Scrying Eye Studios @ Isekai Showdown

A glass cup, filled with chunks of octopus, diced serrano peppers, fresh cilantro, and sliced red onions, sits on a wooden table. Beside it sits a whole lime, a lime wedge, a hibiscus flower, and Chilean bellflower (the national flower of Chile). The background shows a sunny beach, with rolling, blue waves and a rocky promontory in the distance.

More #cardart for #IsekaiShowdown and @scryingeyestudios.bsky.social!

This is "Ceviche de Pulpo" (Octopus Ceviche), a traditional dish from Peru and Chile! It consists of chunks of octopus, diced chiles, thinly-sliced red onions, marinaded in cilantro and citrus juices.
#indiegame #gameart #foodart

Say hello to Lemonette Art! One of our newest staff artists!

Six clams casino, sitting on a plate. The plate sits on a craps table, surrounded by stacks of multicolored poker chips, a pair of red craps dice, and a poker hand. The poker hand contains a pair of eights and a pair of aces, known as the “Dead Man’s Hand”.

Clams Casino!!

Card art for @scryingeyestudios.bsky.social’s in-development indie game “Isekai Showdown”!

#foodart #cardart #food #indiegame

Customizable card backs have also been made!
We're aiming to have 7 card back palettes to choose from hopefully for the demo.

Here are some of the examples below

#IsekaiShowdown

Been a minute Scryers.

We have some updates - 5/1/2025

Walter is now in playtesting - he follows Carmen, Clarissa, Fernando, and Silas
A single player in-engine demo is in the works. So far we're running mirror matches with Carmen with the additional champions to follow.

#IsekaiShowdown

Hello! I am a Director for a game in VERY early development called Isekai Showdown. I am working with my other director @sheikaharts.bsky.social. Our team makes up @scryingeyestudios.bsky.social!

Our goal is to create a game that simulates the vibe of fighting games in a card based combat system!

A young woman with tan skin, blue eyes, brown hair pulled back with a scrunchie and bright yellow bangs. She's wearing blue and yellow athletic wear and has her feet in wraps. A deep blue banner to the right reads - No. 01 Carmen Cardenas

✨Welcome to the Byway, Champions✨

No. 01 - Carmen Cardenas
Homeworld: Chile, Earth

A girl from a humble universe, Carmen might seem like underdog in the Astral Tournament, but she's more than capable of going toe-to-toe with the superhuman.

#IsekaiShowdown

A young woman dressed in blue and yellow athletic wear. She has hibiscus tattoos on her shoulders and a wave tattoo on her side. She has dark hair and blonde bangs, pulled into a ponytail. She seems to be sitting beneath the surface of deep, open, ocean water, looking up as light shines through the water.

Two women laying head to head in a field of glowing white lilies. The first is a younger woman with sleek, dark violet hair pulled into two long twin braids. She is dressed in maroon techwear and holding a handmade stuffed elephant. The other is an older woman, dressed in a red, black, gold, and white habit, appearing to be a lady of the cloth.

A slightly older man with cropped black hair, dressed in a black, dark green, bronze, and red uniform, gearing up to swing a heavy twin-bladed sword in an attack.

A young woman with white hair dressed in a punk-style, cut up, sukeban school uniform, holding a baseball bat with barbed wire around it. She's sliding back as if deflecting an attack.

Oh hi influx of new people!
I'm Gaige, I'm a queer, 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him), character designer, illustrator, game dev, and disability advocate (Multiple Sclerosis).
I'm currently working with @scryingeyestudios.bsky.social on Isekai Showdown - a card game that's also a fighting game! I hope you like my work 💗

Carmen, a young, tan woman with blue eyes, hibiscus tattoos on her shoulders, dark hair and yellow bangs pulled into a ponytail. She is wearing a blue and yellow swim top and has a few bandages on her face. She is sitting just below the surface of what seems to be the open ocean as air bubbles surround her. She has a reflective expression.

"Without anyone to meet you above the surface, it's not an ocean."
"Then what is it?"
"Just water."

#IsekaiShowdown

Now that our Core 20 have their key art done for the alpha, I've moved to the remaining 20 champs (which we'll need considering 5 are being playtested and balanced rn!) It's been fun stuff :3 so here's Daiyu and Katarina!

#gamedev #tcg #indiegame #isekaishowdown #characterdesign

You, alone, are the reason we need an NDA /jk

Key art of CO-13, a cyborg character dressed in white, ice blue, and black techwear. He's covered in mechanical apparatus and gauntlets that emit a bright electric blue light.

Key illustration of Malis, a warrior woman dressed in lose fitting and flowing gold and purple garments. She is also equipped with a pair of arm blades attached to her gold gauntlets.

Key art of Vivian, a curvy and playful plague doctor witch. She's dressed in a risque purple and black outfit, large patchwork purple witch hat, and holding glowing pink and green potions.

