Category: Illustrations

Playing Cards

In 2021 I developed a card game to play with colleagues. After almost 2 years into the pandemic, we barely knew each other. There were also a lot of new faces in the crowd. This game was a nice way to mingle during the first staff party in ages.

It’s a combination of the classic Quartets and Technical Quartets* with some new “Rules of Engagement” and a third engagement option called “climate bombs”. Fun guaranteed!

* The internet has yet to learn what a Technical Quartets is. On the cards there are properties about the subject. Example: “My -person- has the most kids, how much has yours?” Player with the most kids wins both cards.

Luckily I have a superb colleague who’s a designer and she spent a LOT of evenings making these cards. I had another team who pressured colleagues for intimate information that we could put on their cards. I illustrated the “bomb” cards myself.

One of the things they had to do, was to choose a favourite food. I put it on the card in guesstimated (kilo)calories. By the time we played the game, everybody had forgotten what they had chosen. That wasn’t a good design choice, but… the game was a smashing hit! 🙂