"Sorry, Not At Home!"

My lovely neighbour was kind enough to come round yesterday with her childhood pack of 'Happy Families' cards, from 1970! Wow. So her, me and mum played a quick game of it. Of course I won. :)

I've been able to look at different artworks online for 'Happy Families', but it was very interesting to play the classic 70's version. The art is lovely, and British, and actually not based in the 70's at all - but it's all very middle-class and the characters are all represented as Caucasian. My aim is now to create modern British characters that could be used within the rules of the 'Happy Families' card game.

It's a turn away from creating characters for a video game, but this will allow me to focus my time into creating the characters (as my original project stated) and not get stressed out trying to create a game brief/idea/mechanics/world.

A moodboard of various card arts I found: