you were probably unaware that an authorized unofficial remake of moraff’s dungeons of the unforgiven is in progress, and you very likely didn’t know that game existed in the first place. most people probably don’t, and so as the one person on the internet to have uploaded a medium level effort tribute drawing for the game, i turned out to be the obvious choice for game artist in the absence of a budget with which to hire a real one.

in fact i had an earlier run-in with the project leader last year and attempted to write a website post about it, but it was mostly pedantry about the game’s source graphics that i never got around to uploading the pictures for. and now i have to be even more pedantic than that in order to make sense of what i will be redrawing.
I am meant to not show screenshots of the actual game in its present form but i CAN show my own contributions and I have other methods available with which to accomplish that

Although i have been encouraged to take liberties, i do not want to totally disregard the designs of, at least, the well drawn ones, allegedly by a long lost individual called Logan Gilbert. i presume much of the awkwardness was due to trying to maximize the viewing area they appeared in, since only one monster can be directly in front of the player, and also getting 32 colors total to use at any one time since Moraff needed to also reserve 16 ega colors, 16 wall colors, 16 floor colors and 176 ridiculous color-cycle highlighting colors. I started out trying to be fairly accurate with my recreations, particularly on the harpey whose frightful intensity i have always appreciated despite it being one of the easier monsters to defeat, but maybe it is better to ease into my sort of erraticness anyway. the green creature “sustrontima” looks less correct than the other three but its dorky joviality amuses me.


in section 2 i made even less effort to be accurate. i figure somebody who cares about this game and wants to see the original poses will simply use the “classic” graphics and i will have wasted more time than usual for less reason than usual, as usual.

it was only amidst this project that i became aware of the deformed hay-stuffed hand hanging off of one of the knives hanging off the sustrontima and was not sure if i should include it but it sounds like i should so i will add that later. I also considered the similarity of this appendage and its tool of choice plus the mysterious yellow lines falling out of it to some of the details on

my favorite least favorite monster, the flaming idiot, who INDEED has lost one or more hands. i will at some point have to redraw this thing also, and i suspect i will be considerably less accurate than i have already been.

this is another one of the moraff monsters i have been dreading having to redraw, by the better artist, even. it is called “watery graveyard” and i was never quite sure what precisely its illustration is OF

it looks sort of like two humanoids and a cat or beaver stuck in bubbles, plus something ELSE. but what IS that??!

the two human like shapes are already vague and the left looks like it has antlers or french fries coming out of its head, and i suspect the illustrator was given very few colors to sort this out in, so whatever i was supposed to see is even harder to see than it initially might have

The upper right piece looks sort of like a griffin claw but then what is on its head? a flower? that turned grey due to a shoddy palatte? with frog legs coming out of it? but the lips of the one of the identifiable entities are also green and probably not suppose to be so maybe the frog legs are supposed to be red and something else. bacon?

i wonder if the flower thing is even maybe the watery graveyard’s “mouth” and the nearest shapes make no sense because they are being consumed. but i always figured it was something unseen within the water, capturing creatures with bubbles. if it is a flying mouth it could do this anywhere

THIS part looks SORT of like a malevolent face but it is uncharacteristic of how logan gilbert draws faces

maybe it is even a stereotype of an early 1900s irish immigrant who works at a foundry or something and also has weird antlers

oh no i just realized i already spent several weeks this year drawing that

i must escape!

i also just realized i have another unfinished moraff post from 2018 which intended to end like this