OVERVIEW
This open brief gives the limitations of redesigning an existing game with the following theme of having competitive fun through drinking alcohol. The goal of this is to win the game by being the least intoxicated in the group through completing various tasks. What makes a game enjoyable is how quick people learn the concept, the components and the replayability. Before beginning research, I looked into what aspects could be changed about the game, for example, the target audience, the layout of the cards or even the visual theme itself. This led to brainstorming involving sketching, research and expanding on contextual ideation.
LUCKYEGG
PROCESS
Research:
The research covers card/ board games I have personal experience with which deals with how quick it took to learn the game, the overall design and how it contributes to the ease of the game. In a world were anything could be a drinking game, this leads to a lot of competition but also could be argued that there could be a designated game to that specific activity. These games usually target a specific audience with the same interest with confidence in completing certain tasks.
The freedom of turning anything into a drinking game makes the concept have versatility of application, therefore any games could be played with various groups with different interests which could be a great target audience especially for similar gatherings/ settings at university clubs/ societies.
These games (to the right) all have easy to learn concepts with replay value where it would also be easy to apply their own drinking rules. They also have additional concepts that makes the game more interesting such as combos, selfsabotage and stealing other player’s cards. Alongside, how the layout of the cards make the gameplay smoother through the ease of reading as well as allowing players to counter certain actions/ cards giving the illusion of choice
Elan Lee, Matthew Inman, and Shane Small
What?
• Combo actions/ attacks which allows for people to draw additional cards or steal others,
• Easy to learn concept,
• Easy to read card directions as actions are reduced to a handful of words.
So What?
• Replay value & quick rounds,
• Not a drinking game but could easily be by trading certain cards for sips/ shots
Big Potato x asdfmovie
What?
• Comedic actions
• Easy to learn concept,
• Easy to read cards with visual alongside directions.
So What?
• Replay value & quick rounds,
• Not a drinking game but could easily be by trading certain cards for sips/ shots
• E.g. to ‘counter’ you have to drink, etc.
• Additional fun, as players can use ‘counter’ to pass drinks off to others
Dungeons & Dragons
What?
• Competitiveness,
• Plays along with personalities in the group,
• Easy to learn concept,
• Easy to read cards due to icons and short ‘one liner’ sentences.
So What?
• Replay value & quick rounds,
• Not a drinking game but could easily be by trading ‘lives’ for sips/ shots
ART INSPIRATION FOR EYES: Andreea Dumuta (IG), DIGITAL ART, JANUARY 2024 - FEBRUARY 2025
After exploring a handful of ideas such as illustrated characters from anaphoric features to genderless colourful blobs with facial expressions. In addition, I’ve also delved into the original design of using ‘eyes’ and more, as I consider it a window into someone’s personality using their core facial expressions. To develop, I focused on refining both the anaphoric characters and the ‘eyes’ design to further the idea of personality and the use of body language to express drunken behaviour. I’ve considered changing the colour scheme but I didn’t want to limit or over simplify the design. For example, Shruthi Suresh has redesigned ‘Sloshed’ but they took out the element of accessibility of identifying by colour so it felt it lacked visual individuality which I feel is needed when one’s sense are impaired.
I’ve settled with keeping the colour scheme and the idea of using ‘eyes’ for category expression. This allows me to enhance it’s original design by giving it a pop of texture and a more complexity allowing it to have a chance to stand out on the shelf.
THE JOURNEY
OUTCOMES
This design encompasses the various accessibility aspects,
emphasizing each personality to each category design and
visual choices to represent the age of nostalgia for the new
generation of adults. When I considered design decisions
to cover various accessibility aspects including trailing the
contrasting colours scheme for various colour-blindness,
multiple methods of identifying card categories and applying
text hierarchy to clarify important information. The viscous 3D
texture for the game title resembles the nostalgia of bubble
writing in high school in the late 2010s to wash over the
emotions of a simpler time and to also portray the physical
feeling of intoxication.
On the other hand, I’ve also chose to reuse the illustrated assets for the packaging and composition to reproduce a scene similar to street sticker vandalism/ graffiti. This would often represent the culture of self-expression through an inexpensive way especially for university students and poor artists. This better reflects the newer adult generation and their expressive views for their future and in wanting change whilst still trying to enjoy their life while they can. Wanting change and enjoying present life could go hand-in-hand, as it could be a stress reliever for groups who needs to takes mental breaks by socially engaging with others as an escape.
This design journey was both difficult in terms of considering what limitations to set myself and how much I should change in the ‘redesign’ of this card game. Although the redesign wasn’t a big change in terms of colour scheme and using existing visual design. I enhanced on the idea of ‘eyes’ as window into personality and expression to display each category in respective to the emotion. If this became a full project where I could introduce additional rules to give the illusion of choice where they’re able to pass off the drinks they’re given or an idea separate from the game. Fro example, a set of rules that could be applicable to any card/ board or digital game for in-person and virtual gatherings.
On the other hand, I’ve also chose to reuse the illustrated assets for the packaging and composition to reproduce a scene similar to street sticker vandalism/ graffiti. This would often represent the culture of self-expression through an inexpensive way especially for university students and poor artists. This better reflects the newer adult generation and their expressive views for their future and in wanting change whilst still trying to enjoy their life while they can. Wanting change and enjoying present life could go hand-in-hand, as it could be a stress reliever for groups who needs to takes mental breaks by socially engaging with others as an escape.
This design journey was both difficult in terms of considering what limitations to set myself and how much I should change in the ‘redesign’ of this card game. Although the redesign wasn’t a big change in terms of colour scheme and using existing visual design. I enhanced on the idea of ‘eyes’ as window into personality and expression to display each category in respective to the emotion. If this became a full project where I could introduce additional rules to give the illusion of choice where they’re able to pass off the drinks they’re given or an idea separate from the game. Fro example, a set of rules that could be applicable to any card/ board or digital game for in-person and virtual gatherings.
ALTERNATIVE IDEA (LEFT)