Christopher Ng – Founder, Co-creator
Chris studied game design on his way to a degree in philosophy and sociology at the University of Sydney. His career has seen him playing poker in global locales, managing prominent poker companies across Australia, and earning status as a top-ranked online TCG player.
Most recently, Chris founded Aethermon Studios with the ambition to capture the heart of the JRPG experience in a board game. As a game designer, Chris searches for intersections between accessibility and depth, and builds experiences to highlight their confluence.
Chris’ game design credits include the award winning Aethermon: Collect, upcoming Aethermon: Ascent and Aethermon: Adventure, along with some unpublished gems Rise of Champions, ClickBait, and Space Junkers.
Adrienne Whillier – Co-creator
Adrienne’s professional background is in performance, including circus theatre, improvisation, and sketch comedy, as well as working with children. Previous work includes the award-winning circus theatre show Orpheus by Surcas, immersive theatre performance Heineken presents: Star Venture, and various improv nights at the Comedy Club Bangkok.
Now she is a creator of worlds. Adrienne is the main voice behind the characters, creature lore, and flavour text across the Aethermon stable, as well as the author of the Aethermon short stories.
Adrienne’s game design credits include Aethermon: Collect, as well as the upcoming Aethermon: Ascent.
Fabio Porta – Artist (Creatures and characters)
Fabio specialises in fantastical creatures and monster illustrations. He attended the Watts Atelier in San Diego, although he is predominantly self-taught. As the Aethermon creature and character artist, Fabio is responsible for illustrating more than 68 Aethermon creatures (so far!), 27 Artefacts, and a dozen human characters – many of these not yet released (ooh!).
To check out the known Aethermon so far, click here.
To see more from Fabio, you can find him at:
Miguel Gaton – Artist (Backgrounds, additional)
A self-taught artist, Miguel’s career has encompassed not just illustration but animation, including DuckTales, My Little Pony, and others. As the Aethermon backgrounds artist, Miguel is responsible for illustrating the gorgeous box art scenery of Collect and the playmat map design, as well as the symbols for the 12 Aether Elements.
To take a look at Miguel’s forest background, click here.
To see more from Miguel, find him at:
Additional Supporters
From time to time additional people join our staff, especially during conventions where we have been grateful for the support of some lovely friends. If you have met or visited us at a convention, you may therefore also recognise one of these friendly faces:
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