Pigeon Palooza Game Design

Overview

Independent Game and Packaging Design Project

Role

Game and Packaging Designer (Independent Project, 2022-2024)

Led concept development, illustration, board design, and packaging execution

Scope

End-to-end design including concept development, game mechanics, illustration, board design, card design, and packaging execution

Project Type

A passion project celebrating Chicago's iconic pigeons and landmarks through an original board game. Designed to feel like a market-ready product with cohesive visual identity across every component.

The goal was to design a board game that felt genuinely Chicago — playful and local without being generic. It needed to work as a real product, not just a concept, with cohesive design across every component.

I built the game on Ludo's familiar structure and designed the board as a stylized city map with Chicago landmarks as navigational points. Character-driven pigeon avatars, illustrated cards, and packaging were all developed together to keep the aesthetic consistent throughout.

The result is a fully realized board game with cohesive branding across every touchpoint — board, cards, packaging, and rulebook. It shows range across illustration, physical production, packaging design, and systems thinking in one project.

Contact

contact@karolina-gostomski.com

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