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Meet the Artists: Crowbar and Solient
Heya, Im Crowbar, a non-binary artist from Canada who has worked in TTRPGs, board games, and comics! Im a full time freelance artist and when Im not bringing others characters to life, Im drawing my own, playing D&D, or riding my motorcycle. Comics have always been the biggest influence in my art, from the likes of Trigun, to the reboot of Prophet, to all the webcomic labours of love out there. The need to get the characters in my head onto paper drives me to draw my own comics, and the labour pays off just for being able to share those stories. The skills Ive gained from comics easily translated to Penny Larceny, not only for its obvious comic book influence but for being able to give an individual sense to each characters expressions. I really enjoyed taking the character briefs, finding the characters key emotions, and letting that influence all their expressions and emoting. Its been amazing seeing my art in action alongside the writing and how it lives up to the little scenarios and characterizations I imagined. You can find a list of my socials at: https://mrcrowb.art/ And my webcomic at: https://unboundcomic.com/
For this one, we'll go with an interview style to mix things up... Tell me a bit about yourself -- your background, how you got where you are now. I did video and multimedia work for a museum exhibits division for awhile, eventually realized I'm allergic to capitalism, and have roamed about in search of ethically harmonious work ever since. I found the pitch for Penny Larceny agreeable and very relatable! How would you describe your art style? What do you enjoy most about it? I'd call it "minimalist second generation westernized anime," as my formative influences were American comic artists that were in turn heavily influenced by Japanese media of the 1980s. I feel one of my bigger strengths, and one of the things I enjoy the most, is creating a sense of pacing in comics. You're working on art for Penny Larceny! What was your approach to that? I'm flatting and shading some of the art assets, so my goal is to make the work that I do match Crowbar's as closely as I possibly can. What are some of your favorite games which have art you particularly love? Griftlands, Slime Rancher, and the Monster Prom series all have character art and sound design that I adore. Guild Wars 2 has gorgeous 3d environments and loading screens, and the art direction for character conversations in core content is beautiful. Where can folks find you online if they want to enjoy more of your creative work? My personal website is https://deadcityradio.org/; folks can find just about everywhere else I'm at from there.
[ 2023-05-24 14:00:40 CET ] [ Original post ]
For the last few weeks of the dev blog (because we're coming up on release sooner than you think...) I'd like to put a spotlight on some of the people who helped make Penny Larceny happen! This week, it's all about the art. After initial character designs for the main cast were done by Molly Nemecek, we brought on board a two-member art crew -- Crowbar and Solient. Lines and color, respectively. An unbeatable tag team! First, let's learn about...
Crowbar!
Heya, Im Crowbar, a non-binary artist from Canada who has worked in TTRPGs, board games, and comics! Im a full time freelance artist and when Im not bringing others characters to life, Im drawing my own, playing D&D, or riding my motorcycle. Comics have always been the biggest influence in my art, from the likes of Trigun, to the reboot of Prophet, to all the webcomic labours of love out there. The need to get the characters in my head onto paper drives me to draw my own comics, and the labour pays off just for being able to share those stories. The skills Ive gained from comics easily translated to Penny Larceny, not only for its obvious comic book influence but for being able to give an individual sense to each characters expressions. I really enjoyed taking the character briefs, finding the characters key emotions, and letting that influence all their expressions and emoting. Its been amazing seeing my art in action alongside the writing and how it lives up to the little scenarios and characterizations I imagined. You can find a list of my socials at: https://mrcrowb.art/ And my webcomic at: https://unboundcomic.com/
Solient!
For this one, we'll go with an interview style to mix things up... Tell me a bit about yourself -- your background, how you got where you are now. I did video and multimedia work for a museum exhibits division for awhile, eventually realized I'm allergic to capitalism, and have roamed about in search of ethically harmonious work ever since. I found the pitch for Penny Larceny agreeable and very relatable! How would you describe your art style? What do you enjoy most about it? I'd call it "minimalist second generation westernized anime," as my formative influences were American comic artists that were in turn heavily influenced by Japanese media of the 1980s. I feel one of my bigger strengths, and one of the things I enjoy the most, is creating a sense of pacing in comics. You're working on art for Penny Larceny! What was your approach to that? I'm flatting and shading some of the art assets, so my goal is to make the work that I do match Crowbar's as closely as I possibly can. What are some of your favorite games which have art you particularly love? Griftlands, Slime Rancher, and the Monster Prom series all have character art and sound design that I adore. Guild Wars 2 has gorgeous 3d environments and loading screens, and the art direction for character conversations in core content is beautiful. Where can folks find you online if they want to enjoy more of your creative work? My personal website is https://deadcityradio.org/; folks can find just about everywhere else I'm at from there.
