Queen Guidelines brings analog craftsmanship to recreation graphics
The game challenges players to work their way through 156 levels of number puzzles, all of which are monitored by the floating heads of various clay figures. One user described Queen Rules as "like Sudoku – on mushrooms".
The figures are all by Larissa Honsek, a Berlin artist who has been working with clay for nine years. She handcrafted them all and modeled ornate crowns, jewelry and hairstyles for the royal characters of Queen Rules.
It is Honsek's first game project in which the artist spends around eight months on the project. She says that it usually took the characters a day or two to design, build, and finish in post-production, while the game's more complex tonal worlds took a few weeks to complete.
Red Lab previously experimented with non-digital graphics and previously developed a game made entirely of paper. "I was always fascinated by the mix of digital and real world," said co-founder and partner Stefanie Palomino to CR. After searching for "the most amazing and invisible characters", the studio stumbled upon Honsek's work and felt that it would create a more emotional bond with people.
"The game market is flooded with the same aesthetics and gameplay (everyone copies everyone) and we really wanted to do something different," explains Palomino. “The choice of the color palette was also very important for us. We wanted to run away from eye-catching and high-contrast tones. "
Queen Rules is available on the App Store and costs £ 1.99. Queenrulesgame.com; instagram.com/larissahonsek