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Hellman here with some early designs for the Fortress from Arranger’s second town. Here lives the mad inventor, creator of remote communications and parcel delivery technology which alienates people from themselves.

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Resuming Arranger development art posts in the new year! This page shows palette and shape language for the various biomes. They all gotta support the mood for their chapter of the story and feel diverse and refreshing as you travel between them.

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At one point there was an idea that the Arranger Temples would unexpectedly connect in a vast underground maze. This would allow shortcuts of difficult overworld sections & access to otherwise-unreachable places! The finished game is more focused & streamlined, but it’s still fun to daydream about!

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Prototype Jemma gives away the vintage of this early Arranger mockup. The primacy of the grid, supported by jagged-edged scenery fragments within an abstracted space, pointed towards the final visual style. But I would wander through various alternatives before rediscovering this guiding beacon much later…

Another map from early in Arranger’s development. For me this is fascinating to explore both for its divergences from and adherences to the world of the finished game.

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WEREWOLF!! Not included anywhere in Arranger. Please submit your fan fictions for Jemma versus Wolfman.

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In Arranger, one of the big questions early on was, does Jemma walk? Since the grid moves with her, should she instead keep her feet rooted and flap her arms or wear a big fan or move through space some other way? We decided that walking is so natural and fundamental, we had to embrace it!

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From Arranger development, another creature corrupted by the Static! This transformation is less drastic, less monsteresque. In the final game Static does not corrupt things in this way, but it does develop into a sentient humanoid form!