African Star

Are you still playing African Star? For some reason, we have always been attracted to this classic game at Riesen Design and every now and then we force our children to play it with us... 😊 And while we think it's an extremely cool thing that in this ever-changing world of ours, some things remain unchanged for 70 years (!), redesigning the look of the game as a graphic design challenge became an interesting idea.

It was also interesting to study completely different cultural design languages and make them a coherent whole. In order to do this, we had to explore the most significant sites of architecture and culture on the African continents.

The goal with this concept project was not to start solving any specific design issues (the logic of the game remains exactly the same), but only to create a colorful, slightly "neoretro" entity that would hopefully be as fun to play as the original version.

This is a concept idea and the official game manufacturer was not involved in any way.