Mateusz Skutnik

Mateusz Skutnik
Born 26 July 1976 (age 39)
Gdańsk  Poland
Nationality Polish
Occupation Artist and writer of graphic novels and comics
Family

Wife (Anna Jędrzejczak-Skutnik), two daughters (Kalina)

graphic designer

developer of online games

co-founder of PastelGames

Mateusz J. Skutnik (born 26 July 1976 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a graphic artist, game developer, and architect who graduated from the Technical University of Gdańsk in Poland. He is the author of several graphic novels,[1] such as the series 'Rewolucje',[2][3] 'Blaki' and 'Morfołaki', and creator of animated shorts like 'Kinematograph'.

Together with Karol Konwerski, he is the founder of Pastel Games,[4] the company behind several well-known point and click flash game series, including 'Covert Front', 'Daymare Town', '10 Gnomes' and the critically acclaimed Submachine.

Bio

From the "About Me" page on Mateusz Skutnik's website:

"I'm an independent game developer and graphic novelist.

Telling stories – that’s the thing I want to do in my life. Whether through comics or games – both mediums work fine for me. I’ve got lots of stories in my head, and I'll keep serving them to whoever wants to listen in whichever form."

Graphic novels

Mateusz Skutnik is releasing his Morfolaki series in English on his website as a series of webcomics called "Daymare Morphs." The first comic, "The Nature of Things," was released on July 8, 2015. The comics can be viewed here.[5] Skutnik will release a new comic each week.

Mateusz Skutnik is also releasing the Revolutions series in English as a series of free digital files (.cbr, .cbz, .pdf). He announced the digital version of the first volume, Parabola, when he reached $1200 a month on Patreon. He will release it in spring 2016. He will release the second volume, Ellipse, in 2016 as well.

Games

Submachine

Upcoming

Daymare Town

Daymare Town is a black-and-white game series written and drawn by Mateusz Skutnik. The object of the games is to escape Daymare Town.

The goal of Daymare Town 1 is to lower a drawbridge. The player crosses it, only to find himself in another part of Daymare Town.
The goal of Daymare Town 2 is to fly away in a hot air balloon. However, the balloon crashes, and Daymare Town 3 begins with the player in a hospital in Daymare Town.
The goal of Daymare Town 3 is to find the exit of Daymare Town and leave.
The player spends Daymare Town 4 wandering around in the desert, finding objects and interacting with various people. The player finds a ladder on a tall cliff, and climbs it. Once at the top, the player sees another city. He walks toward it, and the game ends.
Daymare Cat is a platformer that takes place in another part of Daymare Town. The player is a young girl named Cat, and the goal of the game is to escape Daymare Town. There is a hidden easter egg in Daymare Town 4 where the player can meet Cat.
Where is 2010? is a platformer that takes place in yet another part of Daymare Town. The player is a tiny black creature, who is trying to find the personified 2010.
Daymare Invaders is a Daymare Town-themed Space Invaders spin-off.
Daymare Kite is a minigame that takes place in Daymare Town.

The four Daymare minigames (Daymare Cat, Where is 2010?, Daymare Invaders, and Daymare Kite) were released by Mateusz Skutnik together in HD as a "Daymare Mini Bundle" for $2.

Upcoming

Mateusz Skutnik said on Patreon, "So at the end we left the infamous town, right? Right? Even if so, wouldn't you like to see what's beyond it's walls? What's beyond the fog/mist? What kind of world spawned such town in the first place? Are the citizens of Daymare indigenous, or just creatures that stumbled upon deserted city structures? Am I saying too much already?"
The game will be released around 2017.

10 Gnomes

10 Gnomes is a game series created by Mateusz Skutnik. Each game consists of a series of black-and-white photographs of various settings, and the player can zoom in on the pictures in certain places to search for 10 gnomes that Skutnik has drawn into the photos.

