Week 8- Gameboard pieces

For my game board pieces, I chose to stick with the same piece with different cut outs in between so that each player can tell the difference between one another. I decided to do horseshoes because my game is a fictional Irish theme and with many fictional things relating to Ireland, horseshoes are very common to see. I do not have any of these in my game so I decided that adding them as pieces would be a great compliment to the game. I made these pieces by fist taking a picture of a real horseshoe that I liked the shape of, and tracing it by using the pen tool. I then copied the finished horseshoe and repeated it 3 more times. After doing this, I had to decide how I wanted to show that each piece was different. I saw a lot of horseshoes with lines, circles, or even letters cut out of them, so that made me decide to make each piece unique by making the cut outs different. For the first one I just stuck with regular circles because this is what I saw on most horseshoes. I then decided to get creative and I took a picture of a shamrock and a leprechaun hat and I traced them both using the pen tool, then shrunk them to size so that they would fit into the horseshoe comfortably. The last cutout I made was the star cut out. I used this cut out because stars are also used frequently when addressing fictional Irish themes. Lastly, I made a base for each horseshoe so that they can stand upright on my finished game board.