Art & Design Work

Employment

• “Clockwork Empires” by Gaslamp Games, released v1.0 in 2016
  • art director, game design, gameplay programming, writing, marketing

• “Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands” by Gaslamp Games, released 2012
  • principal artist & art director, game design, writing, marketing

• “Dungeons of Dredmor: You Have To Name The Expansion Pack” by Gaslamp Games, released 2012
  • principal artist & art director, game design, writing, marketing

• “Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods” by Gaslamp Games, released 2011
  • principal artist & art director, game design, writing, marketing

• “Dungeons of Dredmor” by Gaslamp Games, released 2011
  • principal artist, game design, writing, marketing

Freelance

• “Starsector” by Fractal Softworks, first released 2013 (in development)
  • principal artist, writer, content scripting, game design

• “Raiders! Forsaken Earth” by Creative Storm Entertainment, released 2019
• art (terrain, icons, portraits, battle backgrounds & characters)

• “Ruinarch” by Maccima Games LLC, released 2019
• art (ui art, terrain, icons, illustration)

• “Heretic Operative” by C Prompt Games, released 2019
• art (most of it)

• “Steam Marines 2” by Worthless Bums, released 2019
• art (icons, some UI)

• “From Village to Empire” by Witch Laboratory, released 2018
• art (terrain, units, buildings, icons, illustration)

• “Rainbow Hero” by Pixel Elephant, released 2015
  • illustrations, 2D character & environment art

• “Procyon” by Deadly Red Cube, released 2014
  • promotional art, concept art

(And many other projects, large and small, some of which have not been released. Games industry people - you know how it is.)

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Skills

Digital Art, particularly using Photoshop:

• digital painting & illustration
• texturing for 3D assets and terrain
• pixel art (tiles, animation)
• UI art, UI icons
• 2D animations & effects

Writing

• Writing content and story for Starsector by Fractal Softworks.
• At Gaslamp Games:
  • much of the writing for Dungeons of Dredmor, which is considered to be funny.
  • as well as a good deal of promotion, marketing, and development blog writing for Gaslamp Games
  • performed as editor for the Gaslamp Games blog posts
  • created much of the written content of Clockwork Empires

Management

• art direction, 2D & 3D
• project management
• remote contractor wrangling
• while at Gaslamp Games I managed the art team which consisted of up to three employees besides myself in-office as well as a handful of long-distance contractors for various purposes (web development, video production, sound production, other art production). Aside from that, I took on aspects of project management for development of Clockwork Empires.

Coding & Scripting

• C#, in Unity
• Java, for Starsector
• Lua, with Love2d, contains SDL and OpenGL libraries for Lua
• Python, with Pygame, Pyglet
• Web: HTML and CSS
• ...and I've had some experience doing things in C, JSON, XML, and in SDL & OpenGL

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Education

Alberta College of Art & Design; Calgary, Alberta | 2003-2007

• Majored in Media Arts and Digital Technology and graduated “with distinction” based on GPA

Activities:

• Took part in the ASTECs (Art, Science & Technology) program, a collaboration between Alberta College of Art & Design’s Media Arts and Digital Technology program and the University of Calgary’s Human/Computer Interactions Lab; created Cosmosis in collaboration with Andrew Seniuk, a CS major from the U of C
• Spoke at the “Common Borders: Negotiating Art & Science” symposium hosted at the Alberta College of Art & Design with Alan Dunning
• Drew the Artscum comic for the student-run paper

Awards & Grants:

• Received 2007 ACAD Board Of Governors Award for the MADT major
• Received a MADT Department Grant for Cosmosis

West Valley Community College; Saratoga, California | 2001-2003

• Studies focused on liberal arts