[MUSIC PLAYING]
PERLA CAMPOS: [SPEAKING SPANISH]
[PLAYERS GROANING]
There we go.
We did it.
When I think of loteria, I think of laughing, family,
and competition.
LUIS PINTO: La loteria--
everyone's invited to play it, from little kids
to grandmothers or grandfathers.
CECILIA RUIZ: The easiest way to explain
it is just Mexican bingo.
You have to focus on the cards, but also on your board.
[LAUGHTER]
LUIS PINTO: It's definitely a game of chance.
You don't have any control over what cards come up.
CECILIA RUIZ: I love the art.
You have drawings of objects and people and animals and plants.
It's just so specific to the Mexican aesthetic.
PERLA CAMPOS: This Doodle really came from my childhood.
Some of my dearest moments are us cleaning the frijoles
so that we could play loteria.
It was a moment where all the worries,
all the things about the real world, just faded away.
It just brings such positive feelings to me.
And I just thought, what could a basic loteria game
look like in the digital space?
JACOB HOWCROFT: This was a great opportunity
to use guest artists because the cards are all
individual things that they can illustrate for us.
PERLA CAMPOS: So we partnered with illustrators
that are both Mexican and Mexican-American to create
50-plus loteria cards, reinventing and re-imagining
the game.
CECILIA RUIZ: My name is Cecilia Ruiz,
and I am a guest Illustrator on La Loteria Google Doodle.
I've been enjoying making all of the cards.
The backgrounds are very unique.
I keep discovering new little things that I
didn't notice when I was a kid.
I'm in charge of illustrating 11 cards.
The concept was just given to me,
so I feel like that freed me to just have fun with form.
So I just started drawing and drawing
and drawing and drawing.
LUIS PINTO: I feel very fortunate to be
able to reinvent the loteria cards.
It's dynamic.
It's colorful.
You have objects, characters.
That's, like, the beauty of the game.
My name is Luis Pinto, and I'm a guest artist
for La Loteria Google Doodle.
At first, I made, like, research of all the cards that I had
to illustrate-- el musico, el melon, la bandera--
and to reinvent them.
CECILIA RUIZ: The list I got was mostly animals.
So I was like, OK, what can I do with what I have?
And with the sun and the moon and the star,
I had room to add a character.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
PERLA CAMPOS: I think loteria translates really well
and is really ideal for a Doodle because it's
a really simple message that you can communicate.
JACOB HOWCROFT: This Doodle's unique
because it's multiplayer.
It makes a really good online game.
The interaction is really simple.
All you have to do is put a bean on a card when it comes up.
CECILIA RUIZ: One of the things that I really
like about the interactive game is actually
seeing the different styles, in terms of the illustrations.
It becomes more playful.
PERLA CAMPOS: Aside from reinventing and re-imagining
what the normal cards are, we've also
added some that speak a little bit more
to maybe modern culture.
One of my favorite ones is la concha.
It's bread.
It's sweet.
I just remember, when I was little,
it was, like, one of my most favorite things
that we would eat when we would come here.
So I'm really excited for people to see it.
JACOB HOWCROFT: Two special effects we added--
when you lose the game, your board shatters into pieces.
And when you win, we trace the outline
of the beans that match the winning pattern.
PERLA CAMPOS: A lot of the entertainment
comes from who's announcing the cards.
And we are really excited to have partnered
with prominent Mexican YouTuber Luisito Comunica
to serve as the announcer for this game.
LUISITO COMUNICA: [SPEAKING SPANISH]
[LAUGHTER]
CECILIA RUIZ: For the people that have played this game,
I hope that the Doodle brings them happy memories.
For the newer generations, I feel
like this is a great opportunity to introduce the game.
LUIS PINTO: When people see this Doodle,
I hope that they get excited and be curious about it.
And that's the point of it, to make
it interesting for new generations.
JACOB HOWCROFT: I hope millions will play loteria and feel
connected around the world.
Hopefully, people who don't know Spanish who play the Doodle
might pick up some words here and there.
PERLA CAMPOS: I hope that we can share
a little bit of Mexican culture with the world.
It's just a simple game that is so beautiful.
That allows it to resonate with people, no matter
where you're from.
So I'm really excited for them to see it and play it.
[MUSIC PLAYING]