One of the jobs I do for the Placer County Museums is to help develop educational materials with the Curator of Education. In California, fourth graders history education focuses on the Gold Rush. To help students get a better understanding of just how difficult it was to “strike it rich” I developed the mechanics and illustrated a card game. It’s still in Beta testing at this point, but we hope to be releasing it next year so that teachers can use it as a supplement to in class instruction.
Illustration & Game Design: Strike it Rich!