The chaos that Wither had fallen into is what ignited my desire to work on my own project. It really sucked because they were not only good artists but good friends as well. Eventually, at the end of 2014, we lost two of our team members over that conflict. A year later, our team was still struggling with what direction to take our next game. This had me pretty bummed for a while because I had some awesome ideas for the direction of that game that I was really excited about at the time. Because of this, the team voted to abandon development on the planned expansions to the game. Despite all of that, we still struggled to make money off of C&W. The game got great reviews from media and users and was downloaded over 600,000 times. We developed a game called Crowman & Wolfboy that released in 2013 on mobile platforms. In 2010 I started a small indie game team, Wither Studios, with some friends. Sally Face sat in the back of my mind for seven years, as I moved on to other projects. However, between work and school schedules, no one could commit enough time and things quickly fell apart. Everyone got into the idea at first and we were all excited to start this project. I got together with a few friends that were good artists and animators, as I attempted to assemble a team to make Sally Face into an internet cartoon series. Sally Face version 2.0 (young Steve had just started learning 3D modeling) At the heart of everything, I really wanted to create something that had the look and feel reminiscent of a 90’s Nicktoon (like Doug, Ren and Stimpy, Hey Arnold, Rock’s Modern Life) but with darker themes and more mature stories/content. 01Ī few months after those initial ideas began to form, I had already created a backstory for Sal (that’s when I ditched the sewn on face in favor of the prosthetic mask), a world that he lives in, a cast of characters and different stories I could tell within that universe. Here are the original sketches from that time: Sally Face and Larry (aka “Lazy Kid”) version. His best friend would be a lazy stoner who wore a cape and lived in the basement.
I imagined him living in an apartment building filled with odd tenants. Over the next few weeks, I began to imagine this character and what his life would be like. So I thought that topic would make a good starting point for this blog.Īround 2006 / 2007, I sketched a creepy character (as per usual) and the name “ Sally Face” just popped into my head. I also went through a lot of personal struggles while creating the first two episodes. I get asked all the time where the idea for Sally Face came from and what inspired me to make the game.
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