BATTLE PLANS
hildhood is different the world over, but some things remain constant: climbing trees, playing tag, doodles in the backs of notebooks. brings the latter to life, inspired by ’s memories of playing tank games on his Dendy console (a Famicom clone produced for the Russian market). “Drawings in a notebook are an echo from the past, from school times, and those Dendy games,” he tells us. Achieving ’ style was initially laborious and expensive, with every sprite hand-drawn in pen and pencil and individually scanned. But after bringing aboard digital artist Sergey Malkov, and creating a custom, realistic-looking sketch brush in Photoshop, development has been moving faster lately.
