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Icon - a - Song

Game Design

A mobile game where players compete to guess song titles from images, and lyrics. Each iconic design depicts the central lyrics or title of a song and players can fill in the blanks, choose from multiple options, or choose hints to hear snippets of the song or read lyrics.

A page of icons designed by Meghan Dove

A consistency of design is applied between song icons, system icons and the user interface through the application of a grid. This allows for consistent corner radius, margins and placement on screen and within borders whether working with a circle or a square.

A page of icons designed by Meghan Dove

Each icon is placed according to a grid and is constructed using geometric elements. The size of each individual illustrative icon reflects the size of the object in reality combined with a compromise to achieve consistency of white space and weight of the overall card/screen.

A page of icons designed by Meghan Dove

The game can be played in four ways, one image is shown and the player types in the song title. The player is shown one image and chooses a song title from a list of four. The player is shown four images and the title of a song and chooses the best iconic representation. The player is given lyrics to a song and chooses the best iconic representation.

A page of icons designed by Meghan Dove

Currently intended for development for mobile devices, the game will eventually be expanded to work on a vareity of game consoles.

A page of icons designed by Meghan Dove

The icons will also be expanded to include a large number of titles from each genre of music.

A page of icons designed by Meghan Dove