Visual Development & Game Art for Indie & AA Games

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YOUR game depends on its visuals.

Whether you like it or not 😉

A mystical scene with a dark-skinned, horned creature with glowing eyes, wearing tattered clothing and a green cape, standing in front of a glowing blue 'WILLOWING' sign. The background features ruins, trees, and glowing blue butterflies.

  • You and your players like how your game looks. Yet you both feel like something is… off.

    This is usually the result of an inconsistent art direction.

    → We can help you define that clear and consistent visual direction.

  • Let’s be honest. People stopped funding ideas alone.

    Instead, your game needs to answer a crucial question:

    “Is this a safe bet?"

    → We create strong, high-impact key visuals to make your pitches convincing.

  • Aaa yes. The “fun part": Working on marketing instead of your game 😒

    You know you can’t half-ass it either. You want a game that turns heads around.

    → We design marketing visuals that hook your future players.

  • Another “fun part“: Wasting time on the hiring process.

    It’s not like you can outsource some of your art needs, right? Right?

    → We can come in any time during production. And still keep your visuals consistent.

They are crucial when:

We craft visuals that players and publishers love.

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What we do

Visual Development & Worldbuilding

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Define the look and feel of your game before it becomes a visual mess.

✔️ Style exploration

✔️ Visual direction

✔️ Key environments

✔️ Character direction

✔️ Style guides

✔️ IP Development

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Marketing Art & Store Asset Creation

Cover art for the video game 'Lost Ember' featuring a wolf-like creature looking upwards with a glowing red orb against a starry background.
Fantasy art illustration featuring a group of colorful, fierce warriors and mythical creatures battling in a fiery, chaotic backdrop. The scene is filled with dragons, monsters, and heroic figures wielding weapons, with a large, menacing boss creature in the center. The title 'Boss Fighters or QR' is prominently displayed at the top.

✔️ Key Arts

✔️ Steam Capsules

✔️ Marketing Illustrations

The images that make players stop, click & care.

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Game Art Production Support

Character & Creature design

Environment Art

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Game Asset & Prop Design

Game UI, Logo & Graphic Design

Sketches of fantasy armor and helmet designs, numbered 1 through 5, featuring various shapes, details, and decorations.
A screenshot of a card game interface, showing several cards with various artwork and stats, a green 'DONE' button, and other game controls and icons on a dark background.
Illustration of two tall, icy towers with gothic architecture, set against a starry night sky, titled 'The Snowowl Wardens' with snowy and icy landscape at their bases.
A black and white sketch of a hand with detailed armor and a raised index finger, with stylized text 'X KRA$S' and 'KOLLEKTIV' at the bottom left corner.
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Where our artists left their mark

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Why focus on indie & AA GAMES?

We’ve worked with big names before (scroll down to check them out).
We’re not strangers to crafting high-quality art for them. Far from it.

But we also believe in the bold, fresh ideas from indie and AA studios.

We believe in the worlds you want to create for your players.
In the characters you want them to fall in love with.
And in you having the right marketing assets to go out there and get noticed.

We merely want to place a bet (and our trust) on the dreams that you don’t want to be just memes. We want to help you and be part of them.

So… y’know? Why not get visuals on par with AAA giants?
Why not have access to them at an affordable price?
Why not work with a banger art team that cares, listens, and guides you? (That’s us)

No matter the size of your studio, we can craft visual magic for you.
You’re in safe hands 😌

Got a project in mind?

Let’s talk about it

How we work…

1. Understand
We learn about your game, your goals, and your current stage.

2. Define
We establish a clear visual direction before production starts.

3. Create
We produce high-quality assets with regular feedback loops.

4. Refine
We polish everything until it’s ready for production or launch.

Players who turn their heads because your game has solid visuals.

… and why it works

We don’t allow your game to go unnoticed.

We create visuals that cut through the noise.
And we make you stand out in a market where everyone fights for attention.

