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Asian-Australian Art Heaux™️, Art Director for @summerfallstudios.com, Magic: the Gathering Illustrator, Dungeon Master, plays games on easy. (He/Him) 🦇❤️💜💙 NO AI / NO NFT | Opinions are my own

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hello! I suppose I should make one of these posts!
My name is Benjamin Ee (He/Him), I'm the Art Director at Summerfall Studios, the team that made Stray Gods: the Roleplaying Musical and it's Orpheus DLC!
In my free time I like painting the little stories and badass characters in me lil' noggin'! 🧠✨

the Key art of Stray Gods: the Roleplaying Musical, featuring the cast amongst Grecian pillars, sound amps, and neon lights!

Hermes and Orpheus from Stray Gods: the Roleplaying Musical stand playing guitar amongst the towering buildings of the city, a greenish underglow hinting at their origins in Hell!

An asian woman with lighter hair in a scifi universe, surrounded by golden-armoured enforcement. She is wearing her red combat suit, with cybernetic arms attached at the back, wielding lightning blades while she holds her SMG.

A knight is surrounded by their dead comrades, and is cowering away from a figure approaching - an frightening angellic woman with a blade made of raw RED, and wings upturned. The atmosphere is ominous, as she floats, or drifts, closer to her prey.

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahah thank you king! I was also particularly proud of the description haha!

🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 2d

I unfortunately missed the first half of this talk, so this is helpful! Thank you!

🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 2d

Best Worlds in Gaming
youtu.be/VVQjDszMuwY
Electrodominance - Dmitry Burmak
burmak.artstation.com/projects/zAX...

Best Worlds In Gaming

YouTube video by Magic: The Gathering

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 2d

As promised, here are the links you can find that were featured in my talk!
Winona Nelson for Muddy Colors
www.muddycolors.com/2023/05/anat...
The Mechanical Color Pie Explained by DiceTry youtu.be/dlCC52mrLmc
Magic: the Gathering color pie map (less confusing edition)
imgur.com/gallery/magi...

Anatomy of an Illustration Prompt: MtG Style

In my time working as an illustrator in gaming and as a concept artist in video games, I’ve encountered many different styles of assignment prompts. The most effective I’ve seen is the Magic: the Gath...

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you everyone who came to my #GCAP talk today, I hope you had a tonne of fun and enjoyed witnessing just how many voices and accents a panicked theatre kid can go through in one hour!
I had a blast! :D

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 9d

EXCELLENT design!!

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Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT October 24!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com · 10d

It's time... the candles are lit... 🕯️

Our exorcism roguelite Malys is coming OUT of Early Access into 1.0 on the 24th of October!

There's so much more to discover, including the FULL story as penned by David Gaider, more demons, more cards, and more content.

The title for Malys in an inky red on a black background, below are the words: V1.0 releasing this October.

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

THE SEGWAY FEET the scream i scrumpt when that was shown at me in 1080p, truly madness

🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

RIGHT?! It’s so damn frustrating AAAAAAA!! Like it’s so hard to come up with interesting hook and design, that it’s extra disappointing for it to go down the drain 😩

🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

I think so, I think the Chinese community had a lot of backlash so the devs buckled under that I guess 🚬😔 RIP

🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

Agreed, there’s a world in which that happens, but my bets aren’t on that it’s this one. :( ah well, there are always plenty more games to play!

🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

HAHAHA

darth vader says " i am what you made me " in a dark room

ALT: darth vader says " i am what you made me " in a dark room

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

YES there’s this character who’s like a mystic monk leader and they gave her like leather zipper short skin tight swimsuit shit like IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE THE DISSONANCE BRO THE DISSONANCE AAAAAA BITE BITE BITING

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

a person is holding a pig in their hands with a hose attached to it .

ALT: a person is holding a pig in their hands with a hose attached to it .

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

HARD AGREE! They had a strong start with bondage kink leather butler wolfman but have literally done nothing else since. COWARDS! COWAAAARRDSSS!!!

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

And I KNOW it’s just a gooner game and it’s gooner game doing gooner things but THE POTENTIAL I HATE TO SEE THE POTENTIAL BE WASTED AWAY AAAAAA I need to go home and draw headcanon changes I cannot let this fester in my spirit I need it out of me

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

LIKE BRO LUCIA HAD PEAR SHAPE AND FUN URBAN MAGE VIBES AND NOW YOUVE JUST STEERED IT RIGHT BACK TO I need to calm down

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

Not to crash out on main but I’m totally crashing out on main - the initial line up of characters have had such charm to them but halfway through season 1 it has just been so ass, the cookie cutter flavourless designs like PLEASE! It’s really just “mugumbo league of legends barbie shape” or “child”

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

Genuinely have an itch in me to just draw fanart and do my take on the designs, headcanon that they live in an appropriately designed world where they can LIVE UP TO THEIR POTENTIAL AAAAA so many of the characters have such potential it sucks to see it slip between the fingers like this

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

So uninspired, leaning AWAY from any of the charm like… she was already unnecessarily revealing contradictory to her vibe, the aesthetic dissonance was already not great BUT NOW ITS EVEN WORSE AAAAAA

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 15d

Outing myself as a gacha player but ZZZ’s Lucia’s new design revision sucks so hard, I told myself I wouldn’t publically critique another games designs anymore since my youth but this just really sucks

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 16d

Profoundly gorgeous!! 😍

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 16d

YOU'RE AN ANGEL YOU'RE AN ICON (bless your kind soul darling!!)

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🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 16d

HAHAH Laugh reveal!!! This is so kind, bless you!

🥀𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝕰𝖊🥀working on MALYS: the Exorcist deckbuilder! 🕯️👹 @theboyofcheese.bsky.social · 16d

BING BONG!! Looking good!!

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