Country Music Mashup

board game design

Country music is something that I grew up listening and Country Music Festivals are one of my favorite parts of the summer. I wanted to create a board game that would allow my friends and I to have fun with the music genre we love throughout the year.

I worked with a team of three other people to create the game mechanics. We decided to take aspects of other games and combine them into one new game. We decided upon Trivia, Finish That Song Lyric, Pictionary, and Chance Cards. Each player would be put on a team and would compete against the other team(s) to get all the way around the board. Players take turns rolling the dice and landing on different colored spaces that coordinate with a different action/card. If the player answers the question correctly, they get to stay on that space. If they get the question wrong, they must go back a space. We decided to call our game “Mashup” as it was a mashup of different games rolled into one.

After establishing our game mechanics as a group, we each picked our own themes and began individually designing the 200 cards, box, game board, instructions, and pieces. I decided to design my country music game to have a fun retro/vintage aesthetic that was contemporary enough to appeal to my target market, country music’s female fans in their twenties. I designed a hand drawn type on the iPad Pro and vectorized it in Illustrator. I wanted to incorporate my handlettering; however, I wanted it to be appropriate for theme. Therefore, I settled on a monoweight sans-serif with rounded edges. I combined that with line art in the same sort of style and a feminine, desert color palette of red, rust, peach, and pinks.