Where our artists left their mark

game art studio
game outsourcing studio
White lowercase text spelling 'otto group' on a black background.
Paizo logo featuring a stylized figure of a person with arms raised and a starburst above its head, with the text 'paizo' below.
Logo for Rumble Entertainment featuring a stylized letter 'R' and the company name beside it.
Black background with a white logo consisting of three downward-pointing chevrons and the word 'GUERRILA' beneath.
Logo of CrazyLabs featuring a cartoon monster inside a jar and the company name in bold white text on a black background.
Warner Bros. logo with the text 'WARNER BROS.' underneath
Bold black and white graphic with the text 'SUPERCELL' arranged in a blocky, stacked font
Logo with the words "Aegir Tactics" in a stylized font, with a sword graphic separating the words.
game development outsourcing
Ulisses Spiele logo featuring a stylized globe and text in white on a black background.
Ninja Theory logo in white text on a black background.
Gray logo of a stylized fish emerging from water with the text 'FISHLABS' below.
Playata logo featuring the word 'playata' in lowercase white letters, with a small circle above the 't' and a curved line extending from the 't' to the right, on a black background.
Logo of a crow perched inside a circle with the text "CROWWVISUALS" below.
Universal Pictures logo featuring a black and white globe with the word 'UNIVERSAL' in bold letters below it.
outsourcing companies
game art studio for mobile
Logo of Steamforged Games featuring a gear icon with the initials 'SFG' inside, and the company's name written to the right.
Pegasus Pegasus logo with a winged horse above the text 'Pegasus Spiele' in white on a black background.
Nike logo with the word Nike and the swoosh symbol on a black background.
Moonbyte logo with a smiling face and a small planet orbiting it, accompanied by the text 'moonbyte' in lowercase.
A logo featuring a clenched fist with a flame above it and the word 'entainment' below
Logo for Artificial Core, featuring a stylized letter 'A' and the text 'ARTIFICIAL CORE'
Logo of Riot Games featuring a stylized shield with bold letters RIOT GAMES.
Stylized text spelling 'KAISO' in black and white with geometric shapes.
concept art outsourcing
The logo of the video game Overwatch featuring the word 'Blizzard' in stylized text with a gray and white color scheme.
2d game development outsourcing
Blizzard Entertainment logo in black and white.
concept art outsourcing studios
The image features the words 'SYBO' in large white letters at the top, and below it a stylized logo of 'Skate Emporium' in a graffiti-like font against a black background.
2D game art studio
game art studio
Black and white Valve logo with the word VALVE in bold uppercase letters.
UBISOFT BLUE BYTE logo with black background and white and gray text
Logo with the word 'TEMPO' in bold, stylized white letters on a black background.
game art studio
Assassin's Creed logo with a stylized emblem and game title text in black, white, and gray.

Projects

  • A stylized illustration of a dog with the body of a wolf, standing against a starry night sky, with a red glowing celestial object in the background.

    Lost Ember - Art Direction & Visual Identity

    Art direction for an award-winning indie game, shaping its emotional tone, natural world, visual identity and player-facing atmosphere from early development through release.

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  • Cover art for a video game titled 'Project 5: Unleashed Action Adventure' by KAITO THQ NORDIC. The image features a split scene with a bright, grand fantasy-style landscape at the top and a dark, ruined stone bridge in a gray, stormy setting at the bottom.

    Project 5 - Environment & Prop Design for a Dark Fantasy Action Adventure

    Environment and prop design for an unreleased dark fantasy action adventure, focused on readable top-down spaces, strong atmosphere and production-ready worldbuilding.

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  • Illustration of a fantasy battle scene with various fighters, monsters, and mythical creatures, with the title 'Boss Fighters or' and the Pegasus Spiele logo at the bottom.

    Boss Fighters QR - Cover, Logo, Character & Boss Concepts

    Cover illustration, logo design, hero character concepts and boss designs for a hybrid board game built around app-powered card battles.

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  • Colorful game cover for 'Once Upon a Blast' featuring four fantasy-themed landscapes: a tropical island with a mermaid statue, a fairy-tale mushroom house, a castle with red roofs, and a fiery canyon with waterfalls.

    ONCE UPON A BLAST - Crazy Labs

    As proud contributors to Once Upon A Blast, we designed and created the enchanting backgrounds that set the stage for this epic fairytale puzzle adventure.

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  • Colorful animated game cover for 'Subway Surfers: Match,' featuring a teenage boy with a cap holding a spray paint can and a spinning top, graffiti on trains, a robot astronaut, and lively city scenes.

    Subway Surfers Match - Background & Graffiti Art

    Our team designed engaging and colorful background illustrations that seamlessly blend with the game’s aesthetic.

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  • Digital illustration of a female warrior with red hair, armored and holding a flaming sword, alongside a fierce lion with a fiery mane, in a fantasy setting, with CrazyLabs logo at the bottom.

    Crazy Labs - Card Game

    We created character designs for a Crazy Labs game project as part of a pitch phase.

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  • A fantasy illustration featuring a large, fierce elephant with bloodstains and tribal markings, surrounded by warriors with weapons, set against a fiery desert background with smoke and flames. The text reads "EVOKER" and "DESERT TWILIGHT".

    Evoker: Magic Card Game

    We had the privilege of developing the fantasy character designs for Evoker: Magic Card Game, a thrilling mix of collectible card gameplay and RPG elements set in a vast medieval world.

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  • Promotional image for Aegir Tactics, featuring fantasy-style characters, including a muscular warrior with mohawk and armor, and other fantasy characters in the background, with game interface elements.

    Aegir - Cardgame

    Aegir Tactics is a next generation digital card game designed to bring fairness and balance back to competitive play. We had the pleasure of collaborating with Developer Star Sight Labs on several Decks to start off this project.

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  • A fantasy character in blue winter armor holding a staff, surrounded by a wolf and a bird of prey, in a snowy icy landscape. The text reads 'The Snowowl Wardens'.

    The Snowowl Wardens

    A Team-Based Survival Board Game Set in a World of Ice and Consequence

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