Beasts of Balance is a dexterity tabletop game which is played alongside a companion app for iOS and Android. With the base game doing monstrously well in retail they came to us to craft packaging for a considerable extension of their line. The line consisted of several new premium RFID enabled beasts along with a stack of super powered RFID playing cards ready to amp up the base game.
One scene from the game is hard to ignore, the viscous rumbling volcano which once it erupts spells the end of the game and the extinction of all the beasts, until you start a new game that is.
Armed with a graphically rich volcano scene we went to work creating concepts for the structure. After studying the existing table top game market and the vinyl toys market we knew a regular rectangular box wouldn't cut it for this magical game. Each figure is nestled in a card cave-like structure with asymmetrical sloping sides, and with a flat top for stacking - both for fun and for efficiency. The boxes structure we designed is completely unique and unlike any other in the category. Peeking through the rocky window gives a glimpse of the creatures in game habitat that bursts out to the outer faces. To celebrate the games merge of the digital and physical World the in game character graphics was brought onto the face of the packs highlighting the symbiosis. The box is then finished with a fractured facet like shading and a touch of foil for each beast to add that premium feel.
