Calunnia is a game about silent communication, suspicion, and visual interpretation that challenges players to read each other—without saying a word.
ART DIRECTION
The graphic design of Calunnia is a pandemonium of visual styles. Inspired by brazilian collagists Tide and André Hellmeister, we've blended collage, illustration, photography, and surrealism, emphasizing the plasticity and dreamlike quality of the art.
With a diverse range of references and inspirations, Calunnia offers an immersive dive into the surreal, mixed, and chaotic concept of hell, encouraging the creation of diverse, creative compositions and pure innovative thought.
The game features different graphic developments for each type of object. Character cards have a distinct style, combining collage for the characters' clothing with illustrations depicting their appearance beneath these garments. Other cards, however, focus more on collage, with photographic elements predominating, while illustrations complement and enrich the surrounding composition.
HOW TO PLAY
Preparation involves secretly distributing roles—Sinner, Dante, or Imp—and organizing the sin decks according to the circle of Hell where the game begins.
The core dynamic revolves around visually representing sins with allegory cards. In each round, a sin is secretly chosen, and players must represent it without communicating. Based on the cards played, players try to guess the sin being acted out—and each correct or incorrect guess directly influences the course of the game.
Calunnia delivers a surrealist design that celebrates chaos, plasticity, and ambiguity. Wrapped in dark themes, the game avoids generic clichés and stands out with an innovative, irreverent, and humor-filled graphic design.
Calunnia
Calunnia is a board game directed towards young-adults with a focus on creative ideas and cultural development by having Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy as its central theme. In a medium where the most popular language is illustration, the objective was to create a product that stands out from other analog games due to its chaotic and surreal visual language.
A pandemonium of visual styles. Inspired by Tide and André Hellmeister, we worked with a fusion of collage, illustration, photography, and surrealism, valuing the plasticity and dreamlike quality of the arts.
ALLEGORIAS
Allegories are cards that blend collage and illustration in an abstract and surrealist style. Players use them to symbolically represent sins during the game.
ALLEGORIAS
As alegorias são cartas que misturam colagem e ilustração de forma abstrata e surrealista, e são usadas pelos jogadores para representar os pecados de forma simbólica durante o jogo.
ROLES
The role cards secretly define each player's role—Sinner, Dante, or Imp—and determine their objectives in the game.
ALLEGORIAS
As alegorias são cartas que misturam colagem e ilustração de forma abstrata e surrealista, e são usadas pelos jogadores para representar os pecados de forma simbólica durante o jogo.
THE CARDS
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ALLEGORIAS
As alegorias são cartas que misturam colagem e ilustração de forma abstrata e surrealista, e são usadas pelos jogadores para representar os pecados de forma simbólica durante o jogo.
ARAUTOS
Arautos (Harbingers) are cards that blend collage and illustration, depicting infernal figures inspired by mythology and history. They introduce temporary rules and add humor to the game by dressing mythical characters in contemporary clothing.
ARAUTOS
Os Arautos são cartas que misturam colagem e ilustração, retratando figuras infernais inspiradas na mitologia e história. Introduzem regras temporárias e trazem humor ao jogo com roupas atuais em personagens míticos.
SINS
The sin cards indicate the circle of Hell on the back (from I to VIII), each associated with a specific type of sin. The cards on the side show the sins present in the sixth circle: heresy.
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