Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Train Ticket Board Game

A custom board game map and train ticket cards for Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly (UK), inspired by the Ticket to Ride Board Games published by Days of Wonder (with whom I am not affiliated).

Download

Links to the board and ticket files can be found below (the latest versions can be downloaded from GitHub).

Game Board

For best quality printing it is recommended a 300 DPI version of the board is used, but smaller versions are also available for viewing or other purposes:

Description	300 DPI (24MB)	150 DPI (9MB)	75 DPI (3MB)	25 DPI (<1MB)
Board 1 large sheet	PDF PNG	PDF PNG	PDF PNG	JPG PNG
Board 3x3 A4 sheets	PDF	PDF	PDF

Destination Tickets

Only one 300 DPI version of the destination tickets is currently available:

Description	300 DPI (18MB)
Destination tickets 6 A4 sheets	PDF

License

The Makefile is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

All other content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (see LICENSE.md) unless otherwise stated (see Sources below).

• Copyright © 2020 James Hogan james@albanarts.com
• Background maps contain Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right
• Original Scilly flag by Steve Duncan
• Original locomotive by Panther

Prerequisites

You need the following fonts installed to open or build the designs:

• Kaushan Script Regular (fontlibrary.org)

• Anton (fonts.google.com)

You need the following software packages installed to build the designs on Linux:

• Inkscape (at least version 1) is required by the Makefile to convert the SVG files to PNG.

  Ensure inkscape is in your $PATH.

• Imagemagick (specifically the "convert" utility) is required by the Makefile to convert the PNG to a PDF.

  Ensure convert is in the $PATH.

• pdfposter is required by the Makefile to tile the large PDF onto multiple pages.

  Ensure pdfposter is in the $PATH.

• TeX Live (specifically pdflatex) is required by the Makefile to add margins and cropping marks to the tiled PDF.

  Ensure pdflatex is in the $PATH.

Building

The default Makefile targets generate a tiled A4 PDF of the board in outputs/Cornwall-300dpi-a4.pdf, and a paged set of destination tickets in outputs/cornwall_tickets-300dpi.pdf:

$ make

To open cornwall_tickets.svg you first need to generate the background from ticket_background.svg. This can be done with the "prepare" Makefile target:

$ make prepare

Other Makefile targets are as follows:

• all

  All outputs at all DPI levels.

• board

  Just the board PDF at the default DPI level.

• tickets

  Just the tickets PDF at the default DPI level.

• png

  PNG files for each of the above DPI levels.

• pdf

  PDF files of the above PNG files and corresponding A4 tiles for printing.

Specific output targets are as follows, where XX is the DPI, either 75, 150, or 300.

• outputs/Cornwall-XXdpi.png

  A PNG of the board at the specified DPI.

• outputs/Cornwall-XXdpi.pdf

  A single page PDF of the board at the specified DPI.

• outputs/Cornwall-XXdpi-a4.pdf

  A tiled multipage PDF of the board at the specified DPI, for A4 printing.

Sources

I've tried to use free sources wherever possible. The originals can be found in the originals/ directory. Modifications can be found in the modified/ directory.

The following table lists all the sources, more details below:

Source	License	Attribution
Puffin	PD	Aki G. Karlsson
Dolphin	PD	cactus cowboy
Lighthouse	PD	'The History of Plymouth', Richard Worth, 1890.
Ship	PD
Flag of Cornwall	PD	Jon Harald Søby
Flag of Devon	PD	Greentubing
Flag of USA	PD	US Federal Government
Map of Cornwall	CC BY-SA 3.0	Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right
Map of Isles of Scilly	CC BY-SA 3.0	Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right
Flag of Isles of Scilly	CC BY-SA 3.0	Steve Duncan
Steam Locomotive	CC BY-SA 3.0	Panther
Kaushan Script Regular	OFL	Pablo Impallari
Anton	OFL	Vernon Adams

• The graphics on the sea (Puffin, Dolphin, Lighthouse, Ship) are taken from publicdomainvectors.org in SVG form and are claimed to be in the public domain.

  The only changes are colour changes to the lighthouse (Lighthouse) and the ship (Ship).

• The Flag of Cornwall, Flag of Devon, and Flag of USA are taken from Wikipedia, and are placed in the public domain.

  They have been modified to make them circular. They are then used as the icons for the towns and cities on the board and the destination tickets.

• The Map of Cornwall, the Map of Isles of Scilly, the Flag of Isles of Scilly and the image of a Steam Locomotive are taken from Wikipedia, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

  The maps have been simplified using Inkscape and the colours have been altered. They are then used as the background maps for the board and the destination tickets.

  The Flag of Isles of Scilly has been modified to make it circular, with the stars moved so they remain visible. It is then used as the icons for the islands on the board and the destination tickets.

  The outline of the Steam Locomotive has been traced. It is then used as the locomotives on ferry routes on the board, and in the table of scores for different route lengths on the board.

• Most of the text uses the Kaushan Script Regular font, but the scores on the tickets use the Anton font. Both are released under the SIL Open Font License.