Boxing, boxing, damage boxing
The project was in that stage where we were working on the webpage itself and the content, we thought about how it should look like, what pictures to use and so on. If you really would like to reach your crowds you need to provide content and keep your people updated. Or at least this is what Balázs always says.
So the website was almost ready. And Balázs got the big idea, that as the box has the cover already designed, he will do a real, physical box on which he will put this cover picture. This will be used primarily to store every little part of the nr.0 prototype of the game in it and will stay on our board game cupboard. And we were considering to take some really cool and professional photos about the game with this box and let people see what will be born soon, for real. So the masterplan was made by him: he printed both parts of the cover on high quality paper and bought 3 sheets of cardboard with their 3mm height. To be sure that it will be enough he bought 3, even if 1 could have made the trick. Safety first.
And the day had come. After some hours of preparation with calculations, he was drawing the lines on the cardboard and on the high quality print and started to cut everything. He said it was incredibly relaxing to do this. I said it is incredibly great, but let’s just do that because you still have tons on things to do and this should not be what you are spending your precious time with.
So it’s Sunday evening. I come over and see that he is already cutting out some matter from the cardboard. “Oh, it is a bit too thick, I will just not be able to fold it, so I am cutting out those parts.” Then I suggest to try to really form it into a box to see how it looks like. It is happening, one side is already standing, then BAMM, the second one is just teared. “Oh damn, what now?” “No worries, the adhesive will solve everything.”
So he continues, I am there to support. We are just chit chatting about ideas on how the next step should be made. I am helping by holding together the parts. The second shock arrives when we figure out that that 3 mm were not calculated properly in the size. But it’s OK, this little inaccuracy will not do any harm.
After an hour we are holding our little box upper part in our hands. We are just happy that it looks somehow like a box upper part. Ok, great, we did that, let’s move on. So we start to look at the high quality cover picture to applicate on our cardboard box. We realise that we played it too safe with the tons of adhesive so we basically do not have any free space on our box to use the glue on it. Thinking, thinking, when the brilliant idea arrives in the form of a 2-side adhesive. Oh great, it just saved us, let’s continue.
So we agree on the moves, we split the duties, he is holding, I am putting, he is cutting. We are good to go, just remove the unnecessary parts and put the cover picture on that. So we are starting on one side, then continuing with the upper part. Oooh, it’s nice, no air bubbles in there. We are even clapping our hands to cheer our success.
And this is the point where it takes 2 seconds to realize that something went wrong. Oh shit, we did not think about checking whether we kept the lines. The whole thing is just not parallel. We cannot cover it. Unbelievable. Another hour passed and we are there with our non-usable box.
As our last chance we try to remove the cover paper from the cardboard. It is almost done, the hope is still alive. So as I am trying with the side, the cover paper is just getting messed up. It does not work. He takes it to try differently. And then..Then that shh sound. TORN. IN THE LAST SECOND, WHEN WE ARE THAT CLOSE TO TRY IT AGAIN, IT’S TORN.
Everything is over. Those red spots appear on his cheeks. He says that now he is getting freaking angry. It is one thing that he spent quite a lot on buying and printing everything, he spent lot of time and in the end it is not working out.
I tried to support in these hard times with my silent presence. He was swearing, walking around with anger. He said he will never do such stupid things again, like he has plenty of things to do and still trying these funny yet unnecessary works. And he went further, he realized that everything cannot be done just and only by him. He will ask someone who can help with time consuming things, let it be a webpage, a video creation or illustration works. He finally learnt from this.The dependencies should be identified, and his task is to see them and resolve them.
Aaand then he just calms down. He starts to think how to solve it, what to do next, how to put that freaking box differently to the game photos.
What is this, if not determination?!
This is how we got that cool pic on the wall. I hope you enjoyed it! 🙂
To prove that this whole story happened for real, let me show you some pictures from that night.