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This outer world is much more advanced than the vampire kingdom. Worse still, the humans have crafted a new weapon using dragon blood. It is up to the meek vampire inspector to unravel the humans’ plot to overthrow his queen’s reign. Perhaps, he much also learn to wield this new weapon if he is to save his own kind from extinction? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674687684057-7IT7FQX36SF9Y3XN4OZD/01.jpg GAMING - Written by a humble servant... The lore is explained through first person diary accounts of a servant to the Vampire Queen. He is tasks with solving the case around dangerous human activities and sorcery. Although his name is never given, he is simply known at the “Inspector.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674687742233-5B996PWL619U20MMVR4H/02.jpg GAMING - Make room! Illustrations were created to give the lore more of a ‘storybook’ look and feel. The challenge was to write proper sizing of paragraphs and overall chapter points to coincide with the imagery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674687802261-JPLK7V3FETON9FZZ1LBY/03.jpg GAMING - Change is inevitable... Sometimes the narrative changes, right? Or, the image sent by the illustrator is different than what’s happening in the story. Changes have to be handled correctly to marry written word and picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674687907032-3Q6C2ZBRNR6XKOVN2QHR/05.jpg GAMING - Introductions, please! Our space for text inside the RPG was limited alongside each image so I had to make every word count! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674687950199-D3VA6SJ8774ZQRNVVL40/07.jpg GAMING - There be dragons... I realized the story was so focused on the conflict between vampires and humans that the dragons took a bit of a backseat. In the RPG I fleshed out their races and other details involving gameplay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674688028728-R3WQZCD2OM4LMHOLWCD8/08.jpg GAMING - To be continued... The book ends on a subtle cliffhanger. This helped to create possible future campaigns for players and DM’s to enjoy and help write themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674688577368-S94X95ZV2Q4HWR17P79C/missing2.jpg GAMING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674688087760-GSCY4F8IOQ3PULUQHB9U/missing.jpg GAMING - Everyone's a character... I had to design the layout around the crucial text for each kind of race’s character sheet. Every bit of real estate was used. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674689674608-JUFNYAFO33QBL7XOM0TB/fig_1.jpg GAMING - Which came first, the vampire or the egg? The artwork was originally part of a simpler game, but evolved because the imagery begged a more in depth amount of lore. I began to come up with back stories for characters that were initially superfluous to the original game. I could take a step back and keep things rudimentary, or, I could build a much more complex and exciting universe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674689674304-ZAWR1JPSEV7PB6JB85VU/fig4.jpg GAMING - Which came first, the Queen or the egg? The artwork was originally part of a simpler game, but evolved because the imagery begged a more in depth amount of lore. I began to come up with back stories for characters that were initially superfluous to the original game. I could take a step back and keep things rudimentary, or, I could build a much more complex and exciting universe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674689676380-3GBYJSM5N50GFF1ORPM8/fig2.jpg GAMING - Which came first, the sorcerer or the egg? The artwork was originally part of a simpler game, but evolved because the imagery begged a more in depth amount of lore. I began to come up with back stories for characters that were initially superfluous to the original game. I could take a step back and keep things rudimentary, or, I could build a much more complex and exciting universe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674689675880-PT3139712XOTCK0L2XKS/fig3.jpg GAMING - Which came first, the warlock or the egg? The artwork was originally part of a simpler game, but evolved because the imagery begged a more in depth amount of lore. I began to come up with back stories for characters that were initially superfluous to the original game. I could take a step back and keep things rudimentary, or, I could build a much more complex and exciting universe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/fd9471f1-ea2a-4a1b-bfa8-5c08edee1a20/header.png GAMING - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/497ff89a-a82e-4e50-b05d-78cdb2211d3e/magda_header.jpg GAMING - Make it stand out In the opening paragraph to the game, the antagonist immediately starts crossing things out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/9a9d5868-6720-4b45-82e7-6681c7fcc7b3/magda_convo.jpg GAMING - Make it stand out MAGDA, the Antagonist of the story, overrides the kickstarter campaign and starts communicating with customers using syrupy language and cutesy emojis. This was a risk potentially making a mockery of fans comments, so the writing had to be delicate while still being charmingly obnoxious… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/4990905b-800a-416c-b353-439754c242fd/misc_speaking.jpg GAMING - Make it stand out The villain’s voice peppers the campaign as much as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/9060b539-789c-4915-955d-6b0969432037/LE_BOX.jpg GAMING - Make it stand out The coffee table book acted as lore for the game to fans excited about playing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674842515225-T2Z9E6SCYXNZXDRY4KNK/page01.jpg GAMING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674842515885-6D6KK4NDUZFD3FGHY6CV/page04.jpg GAMING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674842523578-GIFOHSY6QE3NFK79UKEM/page03.jpg GAMING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674842524646-A5CUT5M14DHTX0CDNX82/page02.jpg GAMING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/23f5bcfc-6b40-4415-8652-f2ad39c0356c/innerbox.jpg GAMING - Make it stand out For the physical box, I wrote additional copy for the Antagonist. When you lift the book out, she pleads with you not to read any further so she can redirect you to her own nefarious purposes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/6da7d102-4af6-49a2-8282-7c2ef0da5cc5/ags_site.jpg GAMING - Make it stand out AMAZON GAMES My team needed some stand-in copy to showcase website designs for the Amazon Games team. This particular site was to engage potential game employees to take a chance on Amazon with their careers. I felt it was necessary to infuse a bit of humor into the look and feel. I imagined that Seattle and the Amazon offices had already fallen in the zombie apocalypse, but that the Pacific Northwest was still a cool place to work. The designs were successful in showing senior leadership what could be done by integrating comedy with real facts about the current organization. http://www.trentonpayne.com/comics daily 0.75 2024-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1709671100846-X1N07546CHQ7NW4QOLTF/erase_01.jpg COMICS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1709670834398-1UOQ7RW1YHW150QV2K7H/erase_02.jpg COMICS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674843524836-FH1XLB8SPB3CBD6DJ0D3/c1.jpeg COMICS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674843528161-YZGKO20C3MI6B2MBZELN/c2.jpeg COMICS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674843527185-WC4P1J6R2RCH7WACQUZH/c3.jpeg COMICS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674843526925-M0PXFLCED898KJRGMU8H/c4.jpeg COMICS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674843526047-L97410MV8XOQENOBPQQT/c5.jpeg COMICS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674843525830-LYG4NTFFXPDY7PW0G7Z4/c6.jpeg COMICS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50f09f3ae4b09d40370ab15d/1674843524700-H4169L7X4E244PPLX17F/c7.jpeg COMICS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.