I was resident comic book artist on the production of WHO AM I. I was responsible for some set designs, props and motion comic sequences. Also, I was serverely underdressed for the premiere.

Images below are what I can show from my archives and stills from the film.

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In 2012, A MAZE Berlin launched the pilot project of their international indie games festival, initially called Indie Connect. I was program director and responsible for the visual identity of the festival. I also designed the original A MAZE awards trophy, which was then hand produced for each year by Berlin based artist Doreen Weber.

Immediately in the following year, due to its success, the festival became the main event for the A AMAZE GmbH and rebranded as such. I was later involved in some orga and hosting work for a few more years. It is pretty inspiring to see how the team was able to grow the event into the international staple it became.

Images below are snapshots I made and also offical photographs via https://www.flickr.com/photos/amazefest/

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Having been in a close working relationship with Games Academy (Berlin) for over 9 years, I had the privilege to help many students find their way into the games industry. What started out as Photoshop and concept art classes for the art courses, quickly expanded to the role of project supervisor for the whole student roster.

Semester after semester, I coached students through ideation, scoping, planning and completion of their student games, while also helping them deal with team dynamics. It was a super enriching experience. Unfortunately, my responsibilities with Studio Fizbin made it difficult to keep teaching, but I hope I can pick up were the Games Academy and I left off soon.

Check the gallery below for impressions of game projects I coached during my time. All images via https://www.youtube.com/user/GamesAcademyOnline

Student projects were frequently nominated for Ubisoft Newcomer and Student project awards.

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Together with their game designers and UI artists, we developed the visual style of Anomaly Games‘ Fermi Paradox. I was responsible for developing the illustration style of the game and also creating benchmark alien designs to define how hard we lean into space sci-fi.

Originally we were a bit greedy and imaged fully painted illustrations for the game, but then pivoted to a much more graphic style, which is not only more reasonable, but also gives the game a much stronger visual identity. After providing a bunch of demo illustrations and a comprehensive style guide, I moved on to other projects. The in-game visuals you see today were realized by the Anomaly Games‘ art team.

Find a few of my contributions to the pre-production of the game below.

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released for PC
developed in UNITY
genre: 2D galactic scale strategy

Tiga Game Awards 2022 – Best Educational, Serious or Simulation Game (Nominee)

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Early in my career, I was featured in 3 volumes of Eisner Award winning anthology Popgun, contributing interior art and multipe short stories in collaboration with writer D.J.Kirkbride.

Eisner Award – Best Anthology – POPGUN Vol. 3 (Winner)
Harvey Award – Best Anthology – POPGUN Vol. 3 (Nominee)
Diamond Gem Award – Best Anthology – POPGUN Vol. 3 (Nominee)
Harvey Award – Best Anthology – POPGUN Vol. 2 (Nominee)
Harvey Award – Best Anthology – POPGUN Vol. 1 (Winner)

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Truth detectives is an important project, inspiring a new wave of digital journalist and activist to fight current war crimes and human rights violations. This serious game uses real world data and 3D spaces to provide a well curated virtual digital activism experience, that is remarkably close to the actual work.

With Studio Fizbin, I was responsible for designing the game‘s systems and leading the internal prototype team, following Studio ZB‘s vision.

All images below are from the final app, produced and © https://studiozb.media/.

Winner of DOK.digital – Award for New Narrative Formats 2023
Winner of Game Connection America – Game Development Award for Best Socially Valuable Game 2024

Truth Detectives – Prototype Lead / Systems Design

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A team-based scavenger hunt in the hall of Berlin‘s Computerspiele Museum, combining custom smartphones and NFC technology. I was part of the design team for the app, as well as developing the UI and visual identity of the project. I created Unity screens, printables, posters and supplemental materials. Later the game was lent to Schwules Museum, where I helped reskin the app for the new location.

Images below show a selection of graphics I made for the project, including our mascot and the hexel-based in-game assets.

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released for Android
developed in UNITY
team size: 5-10 people
genre: NFT-based physical space scavenger hunt

Medienboard – funding for innovative audiovisual content 2016 (recipient)

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A personal highlight for me, as a kid of the 80s: working for Hasbro as packaging illustrator for their G.I.Joe action figure line. Collaborating with art director Luis Perez, we explored loads options for composition through many concepts and mockups I made.

