Every Monday, I’d like to share with you a new tidbit about our upcoming game Marian. 
And for this – the first of what I hope eventually becomes many Mondays – I’d like to introduce you to the team that is working on the prototype!
Prototype? That’s what we’re calling the stage we’re in right now. The game is roughly mapped out in several documents, and I’ve built early prototypes that demonstrate, crudely, the potential of the game – but I want to put together well-polished snippets of the game to fully explore the gameplay, art direction and audio.
Here is the team that will be venturing forth on this prototyping expedition, presented to you with the most pretentious photographs imaginable:
Katie De Sousa
Age: 22 Location: Montreal
Katie is an experienced digital artist who was involved in the creation of the Marian character and concept from the early days. You’ve seen her work on this site many times before, from the character design in Paper Moon to concept art for Heroes + Villains. Her role on the project will be creating concept art, in-game 2D art and general art direction.
Ashley Dumonchelle
Age: 22 Location: Baltimore
Ashley, a talented 2D artist from the East coast, has extensive experience as a storybook illustrator. As she prefers working with physical mediums (different textures of paper for example) her style is completely different than Katie’s, but she is equally adept at capturing the mood of the game in visual art. Ashley shares concept art and general art direction duties with Katie.
Adam Mechtley
Age: 25 Location: Wisconsin
Adam, ex-Flashbang Studios, will be joining us in limited capacity granting us access to his vast working knowledge of Unity, his experience with character rigging and animation – plus entertaining us (intentionally or otherwise) with frequent, unprovoked sound effects.
Liem Nguyen
Age: 29 Location: Winnipeg
Liem is an ex-Frantic Films animator who has started up his own local business called Pixel Reborn. Liem created the animation for the Marian teaser released in September, and will be working on modelling, animation and other aspects of implementing the game art.
Kyle Pulver
Age: 23 Location: Phoenix
Kyle Pulver is a fairly well known game designer in the indie scene. He’s garnered attention for his games Bonesaw and Jottobots, and I’ve collaborated with him in the past on games like Verge and Everyone Loves Active 2. Kyle has a keen eye for classic platform gameplay – this gives us a knowledge base of what works best in platforming and also helps us understand the “rules” that we’re breaking. (and the ramifications of doing so)
Chrissy Chubala
Age: 23 Location: Winnipeg
Chrissy brings not only her scientific mind and her organizational skills to the plate as Project Manager, but also an interest in costume design and overall atmosphere. She also balances the books – and thank goodness we have someone around who is actually interested in figuring that out!
Alec Holowka
Age: 26 Location: Winnipeg
Turns out I’m working on this too – I’ll be the project lead, the programmer and the guy that writes the music.
Intern: Danny O’Connell
Age: 23 Location: Florida
He’s not actually an intern, but Danny has been pulled from the sparse-but-talented ranks of Aquaria modders to help out with story and gameplay ideas. Danny created what is probably the most epic Aquaria mod to date, an RPG-styled prequel to the original game called Sacrifice.
So there you have it!
Note: We’re also looking for a few more talented people to possibly join the team – depending on how busy we get in the next couple months. Living in Winnipeg is a plus! (for once)
If you’re interested, get in touch.
