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Meet the team of artists behind the visuals of Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure!
Video by David Hellman Music by Tomás Batista. Soundtrack here
ARTISTS FEATURED ~ David Hellman (lead), André Rodrigues, Catherine Graffam, Enrique Bernardou, Adam deGrandis, Lynds Gallant, Robert Lopatto, Tim Aste
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure is widely available! Steam | Nintendo Switch | PlayStation 5 | Epic Game Store | Netflix (iOS +: Android)
Join me (David Hellman) at #GDC2025 to learn how a doomed dalliance with 2.5-D spurred the invention of a games/comics hybrid visual format in Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure!
Thursday March 20 1:30-2pm West Hall Room 2016
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Unboxing of the beautiful physical edition of Arranger by our friends at SUPERDELUXE GAMES! Contains art book and world map (that I drew recently just for this)!
Join Alan and Syrenne from Draknek & Friends as they talk to developers of some of their favorite puzzle games, shedding light onto how game
The Arranger team joined our friends at Draknek for an in-depth discussion about puzzle game design! It was recorded quite a while ago but I do remember having a nice time.
軽快なスライドパズルの世界で、チャーミングな自分探しの旅へ 相互に連動する「グリッド」で埋め尽くされた世界で、世界に変化をもたらし、自分の居場所を見つけよう。 SDX公式ストア限定特典「アレンジャーステッカーセット」付き！
Our friends at SUPERDELUXE GAMES produced this gorgeous physical edition of Arranger for Japan! Includes a booklet of production art and the inside of the label has a brand new world map drawing by me!
Hellman here with some early designs for the Fortress from Arranger’s second town. Here lives the mad inventor, creator of remote communications and parcel delivery technology which alienates people from themselves.
We explore some of the many ways media changes when released in different territories
I produced the key image for this cool series of articles about game localization (you know, adapting a product to be sold in various world markets).
Resuming Arranger development art posts in the new year! This page shows palette and shape language for the various biomes. They all gotta support the mood for their chapter of the story and feel diverse and refreshing as you travel between them.
Here’s about 13 minutes from Kit & Kyrsta episode 148 (featuring me!) in which we all draw a very famous plumber who everyone coincidentally seems to be talking about lately!
At one point there was an idea that the Arranger Temples would unexpectedly connect in a vast underground maze. This would allow shortcuts of difficult overworld sections & access to otherwise-unreachable places! The finished game is more focused & streamlined, but it’s still fun to daydream about!
Prototype Jemma gives away the vintage of this early Arranger mockup. The primacy of the grid, supported by jagged-edged scenery fragments within an abstracted space, pointed towards the final visual style. But I would wander through various alternatives before rediscovering this guiding beacon much later…
Another map from early in Arranger’s development. For me this is fascinating to explore both for its divergences from and adherences to the world of the finished game.
It was my great pleasure to guest on the Kit & Krysta podcast — a show I enjoy as a viewer — for the full episode. The highlight was a group drawing activity: we all tried our hand at a beloved character who could not have been more perfectly chosen for the moment! Drawing breaks should be mandatory for all podcasts. We also spoke in depth about the Satoru Iwata tribute animation I worked on for GDC some years back. Thanks Kit and Krysta, what a fun and memorable experience!
WEREWOLF!! Not included anywhere in Arranger. Please submit your fan fictions for Jemma versus Wolfman.
In Arranger, one of the big questions early on was, does Jemma walk? Since the grid moves with her, should she instead keep her feet rooted and flap her arms or wear a big fan or move through space some other way? We decided that walking is so natural and fundamental, we had to embrace it!
From Arranger development, another creature corrupted by the Static! This transformation is less drastic, less monsteresque. In the final game Static does not corrupt things in this way, but it does develop into a sentient humanoid form!
New fun art for the Kit & Krysta podcast! I was inspired by classic box art like Super Mario Land and by the personalities of my subjects! Ancillary characters such as Gatorider may be spun off into their own franchises (speculation only). Available on a range of merchandise on the K&K store.