I wanted to look into what card designs were out there before I began designing my own. I found the majority kept it quite simple in that the majority just used two colours on the packaging. The packaging design is usually the same pattern/design as the playing cards so there is a sense of unity across the game.
I think regarding my own game packaging I want to maybe use more than the normal two colours and branch out to possibly four or maybe five colours. But not contrasting colours, I want them all to complement each other.
Above is my flowchart marking out the main points of the Labyrinth story.
Once Upon a Time - Story-Telling Game
The story telling type of game I want to follow is the Once Upon a Time. In Once Upon a Time, players tell a story together using cards that show fairytale elements and endings.
How does the Game Work?
One Player starts as the story teller. The Player who uses all the story cards in their hands and guides the plot to her ending wins the game.
Character Mood Board
Above is a character mood board of the style I want to pursue for my card designs. I want to keep the design quite simple and a cartoon style.
Computer Game Mood Board
Above is examples of computer game design. Styles I similarly want my game to be like.
This week we done a collaborative story-telling activity where we got a photograph and had to begin writing a story based on the photo. We then covered our part of the story and passed it on to the next person and they continue the story based on the last two lines the person before wrote. And so on. We then read the finished the stories and read them out.
Labyrinth Story
Minos, the
first King of Crete was the son of the Zeus and Europa. One day while in Athens
Minos son Androgeos was killed fighting a bull. Minos was furious and travelled
to avenge his son. Minos asked Zeus to punish Athens so the God struck it with
the plague and hunger.
The Gods
were unhappy with the Kings behaviour so punished him by making his wife
Pasiphae fall in love with a bull. She fell pregnant and gave birth to the
Minotaur. Half Bull Half Human.
Every 9
years he made King Aegeus pick 7 young boys and 7 young girls to be sent to
Daedalus creation, The Labyrinth. Daedalus was a very talented architect who
made it an almost impossible maze where there is only one route to escape. Most
of the children were killed in the Labyrinth by the Minotaur.
Before the
third game was due to commence. Theseus a heroic boy from Athens volunteered
and promised to slay the Minotaur. King Minos’ daughter fell in love with
Theseus and gave him a ball in thread. This ball and thread would help him get
out of the Labyrinth and succeed in slaying the Minotaur. Ending the vicious
Labyrinth game.
American Constitution
This week we listened to audio stories. Our story was based on the American Constitution so we made a mood board showing this. We included the American Flag, the written constitution, and the founding fathers.
I wanted to look into what card designs were out there before I began designing my own. I found the majority kept it quite simple in that...
Once Upon a Time - Story-Telling Game The story telling type of game I want to follow is the Once Upon a Time. In Once Upon a Time, playe...
Labyrinth Story Minos, the first King of Crete was the son of the Zeus and Europa. One day while in Athens Minos son Androgeos was kille...
Character Mood Board Above is a character mood board of the style I want to pursue for my card designs. I want to keep the design qui...
This week we done a collaborative story-telling activity where we got a photograph and had to begin writing a story based on the photo. We t...
Sketchbook Uploads I started by looking at different media platforms and noted them down in a mind map. From the research I narrowed ...
The Sherlock Holmes Society of London In the first few two weeks we looked at Sherlock Holmes and the different adaptions there are to th...
