Herokind is an adventure and wrestling game for Humankind collectors. You send your Kinds into three lands and let them deal with whatever crawls out. Alligatornado. Nerdy Dragon. Fire Ogre. The Heavy Rain God, who is exactly as calm as he sounds.

My job was creative direction and game art direction: characters, lands, events, storyboards. I led the art team and worked shoulder to shoulder with the game devs. This is the art that went in.

You send your Kinds to Tenotch Forest, Skull Volcano, and Cloud Island. Each land has its own weather, its own trouble, its own way of ruining an afternoon. Monster events break out on their own schedule and you never quite know which one you'll get.

Then we made them wrestle. Turn-based arena battles, monster versus monster, with parody trailers that took the whole thing about as seriously as it deserved. There's a full chiptune soundtrack under all of it because of course there is.

A game is more than its monsters. Badges, medals, land maps, battle-frame borders, weather icons, splash art. All of it drawn to feel like one place. The badges were my favorite… tiny trophies for surviving things that shouldn't have happened to you.