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Games as Works of Art
My favorite artwork from Dragonmaster appears below. Most of the images in that game though seem to have so much personality.
What game related artwork do you like?
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Great stuff. Interestingly, Pepper had much more fun and insight into Dragonmaster though he's more notably recognized for Dark Tower.
I adore Heroquest and it's card illustrations. Black and White beauties!
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Gentlemen Thieves - I'm a sucker for the French art-nouveau style.
Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre - I would hang these spell triptychs, sans game mechanic text, in a game room.
Duel in the Dark - Such a beautiful map of the England/France/Germany section of Europe.
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- Dungeon Command card art
- I haven't played it but the art from Ashes looks pretty awesome
- Cthulhu's Vault has some nice pieces in it
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Most game "art" is total garbage. Can you even name a recent game illustrator? The Scythe dude is good, but he's a painter. Most of it just washes over, registering as either soullessly competent (I.e. All of FFG) or hilariously incompetent (Defenders of the Last Stand). Very little taste, currency or inspiration.
Look at Blood Rage...most would say that it looks "awesome". I think it looks professional and well executed but it is totally heartless. I look at it and shrug. Even all the Star Wars stuff...oh wow, good SW illustrations. Big fuckin' deal. My SW wallet had more graphic design creativity than any SW product published by FFG.
Doris Matthaus's stuff had heart and soul...so much more than whatever is on a CMON box.
You can't beat Bob Pepper, that guy was AMAZING.
John Blanche is great, we know this though.
Whoever that guy is that did the art on Police Precinct, Flash Point and Hostage Negotiator is doing probably the ugliest, most inept work in games today, barring Paul Niemeyer.
Battle at Kemble's Cascade (remember that one?) was bad but he illustrations and design were good.
TL;DR- art is rare in gaming.
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stoic wrote: I had never heard of Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre. The art is amazing!
superflycircus.com/2015/06/epic-spell-wa...trash-game-in-years/
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SuperflyTNT wrote:
stoic wrote: I had never heard of Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre. The art is amazing!
superflycircus.com/2015/06/epic-spell-wa...trash-game-in-years/
Thanks Bro! I must have missed that one.
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Yes, Bob Pepper, Gary Chalk, John Blanche, etc the greats. It'd be easy to also throw in a name like Sergio Aragones, but that feels like cheating as he's a known artist outside of gaming.
Games that are a work of art themselves though...I've always thought that the Basic D&D Erol Otus red box and hardback editions of Shadowrun (2nd), Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (1st) and Warhammer Fantasy Battles (3rd) are some of the best works of art in gaming. Even if you don't play those games, the art, layout, covers, flavor text, etc are fantastic in these three and should be on every gamer's shelves.
EDIT: Of course, we must include the Dungeon Crawl Classics book, but that too feels like cheating. They set out to go gangbusters on the art.
With boardgames, I've always felt that the John Howe/Reiner Knizia collaborations are works of art. Incredible illustrations married to fantastic game design. LotR:Confrontation (1st), LotR (co-op), and Beowulf all fit in here.
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Mr. White wrote: EDIT: Of course, we must include the Dungeon Crawl Classics book, but that too feels like cheating. They set out to go gangbusters on the art.
I purchased the DCC book a few weeks ago having never before looked at it. I must say that I had heard how cool the art was and was still totally unprepared for my face to melted off page after page.I think its the finest example that can exist for this thread.
On that note, the price for the softcover book is well worth the art alone even if you will never play the RPG.
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