denmanrooke

@denmanrooke@mastodon.art

Illustrator, Art Director, and Concept Artist.

Artist/Owner at studio RÚCACH https://mastodon.art/@RUCACH working with Sumo Digital, Magic the Gathering, and Dungeons & Dragons.

I made a tarot card battle game: https://BattleOfTarot.com

Activist with People Before Profit https://www.pbp.ie & Game Workers Unite Ireland https://gwuireland.org
Ireland & politics based content found on https://mastodon.ie/@denmanrooke

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OATH. Great game session tonight. Really enjoyed it.

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A few more sketches from A MAZE. festival in Berlin.

What an absolutely fun time. Met so many people, had great chats, had great food, and felt creatively inspired.

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Berlin

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Dude, I just realised you are the artist of Millicent, Restless Revenant! I play her in commander. :D!

@denmanrooke
I love her holo card.
(Ngl, it's the art that got me into MTG haha.)

https://botsin.space/@random_mtg/110344276462072729

denmanrooke,

@LevelUp Awesome! I'm honoured. I haven't had the opportunity to play her commander deck yet, but it looks really fun.

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A page of sketches at A MAZE in Berlin

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Super Marx Bros. in Berlin

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Off to Berlin for A MAZE festival in the morning. So looking forward to it.

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Just wrapped up a freelance project which is due tomorrow and man, I feel relieved. I really enjoyed it, but I'm slowly losing the patience to take on freelance commission work. Every time I do I just wish I would have done my own thing. I don't know though, it was a fun project and kicked my ass into gear. Always so conflicting.

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For the day that's in it, this is my favourite rule in BATTLE of TAROT (2 player tarot card battle game). Aces without any court cards become some of the strongest armies in the game.

"In the spirit of anti-royalist sentiment, this army can be referred to as 'The People's Army'."

denmanrooke,

@RamenCatholic you've lost me a little bit :D

denmanrooke,

@RamenCatholic ah! Indeed.

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Happy May Day. Up the workers! ✊

United we win, divided we beg.

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I've finally opened back up my Magic the Gathering artist proof custom paintings after a months long hiatus!

I've also added a few of the cards from the past couple years which I hadn't put up yet. (listed in the thread below)
https://shop.denmanrooke.com/?orderby=date

Ink sketch of Armoured Skyhunter looking towards the viewer with two crossed swords infront of her chest.
A ink sketch of Elvish Doomsayer wielding a bow and arrow
An oil painting of Historian of Zhalfir. You see the side profile of his head as he is telling a story.

denmanrooke,

You can now find the following cards available for signatures, sketches, and paintings.
Mischievous Catgeist
Catlike Curiosity
Millicent, Restless Revenant
Depart the Realm
Silverquill Pledgemage
Ritual Guardian
and Mantle of the Ancients

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Contemplating going to A MAZE in Berlin in a couple weeks. Anyone I know here going?

denmanrooke,

Alright, it's settled. I'm going!

denmanrooke,

@bram I've decided to just go for it! If you happen to be there, let me know!

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I've just heard that Waypoint will be closing up shop. All staff laid off, and their last day is June 2nd.

fuuuuck

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1651698338687795200?s=61&t=wVQHlj5ZU85s4P2a2qVQjg

denmanrooke,

@raygan yeah, very sad indeed

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I've had a few people ask me about how I designed BATTLE of TAROT. So I figured I'd write up a little post about it. (a thread)

The Conception:

The idea to design BATTLE of TAROT was not intentional. It came to me in a dream.

As an artist, I was drawn to the tarot as I had seen a lot of my fellow artists illustrating their own decks. I was looking for a personal project to work on near the end of 2022 and so...


1/7

denmanrooke,

I’m not a spiritual person, so that side of it didn’t interest me as much personally, but it did make me wonder why I hadn’t heard of many card games that used a tarot deck, which was strange to me as the art and themes are so strong.

With this tucked away in the back of my mind, in the early morning of Christmas Eve 2022 at around 3am I woke up with the rules of BATTLE of TAROT just in my head.

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denmanrooke,

I tried falling back asleep but my designer brain couldn’t shut off as I saw the cards stacking to form armies and positioning themselves on the battlefield in the three lanes to attack each other. So to satiate the fixation, I got up and then spent the next 3 or 4 hours typing up the rules. The funny thing though, is it felt like I wasn’t really designing it as much as I was just typing as it was dictated to me by my subconscious.

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denmanrooke,

Now, some who might be more divinely inclined might say the tarot was involved in some way, but as an atheist and non-spiritual individual I don’t see it that way. I’ve been working in game studios professionally for over a decade surrounded by game design and mechanics, not to mention obsessively digesting games personally for my whole life.

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denmanrooke,

I think a lot of the inspirations for this game have been sitting back there in my subconscious percolating and the strong themes and art of the tarot deck just happened to click and give me that ‘ah ha’ moment.

And so that’s how BATTLE of TAROT was conceived. And while I did need to flush out the minor details and rules, the core idea came to me from the depths of my subconscious in a dream.

If you're interested in playing it, the rulebook is free on https://battleoftarot.com/

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denmanrooke,

@dacwatson awesome! I hope you enjoy it!

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Finally pulled my rulebook out of beta and released version 1.0.

Download it for free here: https://battleoftarot.com/
All you need is your own tarot deck

Thanks everyone who played over the last few months and provided feedback.

denmanrooke,

@ArneBab It is free yes. But I do hope people who enjoy it would send me a donation :)

If you really don't want to send me your email or name that's fine too, just put in a fake name and email and you'll still be able to download it from the website.

Or get a friend to just send you the pdf.

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Just noticed one of my Twitch art stream videos which was up on my Youtube got blocked for copyright issues or something. Possibly because of music in the background?

Looks like I might need to setup a non-corporate owned video setup using ActivityPub or something :(

denmanrooke,

@Da_Boom thank you! I will definitely be checking this out next time.

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