Hey guys. The Game Cases are still in development.
The hangup I'm having isn't money-related. It has to do with getting time with a CAD Designer, that has experience designing products made of Polypropylene. Also, "Living Hinges" add a layer of complexity to the design of injection-molded plastics, so it is doubly important to work with someone who has the proper experience.
I have found such a CAD Designer, and he happens to work for an Injection Molding company up in Dallas, that also offers prototyping services. Unfortunately, for us, their current client base (whom already have injection molds made) get top priority in the queue, and many of them are asking for tweaks to their molds, and/or have ramped up production in anticipation of the Holiday Season.
The company I'm working with is the only one I've found, thus far, in Texas, that has actual, experienced CAD designers on staff, familiar with designing Living Hinges, that wants my business. I have continued to contact other companies in Texas, but they are either also too busy, or turn me down because they don't have the proper CAD guys on staff.
I am still looking around for another company to work with, in the hopes to get this done sooner, but I'm going to them with a different set of Game Case Designs (Master System, Genesis, *Jaguar).
At the very least, it would be nice to get some 3D Prints of those case designs made, so I could post them up here, and get feedback on them.As Arseen said, when it comes time to send out prototypes, it doesn't matter what country you live in. However, you either need to be a Mod on these forums, or have some Game Case Artwork published on TCP.
There are also a couple of people on the get-a-prototype-game-case-list, whom are neither, but have helped me out in other ways, such as sending me stuff to use as a physical example.*The other group that's working on Jaguar Game Cases, is having similar issues as me, trying to get face time with an experienced CAD designer, in their own state. I won't post any pictures of my Jaguar Game Case Prototypes (if I have any made), but will instead work with that other group. They've offered to reimburse me for any costs related to the R&D of the Jaguar Game Cases, so long as they get to be the ones to have them manufactured. At the very least, they'll wind up saving some $ on R&D, if they choose to use my Jaguar Game Case Design, since it's only a minor variation of my Master System & Genesis/Mega Drive Game Case Designs.
Marcus_CA, thanks for the offer to help.
I'll send you a PM within the next 48 Hours.
You all should feel free to contact me via e-mail, or send a PM through these boards, especially when there is a long gap in my visits to TCP and/or I haven't posted anything in a while. Sometimes I don't get notifications via e-mail, when there are posts to my subscribed threads, or my sister gets the notification and forgets to mark it as unread. She doesn't do that on purpose; after all, she
is helping out with the Onion Game Case Project, and is an adult, but sometimes accidents happen.
Quite a while back, someone asked on this thread, if I could post some pictures of the SNES+SFC 3D-Printed Prototype, with an American SNES Game Cart in it. After I post this post, I'll take those pics and post em.
