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Publishing · 2024

The Rise of Atlantis

Academic project · Physical prototype

The complete Atlantis board with muted colored components and seven original central architectural tokensView larger
The Rise of Atlantis — a digital product study of the academic game prototype. Rhino 7 native render.

Overview

The Rise of Atlantis is an academic board game prototype that explores urban development through tabletop play. Players expand across a hexagonal island, establish communities, gather resources and construct shared systems. Terrain and event cards influence their choices. The project brings together a game board, cards, printed rules and physical components.

The board and components

The hexagonal island provides a setting for expansion, resource gathering and the establishment of communities. Separate resource pieces and house-shaped components bring these elements into tabletop play.

The complete square Atlantis board containing a hexagonal island, terrain illustrations and open central cellsView larger

The island board

The island’s hexagonal grid and illustrated terrain types.

Five resource-block designs and four house-shaped community pieces in their original two-row arrangementView larger

Resources and communities

Resource blocks and house-shaped community pieces.

Seven white architectural common-system tokens in the original arrangement of four above and three below

Common-system tokens

Seven architectural pieces, presented at component scale.

From island to commons

Three board-state studies illustrate the island’s development from an initial layout to communities and shared systems.

Initial Stage: an axonometric board study with field pieces along parts of the islandView larger

01 — Initial Stage

The starting condition of the island.

Community formation: an axonometric study with house-shaped community pieces distributed around the islandView larger

02 — Community formation

Communities and shared structures begin to take shape.

The Commons: an axonometric study with communities around seven central architectural piecesView larger

03 — The Commons

A developed arrangement of communities and shared systems.

Rules and printed matter

Selected printed materials from the 2024 academic prototype, including a digital leaflet mockup, a setup excerpt and two card studies.

Digital mockup of selected 2024 rules-sheet panels in an illustrative folded-paper arrangement.View larger

Rules leaflet study

Digital mockup using original panels from the 2024 rules sheets. The fold arrangement is illustrative.

Original Game Setup text and island-and-card layout diagram, extracted from the 2024 rules sheetView larger

A closer look at setup

An archival excerpt showing the original setup text and board layout.

Original Harmony Nexus Tower common-system card, including resource symbols, score and building imageView larger

Common-system card

The original Harmony Nexus Tower card study.

Original Sunny event card with its sun symbol and resource-token instructionView larger

Event card

The original Sunny event-card study.

The physical prototype

Archival tabletop photograph of the Atlantis board, printed rules and cards, bagged colored components and seven white architectural pieces in a wooden boxView larger

Prototype record · 2024

A photograph of the physical game prototype from the year of the project.

Axonometric line drawing of the compartmented game box and a separate lid with a hexagonal island patternView larger

Box and lid study

Supporting axonometric linework of the compartmented box and lid.

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