IP Labs

Game design and worldbuilding

Original tabletop and interactive projects of my own: systems, art and product design, from first rule to printed piece.

MERCS: Ground Zero

A hybrid board game and phone app, designed so the physical board feeds real-time skill games on the phone.

As a team, players lock down the facility's key control rooms and contain a viral mutant outbreak. The board, cards and dice carry the strategy; the app tracks level-ups and turns big moments, like shooting and picking locks, into quick skill games.

MERCS Ground Zero: the phone app in hand beside the board, room cards and item cards

The phone appMy working prototype. Each action, shoot, sprint, unlock, mutate and deploy, is a quick skill game that feeds the board game.

Grenade Launcher card — Gear and supplies

Hunters and Telepath board with a threat tracker — The enemy board with the threat tracker

AI use: the logo, cards, boards and portraits were made with AI image tools under my art direction. The game design and the working prototype are mine.

Monster Mercs

A second game in a completely different key: where Ground Zero is grim sci-fi horror, Monster Mercs is a monster comedy built around dice.

You play monsters for hire, a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost, taking contracts to stop the monster world from bleeding into the human one. I designed the game and painted every piece of art in it by hand.

The player board, in 3DClosed, turned over, opened one flap at a time, then loaded with weapon cards. A 3D mockup I built from the print files.

The Monster Mercs player board open, loaded with weapon cards, medals and ammo, with dice and a hand of cards — Each player's board opens like a military utility pouch, with webbing and pockets for cards, medals and ammo.

Mrs. Grumpy, a painted machine gun — Custom-painted elite weapons

Crossing Guard, a sniper rifle wrapped in caution tape

Ghost, a pumpkin-headed merc in a hood — Ghost

Goodboy, a scarred merc with an eyepatch — Goodboy

AI use: none. Every piece of art in Monster Mercs is painted by hand.

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