May 1, 2014

Subject: Another year of making games...

... and that's a total of about a dozen now, anyhow, so much for having the time to update the now new-ish site once a month, on the plus side the Portfolio page should just about double in scope over the year as all these projects are released, mostly 3D assets based on my own designs which has been a lot of fun to produce.

In the meanwhile I added the Democracy 3 Steam Trading Cards (that where released over the holiday sales), as well as some other pieces to the Portfolio page.

Hopefully the next update won't take 6 months but no promises, we're busy tinkering with games.

Jove

October 17, 2013

Subject: Democracy 3 released!

Democracy 3 was released at Positechs own site and on Steam this week so I figured it's time to update the portfolio again (updating about once a month seems about all I have time for these days), this time I want to show some of the “event cards”, these are little illustrations that show up when something of note happens in-between turn as a result of the players politics and what is going on in that state.



All of them aren’t this dramatic of course, though I really enjoyed working with the wildly varying subject matters from event to event.




Cliff pretty much gave me free reins to do these based on the event descriptions which was great.




To see a couple more of my favorites just head over to the Portfolio page. Get the game to see them all, although you have to mess up a lot of policies as I painted about 50 events in total.

Jove

September 20, 2013

Subject: Democracy 3 in Beta

Democracy 3 entered Beta the other week and Cliff was kind enough to send me a copy, I've been governing Socialist Jovetopia towards a brighter future (not to mention ever increasing debt, I blame the global economy) and fighting off the liberal assassins in Jovetropolis, my other state with more spy-satellites and less pampering to the working plebs. Besides getting a kick out of seeing my artwork in a game that I enjoy so much I can finally start showing what I painted for it:


From the left we have the Capitalists, Socialists and Farmers votergroup avatars, check out the Portfolio page to see all the characters, 20 in total.

I actually worked on Democracy 2 as well and I really enjoyed the opportunity to re-design the returning votergroups that I painted about 6 years ago, It's rare to get such a direct measuring-stick of how you've developed your craft over the years, here is how the Capitalist, Socialist and Farmer looked back then:


For now I'm happy with the improvement but I'm sure I'll want to go over them again when it's time for Democracy 4, in 2019 or so.

Anyone who wants to give Democracy 3 a try can now get access to the Beta version by pre-ordering the game.

Jove

August 20, 2013

Subject: Our updated website is live!

The old site had been through many years of service and we felt that it was time to retire the old workhorse for something more up to date. Our sites are usually pretty rushed due to all the other projects we are wrestling with and while I'd like to say this time was different this version was actually cobbled together pretty rapidly, mostly over a short vacation. We are still trying things out and the site may still change in the near future but for now we are pretty happy with it.

Besides tinkering with the site we've kept very busy, mainly on game projects and we are currently looking forward to a couple of them being launched over the coming months, the gallery will have tons of new material as soon as they are out there.

If you want a sneak peak you can check out the Democracy 3 site where you can see some of the characters I painted for it, I did a lot of other artwork as well but you'll have to wait for the game to come out in order to check those out.

Jove