Videos

I made two videos of my final work. They are in French :

Introduction & Around the checkboard

Board : complete !

Here it is ! The board is finished ! I will describe later the different locations but you can see them right here !

Statue of Happiness

Here is the box for the Statue of Happiness from Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto 4), but located in SimCity on my board.

The statue will be visible out of the box.

In the box you see Niko Bellic (from GTA4) holding the ladder to go out of a swimming pool. A Sim is dead in the water and the Death is checking its papers for more information about the dead Sim.

Doctors' Room

A box with four different video games famous doctors :

-Dr. Foetus, from Super Meat Boy
-Dr. N. Brio, from Crash Bandicoot
-Dr. Kaufmann, from Silent Hill
-Dr. Yi Suchong, from BioShock

Warp Zones

The four Warp Zones of the game are like the transports in the original Monopoly.

1. Warp Zone 1 : from Super Mario Bros. It is the first Warp Zone of the game, that can be found in level 1-2.
2. Warp ZoOoOone : from Super Meat Boy.
3. Warp Zone 3 : from Super Mario Bros. 3. You can find this Warp Zone juste after using a magic whistle.
4. enoZ praW : from Braid. There is no Warp Zones in Braid, but I found interesting to include this Warp Zone because of the singularity of the game.

Angry Fu***** Sun

The character that every Super Mario Bros. 3 players will recognize and of course hate again...

Columbia

Here is the bonus zone : Columbia, from the next BioShock Infinite. I drew only a few buildings, some clouds and a lot of American flags.

In the boxes, you can see Linebeck (from The Legend of Zelda : Phantom Hourglass), Booker DeWitt (the playable character of BioShock Infinite), Yuna (Final Fantasy X) praying LOG (Lord Of Games, from Banjo-Kazooie : Nuts & Bolts), and finally Elizabeth (also from BioShock Infinite).

Black Mesa and the G-Man

In City 17 I drew Black Mesa as a property, even if I know the right location of Black Mesa : it is clearly not in City 17. In the box there is of course Gordon Freeman, the main character of Half-Life serie.

Just next to him : the G-Man.

City 17 Sewers

The sewers from City 17 (Half-Life 2).

Here, none characters from Half-Life, but Tetrobot (from Blocks That Matters, an independant game) and Faith (from Mirror's Edge). There are also a lot of Barnacles...

WarioWare, Inc.

Just next to Delfino Plaza there is the WarioWare, Inc. with those three characters : Mona, Jimmy T. and of course Wario.

Delfino Plaza properties

The two properties of Delfino Plaza : Ricco Harbor (from Super Mario Sunshine) and Peach Beach (from Mario Kart Double Dash !!).

You can also see the Goo Incineration Factory and the first Warp Zone of the board - for a total of four Warp Zones.

The B.I.U.D. is the French version of Isle Delfino news bulletin.

Rapture and its Neighbourhood

Here is a bigger picture of Rapture ; now you can see its neighbourhood : Raccoon City (right).

I completed Rapture by adding some fishes : Bloopers (from Mario serie) and a Wailord (from Pokémon). I also add a Bathysphere and the crashed plane above the boxes.

Then, in the boxes, from left to right, you can see :
-enoZ praW : a cameo of Braid (which is a cameo of Super Mario Bros.)
-"Prenez ces $1'000, je vous prie" or "Would you kindly take those $1'000" with two robots from the game Machinarium
-The Circus of Values
-The three properties of Rapture
-The Gatherer's Garden
-The Wreck of Maria Doria from Tomb Raider
-Chell, the Cube, Atlas and P-Body from Portal serie
-Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy
-And finally the properties of Raccoon City

And above the boxes, there are other boxes which will be Columbia (from BioShock : Infinite), but it's not finished yet.

Rapture

I just finished to draw Rapture (BioShock)... So many windows...

Wreck of the Maria Doria

This is the wreck of the Maria Doria, a sunken ship of Tomb Raider II.

"My" Lara Croft is from Tomb Raider Underworld, but the "landscape" is the original one.

You can also see the "Welcome to Rapture" sign that is showed in BioShock 2.

Alice

A new box with Alice (from the game Alice Madness Returns) with a Newspaper Zombie from Plants vs. Zombies. This box is located in Raccoon City to do a little cameo to the Alice from the Resident Evil movies (that I don't really like...).

Rapture properties

The three properties that can be bought in Rapture (BioShock).

From left to right :
-Ryan Industries, with of course Andrew Ryan from BioShock.
-Dionysus Park, with Sofia Lamb from BioShock 2.
-Minerva's Den, with Charles Milton Porter and The Thinker (from Rodin) from BioShock 2 DLC : Minerva's Den.

