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Horizon Zero Dawn is a great example of collaboration between my team and the IP owner, Guerrilla Games. We worked closely with their in-house visual designers while coming up with the look and feel of the game, ensuring it matched their vision of their game universe, while also ensuring that gameplay clarity and ease of use was maintained (video games, after all, have rather different UI needs).
This conversation was maintained throughout all aspects of the game, from obvious places like cards and box design, even through to the tile art - we tried various versions of perspective and shadowing techniques, finding a balance between gameplay limitations (the tiles had to be multipurpose and link up in multiple orientations and arrangements) and visual flair.