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What's special about the concept? It's one big picture, but you can find the same character at multiple spots, doing different things at different moments in time.
“This game was an excellent opportunity to teach people more about this Mexican tradition, and I had the chance to explore familiar places. I thought about families from Mexico, but I also wanted to represent the various regions.”
“Creating a story is a lot like excavation. The famous Japanese sculptor Unkei once said that carving a Buddha statue was like "releasing it from the stone." This reflects the idea that the figure already exists within the material—and the sculptor’s role is to uncover it.”
“The idea was to immerse the players in an ocean of folded paper. To achieve this goal, we established a few guidelines: simple compositions with few secondary elements, a sheet of paper as a background, and lights and shadows to bring depth to the pictures.”
Slay the Spire is a phenomenal hit. The video game has sold an estimated 3 million copies and has been adapted into a board game, which is already rated in the top 50 best board games ever on Board Game Geek.
“Rereading that chapter in Fellowship of the Ring, the most terrifying part of those visions in the Mirror was Frodo seeing the Eye, and I knew I wanted to bring that image into the moment.”
“There are many tragic moments in the story, I tried to reflect them with colors, shapes, and other resources. The board game follows Onoda's life chronologically, and I tried to reflect that in the cards; you can see how he ages.. “
“My background in graphic design helps me curb my desire to use all the colours, because in the end working with a limited palette is always going to be more impactful.”
“Some connect with an illustration because it captures a personal experience, others are drawn to a particular animal, and some simply love the way the sky makes them feel…”
“If we think about the science fiction of the 1960s, we can say that its main characteristic, in terms of design and thinking about the mechanics of space travel, is optimistic naivety….”
