THE TEAM

yeo

The first thing players see when they start my games is a logo "by yeo". I was a movie addict from a very young age and when I started to draw comics in the middle school it was self-evident to sign them "directed by yeo", like they do in the movies. And when I started to run blogs and make fan games I credited them the same way. Posts were written by yeo, fan games were made solo by me (cause I used Nekketsu graphics and free tracks and didn't need any helpers) so having a logo "by yeo" seemed reasonable.

But when I started to make commercial games I couldn't make them on my own, and I had to gather a team and luckly found really great people along these years and here they are:

Artem "Wedmak2" Belov

I went through 2 months of hell at Russian gamedev forums trying to find artists for "The friends of Ringo Ishikawa". While I was offering a paid job almost every person at forums made negative critique on everything. "The game is shit, you're a moron, you pay too low, nobody can do 50 backgrounds by themselves so you need to hire more artists, aesthetics are bad, you're making a clone, you better make this and like that etc."

And then Artem came along. Calm, intelligent, with a background proposal for the Ringo's home street.

And that's how it started.

Projects: The friends of Ringo Ishikawa (backgrounds, map of the town poster), Arrest of a stone Buddha (backgrounds), Fading Afternoon (backgrounds)

Links: twitter, portfolio

Nikolay Gilyazetdinov

Then I had to recruit a characters artist. And it was another 2 months of hell. And I almost lost hope already. I asked every real live person I knew who could draw a straight line besides web searching and all my friends refused. I even asked my 58 years old father and he opened some image redactor, looked at pixels, closed and said no.

I was walking with my mother one day and she asked about the game, how the things going, and I said “mom, I can’t find an artist, please, talk to dad, he doesn’t work, he has nothing to do, maybe he can try again, it’s not that hard” and she said, “I’ll see what I can do”. I must say that my father is no artist. But he’s very talented in different areas so I believed that he could handle it if he wanted to. And couple of days later I installed "graphics gale" and taught him how to choose colors and place dots. And little by little, step by step, he drew around 1000 frames for Ringo in the next 2 years.

Projects: The friends of Ringo Ishikawa (characters and animations), Arrest of a stone Buddha (characters and animations), Fading Afternoon (animations consultant)

Ueda M.

I started to suspect something when I saw a beautiful choice of colors in emails Ueda M. sent me when we were working on the Ringo's Japanese translation proof reading. And it turned out that she's a wonderful artist capable of doing any job I need (funny thing that I thought that she's a male for more than half a year).

Then we started to work on a JRPG "The Concrete Sutra" which I had to get on hold while I was finishing Arrest. Then we made a one shot manga for Ringo, and some other art projects for Ringo, and it was such a joy to work with her, that I decided to give it a shot with a manga based on the script I came up for the JRPG.

I don't know where it'll lead us, but since she can do almost anything I hope we will make something great together.

Projects: The friends of Ringo Ishikawa (cover and promotional art, manga art, map of the town poster | coloring, Japanese translation proof reading), The Concrete Sutra (art), Fading Afternoon (characters and animations, cover art)

stray_stoat

Projects: The friends of Ringo Ishikawa, Arrest of a stone Buddha, The Concrete Sutra, Fading Afternoon

Links: twitter

Mr. Chelnoque

Projects: The friends of Ringo Ishikawa, Arrest of a stone Buddha

Links: twitter