{"id":171,"date":"2014-04-28T22:13:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivor.com\/english\/?p=171"},"modified":"2014-04-28T22:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:13:57","slug":"fishes-and-chuckles-recent-work-for-chucklefish-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivor.com\/english\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Fishes and Chuckles (recent work for Chucklefish Games)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few months ago I joined Chucklefish<\/a> studio, who created Starbound<\/a> (among other things), and recently opened a London office to gather all of its members in one place.<\/p>\n

I joined as part of a team working on a new game, about which not much is known at the moment, except that it’s going to involve pirates (yay!). Here are some preliminary sketches I did for the recruitment notice:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a whole album full of concept art<\/a><\/strong> created by Adam Riches<\/a>, Zach Montoya<\/a> and myself as part of the very early brainstorming process.<\/p>\n

Other than working on the pirates game (working title [I hope]), I also drew some stuff for Starbound; not for the game itself – pixel-art is not my area of expertise – but around it.<\/p>\n

Starbound is a “sandbox” game, meaning it’s totally open for exploration and interaction in hundreds of planets that are procedurally generated (instead of having a limited number of pre-designed ones). One of the cool things about it is that it’s constantly evolving, both in game mechanics and in story. In recent months, for example, a plot event titled “The Agaran Menace” unwrapped itself, starting with suspicious spores that popped up in various worlds, followed by mean-looking mushroom people. We uncovered the truth behind this worrisome phenomenon in a trailer, written by Starbound writer Ashton Raze<\/a> and illustrated by me.<\/p>\n