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Card Designs for Belle of the Ball
Posted on May 27, 2012 | Make a CommentBack of the Guest CardsCounty: Wineberry. Mood: Chatty. Interest: food. Power: Mingle. Popularity: 2County: Dundifax. Mood: Flirty. Interest: Music. Power: Mingle. Popularity: -1, +6 if in a group.County: Boarbottom. Mood: Chatty. Interest: Drink. Powe... -
Race to Adventure – Passport Background
Posted on March 16, 2012 | Make a CommentAll week I've been posting charts n' stuff. Figured I'd treat you all to a little something more lush to carry you into the weekend. This is what will be on the back of the passport boards in Race to Adventure. It was just released on the Evil Hat face... -
Case Study: Iconography of Race to Adventure
Posted on February 5, 2012 | Make a CommentClick the images above to embiggenate! We're wrapping up the final design for the cards in Race to Adventure. You can see a sneak peek at an early draft in this earlier post. I want to give you a light overview of some of the process.At the top of this... -
Take a Sneak Peek at Race to Adventure’s cards
Posted on January 3, 2012 | Make a CommentWhen I heard that Evil Hat had brought in prolific game designer and art director Daniel Solis to create the look and feel of Race to Adventure’s cards, I was... -
Take a Sneak Peek at Race to Adventure’s cards
Posted on January 3, 2012 | Make a CommentDesigner Dan Solis provides a first glimpse of the RtA card layouts.
When I heard that Evil Hat had brought in prolific game designer and art director Daniel Solis to create the look and feel of Race to Adventure’s cards, I was tremendously excited. I had already observed Dan to be a thoughtful and [...]
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Card Layout for Race to Adventure
Posted on January 2, 2012 | Make a CommentYou've heard me yap on and on about card game design over the past year.Well, Fred Hicks and Evil Hat finally called me on it and hired me to do the layout for their new card game Race to Adventure, the card game set in the Spirit of the Century univer... -
Pop and Locke’s Last Heist – Game Boards
Posted on December 29, 2011 | Make a CommentThese are some thumbnail previews of the game boards in the rough draft of Pop and Locke's Last Heist. If you backed the Writer's Dice Kickstarter for four dice or more, you should have gotten a PDF link on Tuesday. Check your email! -
Pop and Locke’s Last Heist – Cover Design
Posted on December 6, 2011 | Make a CommentThis is the promotional art and kind of the cover design for Pop and Locke's Last Heist. You can see how the masthead has been fleshed out with all my usual retail foofarah. The background is a collage of various stock elements, too. But the real hero ... -
Tips for Customizing Hand-Drawn Fonts in a Logo, Title or Masthead
Posted on December 3, 2011 | Make a CommentI wanted to use a nice cartoony font for the masthead of Pop and Locke's Last Heist. Blambot is always a great source for very well-done fonts in a variety of comic book styles. Nate Piekos has been in the business a long time and it's hard to beat the... -
5 Graphic Design and Typography Tips for your Card Game
Posted on November 29, 2011 | Make a CommentChris Farrell of Illuminating Games just wrote a thorough critique of card games setting their body text to be so small that they cannot be read at arm's length, let alone across the table. Here's an excerpt, but the whole thing is worth a read for any...
