I recently had the wonderful opportunity to redesign the icon for the iOS app Strategery and it has reminded me just how much I enjoy designing and developing for games on the App Store. If you are a fan of the classic board game Risk, then Strategery will be a familiar favorite. Players vie for world domination by controlling blobs of land as they battle it out one roll of the dice at a time until only one player is left standing. Good, harmless fun!
The game was originally released back in 2009 but was left to languish until Lex Friedman acquired and relaunched it with the blessing of the app’s original developers. You know a game is good when someone cares enough not just to keep it alive and kicking but to also give its app icon as much love and attention as the game itself. That’s where I came in.
I had a blast brainstorming concepts for Strategery, focusing on the bright, fun aspects of the game. It was a joy to use vibrant colors, dynamic angles and motifs that fans of strategy games would gravitate towards in my sketches. In the end, Lex picked my personal favorite idea to go with as the final icon and I’m very proud of the result. It’s always an honor to get to contribute to the fabric of the App Store, in all its forms, but especially in support of customers who realize the importance of human-created art and design like Lex. I hope I get to continue doing it for a long time to come.
If you fancy yourself a strategy game junkie, want a new fun obsession or maybe just a cool new icon on your Home Screen, be sure to check out Strategery on the App Store.