Upcoming

Covert Front

Covert Front is a game series written by Karol Konwerski and drawn by Mateusz Skutnik. It consists of four games in which the player plays as a secret agent named Kara, investigating the disapperance of a Bavarian scientist named Karl von Toten in 1904. The series takes place in an alternate universe where WW1 took place 10 years earlier, due to an earlier Industrial/Scientific Revolution.

Kara breaks into Karl von Toten's mansion in Covert Front 1, and finds that it is empty. She finds a secret lab underneath the house, and finds a hidden base underneath that.
Kara investigates the hidden base in Covert Front 2. She finds that it was made to spy on von Toten, though she doesn't know which organization made it, or who was spying on him. She leaves, and is told by another agent to go to Zurich, Switzerland.
Kara goes to Zurich, Switzerland in Covert Front 3. She goes around the town looking for clues about what happened to Karl von Toten. She is kidnapped by Manfred Nikolai, von Toten's butler, who she realizes was spying on Toten for the German government. Kara finds out that von Toten made an important scientific breakthrough, and Manfred wanted to take the experiment for himself. Kara escapes, finds an airplane, and flys to Lisbon, Portugal, where Manfred said that von Toten was.
In Covert Front 4, Kara goes to Lisbon, Portugal. She manages to find von Toten, but Manfred comes in to kill them. In self-defense, Kara kills Manfred. Von Toten then turns on a projector pointed at a blank wall, and a door appears. Kara and von Toten go through the door, and Kara destroys the projector. The door disappears.

Upcoming

Skutnik and Konwerski repeatedly told fans that Covert Front 4 was the end of the series, but in July 2015, when Mateusz reached $1000 a month on Patreon, they decided to make Covert Front 5. Mateusz will probably start making it in 2016.

Where is the New Year?

Where is the New Year is a series of games created by Mateusz Skutnik. They are all very different, but they are all connected by the main goal: to find the personified new year.

Where is 2009?, the first game in the series, is a simple platformer where the player is Santa Claus. The game starts like an escape-the-room game, but rapidly becomes surreal when Santa falls down a hole that leads to China. He finds 2009 in the form of a baby being kept in a secluded Buddhist monastery.
Where is 2010? is a simple platformer that takes place in the Daymare Town universe. The player is a tiny black creature who is trying to find 2010.
Where is 2011? is made in the style of 10 Gnomes. It consists of black-and-white photographs of Gdansk, Poland that the player can zoom in on to look for clues. The player find that 2011 is in the form of a gnome.
Where is 2012? is similar to Where is 2009?, in that it is a platformer where the player is Santa Claus. The difference is that it is much bigger, and the backgrounds are watercolored. Santa must go around the North Pole solving puzzles, searching for the infant personification of 2012.
Where is 2013? is a point-and-click game in the style of 10 Gnomes, except that the photographs are in color. The player must find 2013, which is in the form of a grey alien.
Where is 2014? is the shortest game in the series so far. It is a point-and-click game in the style of Submachine or Covert Front, but in a different style. The entire game takes place on one screen, which contains many devices and puzzles. The goal of the game is to set off an alarm clock to wake up 2014, which is in the form of a young child.
Where is 2015? is the largest game in the series so far. The gameplay is the same as Where is 2013?. The player finds 2015, which is in the form of a young child. This game's download size was so large, some websites that host Mateusz's games couldn't host Where is 2015?.

Upcoming

Skutnik said on his website that he may end the series after Where is 2017?, unless he comes up with a good idea for the game series. He said on Patreon that Where is 2017? would be a puzzle platform game.

Mr. Mothball

Solar Missions

Upcoming

The Squirrel Family (31 games)

Other Games

Calligraphic is a puzzle platformer where all the objects (obstacles, the player, enemies, etc.) are composed of words written in calligraphic script.
Garden Door is a point-and-click game created by Mateusz Skutnik. It is in the style of 10 Gnomes, except that the photographs are in color. The goal of the game is to open the Garden Door, which leads to a tunnel. The player enters the tunnel, and comes out in Daymare Town.
Escape from Jayisgames is a point-and-click game written and drawn by Mateusz Skutnik in the style of Submachine. He made the game specifically for Jayisgames. The game takes place in an egg-shaped structure, and the player can see the room from different angles. The player must assemble the Jayisgames logo to open a hatch that leads outside.

