This is some fan art I just came up with to help promote Matt Barton's exceptional Youtube series of videos, "Matt Chat", in any way. You can check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/@MattBarton/videos At this point there are almost 500 videos of him interviewing many many legends among gaming developers of all time, particularly -but not limited to- CRPGs. To name a few: John Romero, Dadid Fox, Tim Cain, Chris Avellone, Julian Gollop, Richard Garriot, Brian Fargo, Alexey Pajitnov, Rusel DeMaria... wich are only the ones that come to mind and are just a handful of them. It's quite possible that for any illustration of art of mine you see uploaded here, while working on them I watched one or more of his videos at some point. So this is also some kind of fair recognition and thanks to the guy. The illustration is a refference to the way he always jokes about the almost ubiquitous presence of rats in RPGs, mostly in early stages of the games. Again, check his channel out (

https://www.youtube.com/@MattBarton/videos) and share and spread the word if you like it!