Spectrobes: Concept Art

This was the original pitch art that sold Spectrobes. Disney Execs wanted, and I quote, a "Pokemon killer" a game in an Anime style. Helen Maier and I created a game concept that the Disney Execs wanted but it took five years of negotiation with their lawyers before Buena Vista Games (Disney) finally signed the contract and bought the concept from us.

They then handed Spectrobes over to a Japanese Producer, she excluded us from contributing to our own project. Nice.

Originally the game was intended for PS3 and we had it take place on Jeena's homeworld, because she was the main character in our version, we were so horrified that she was stuck in the ship for the entire game!

All that remains of our original concept are the names we invented such as "Spectobes, Rallan, Jeena and the Kroll (changed slightly)". We had a great story with some amazing concept and creature art, none of which was used. Anyway I won't bore you with all the details. In my honest opinion, we all got robbed!