I found an account on Instagram who posts designs of gameboy cartridges done by various designers. He sends you the cartridge mock-up and then you submit a design, he then posts the best ones on his page. I decided to take part.
The first thing I did was decide on game to do a design for, it didn’t have to be a gameboy game, it could be a design of anything, but I thought it would be nicer to do an actual gameboy game so it applies contextually. I chose to do the game of ‘Batman Beyond; return of the joker’ mostly because I love batman but also this is a future version of batman so it offered the chance to do some cool futuristic style design. I limited my colour palette to red blue and black and experimented with some type and tried out some very stylised fonts but ultimately went for a more standard sans serif typeface, which is a little bit wider and slightly geometric looking. I created this grid because I wanted to replicate these cartoony futuristic graphics you see on the computers in the show and to further this I created these repeating outlined patterns, the red circles one works really well however I did one of the batman symbols which isn’t as clear, you can only really see the one batman symbol which I made red. I added in an image of the joker which I edited to make red and blue, and I then added in the little rating logo and the Nintendo authenticity badge logo.
This was a fun little brief to do and my design did end ups getting featured which was good.
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