CEO & Founder

 

Derek Pearcy was a creative at Steve Jackson Games in the 1990s, where he built and led the team producing Illuminati: New World Order, which won the 1994 Origins Award for Card Game of the Year, selling more than 60 million cards. He created the company’s long-running Pyramid Magazine as well as the game In Nomine, which won the 1998 Origins Award for Best Graphical Presentation.

After 20 years in Silicon Valley designing high-end cybersecurity systems, he’s returned to his roots in gaming. With Steve Jackson’s support and encouragement, Derek is now developing digital versions of the classic Illuminati games.

Contact him here.

 

Art Director

 

Matías Solario, or simply Solario, studied traditional illustration at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, and has spent time as a freelance graphic designer, an amateur photographer, an old-timey baseball player, a Cicerone, and a cocktail historian.

You can find him on Instagram or reach him here.

Illustrators

 

Jeff Lance is a concept artist and illustrator. He works in games and lives in San Francisco. He spent his time in quarantine growing long hair and a gnarly beard. You can find his non beard-related work either here or on Instagram.

Dan Smith is a popular illustrator and graphic artist. He is especially notorious for his work on Illuminati: New World Order. Contact him here.

 

Contributing Writers

 

Kenneth Hite has won multiple Origins, Golden Geek, and ENnie Awards, having designed, written, or co-authored more than 100 tabletop roleplaying games and supplements, including Secret Societies, GURPS Horror, The Dresden Files RPG, Trail of Cthulhu, Night’s Black Agents, Delta Green RPG, The Dracula Dossier, and Vampire: the Masquerade 5e. He has also written for computer games companies including 10Tacles, UbiSoft, and inXile. Find him via Twitter or on Facebook.

Kevin Cosby can be reached by email.

Colorists

 

Janine Maganito can be found on her website and on Instagram.

Heli Alcantara can be reached through his website.

 

3D Modelers

 

Antonio Aquilino Medina can be reached on his website.

Alexandra Farnsworth is a 2020 graduate from San Jose State University with a BFA in Animation/ Illustration, specializing in 3D modeling. She can be reached by email or on her website.

Music & Audio

 

Christopher Byrum Harris is a Film & Game composer and the head of Broken Windmill Music, currently residing in the Yosemite Region of Central California. He has been contracted to write and arrange additional music for many film scores, including the recent Netflix Original Fearless (2020) and SONY's Help I Shrunk My Parents (2018), both helmed by composer Anne-Kathrin Dern.