Ascend

Ascend is a space empire board game concept, that draws its inspiration from the ever popular Dune series (which pretty much invented to genre). Specifically, I was inspired mostly by an old computer game called Emperor of the Fading Suns (which also borrowed heavily from the Dune universe).

This is the cover to the rule book which would probably do nicely as box art as well.

Or a book based off of the game, but that is a different story....

These are paintings for the various units that the player can produce and use to subjugate their fellow players.

For this game I wanted a cleaner and more realistic looking approach to the art, to reflect an advanced and enlightened civilization. This is in contrast to some of my other work, which takes a more energetic and wild approach. However, I wanted to retain much of the energy for the Death Commando picture, so that players will get a less subtle and more "in your face" feel when deploying a powerful unit.

-Patrick

©2011 Patrick Wheeler