Thread by @JohnNephew

I love the art of Godsforge and there is a funny story about @KylaMcT and @boymonster that goes with it.

https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1378138855358926849

Kyla was looking for someone to illustrate Godsforge, and Cam recommended an artist that he had worked with before. So Kyla looked him up on Google and saw examples of his work, which was super distinctive and a striking visual direction for the game. She reached out by e-mail to

see if he was available and interested. He was! Deal was signed, fantastic art was produced, game went to press. Some time later, Cam asked, "So hey, were you ever going to get in touch with Diego?" and Kyla was like "Yeah! We signed him! You should check out the sketches!"

And the compared notes to discover that Kyla had reached out to a TOTALLY DIFFERENT Diego Rodriguez, living in a different continent and different country, who had no previous game illustration experience. Instead, his art career was in customizing skateboards.

So I guess some day the Spanish skateboard artist just got a cold call e-mail out of the blue from some American game producer asking if he'd be interested in illustrating a game and he was like, sure? why not?

So anyway, if it seems like Godsforge has a visual aesthetic or idiom that is pretty far out for what you expect in a board game, that's why. Also, as a publisher, I can tell you that so far we only have good things to say about working with guys named Diego Rodriguez worldwide.

(Cam and/or Kyla may have corrections or embellishments to the details here, but this is now official company lore that I've told multiple strangers at conventions and now on Twitter, so it's established truth that is only waiting to be put on Wikipedia to become eternal.)