Where Cards Fall
APPLE DESIGN AWARD
- Client
- Snowman + The Game Band
- Role
- Art Direction & UX Design
- Category
- Game
A full house: an Apple Design Award and featured placement at WWDC'20 for Snowman and The Game Band.
We brought the visual aesthetic and worked on the interaction design for Where Cards Fall, a puzzle platformer from The Game Band and Snowman. Unique touch controls unlock the puzzles by building and rearranging houses of cards.
Apple laid its cards on the table in March 2019, and Where Cards Fall was dealt in among the first Apple Arcade exclusives on stage. At WWDC'20 the house won: an Apple Design Award for a game built one card at a time.
Spread your fingers and a house of cards rises into a bridge or a walkway. Pinch, and it folds away. Underneath, we built the rules that keep every shape readable from the camera across more than 50 puzzles.
Before any of it moved, the story lived in paintings and sketches of two kids and the places they remember.