Masterpiece Square

A special way of my board that shows a part of the old video games that can be considered as masterpieces.

I don't think I need to tell you the name of those games...

First money bills

Then, four different $ 1'000 money bills, introducing Dr. Wallace Breen (Half-Life 2), Cave Johnson (Portal 2), Augustus Singlair (BioShock 2) and Atlas (BioShock).

First cards

The first cards (to pick up during the game) that I created.

There are three types of cards : Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. But all of them are menu cards. I chose the triangle button of the PlayStation to symbolize those cards.

Chell Johnson, P-Body, Atlas and the Companion Cube

Here is the box that sends a player to the Enrichment Center which is the equivalent of the prison in the standard Monopoly.

You can see Chell, P-Body, Atlas and - the best - the Companion Cube !

Natla Technologies

The final box for Natla Technologies located in SimCity (in my game).

I added Pierre and Larson, the two other main characters in Tomb Raider Anniversary (and of course in the first Tomb Raider).

Jill Valentine

Jill Valentine from Resident Evil 3. I'll add the Nemesis just behind her.

Spencer's Mansion

In Spencer's Mansion you can see Rebecca Chambers, Chris Redfield and Lisa from Resident Evil (Rebirth).

Chris seems to be very injured, crying after Rebecca for an healthy green herb.

World of Goo

I mixed three "maps" of the game World of Goo to create this factory.

You can also see the Princess Peach, but her box is not completed.

Wesker vs. Trish

A Marvel vs. Capcom 3 scene introducing a fight between Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) and Trish (Devil May Cry). Actually, the fight is over, and Wesker won.

Midgar

Here it is : I just finished to draw Midgar from Final Fantasy VII !

I chose to split the path in this part of the board, because of Midgar architecture : slums in the bottom and the rich part of the town above.

From left to right you can see :
Above
-Shinra Tower : with Rufus Shinra, and his father killed by Sephiroth just behind him.
-Caith Sith and Reeve
-Loveless Theatre : a fictive place that I created to pay homage to the famous Loveless bill and street (also seen in Crisis Core : Final Fantasy VII). You can see Scarlet and Heiddeger behind.
-Zidane Tribal from Final Fantasy IX : the main character of Final Fantasy IX, my favorite one.
Bottom
-A Save Point from Final Fantasy VII
-Slums Church : with Aerith Gainsbourgh.
-The 7th Heaven : Tifa's bar.
-Globox back from Rayman in a blue portal from Portal (the orange portal is at the opposite of the board to connect the two parts).

Regis Licker

A Regis Licker from Resident Evil Outbreak (PS2). She/It is hung to a box.

Jacqueline Natla

This is Jacqueline Natla, a great villain of Tomb Raider Anniversary (the remake of the first Tomb Raider). I chose to draw this version of Natla because I found her more charismatic in Anniversary than the original game.

Title

I just finished to draw the title of the board.

Would you recognize all the game references ?

Pyramid Head

My drawing of Pyramid Head from Silent Hill, one of the most famous and charismatic creature/ennemy of all time !

Another Example

Another example of the board : the lighthouse located above Rapture (the famous city of BioShock).

As you can see, the board is clearly not finished ; only Midgar, Pallet Town and City 17 will be soon completed.

First Sample

Here is a sample of my board.

Precisely, this is the two first boxes of the game, introducing Pallet Town. You can see Blue (or Gary) playing Pokémon trading cards and Professor Oak with the Pokédex in his hand.

You probably noticed that my game is in French ; "Bourg Palette : la ville des grands départs" means "Pallet Town : the town of big departures". And "Laboratoire Pokémon" means "Pokémon Laboratory".

Introduction

Usually, in a standard Monopoly board, you have to buy towns or cities assorted by colors and sorted by prices (from the cheapest to the most expensive). In my game the groups of colors will be replaced by different famous cities of video games, and each city will have two or three famous places.

Here is the list of the cities in my game, from the cheapest to the most expensive :

-Pallet Town (from Pokémon versions : Red-Blue-Green-Yellow - Game Boy)
-Delfino Plaza (from Super Mario Sunshine - Game Cube)
-Clock Town (from The Legend of Zelda : Majora's Mask - N64)
-City 17 (from Half-Life 2 - PC/Mac)
-Silent Hill (PlayStation)
-Sim City (PC/Mac)
-Raccoon City (from Resident Evil/Biohazard - PlayStation)
-Rapture (from BioShock - PC)
-Midgar (from Final Fantasy VII - PlayStation)