Twarda's Art & Work
Hej, I'm Twarda
I'm a freelancing artist and game developer with a MSc in biology based in Poland.
I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. Comic books, particularly classic European ones, and animation are among my earliest sources of inspiration. Biology and paleontology are another passion of mine.I continued building up my art skills, eventually expanding from traditional art to digital art.
Zniw Adventure is a Point & Click adventure game in which the player follows the misadventures of the main dinosaur heroine - Zniw. The game's strong points are the story-telling and the living, breathing world within which the player can be immersed. Lots of animations make the adventure fun to experience.
The game was co-created with my partner & programmer, Łukasz Mikołajczyk, who wrote a lot of custom code for it and helped with writing. I was responsible for the visual side of the project, UI, game and world design, script & writing, flow, animation, and various pixel art assets, as well as for scientific accuracy.The game is available on these platforms:
Dinopedia
The optional dinopedia fills up during the player's adventures. Fitting all the info into the game's small resolution proved to be challenging. Its major functions are to familiarize the player with the encountered creatures and scientific terms, as well as provide some extra word building detail and lore.
Location thumbnails from Dinopedia:
(in development)
Zid Journey is a Point & Click adventure game where the story further explores the dinosaur world set in the first game, Zniw Adventure. The player follows Zid who tries to find the parents of the lost Daspletosaurus hatchling. On this journey, Zid also hopes to find his origins...
Many issues we encountered in the first game were alleviated with a bigger team and Kickstarter funds. But this also meant that my partner's and my responsibilities expanded to project and team management. This time the full-screen cutscenes were handled by GS Animation Studio, allowing us to focus more on the development. I provided art references and storyboards and acted as a creative lead to aid the animation process. My other roles from the previous game stayed similar.The demo can be played here:
Beastieball is turn-based volleyball RPG game with some monster-taming mechanics developed by Wishes Unlimited. I designed several Beasties for the project and worked on their pose charts.
Dragon-horseshoe crab
Skink with a fake head
Inspired by blue-tongued skink, pinecones, and sausages.
Loud disruptor lizard
It was the first design I made for Beastieball: I was asked to make a loud and flashy lizard while following the design guidelines. Since frilled lizard was too obvious, I explored fan-throated lizards and toad-headed agama, with a bit of chameleon.
Seabird
The inflatable sack(s) allows it to stay afloat. The wings of the adult serve as the sail.
Swift
Since I like swifts I'm glad I managed to push one into the project ;)
Colors Live is a painting app for the Nintendo Switch developed by Collecting Smiles. It also features Colors Quest - a painting challenge mode with its own tricky rules.I was asked to work on seasonal Colors Quest variants. This included designing the challenges, the map layout, and various art assets.
Dragon & Unicorn Collector
A card game for kids. Around 2018 I was asked to do quick creature designs and card illustrations for this project.
Tales of Eukarya is an upcoming educational card game for kids that aids in learning English. I designed several characters, illustrated their Key Art, and created various other related materials.