Get Ready for Replay Workshop Recycled Polyhedral Dice
by Atlas Games
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YOU LOVE DICE! We do too. It's been our goal from the start with Replay Workshop to make all the traditional gaming dice -- four, six, eight, ten, twelve and twenty-sided – out of recycled plastic materials, and now we finally can!
Replay Workshop is the name of our project that takes plastic destined for the landfill and turns it into new products and materials. While we have already successfully made eight-sided dice out of recycled plastics, we want to make more! And until now, we did not have access to the facilities or materials needed for mass production.
Our most recent successful Kickstarter for InFUNity Tiles funded a pair of master unit die frames. Which means that we can change out the mold inserts for all kinds of future products, including these dice, with much less tooling cost. So with an insert that makes a complete set of RPG polyhedra, we can mass produce dice, and they're going to be acrylic!
Acrlylic goes by many names, such as polymethyl methacrylate, "acrylic glass,". You may have even heard their brand names such as Plexiglass or Lucite. Acrylic is one of many plastics under the #7 resin recycling code. We've connected with local businesses, from sign makers to hardware stores, who will give us their acrylic scraps instead of taking it to the landfill.
Our friends at Updog Products in Somerset, Wisconsin, have successfully tested recycled acrylic that we provided, and we believe that injection molding 98%-100% recycled material is viable. (The up to 2% not-recycled would be things like colorants or additives to achieve special effects.) The dice will have recessed numbers, but coloring in numbers will take a bit more experimentation. Large volumes will likely involve coloring the whole die first, and polishing away the pigment on the surface in a larger tumbler. However, we can hand-color numbers to fulfill backer pledges, while we work out the path to mass production.
Your support of this campaign makes it possible! It will enable us to tool up, begin production, and test various techniques for number-coloring.
Replay Workshop is the name of our project that takes plastic destined for the landfill and turns it into new products and materials. While we have already successfully made eight-sided dice out of recycled plastics, we want to make more! And until now, we did not have access to the facilities or materials needed for mass production.
Our most recent successful Kickstarter for InFUNity Tiles funded a pair of master unit die frames. Which means that we can change out the mold inserts for all kinds of future products, including these dice, with much less tooling cost. So with an insert that makes a complete set of RPG polyhedra, we can mass produce dice, and they're going to be acrylic!
Acrlylic goes by many names, such as polymethyl methacrylate, "acrylic glass,". You may have even heard their brand names such as Plexiglass or Lucite. Acrylic is one of many plastics under the #7 resin recycling code. We've connected with local businesses, from sign makers to hardware stores, who will give us their acrylic scraps instead of taking it to the landfill.
Our friends at Updog Products in Somerset, Wisconsin, have successfully tested recycled acrylic that we provided, and we believe that injection molding 98%-100% recycled material is viable. (The up to 2% not-recycled would be things like colorants or additives to achieve special effects.) The dice will have recessed numbers, but coloring in numbers will take a bit more experimentation. Large volumes will likely involve coloring the whole die first, and polishing away the pigment on the surface in a larger tumbler. However, we can hand-color numbers to fulfill backer pledges, while we work out the path to mass production.
Your support of this campaign makes it possible! It will enable us to tool up, begin production, and test various techniques for number-coloring.
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