End Where We Begin – Medium
Wrote about my process of writing and illustrating a set of twelve storybooks last year for our game Burly Men at Sea. More photos on my portfolio!
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Exciting to break out my press again after the long months without it on the road! Our Christmas cards this year expressed what we’ve been considering a sort of counter-mantra, lately. Here’s to a calm and bright 2018!
Photos from the Lofoten portion of our April trip to Norway. Such a beautiful, lonely place: fish and all. See the captions for details.
My two Pokémon pieces for Gallery at the Guild’s recent Kanto show: potted Diglett and Dugtrio, and my favorite glitch MissingNo. Still a few prints for sale on the gallery store, here and here!
The first Burly Men at Sea books have shipped, and we’re already starting to see them in people’s hands! EXCITING. There are twelve variations total, each fifty pages, printed and bound here in the U.S. with a debossed fabric hardcover. They’re pretty.
If you’re in London in April, you can find them on display alongside the game at Now Play This. Or get your own copy at burlymenatsea.com/mystery!
Forgot to share this a few months back, but I got to design this enamel Thimbleweed Park pin for PAX’s Pinny Arcade series! We were super happy with how they turned out, and people seemed to love them. The pins were produced in a limited run, but some are still available via Fangamer.
Game Design Deep Dive: The folktale structure of Burly Men at Sea
Was super honored to be invited by Gamasutra to write about the design of Burly Men at Sea’s branching folktale structure. Don’t look too closely at those flowchart images, if you want to avoid spoilers!
New travel essay up! This one covers our month spent WWOOFing in Portland, as the first stop in our ongoing adventure as nomads.
It’s been a crazy two days, and I somehow forgot to write a post on my own blog to share this best of news: our little folktale adventure Burly Men at Sea is now out on PC/Mac and mobile!
We’re floored by the response so far, including an incredible 5/5 from TIME, who praised its “artful interplay of visual minimalism, waggish writing and hilarious but also haunting sound effects generated by gorgeous a cappella voices.”
In addition to the game itself, there’s an amazing soundtrack composed by Plied Sound, and official merch from Fangamer. Exciting!
Enjoy our micro release-day trailer, above—or maybe just skip right to playing the game?
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Jellyfish animation, for Burly Men at Sea!