Thursday, November 20, 2014

Too Many Cinderellas - Game Cover


I was recently contacted by the wonderful folks at Grail Games to illustrate the cover for their great new game called Too Many Cinderellas. The premise of the game sounds so fun and basically is that Prince Charming can't remember who Cinderella is and the players have to try and persuade him that they are the Cinderella he met at the party. The game is an English language version of an existing Japanese game.


While working on this cover I looked toward the various depictions of the Cinderella fairytale in popular culture to come up with a strong cover that instantly portrayed the Cinderella story. I wanted a very princely yet generic Prince Charming sitting below a castle that could only exist in a fairytale. I looked to the work of the wonderful illustrator Mary Blair, the colour stylist for Disney's Cinderella when working on the colour palate for my cover.


I wanted to use colour to really help make the characters jump off the cover while also presenting the idea that Prince Charming has rushed out of his own party in the middle of the night to track down Cinderella. After leaving the party the baffled Prince Charming discovers a vast mountain of crystal slippers, of all shapes and sizes (go to the head of the class if you noticed the roller skates!) I loved this idea and I really feel it reflects the quirkiness of the game itself.


Lastly I decided to add the mouse character sitting on his pumpkin to the foreground of the image as one final nod to the Cinderella fairytale, of course the mouse and pumpkin are Cinderella's carriage and driver transformed back to their original form after the fairy godmother's spell has worn off at midnight. Too Many Cinderellas should be out at your local game store some time in 2015 in the mean time you can back the project on Kickstarter right now.

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