LOWBIRTH GAMES: This Bed We Made
This Bed We Made is a third-person narrative mystery game that allows you to indulge your curiosity about the hidden lives of others. Take on the role of Sophie, a nosy chambermaid in the 1950s, and discover the sinister mystery that binds the hotel guests through the strange objects they bring on their travels.
I focused heavily on marketing art and working on pitch art for a new unannounced project. I will be updating this page as the projects are released.
This Bed We Made at Gamescom Germany 2022
I designed the marketing art for This Bed We Made. This piece was made in collaboration with Axana Zasorina, an amazing Russian Illustrator, who focuses heavily on 50’s pulp covers style. Due to time constraints and budget limitations, I was tasked to create intensive thumbnail iterations to showcase for my Art director, Creative Director, CEO, and Marketing team. In order for them to piece together the poster that best represented the TBWM Game.
Whilst playing through the demo of the game, I discovered the key aspects that made the game memorable and distinctive in the game market, the 1950s setting, cleaning, snooping and the main character exuding an aura of soft femininity that is not as often seen in protagonist of detective games. So while making the poster, my initial thumbnails focused on the cleaning aspects of the game first, I thought about ways to market cleaning in a fun way compositionally, and secondly I researched heavily into cover art from pulp magazines and erotic fiction. Common elements of the pulp magazine heavily focused on negative space and the characters being the center of attention. At first I wanted to explore the idea of red blood being smeared, like a paint brush to reveal the character listening into the door, I wanted it to portray something sinister or unsettling. However after the round of feedbacks, there was a consensus that the poster didn’t showcase the character enough, so I changed the character eavesdropping into a close up of her peering into a conversation and changed the red into more of the hotel pink red you see in reference to be more on brand with the game.
TBWM Second Key Art
The original design and full painting were rendered by me. Unfortunately, due to printing delays, this piece did not make it to Gamescom. However, it is used as a second marketing key art for TBWM. Heavily inspired by Blue Velvet scene with Kyle Maclachlan staring out from the closet.
