I just returned from a 7 day trip to the Pictoplasma festival in Berlin and I’m fully refueled with inspiration and motivation! It was great :]

This weekend I went to ‘Dr Sketchy’s’ in Amsterdam. You don’t know it? Well, it’s a burlesque show with singing and dancing  organized especially for artists. - yes for artists! This is because the performers strike a pose after their act is done, so you can draw them. It was really entertaining and I certainly got some nice sketches out of it!  – So Thanks for organizing this event! I’ll be back next time!  

Yes! I’ve been making lots of fun art lately. But No, I still can’t show anything of it until some of the projects are finished… 

But there is something else! I’ve been looking for a good reason to draw more role-play/D&D related characters, and I recently found it. So here are 2 character sketches that I will be refining soon:

No.1

No.2

Can you guess the job of these guys :] ?

Practice practice practice!

This is Chaos Battle’s fourth playable character, ‘Combat Kitty’!

For all Fairytale Fights fans who like to see a bit more of the game; the movie below shows the last level that was made for Fairytale Fights!  It wasn’t fully finished though, because it was canceled before we could do the final tweaks. But I believe it still works very well  :]

Now this movie was recently recorded by Rob van der Sloot, who was the first level designer on Fairytale Fights. The cool thing is; during the movie Rob tells us a bit about how this level came to be  and shows us how it was prototyped.

And this is another one of Robs movies, where he shows us a couple of unreleased pvp levels. These were definitely the more interesting ones; especially the X-mas level was fun :] 

These movies are both part of Rob’s level design portfolio which can be found on his personal website.  And there is much more, go check it out! :]

This is Chaos Battle’s third playable character, ’Clone Ranger’!

During the last couple of weeks I’ve been working for ‘doubledutch games’ on a game that’s now called ‘Chaos Battle’. 

This is another playable character, the ‘Green Terror’!

This weekend I joined the Global Gamejam in Breda, the Netherlands.  Together with 5 other game developers we took on the challenge to make a game in 48 hours.  And the result of this joyful struggle has become ‘Rebirth’!

‘Rebirth is a single-multiplayer game in which you have to work together with yourself to save a dying forest spirit. You yourself have no problem in dying as each time you die you are reborn and can work together with all you previous lives to puzzle your way towards the forest spirit.’ 

 The movie below shows the game and explains the puzzle mechanics.

Now 48 hours, that’s not a lot of time to make a game. Especially if you consider that you also need to sleep during that time and that you sometimes need to wait for other team members before you can continue. So you need something of a plan to get the most out of the 48 hours.

My initial step in the plan was to make something minimalistic, so I could assure some quality. But soon enough it turned out that that wouldn’t fit our game concept, so I choose to go with my ‘speedpaint’- techniques to create the art for the game. It wouldn’t be refined, but it allowed me to add a friendly-spooky feeling to the concept. Now to give you a better idea of the next steps in the process I made this overview of my approach :]

(Click on the images to enlarge them!)

Final version can be seen here! 

PLAY THE GAME! (click to download ZIP)

(Kim, Luc, Ard,Matthijs; Thanks for the uploads!)