Rags and Widows
Rags and Widows is a card game developed in 2022. It is a multi-paced sketch card game made to educate about logo design by generating random logo clients and to work as a tool to build a portfolio for new designers. The randomness helped us come up with creative problem-solving.
The game consists of 500 hand-drawn cards. Two hundred one business names, 201 client preference cards, and 98 logo types (7 logo types repeating). Drawing three from each category generates your own randomized logo/branding client. Next, decide to draw to the prompt or explain to the ‘client’ why the pairing wouldn’t work. The randomized pairings are meant to not always make sense. This is to encourage out-of-the-box creative solutions to expand creative problem-solving. All of the characters are meant to be genderless.
There are three ways to play, Logo Duel, Classroom, and Individual Practice. I wanted to make enough cards that this game could be used in a large classroom (up to 98 students) but also accessible for just one person to play independently.
This is a game independently developed by Kayla Hay, the target goal is to have this project up on Kickstarter.
To see how far this game could go, I developed branding guidelines from the cards I drew from the box.
You can view that here.