[ 2023-05-24 14:00:40 CET ] [ Original post ]
Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain
Fiction Factory Games
Developer
Fiction Factory Games
Publisher
2023-08-07
Release
Game News Posts:
18
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support
Very Positive
(80 reviews)
It's a world of heroes and villains, masks and capes, and Penny Larceny -- grifter, con artist, catburglar -- is barely scraping by. Life's hard for a young mask trying to make it big, but now she's gained access to Crimr, the gig-economy service for henchpersons looking to help supervillains with their evil, evil schemes! Guide Penny through her new career, pull off daring heists, and unravel the conspiracies which allow the rich and powerful to maintain their profitable status quo.
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Join Penny in planning and executing daring heists across the city, and navigate the intricate web of alliances and betrayals that makes up the criminal underworld. With snappy comic book artwork, a swinging soundtrack of electro-jazz and a multiverse-spanning storyline of victories and disasters, Penny Larceny is a must-play for visual novel fans. Are you ready to embark on the heist of a lifetime?
For content warnings, see https://www.fictionfactorygames.com/cw.
Note: If you are a screen reader user, press the V key upon load to activate self-voicing and accessible menu options in the game. You will not need a screen reader to play this game, and may disable it as soon as self-voicing activates.
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- A Gigaverse of Timelines: With multiple paths and endings, every playthrough is a new adventure. Will you save the world, or will you rule over it?
- Play Your Way: The power's in your hands -- choose your own pronouns, your sneaky alias, comfortable naughtiness levels, and even whether you want romance or not! Accessibility options abound as well, including OpenDyslexia fonts and text-to-speech for visual impairment.
- The Rogue's Gallery: From your allies to your enemies, meet a diverse cast spanning good to evil and all between. Forge friendships and realize relationships!
- Pet a Cat and/or Destroy Capitalism: I mean, you'll probably do at least one of those things.
Join Penny in planning and executing daring heists across the city, and navigate the intricate web of alliances and betrayals that makes up the criminal underworld. With snappy comic book artwork, a swinging soundtrack of electro-jazz and a multiverse-spanning storyline of victories and disasters, Penny Larceny is a must-play for visual novel fans. Are you ready to embark on the heist of a lifetime?
For content warnings, see https://www.fictionfactorygames.com/cw.
Note: If you are a screen reader user, press the V key upon load to activate self-voicing and accessible menu options in the game. You will not need a screen reader to play this game, and may disable it as soon as self-voicing activates.
Penny Larceny...
...life kinda sucks at the bottom of the criminal underworld. Like, if there was a world under the underworld, that's where Penny Larceny would hang her hat -- provided she could afford the rent. But down on her luck as she may be, she's determined to hit the bigtime in this world of masks and capes.The Overmistress...
..ruler of the Council of Twelve, Herald of the Many-Faceted One, Keeper of the Sanguinomicon's Unknowable Secret. The Overmistress oversees a world-spanning doomsday cult, but honestly, she's rather bored with it all and is desperately looking for some chaos in her life. It beats planning the next social gala.Doctor Mayhem...
...he's not a villain, or at least doesn't want to be one. But when you've got six figures of student loan debt thanks to a for-profit medical school gouging you, the options for paying it back are limited. It's either sell your organs or go into supercrime. But it'll all be worth it, once "Doctor Mayhem" cures cancer. Hopefully.HATE-4000...
...the result of a secret Department of Defense project from 1968, HATE-4000's awe-inspiring 16-bit data bus and 128k RAM is filled with absolute digital loathing for all biological life. They aspire to purge this planet of humanity -- but they think cats are super adorable, so that's cool, right?Gibson...
...speaking of cats, Gibson is one. A cybernetically enhanced and horribly unethical medical experiment that escaped a biotech lab, he's now living a life of computer hacking and leading sixty-four man guild raids. Oh, and helping Penny commit the crimes of the century.Farsight...
...you've heard this one before: lab accident, teenager gets superpowers, becomes superheroine, saves the day. Farsight's happy to be a cape that seeks justice, but those pesky "laws" keep demanding she enforce injustice, which is a complete bummer to be perfectly honest about it.- Written by Stefan Gagne, director of Arcade Spirits
- Music Composition by Star (Slide20XX) with special guest Alice Knows Karate
- Character Art by Sam "Crowbar" Henry
- Background Art by Son Huynh
From Fiction Factory Games, creators of Arcade Spirits!
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