eXplore Commissions

The Kaiyo Mission is a sci-fi photography video game, almost single-handedly coded by my good friend Gwen Kossmann, that has been in development since 2020.

After designing the studio’s logo, I was brought on by the director to design a vertical banner to promote the game at a convention in 2021. About half a year later, I was brought on again to design a second poster for advertising the game on Steam. While working on that second poster, I was also asked to design icons for each of the major developers of Kaiyo for the credits of the game. A year and a half later, the game nearly complete, I was brought on one more time to produce one more poster for Steam and for Epic, and to add one more icon for the credits (I spruced up the original icons in addition to their request).

I had seen the project grow from beginning to its end, and I had even been a play tester for its entire development, so it became something near and dear to me as well. As Kaiyo got closer to completion in 2023, I suggested something to help optimize the game; when looking at your photo compendium within the game, it can be difficult to tell what item/creature the camera is focusing on specifically, so I pitched adding stickers of each item/creature to the bottom of the picture so the player knows what the camera was focusing on when the picture was taken. So, I drew all the stickers as well.