The Cats of Ulthar Card Game
The wildly successful “Cats of Ulthar” Card game was created by my company Gilgamesh Games. It was a lot of fun to be Art Director on this project. We tried to imagine what the Egyptian gods would look like if they were based in a Cthulu/Lovecraft environment. Then we threw in a bunch of cute kittens, and dangerous, albeit hilarious, situations. Based off the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, “The Cats of Ulthar” involved a lot of study of ancient gods, the Cthulu mythos, and of course, our feline friends. Here is a link to the Kickstarter Campaign.
Ancient Elder Gods
We started with the Egyptian gods in Cthulu style. I created the moodboards for the artist. See below. We focused mostly on actual Egyptian lore and even used one character from the Lovecraft world (that wasn’t Cthulu).
Moodboards
Anubis, etc.
Rigid Box Template for “Cats of Ulthar”