Dungeons 3 pc game cover art7/2/2023 ![]() The guy grabbing the torch was programmer Andy Jaros, and the muscle-dude in the background was some guy I found at a gym. In the foreground is my now ex-wife, who had to hold a very heavy candelabra for the photos I shot for reference. ![]() The following statement by David Darrow is taken from the article Mastering Chaos by Richard Hewison, in the tenth issue of Retro Gamer: It’s quite humorous that the three people in the image aren’t professional models, but rather Darrow’s aquaintances and a guy that he randomly picked out at a gym. You can even see his signature in the final box art.Īnd Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia also mentions briefly how the cover was created. It’s not always easy to find out who has created original covers like these, but Darrow has been mentioned quite repeatedly. Darrow illustrated the original is no secret. The winner was Dungeon Master from 1987, which of course gave me the idea to find out the story of how its cover was created. In January I presented a list of the eight best fantasy game covers over at Eurogamer Sweden. This is an English translation of an original post in Swedish. Would I be able to get him to talk about it? When Dungeon Master was created, FTL Games commissioned the artist David R. In my previous article about Defender of the Crown, I wrote about how Cinemaware rented models from an agency and clothes from Hollywood. Without any insight into the creation of game covers, it’s hard to really understand how much work they actually required back in the ’80s and ’90s.
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