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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.

Backgrounds!

I’m pleased to announce that weekly updates are resuming!  I’m even more pleased to announce that work on the background art for Aurora’s Nightmare is underway.  Here’s a few previews for you guys.  All of these were done by the talented Badriel (a screen name, obviously).

First up, we have a look inside Ars’ apartment.  Neat, modern, and organized.  Tia is actually the one who did most of the decorating.  As a side note, those picture frames sitting above the fireplace will be filled in with “photos” of Ars, Aurora, and Tia.

Ars' Apartment Sunrise
Ars’ Apartment Sunrise

To give you an idea of what Lucerna’s buildings look like from the outside, here’s a shopping street in the city where the game takes place.

Shopping Street Day
Shopping Street Day

Many of the backgrounds have multiple variations, to fit with different times of day or the like.  To demonstrate, here’s that same shopping street at night.

Shopping Street Night
Shopping Street Night

That’s enough for now, but I’ll probably give you a look at some others in the future.