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Hello and welcome to the Stars Align blog, in which we here at Stars Align will keep you updated about what’s going on behind the scenes, how our design process has been and maybe a few less than serious things as well

so, where are we with Stars Align right now?

we’re in the final stretches of bringing Stars Align into the physical realm in all its glory. It has existed in many forms over its lifespan, starting with sticky notes and then paper and now ending up with lovely precision laser cut tiles, hand painted tokens and beautifully illustrated god cards. This level of quality that we’re aiming for has caused some issues however, as it means we need to be very precise and specific with each bit of the games construction.

Making the Box

Something that we knew would be a challenge but really got caught up by was making the box for the game. To make two versions of the box, it took two full days of in person work. We had to make the box entirely from scratch, meeting our custom dimensions while creating something that will last structurally.

This is the lid of the box, you can see we’re doing measurements to make sure we can exactly wrap the box. We used a black accent colour to fill most of the extra space on the box, and while it may seem easy each section of material had to be cut to specific measurements and hand pasted down. We had a couple of missteps, such as cutting the wrong lengths of stuff or some messier gluing but we made sure to go back and make it all right

wrapping the box shells was one of the most particular bits, as it had to be done with tension. This tension then holds the box together much better, making it more resistant to bumps and scrapes.

Here are some satisfying long shots we took of preparing and cutting the longer strips

with a lot of delicate craftsmanship and taking our time to make things perfect, the box is perfectly the right size, and the top slides over the bottom with a satisfying friction

finally we used the full print of Kaitlin’s art and wrap it around the box topper, making sure it was flush and well secured to the box. If we were going to make more we would use a thinner gsm for the paper as the thickness for the paper made it a bit stiff and harder to fold.

This is how making the box went! If you want to see the beautiful final results you can come along and see it in person at one of our shows! We will be in the Patchwork show at the Winchester school of arts from the 6th to 10th of June!