Institute of Play / PFPG
Process work for Playfroce branding elements – creating abstract game boards out of pixel grids.
When creating the artwork for this project, our focus was to try and combine the digital with the physical (video and board games). The solution we landed on was to simply crop small areas of video game stills and enlarge the pixels enough to be able to use them as game board grids.
Institute of Play was a non-profit design studio founded in 2007 by a group of game designers in New York City. An interdisciplinary team of designers, strategists and learning practitioners, IoP created learning experiences rooted in the principles of game design. The Institute’s research and design work has been widely featured as an innovative and accessible approach to transforming education through play.
Composition:
The games were selected based on a variety of learning topics (ie Rocksmith for Music, Stardew Valley for Agricultural Science) but the scenes were selected somewhat arbitrability – mostly for their color composition.
Each grid included different reference lines, styled similar to the aesthetic of the game they were representing.
Options that didn't leverage the square pixel grid were also explored.
Crusader Kings:
Minecraft:
Stardew Valley:
Sim City:
Age of Empires:
Kerbal Space Program:
Monument Valley:
Portal 2:
Assasin's Creed:
Rocksmith:
Gravity Rush:
