A Chat with GoF Art Director, Marc Nagel

GO CHECK OUT MARC’S WORK: Back in August 2023, I was at the launch party for Everspace 2, in Hamburg, Germany. There I had the absolute pleasure of meeting some of the devs behind Galaxy on Fire, and notably Marc Nagel, the art director for all the games until his departure from DSFL in 2015. Marc is the guy who designed many of the original ships, UI assets, and characters within the GoF universe. So Keith T. Maxwell’s beautiful rugged face? His creation! After asking him (and other devs) many, many questions about the development behind the game, I had a lot of new insights I knew the community back at Discord and other various places would love to hear. I took a chance, and later reached out to Mark to ask if he was up for an interview, which he was happy to give! He was up for the interview, but only in text form over email. So what I did was collected notes I made at the party, turned them into interview-style questions, and sent them to Marc all at once. He replied a few days later with his answers to each of my questions.