin since it's very interesting.. I like to see games I like so much during their "first steps.."
 
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Notice how many of the original / playtest versions of these games feature beer in the pictures - it's amazing the lengths designers must go to get 'willing' playtesters for their games, now matter how good they are ...
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I like this idea.

Personally I enjoy seeing the earliest iterations of my favorite games... it goes so far that I kind of feel like owning a copy of the prototype to play with for some reason.
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