Another character from Pettyland. Like the Experienced Thinker, this character is aligned with the Subconscious Mind. Dots is a strange character to play, as he is trying to "kill himself", so he tends to run around the board and happily jump on the most dangerous creatures and fight the most powerful players.
I'm finally getting around to working on the revised Pettyland Character Cards. There are 8 playable characters in all. Three of them are aligned with the subconscious mind, three of them are aligned with the conscious mind, and two of them are "neutral", having interests in both areas of the mind.
This first character -- The Experienced Thinker, is aligned with the subconscious mind. He was always trouble to to balance in the past, because his goal of gaining 15 in 3 out 4 of his characteristics at one time can be quite challenging, because most of the cards in Pettyland manipulate characteristics in some way. However, a change to his abilities and a change to the way in which most cards work in Pettyland should make this more achievable.
In most cases, when a player draws a card in Pettyland, they can choose which player is affected by the result, whereas in the past, it was nearly always the card-drawer. I changed this because this was punishing the player for drawing cards, which is the primary means that the each character's personal goal is advanced. By allowing the card drawer to choose which player is affected by the cards (not in all cases -- there is still some risk/reward to drawing cards), it is not only less punishing, but also places more emphasis on player interaction, and player alliances, which are major elements of the game.
...means that its time for a few more Pettyland cards. As usual, these cards continue to exemplify Pettyland's core themes of nuclear holocaust, 80's culture and bad taste.
I did this painting for a show called "Troublesome Houses:An Art Exhibit Inspired by the Music of Will Oldham". One of my favorite albums of his is "I See a Darkness", and in particular the song "Today I was an Evil One". This is an acrylic on canvas painting (18"x24"). I think this is first painting on canvas that I've done in about 20 years!
Check out details about the show here:Troublesome Houses
I found this old concept for a game I worked on many years ago. It was an idea for a 4 handed rifle that required the soldier to wear a harness / backpack that added two additional robot arms just so he could wield it.
Found these while backing up my hard drive this weekend. These are a few creature sketches that I did during the early pre-production phase of an unreleased game. They were supposed to be vaguely humanoid, so that from a distance their silhouettes might be mistaken for a person.
I did some imaginary NES cartridge art for the Full Bright Company's awesome new game, Gone Home. It is set in the mid 90's and I imagined a platformer mascot that was one part Corey Haim, one part Vanilla Ice, all parts fucking awesome.
Find out all about the game and buy it here: Gone Home Game
That can only mean more Pettyland cards. I also put a larger image of the 5-headed politician below, in case you want to make your own toaster cozy.
I don't normally post images from video games I work on here, but I found this image on my hard drive today. I totally forgot that I had done it. This was a environment concept for the Jungle themed multi-player map. We did those maps pretty close to the end of the game. So this must've been done in 2009.
This year's
Molyjam is coming up and I won't be able to attend, but I was just
thinking back about last year's Jam. Patrick Connor, Bill Gahr, Drew
Skillman and myself (with bonus music by Alex Vaughn) made a horror
bowling game in 48 hours called DEAD BALLS.
You can download it for free on your iPhone from the app store.
You can see some footage here: you tube
Here are a few of the concepts I did (very quick!) and the front end screen.