A later release of the figure, with redone color scheme, called me back on the scene. Thankfully, my workflow allowed me to easily recolor the original character artworks. So, the challenge was to find fun new composition for Hasbro‘s new windowless no plastic packaging.

Images show my illustrations, some preliminary sketches, and product shots. Product shots are from official Hasbro sources.

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Cerberus Studios is a gaming miniature and skirmish game studio, founded in 2018 by Benjamin Lycett. I was one the artist who contributed to the studio‘s start lineup of artworks and miniatures.

Killing two birds with one stone, many projects were part miniature design work, part illustration and it was a delight to be allowed to play in Benjamin‘s world. And it is amazing to see, that Cerberus Studios is still going strong , so many years later.

Images below contain some of my paintings and designs, as well a miniature shots from the studio‘s official instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/cerberusstudios/?hl=en), showcasing the amazing work of the involved sculptors and painters.

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For UFA and Arte, I co-developed Art of Gaming, a video game focused TV format. I helped shape the way episodes are made, worked as game consultant, and was co-developing the motion design for the show.

Extensive visual development and storyboarding helped the directors choose a trixel-based visual identity for the show, which I also produced as motion graphics for the pilot. The graphics for the full series were then polished and realised by Jérôme Gonçalvès.

There is even an episode with me in it, as fighting game expert guest. Good times. Images below contain stills from the show via https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-014296/art-of-gaming/ and a few insights into pre-production art.

Grimme Preis 2018 – Wettbewerb Information & Kultur (Nominee)

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Playotope is a game startup I co-founded in 2009 during the browser game and gamification boom and was responsible creative director. The company ran for four plus years with a small team of designers, coders and artists, but in the end was unable to break through on the market.

We released Treasure Joe, a
browser-based game maker app for 2D platformers. Later, we partnered with Greenpeace and created Forests of Eden, a social game with 3D forests to explore and a big dose of environmental education. In between, we also took client work, applying our team‘s skills and browser-based game technology to playful advertising solutions. The company disbanded in late 2014.

Even though we were a bit to idealistic for the monetization driven browser game market, I still had a great experience building games with the Playotope crew and it was a great opportunity early in my career.

Key Facts – Treasure Joe

released for browser
developed in custom engine
team size: 5-10 people
genre: 2D retro platformer maker

Gründerwerkstatt Beuth Hochschule – start-up grant 2010 (Recipient)
Medienboard – funding for innovative audiovisual content 2010 (with UFA) (Recipient)
Medienboard – funding for innovative audiovisual content 2012 (Recipient)

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The closure of Axis Studios came as a shock to everyone who ever worked with them, me included. The widely renowned studio was on top of their creative game before going bust. I am thankful I had the opportunity to contribute my design skills to their team.

Images below are character designs and animation notes for their Marvel Snap! cinematic trailer, as well as screenshots with some of the designs realized by their other artists in the final film.

Marvel Snap – Character Design / Visual Development

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One of a few gigs I did for Sharkbomb Studios, but the biggest by far. As art director for this roguelike deckbuilder, I developed a style that balances a unique look with fast production processes, enabling our team of artists to crank out vast volumes of stylish artworks.

The fresh blend of post apocalyptic sci-fi and Indian culture was quite a challenge, but copious amounts of concept illustrations and mock ups allowed us to find the language to make it work. The art style runs through illustrated characters and items, as well as the UI itself. The game features tons of assets I made and I also helped define UX and screen layouts. The detailed step by step painting guides and style guides helped keeping other artists on the same page.

Working with Sharkbomb Studios is a blast and I thank them for bringing me in for their projects. The images in the collection below show some of the concepts, ingame assets, UI graphics and development art I created for the project.