More Key Art for the alpha characters for #IsekaiShowdown
CO-13, Malis, and Vivian were 3 characters from the very first stream we did that sparked this whole game project to begin with so it's cool to see how they've grown up!
#CharacterDesign #GameDev #TCG

Key art of Tatyana Malakov - a young woman with long, straight cut, dark hair, red eyes, and runic tattoos under her leather armor. She is gripping a scythe with a lunar motif in one hand and summoning a swirl of blood magic in her other hand.

Sanguine, sharp, and stunning - Tatyana Malakov is a calculated monster hunter, blood magus, and one of our core champions ready to join the rest of the Astral Tournament's roster 🩸

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Illustration for @sheikaharts.bsky.social, aka the Creative Lead of #IsekaiShowdown This time for the devilish card shark known as, Walter Salazar! His signature move being the Five Ace Assault!

You can find out more about Walter and other Isekai Showdown champions @scryingeyestudios.bsky.social!

Huh...a lot of people really did not care for this take! And that's fine, you're not obligated to stick around 💗

To those that did, though? We appreciate you and hope you like our very human made anime card game!

Jeanfaymas Jets GIF Alt: Gif of a wizard pondering his orb and MY GOD is he pondering that orb with intent.

Scrying, also referred to as "seeing", is a practice rooted in divination and fortune-telling. It involves gazing into a medium, hoping to receive significant messages or visions that could offer personal guidance, prophecy, revelation, or inspiration. -from Wikipedia

Pondering your orb is scrying.

Now, more than ever, we feel that human made artwork is really important to stress in games. A lot of care, effort, drafts, revisions, and hundreds of hours of work has been put into all of our characters, and it would be a disservice to the team and to the players to give them anything less 💗

Hey Scryers,

So we've had people reach out to us in the past few weeks who are interested in joining the art team, and while we love that, please do not submit portfolios that contain GenAl images. Human made work is very important to our art team so we just want to make that clear.

Thank you.

*and a card artist

We cannot spell 🫠

Shatter is one of our VAs and a card artists!!

The indie game I’m making and three of the inspirations behind it

In collaboration with @sheikaharts.bsky.social and @scryingeyestudios.bsky.social

An illustration of Katarina, a short, curvy woman with red hair, freckles, and glasses. She’s wearing a tight, blue and lavender secretary outfit, and has a large, jewel covered, space and nebula patterned jacket resting on her shoulders like a cape.

Good morning Scryers!

While we’re chipping away at the alpha testing, we have once again decided to open the Isekai Showdown community discord to the public! We’ll be doing most announcements there first!
(Also any N/F/T solicitations will be banned! We don’t do that here)

discord.gg/NQUym45rX2

Missed the golden opportunity to post this as our announcement that we've moved into Alpha play testing

-Gaige, the art guy

Yes! We will either be posting when the alpha is public/when we're looking for alpha testers either here on bluesky or in the community discord.

We're a bit slow on the casting atm, because we're currently working on importing the build of the TCG into the Alpha for playtesting/balancing, so we've all been a little quiet because we're so so preoccupied!

Whatever you do, just don't go anywhere near her cat!

A stylized screenshot of two women speaking, one is smoking and wearing a military uniform, the other seems to be a plague doctor. The subtitle reads “If you’d like to stop playing mad scientist for 5 minutes, I could show you some truly dark concoctions but something tells me you’re not ready for the things I’ve seen…real warfare.”

When’s the new season coming out tho??
#IsekaiShowdown

My therapist: Alpha Silas’s card art isn’t real, he cannot hurt you
Alpha Silas’s card art:

Picture of a young woman with dyed white hair wearing a navy blue and red Japanese style school uniform, cut up and adorned with punk accessories, holding a baseball bad. She's sliding back, kicking up a cloud of dust as she does so, looking as if she is mid-fight.

Can you feel that fire?

#IsekaiShowdown

An illustration of a woman dressed in yellow and violet garments being knocked backwards as if involved in a fight. There is a bright white impact strike on a bright yellow-green background. One of her two arm blades has been broken and shattered and is falling to her side. She seems to have a few bloodied wounds on her hand and leg.

Picture of a young woman with dyed white hair wearing a navy blue and red Japanese style school uniform, cut up and adorned with punk accessories, holding a baseball bad. She's sliding back, kicking up a cloud of dust as she does so, looking as if she is mid-fight.

A digital illustration of a blue haired cat girl in a pink, lolita fashion dress and heels on a royal blue background. She is holding a pink and white rocket launcher in one hand, the other is lining up her sights.

Some screen art I did for #IsekaiShowdown over at @scryingeyestudios.bsky.social :3

#Gamedev #Gameart #Indie #Indiedev #TCG