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Disco Island Escape Game

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Hootenanny Games is a Nashville publisher of physical games that break the ice, share some fun, and bring on the belly laughs. ST8MNT had a ball working on the naming, package design, game piece component design for play, copywriting and crafting the story for Disco island Escape. All is groovy on Disco Island where the resident lemurs dance peacefully, until the island’s disco ball volcano erupts, and the lemurs must dance across streams of lava and navigate to shore.

Disco Island Escape visual direction featuring inspiration imagery pulled that sits on a rounded shape.

Tropical Iridescence

The vibrant product packaging for Disco Island Escape pairs the rich colors of a tropical sunset with iridescent foil and spot (not sun) UV to create a dazzling disco lava aesthetic. The game features four groovy sifaka lemurs, tree-swinging animals who look like they’re dancing when they walk across land. The board game’s unique concept, brand graphics and illustrations were developed to provide an engaging story behind the gameplay.

Stack of Disco Island Escape Boxes showing iridescent foil
Back of box design for Disco Island Escape game.
Hand holding Disco Island Escape dance move playing cards in front of a cartoon sky background.
Disco Island Escape Dance move playing cards, showing cartoon lemurs, laid out on a sunset gradient background.
Animation of foil stamped cartoon lemur tokens for Disco Island Escape.
Six unique icons created for disco island escape game.

Accessible for all

To escape safely, players must use dance move playing cards to take their foil-stamped lemur tokens across lava streams to reach their respective escape rafts located in the corners of the board. To keep the game fun for all players, we created a unique system of iconography that works alongside the colors on each of the game’s cards, allowing colorblind players to get into the groove.

Disco Island Escape Board detail of Disco Ball Mountain erupting.
Disco Island Escape board game detail of Norm the lemur's escape raft.
Disco Island Escape Board Game being played with snacks
Disco Island Escape board game detail of Kate the lemur's escape raft.
Disco Island Escape
The board game rules for Disco Island escape.

 

 

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