Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age

@jumpovertheage.com

12469 Followers 493 Following

Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |

- Explore over 25 giant levels of solving puzzles and fighting denizens of the sea. - 8 Megs of aquatic excitement with password save. - Knife through the waters, flip above the waves, with motions created from real dolphins.
Studio books
Cassette spines, showing: Laika Aged in Blood, Loula Yorke Volta, BG 3 OST, Ecco the Dolphin, ESCISM Lena Raine
Jump Over the Age studio desk, piled with references, books and ephemera
Interview Quote
A sleepy mother fox rests her head on the back of her child.
Hardwar
Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector SWITCH 2 EDITION
Signet City Key Art
"Discovery requires you to craft it, to be generous and trusting of the player, and to imagine them as curious and engaged," says Gareth Damian Martin, writer and designer of Citizen Sleeper and upcoming fugalpunk RPG Signet City. "Conversely, games destroy any sense of discovery when they are paranoid, thinking of the player as distracted, unwilling to explore, untrustworthy."
A tweet from 2018 about a failed inktober project called Signet City
From the creator of Citizen Sleeper: SIGNET CITY. Wishlist now. Music: ‘Abandon’ performed by SPRINTS. Used under license courtesy of City Slang. All rights reserved.
Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2, Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Captain Haddock tries to say "What a week, huh?" but because he is waiting for his new indie videogame to be revealed he begins collapsing into a curve of depressed space time that distorts his perceptual reality beyond the point of comprehension, his best friend Tintin collapsing in on himself like a paper lantern, Snowy meanwhile is simultaneously alive and dead, his existence stretched out across the entirety of human history. The captain just wants the PC Gaming Show to happen already, but he knows it is the final showcase of SGF and for that reason will appear to get further away the closer it gets, a paradoxical logic to the captain at this moment in time, seems more real than reality itself.
When the false moon descended it was clear it was dying. Those silken layers, the ones a child might find a strand of in the evening heather, were dull and brittle. It flaked as it came down, skinning the bay in pale dust. When it reached the water the false moon deflated like a paper lantern, its vast interior chambers collapsing like diseased lungs…
Chair placement
Water slug meet hycean
My cute little subnautica base “the pink palace”
Subnautica 2
My current sketchbook
The first sketch of Citizen Sleeper’s Eye
JOTA
Citizen Sleeper Day 2026. HELION RISING. CS2 DESIGN WORKS. And what's next for Jump Over the Age?
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector has been nominated for two BAFTAs!
Cycles of the Eye, boxed edition
Concept art of a large industrial spaceship with placeholder UI
Citizen Sleeper January Prompt List
A model of The Eye and The Rig from the Citizen Sleeper series with a blurry mess of reference materials behind
Citizen Sleeper 2, 33% Off
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector BAFTA longlisted in GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT and BRITISH GAME
Slant names Citizen Sleeper 2 the 14th best game of the year
Aposimz, Tsutomu Nihei
Code the Rights Award Statuette
Baby Steps skate tricks
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector 25% Off
Fiiishman art