Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Flat Design / Minimal design in games

As I am a big fan of simplistic, I usually kept the artwork of my game or any illustration as simple as possible.
Kept the basic features and form the image by using fonts and shape. Nearly Every illustration I have done so far is kept to the same concept.

Most of the boardgames in Europe or the US have very detailed artwork and I do love them sometime.
For example, artwork for Seasons, Tokaido, Mascarade and the new game from the Essen 2013 -CV.
Mascarade - Repos Production

Tokaido - Funforge


CV - Granna Games

They are colorful and varied in style but they all share 1 same element which is attractive!

Japanese boardgame/cardgame are more to my taste, not many components, cards and small tokens are the usual stuff inside the box. Oink Games and Kanai factory are probably the two publishers that have similar artwork to my game. and yes I do adore them both.

Kobayakawa - Oink Games

Love Letter - Kanai Factory

It's an art how to represent 1 character, 1 animals or 1 events with minimum drawing. I guess I will jump into the world f iconography next.

Here is the new game that Table Friends will be hopefully publishing next year in Spring Q1.
I will release more info when it's avaliable.
SHOWTIME inspired by Charlie Chaplin

That's all from me this time, have a good week and enjoy the Christmas.