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Fessy Con Project
By Kobylan Abdesh
Silo From Wool
For Fessy Con I thought I should Incorporate a part of the book into real life, and that aspect of my book is where most of the book take place: Silo 18
Precedents
P.S. I decided to only design and 3d print a part of the silo
Sketch
Iterations
BUT...
I had to pivot to a different thing because all my 3D prints failed.
So...
FINAL PRODUCT
Final Reflections
For my Fessy Con project, I chose to bring the staircase from Wool by Hugh Howey to life because it plays a huge role in the story. The staircase connects everything in the silo and shows how people are separated, but also how they’re all part of one big system. I wanted to show how tiring, mysterious, and important that staircase really is.
While working on this project, I learned how much thought authors put into even simple settings. The staircase isn’t just a place—it represents struggle, connection, and control. Creating it helped me understand the book on a deeper level. It also made me think about how setting affects characters and mood.
I’m proud of how the project turned out, and I feel like I was able to help others picture an important part of the book. This project showed me how stories can come alive when we look closer.
P.S. (Sorry for making you read this Absolute wall of text)
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them".
After reading The Fellowship of the Ring I had the idea to create an old looking map from my book showing the journey of Frodo. After that I had the idea to create the ring from my book, and I was going to add a light that turns on when you swish your hand.
I am planning on making a foam sphere ball and painting it orange and also adding characters and different props to attach onto it to represent mars and my book. I am also making a movie trailer to go with it.
My Conceptual Precedent
Mars sphere ball in different colors
My Technical Precedents
Foam Sphere ball
Mini Spaceships
First rough sketch of Mars
Props
Colors
Materials
Sizing: 7.5 inches wide
This was Day 2 progress:
Started movie trailer with some basic intro slides.
Day 3 progress:
Painted sphere ball to replicate mars
Introduced the characters
Feedback I got from Mid-Review:
Make my character more realistic and more like how they are in the book.
Make a cliffhanger for my movie trailor
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Final
Thank You for listening
Make sure to check out the Mars and the movie trailer!
These were my precedents. The first one is a war strategy game similar to what I want to make, and the second is star wars ships to base my ships on.
This was my first sketch on day 0. There were no materials that I needed that I did not currently have. As you can see I made a sketch of a board and I conceptualised the pieces.
Part 1 - The Board
I then made both parts of the board on cuttle. I decided to hand-make the squares in between planets and moons because I do not know what will be on them yet.
Part 1
Part 2
This was the final result of the laser-cut pieces.
Problems I have or will be facing:
Painting may take a few classes and may not look great on the first try, but I do not really get a second try
Hand-making the spaces may be inconsistent...
Next steps on this front:
Paint the board with the help of Mrs. Walrod
Add in the spaces
Create a spinner? Maybe dice
glue the pieces together
Part 2 - The Pieces
I wanted to make a few kinds of pieces. I ended up making 6 kinds, 3 ship pieces and 3 structure pieces.
These were my first 3 ship pieces, a gunship, a torchship (technically gunShip and torchShip but idc) and a dreadnought
Dreadnought (Max 4 per team)
Torchship (Max 12 per team)
Gunship (Max 16 per team)
I then made a print that i will do twice, once per team it is the max ships a team can have
I then made each structure: factories produce ships, mines let factories produce better ships, and docks allow torchships and dreadnoughts to station on a planet. This will be printed only once, as it has both teams' supply of structures. every structure has a max of 13 per team.
Mines
Docks
Factories
I then made a lot of rules and instructions for each piece in-depth that will later go into my rulebook (which may turn out to be quite big). I did not include them here because it would be an absolute wall of text and that is boring.
Problems I have or will be facing:
My slow chromebook cannot download the stl files for my very big prints :(
Even if I could get the files to print it would take like 2 days just to print on set of ships, plus time for supports... and I have to dip these in paint to get them color-coded
Next steps on this front:
Try to find a way to print my pieces, or just may a bunch of smaller prints
then I will dip these in paint, and maybe find or make a bag to store them
NEXT UP IS CARDS - they are going to be very important and I plan to make them out of cardstock
After my Mid-Review, most people told me to simplify my 3D printed designs.
This is what i came up with...
This was the tinkercad view
As you can see, they are very simple.
Next, I spent a lot of time working on my board, and I finished painting it. This is the final result.
Then, I created a rules document for those who do not know how to play the game.
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them".
After reading The Fellowship of the Ring I had the idea to create an old looking map from my book showing the journey of Frodo. After that I had the idea to create the ring from my book, and I was going to add a light that turns on when you swish your hand.
I will create a board game called Thrones And Bones. This will relate to my book (Thrones & Bones: Frostborn) because A: it is the namesake and B: because the game is played many times in my book.
Precedents
3d Model of the board
Instead of doing a sketch I decided to make a 3d model of what I wanted to board to look like.
Work Day #1
On Work Day #1 I found 2 precidents and made a 3d model of what I wanted the board to look like.
Work Day #2
On work day #2 I made a Lasercut file for later and cut 2 20x20 inch foam boards and glues them together to make the first physical part of the project.
Work Day #3
On Work Day #3 I used the previous lasercut file cut the wood pieces for the top layer of the board.
Work Day #4
On work day #4 I printed out the rules.
Work day #5
On work day #5 I added the places to the board.
Work Day #6
Today I desined the board game pieces and I painted the board.