Denise Heijkenskjöld Side project · Game design
The Unicorn Drinking Game
A party card game I designed from scratch. Roll the die, draw from the magic deck, and whoever rolls the unicorn becomes the Unicorn Lord, immune to every card until someone dethrones them.
- My role
- Everything: concept, rules, illustrations and layout
- In the box
- 72 cards (with some duplicates), a custom die and a fold-out manual
- The die
- One unicorn side, three card sides and two drink sides. Roll the unicorn and you rule.
- Made with
- Illustrations in Clip Studio Paint, layout in Canva, printed by BoardGameMaker
- Card types
- “Instant” cards play right away. “Use whenever” cards can be saved for the perfect moment.
Iteration
The manualFrom the first print to version 2
The first version, which I had printed, had too little text on the cards. For version 2 I redesigned the whole deck: a simpler frame with more room, a full description on every card, and a clear label, Instant or Use whenever, that tells you when to play it.
Version 1 · first printArt-nouveau frame and a big title, but only a line or two of text in a large, mostly empty box.
Version 2 · todayLighter frame, a label on every card and room for the full rule.