Social Media

He said in a tweet on September 19, 2015 that he would put a game on Steam in 2016. He said on October 12 that he wouldn't want to put a "ten-year old flash game" on Steam, and that he wants to start with something new. He said on November 6, 2015 that it was a possibility that he would put Submachine on Steam in the distant future.

After he released Submachine 10, he revealed his tentative plans for 2016.[7]

He said in a Facebook comment on January 5, 2016 that if he releases a game on Steam, it would be in 2017.

Patreon

Mateusz Skutnik is currently at $1061 a month, with 233 patrons.

Completed Projects

Current Projects

Future Projects

Pastel Games (games not created by Mateusz Skutnik)

For a brief period of time at the beginning of 2016, Mateusz Skutnik deleted the website of Pastel Games, redirecting the URL pastelgames.com to his website's game page (mateuszskutnik.com/games). His reason for this was because no games will ever be made there again, since no one works at Pastel Games anymore. However, after much protest and outcry from fans of the Pastel Games, he brought the website back.

The Fog Fall

The Fog Fall is a point-and-click game series made by Maciej Palka, D. Gizicki, and L. Blaszczyk. It takes place in an alternate universe, where the Nuclear Holocaust occurred in the 1950s. The fourth game leaves off on a cliffhanger, but production of the fifth game was permanently ended when Pastel Games went bankrupt.

The goal of Fog Fall 1 is to escape the nuclear bunker the player is in, and to make a nuclear hazmat suit to protect the player from the radiation.
The goal of Fog Fall 2 is to find food, gas, and a car to leave the town you are in.
The goal of Fog Fall 3 is to leave the area you are in.
The goal of Fog Fall 4 is to get food and supplies to leave the town you end up in.

The Great Escape

The Great Escape is an escape-the-room series created for Pastel Games. In each game, the player must figure out a way to escape each room in the house. In the last game, the player can access all the rooms to try to escape the house.

In The Great House Escape, the player discovers that he has been trapped in a haunted house, and that the ghosts have been locking him in each room. To escape, he must put together various materials from around the house to capture all the ghosts.

The Scene of the Crime

The Scene of the Crime is a point-and-click mystery game series made by Kamil Kochanski. In each game, the player is a detective trying to solve a murder mystery. The first two games are in black and white, while the third is drawn in a much more colorful, painterly style.

Rizzoli and Isles

Rizzoli and Isles is a game series made by Pastel Games based on the TV series Rizzoli and Isles. In each game, the player is an unnamed detective working for Rizzoli and Isles.

In this game, the player must solve the Masterpiece Murders. The Masterpiece Murderer kills his victims and then paints a picture of them dead.
In this game, the player must solve the mystery of the Boston Butcher, who kills his victims in extremely gory ways.

Aurora

Aurora is a point-and-click game series made by K. Poznanski and K. Olos that takes place in the 1800s in a little town in the Wild West. The player must escape before a singer named Aurora comes to town, because all the people in all the towns she has ever visited were found dead after she left.

Morbid

Morbid is a point-and-click game series written and drawn by Maciej Palka. It takes place in 1300s Europe at the height of the Black Plague. The goal of the games is to find a way to kill a vampire.

The goal of the game is to
There are two possible endings to the game: In one ending, the vampire kills you, and you die. In the other ending, you sacrifice your life to kill the vampire.

Mellow Escapes

The Mellow Escapes are a series of unrelated escape games created by B. Jarosik.

This game is an escape-the-room game that takes place in an artist's studio. The player must solve various art-related puzzles to escape.
This game is an escape-the-room game that takes place in a barn. The goal of the game is for the player to help a horse escape from the barn.
This game is an exploration point-and-click game that takes place in the Bermuda Triangle. The player's sailboat sinks, and the player finds an alien ship underneath the water. The player enters it, and solves many alien puzzles inside.
This game is an escape-the-room game that takes place in the treehouse of a witch named Baba Yaga. The player has been captured by her, and must solve many magic-related puzzles to defeat the witch and escape.

