Brandon Sheffield is a video game director and
webcomic
Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books.
Webcomics can be c ...
writer. As the director of Necrosoft Games, Sheffield has created various games for
, including ''Gunsport'' and ''Oh Deer!''. After going through a breakup in 2014, Sheffield worked together with illustrator Dami Lee to create the webcomic ''No Girlfriend Comics'', which chronicles his experiences of suddenly being single after a two-year relationship.
Necrosoft Games
As the director of Necrosoft Games, Sheffield has worked on a number of video games for PlayStation Mobile before the service discontinued in September 2015.
In February 2015, Sheffield created ''Gunsport'', a "cyberpunk volleyball" game on the PlayStation Vita. Together with video game composer Motohiro Kawashima, whom he met while visiting Ancient Corp's Yuzo Koshiro, Sheffield worked on the racing game ''Oh Deer!''. Inspired by ''
Outrun 2
, usually stylized as ''OutRun2'', is a 2003 racing game released by Sega for the arcades.
Gameplay
''OutRun 2'' stays true to the race format from the 1986 original, in which the player is behind the steering wheel of a Ferrari sports car with ...
'', the game's main mechanics were programmed by Decinoge.
Sheffield was
editor-in-chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of ''
Game Developer Magazine
''Game Developer'' was a magazine for video game creators, originally started in March 1994 by Miller Freeman, Inc as quarterly, later bimonthly, and finally monthly. In each issue, industry leaders and experts shared technical solutions, reviewed ...
'' and was senior
contributing editor
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at ''
Gamasutra
''Game Developer'', known as ''Gamasutra'' until 2021, is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development. It is owned and operated by Informa and acts as the online sister publication to the print magazine '' Gam ...
''.
''No Girlfriend Comics''
After Sheffield
broke up
A relationship breakup, breakup, or break-up is the termination of a relationship. The act is commonly termed "dumping omeone in slang when it is initiated by one partner. The term is less likely to be applied to a married couple, where a bre ...
with his girlfriend in 2014, he started writing brief descriptions of his experiences, such as the awkwardness of leaving the house without a girlfriend and the depressing nature of going to bed alone. Though he felt his emotions were unique to himself, he realized that his reactions and resulting routines were very similar to those of other people that have gone through a break-up. At this point, Sheffield contacted illustrator Dami Lee to turn the stories into comic strips. This project resulted in the webcomic ''No Girlfriend Comics'', which ran on
Tapastic
Tapas, formerly known as Tapastic and originally known as Comic Panda, is a South Korean webtoon and prose publishing website and app owned by Tapas Media, a Kakao Entertainment company. It was created by entrepreneur Chang Kim in 2012, who is ...
from August to December 2014.
Sheffield believes Lee "added bits of herself here and there," making the webcomic more relatable in the process. The series eventually consisted of twenty individual strips, despite fans wanting the series to continue. According to Lee, "it felt right to end it at 20 comics instead of continuing the series; it represented a passing phase that everyone goes through at some point. The comic came to its natural end, just like a lot of relationships."
Sheffield and Lee worked together again to create the webcomic ''Hot Comics for Cool People'', which was syndicated in ''
SF Weekly
''SF Weekly'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California. It was distributed every Thursday, and was published by the San Francisco Print Media Company. The paper has won national journalism awards ...
'' in 2016.
References
External links
Necrosoft Gamesofficial website
''No Girlfriend Comics''on Tapastic
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American comics writers
American magazine editors
American online publication editors
American video game designers
American webcomic creators
Indie video game developers
Living people
People from Oakland, California
Journalists from California
Year of birth missing (living people)