MONSTER CHEF
Card Game
A few days after moving into our new house, we receive a mysterious invitation to a dinner party to welcome us to the neighborhood.
As we approach their house, we see disturbing details... their vases look like skulls and the plants have the shape of tentacles... With our pulse racing, we advance to the entrance. When the door opens, our suspicion is confirmed: they are monsters!
Original title: Inferno
Release year: 2022
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Art: Luna Vargas
Publisher: Fractal Games
The Process
It all begun with the funniest list of gross ingredients.
With only the name of the plates I created my vision of this monstrous foods. All together they might create the worst unexpected plates for dinner.
Key Concepts for this projects: Funny, Gross, Cute, Playful, Cartoony.
Color Palette
Cards color sketches
Cards are divided in five groups of foods, represented by colors:
Carbs (purple)
Fats and Sugars (yellow)
Fruits and vegetables (green)
Proteins (blue)
Spicy food! (red)
Planning the colors in thumbnails allows me to see all the cards together, and check the general color palette is working in each singular card, and all of them as a unit. As well as how each color section contrast with each other.
Food Illustrations
Finger Fries
Fried Eyes
Ear Wax Mayo
Worm Curry
Chili Pepper
Tentacle Salad
Cover Sketch
Cover Design
For the cover the Fractal team wanted a banquet of monstrous dishes that was made with mixed a lot of the ingredients used before. A chaotic table full of weird monster foods!
Graphic Design by Laura Mena. Cover lettering by Mabel Alarcón.
