All posts by Josiah

About Josiah

Josiah Lebowitz is a writer and game designer. He currently operates his own indie studio (Pen and Sword Games) while teaching game design and doing contract work for various other companies. His past projects include tie-in novellas for EverQuest Next, the game Car Washer: Summer of the Ninja, and the books Interactive Storytelling for Video Games and The Verities Silex trilogy.

A Different Kind of Place

Since we’ve been talking about the world and background art these past couple of weeks, take a look at one of the latest pieces.

NW Ruins
NW Ruins

Quite a bit different than the others you’ve seen, isn’t it?  How did we go from bright and peaceful streets and plains to this?  Is it still even on Lucerna?  Well, I’m not going to tell you any of that yet, but feel free to speculate.  I will say that this background isn’t unique, there are more like it and they’re used in some very important scenes…