Dudewithgames

Creatively Fueled | Competitively Motivated

Heart of a gamer

Who am I

Born in the state of South Dakota, David Enersen (dudewithgames) is a Future Game Design graduate with an interest in design work as well as programming work. He has worked with several clients to produce visually stunning designs and art pieces, as well as work with coding throughout his college career. He hopes to help create fantastic character designs as well as generate user experiences that will keep people talking.

Portfolio

2d character art - client work

My clients came to me with an idea for a character, and i would use either a visual reference or a written reference to bring the character to life

Graphic Layout - Client work

The works displayed here was the work I have done for the Dakota State University Sports and Esports division. With these pictures, they would give me photos to use, which then I'll utilize the photos uniquely to make the images appealing for a sports crowd.

Game Projects

Stormbreakers

David Enersen - 2D art/Art lead
Brett Blackstock - Project Leader/Head Programmer
Michael Krause - project manager/Utilities/Narrative Lead
Rachel Groth - Programmer
Skyler Wittmer - 2D artist
Quincton Rush - 2D artist
Wade Hetland- Narrative Designer/Utilities
Charlie Brown- Narrative Designer/Utilities
Garrett Verhoeven - Contract Sound Designer

"The elemental deities have spiraled out of control and are waging war on each other. Two champions have been chosen to help settle the dispute. Choose an element to aid you in battle, and fight the way you want to fight in Stormbreakers, a traditional 2D fighter."

I was the art lead for this game. i've helped come up with the designs for the characters as well as approve background assets and the title card. the key challenge here was teaching other artists how to animate and draw anatomically better. Even coming up with a puppet 2d animating system where we would separate certain body parts in different layers and then animate using puppet-ing techniques.

Landkreuzer

David Enersen - 3D artist/2D artist
Nathan Golen - project leader
Gus Dubetz - project manager/utilities
Ethan Grahn - Programmer
Adam Gacke - Narrative Designer/Utilities
Matt Balcom - 3D artist

"Blow up, mow down, and crush evil cyborgs under your treads in the largest tank known to man, Landkreuzer. Crew up with your friends and become a juggernaut in this 3D couch co-op action game. Can you work together to save Europe from total annihilation?"

i was the art lead for this game as well...while at this project i learned how to do seem-less textures as well as model in low poly. the animation was done strictly by programming as well. i came up with most of the models for the game as well as came up with the title screen design.