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released for PC and console
developed in UNITY
genre: 2C tactics roguelike

GermanDevDays Award 2020 – Best Game (Nominee)
ITFS Animated Game Awards Germany 2022 – Visual Design & Aesthetics (Nominee)

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The Wissen Macht Ah! app was developed by Studio Fizbin for WDR. I was responsible for creating the original concept, developing the visual style, planning systems and key features, previsualisation and project acquisition. The amazing talent from Studio Fizbin’s art team and game design department then realized the project to its full potential.

Images below are from the released app, created by the Studio Fizbin team.

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released for iOS and Android
developed in UNITY
team size: 5-10 people
genre: children’s science learning app

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Originally, I started working at Studio Fizbin to lead their client project division. But with Minute of Island‘s director moving over to Say No! More, the game needed a new director and Studio Fizbin tapped me to do it only a few months after joining the company.

The game had wonderful story beats and art direction, but was at that time struggling to find its footing and route to completion. This is where I came in and picked up the wonderful work the team did so far and pressed everything into a cohesive script. Building on their strengths and imagination I did guide our designers and artist towards a compelling narrative driven title.

Next to the script, which then was polished in collaboration with external writers, I was also responsible for planning animation and scene layouts, was animation supervisor, lead voice recording work, kept our amazing music composers on vision and developed content pipelines to make production happen on time, even during troubling corona times.

Being given the reigns on this project was an exciting ride and I am super thankful to Fizbin leadership and the team for the trust. Images above are from the released game, created by the Studio Fizbin team. Art direction Tim Gaedke.

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released for PC and console
developed in UNITY
team size: around 20 people
genre: 2D platformer graphic adventure

BIG Festival Best Art 2022 (Nominee)
Aggie Awards 2021 – Best Writing Drama (Winner)
ITFS Animated Game Awards Germany 2022 (Winner)
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis Best German Game 2021 (Nominee)
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis Best Sound 2021 (Winner)
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis Best Visuals 2021 (Nominee)
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis Best Story 2021 (Nominee)
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis Best Indie Game 2021 (Nominee)
LudoNarraCon Showcase 2021 (Official Selection)
Digital Dragons Indie Celebration 2021 (Finalist)
IndieCade Visual Design Award 2020 (Nominee)
IWOCon 2020 (Official Selection)
Guerrilla Collective Showcase June 2020
The Escapists Showcase June 2020
Independent Games Festival Excellence in Visual Art 2020 (Honorable Mention)
id@Xbox Spotlight April 2020
Indie MEGABOOTH PAX East Showcase 2020 (Official Selection)
Indie MEGABOOTH PAX West Showcase 2019 (Official Selection)
Gamescom Indie Award 2019 (Nominee)
Rock Paper Shotgun Bestest Best 2021

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Together with studio leadership, I developed the original pitch for Studio Fizbin, which secured prototype funding from the EU (Creative Europe)in 2019 and full scale production began in 2022 with funding from HeadUp Games and several German government grants to match. The game released March 2025 and unfortunately was the last release by Studio Fizbin, as the whole dev team had to be laid off as part of company wide restructuring by the publisher. During production, I was game director, setting up the game‘s vision and leading Studio Fizbin away from their more adventure game oriented roots to a fast paced action title.

The first collection of images below shows samples of the tons and tons of direction sketches I made, when guiding the game designers, artists and coders towards cohesive features. The images where part of larger design documents, which brought all of the teams expertise and problem solving together.

Additionally, I was also part of the visual development team, was interim art director for a few months and leading UI artist. Impressions from my work in those roles are shown in the second collection below. The full screen mockup paintings were vital to bringing everybody on the same page and keeping the vision of the game on track, even with changing art directors. Some images are overpaints of screenshots with assets and scenes from our amazing art and level design team. Art Direction Frauke Furch and Ruth Bosch.

I am very grateful for the trust Studio Fizbin put into me and the original concept and I believe it is really a shame, that our team was denied a chance to put their combined skills and passion towards a next instalment. We can be proud.

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released for PC
developed in UNITY
team size: 20-30 people
genre: 2D-3D-hybrid action roguelike

MFG Baden-Württemberg – Digital Content Funding (DCF) Grant 2019 (Recipient)
Creative Europe MEDIA Grant for Development of European Video Games 2019 (Recipient)
Deutsche Computerspielförderung 2023 (Recipient)

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