Guild Wars 2 Monopoly

When I was thinking about what to get my other half for Christmas I wanted to do something personal. I didn't want to buy something, so I decided to make something instead. I chose to make it about something that we love doing together and one of those things is playing Guild Wars 2. The idea started around a pack of playing cards, i was going to hand draw or use images from the game for each suite. I went against this idea (I don't know why it seemed much simpler in the long run) I instead went with the idea to make a personalised monopoly game around GW2.

I started around the end of September or mid way through October and finished on the week before Christmas. It was stressful, crazy and i questioned my self a lot! but I will also say it was enjoyable, I taught my self a few things along the way and I wouldn't change it for the world!

I printed out a London based monopoly board (The one I'm used to) and wrote all the places I wanted around the board next to the originals.

• The houses and hotels are made of hard plastic, these images were printed on plastic sheets and shrunk in the oven to harden)

• The playing pieces are made out of air dry clay and hand painted to look like the girl and boy Quaggans.

• The money are the same colours as original but the images changed on the front.

• The chest cards are now 'Black lion chest' and the question mark cards are now 'Commander' cards.

• The property cards follow the same prices as original but i changed the housing system slightly where you have to collect all 4 tokens to make a guild; the guild being the hotel.

Below is a small video of me testing the opening of the board. Is is made out of 6mm thick wood and black tape.