Space Oddity

Space Oddity is a series of games that takes place on a space station. It was created by Karol Konwerski and Kamil Kochanski. The second game ends on a cliffhanger, but a third game will never be made, since Pastel Games no longer exists.

Sneak Thief

Sneak Thief is a game series where the player is a thief who tries to steal various inventions. It was created by V. Harutyunyan and Kamil Kochanski. The player is tasked by a man named Don Fabio to steal the inventions of a Professor Bellamy. In the last game, the player meets the professor, and becomes friends with him.

Tortuga

Tortuga is an escape-the-room series written and drawn by M. Frankowski. It takes place on a pirate ship, and the player must solve various pirate-themed puzzles to escape. There is a third game, but it was not made for Pastel Games so it is not on their website.

Other Games

Currently, the "Other Games" section of the PastelGames website redirects to Mateusz Skutnik's website's game page. These were the games that existed on the page before it was deleted. Many of these games can be found elsewhere on the internet, on flash gaming websites such as Kongregate and JayIsGames.

This game is the first in a series called The Big Old Tree that Dreams made by the Rudowski brothers. The player is a girl named Myosotis, who finds herself in a mysterious village in a beautiful valley after the wheels on her wagon break. Myosotis must solve the mystery surrounding the town. This is the only game in the series made for Pastel Games, so it is the only one on their website.
This is a very kid-oriented game made by Karol Konwerski and Kamil Kochanski. The game is drawn in a very cartoony way.
Owl's Nest was made by Maciej Palka and Karol Konwerski. The game takes place in an abandoned Nazi base hidden in the Bavarian mountains. The player, a spy for the Allies, breaks into it in 1943, and tries to find out what its purpose was. As the player ventures deeper into the base, he/she finds the dark reason why this base was abandoned by the Nazis. This is one of Pastel Games' creepiest games, and is not for the faint-of-heart. The player finds that the Nazis were trying to make super-soldiers (like Captain America), but the experiment went wrong and turned everyone in the base into zombies.
In this game, the player is a detective who specializes in finding monsters. He receives a distress signal from a town, so he goes there to investigate. The player must solve many puzzles and interact with many people before he realizes the dark, ancient secret the town hides. Though the game isn't as scary as Owl's Nest, it is also not for the faint-of-heart. The player finds that one of the villagers is a vampire, and he is trying to build a portal that would bring demons from Hell to Earth.
Plumber Pickle is a cartoony point-and-click game where the player is a plumber trying to fix a leak.
Eien is a point-and-click escape game written and drawn by Jacek Witcynski and programmed by Mateusz Skutnik. It is extremely atmospheric, and contains many puzzles involving control panels, staircases, hidden clues, and, most of all, hidden objects.

Awards for flash games design

References

  1. ↑ "Mateusz Skutnik comic books". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "rewolucje". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "komiks-Rew". Rewolucje - 1 - Parabola. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  4. ↑ "Pastel Games". Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Mateusz Skutnik - Nikodem Skrodzki - Daymare Morphs". mateuszskutnik.com.
  6. ↑ "Mateusz Skutnik - the Squirrel Family". mateuszskutnik.com.
  7. ↑ http://www.mateuszskutnik.com/archive/2015-wrap-up/
  8. ↑ "Best of 2012 (Top 5):". Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Best of 2010 (Top 5):". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  10. ↑ "Adventure games 2009 (browser games)". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  11. ↑ "Storm of the Year 2008 award – 10 Gnomes honoured". March 7, 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  12. ↑ "Best of 2008:". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  13. ↑ "GEE Media contact". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  14. ↑ "Mission to Mars – game of the month in GeeDisplay". February 28, 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  15. ↑ "Best of 2007 - Point-and-Click". Retrieved 10 August 2011.

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