Art Direction for Shut Up & Sit Down Game Review

The lads at Shut Up & Sit Down are at it again with their review of an expansion pack for their favourite game of 2015: Mysterium. Set in the 1920s, a band of mystics gather together to try and solve several murders. Summoning up a ghost, who can only communicate to them through mysterious dream symbols, they must uncover the truth...

This time I was tasked with setting a chilling scene in my authentically accurate living room: I gathered together all the most appropriate artefacts, and painted Matt's hair with flour to transform him into the ghost... 

Player - Watch the Skies 2 Megagame with Shut Up & Sit Down

Somewhere between model UN with aliens and The Thick of It with... aliens, Watch the Skies is a megagame with teams representing different countries. Each player had a different role within the team (Premiers, Ambassadors, Scientists...) As Japan's Deputy for War I helped negotiate Japan's struggle to better its place in the world and understand the presence of strange aliens who stole cats and communicated with whales... A weird & wonderful day, and such a pleasure to be a part of the Shut Up & Sit Down crew who were largely responsible for the increased turnout of this year's game. Here's the first part of the video they've made: