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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age

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

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026
Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/09/2026
I actually wrote a bit about that in Heterotopias a long while ago
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/09/2026
Love the work that went into it.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/09/2026
Destiny 2 reaching into the vault gives me hope that I will see my beloved once again…
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026
I have a soft spot for the Plague Tale games and am having a great time with Resonance. Like the rest of the series it fires its characters down a grim and gorgeous spiral, marked with inventive encounters. The art direction is as standout as ever, blending classical motifs with some very cool ideas
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 11/09/2026
Very nice, reminds me of Pim Bos’s Tremen book
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 02/09/2026
Also Twi’lek Hawkes is canon for me. Everytime she calls Kabb papa warms my aged heart.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 02/09/2026
I sincerely hope whoever is responsible for Kabbney Uppercut is enjoying watching him be unleashed upon the world. The best Star Wars character in a long time
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 01/09/2026
Back in the studio after a month away, and so nice to be welcomed by @aurahack.ca sticker club and hellzines from @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social amongst the post-pile 💛
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 30/08/2026
Hugos tonight! 🚀 LA time, so I’ll be asleep, but so honoured to be up for an award who some of my biggest inspirations (from William Gibson to Becky Chambers) have won in the literary categories. If I win maybe I’ll finally be persuaded to write that Citizen Sleeper novel I’ve been considering…
List of Hugo nominations for Best Game, including Citizen Sleeper 2
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 03/08/2026
I should also mention that my first game In Other Waters, also presented prose text vertically (and dialogue horizontally) kind of hybridising the two approaches. There was probably some Sunless Sea (the CRPG that isn’t a CRPG) in the mix too!
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 03/08/2026
Fun fact: people so often compare the Citizen Sleeper UI layout to Disco but the game’s presentation of text was equally inspired by the elegant Destiny 2 conversation panel that was used extensively through its many seasons.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 27/07/2026
One final portrait set as I finish the game…
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 27/07/2026
A few more
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 25/07/2026
Trying to finish up Yotei but its really hard when the photography is so fun 😅
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/07/2026
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector goes physical! 🚀 Get the game on a Switch 2 cart (also compatible with OG Switch) OR Get CS 1 and CS 2 in a special Helion Collection double pack for PS5! Available to pre-order now on @fangamer.com www.fangamer.com/collections/...
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 20/07/2026
Pining for simpler times...
- 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.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/07/2026
Peeking out at me
Studio books
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/07/2026
Got loads scattered around the studio but that pile is:
Cassette spines, showing: Laika Aged in Blood, Loula Yorke Volta, BG 3 OST, Ecco the Dolphin, ESCISM Lena Raine
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/07/2026
View from the desk this morning
Jump Over the Age studio desk, piled with references, books and ephemera
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 05/07/2026
Really enjoyed this conversation between two of my heroes automaton-media.com/en/interview...
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 04/07/2026
Happy birthday! 🥳 Haven’t got a cat but here is the fox family that naps in my garden
A sleepy mother fox rests her head on the back of her child.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 02/07/2026
Show me a cool physical game
Hardwar
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 25/06/2026
I forgot to mention they are also at their highest discount: 70% off for Citizen Sleeper 50% off for Citizen Sleeper 2 Enjoy!
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 25/06/2026
🚀Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2 are OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2! Play the critically acclaimed series in its smoothest, most beautiful, handheld form: CS 1: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... CS 2: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... Enjoy higher resolution and framerates, with a free upgrade for owners ⭐
Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector SWITCH 2 EDITION
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 16/06/2026
I think it imperceptibly adds *voice*.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 15/06/2026
The missing drawing? It's this one
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 12/06/2026
What a week! Can’t believe Signet City is finally revealed! From here on out I plan to start doing regular newsletters covering: - the origins of the game - inspirations and relevant books, movies and games to check out - interviews and press roundups Sign up below: jumpovertheage.com/newsletter
Signet City Key Art
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 11/06/2026
"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."
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 09/06/2026
This illustration especially has basically haunted me for a decade
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 09/06/2026
Revealing Signet City is a slightly vertigo-inducing experience because it's been hanging around a long time just waiting for me to let it back out to wreak havoc...
A tweet from 2018 about a failed inktober project called Signet City
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/06/2026
Putting together this trailer was a project in itself, and my art was massively boosted by the always incredible @yuzu-studio.com You won't see gameplay for a little bit, but there are in game assets in the mix here, so expect the same grubby combination of ink and grain in the game!
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/06/2026
This cinematic trailer is designed to give you the vibe of the world. This is the biggest swing I have ever taken, and I am so excited to share it! This time, I am doing the 2d art (as well as writing, developing and designing). The track is “Abandon” by the incredible SPRINTS.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/06/2026
Welcome to SIGNET CITY... 👁️A first person fungalpunk RPG from (me) the creator of Citizen Sleeper ◼️YOU ARE A PARASITE ◼️Manipulate your hosts, feed on their emotions ◼️Discover a strange city of biotech and brutalist architecture Support the game and WISHLIST now on Steam 🙏 bit.ly/SC-Steam
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/06/2026
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 06/06/2026
A little bit of news from the Story Rich Showcase: BOTH Citizen Sleeper games are coming to Switch 2 on ⚡️June 25th⚡️ Existing switch owners will be able to upgrade for free!
Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2, Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 04/06/2026
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 02/06/2026
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.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 27/05/2026
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…
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 16/05/2026
The toothy dolphin likes my chair
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 15/05/2026
Taking the little guy to see his cousin
Water slug meet hycean
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 15/05/2026
Where your email finds me
My cute little subnautica base “the pink palace”
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 15/05/2026
Aw yeah that’s the good stuff
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 14/05/2026
It’s all in here, and I’m sure in a couple of years it’ll feel just like that Eye sketch
My current sketchbook
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 14/05/2026
One of the most difficult things to express is how all ideas start off as half-formed frames, little corner doodles, and while your job is to make them undeniably real and recognisable, a little part of you will always see them as little more than a passing thought.
The first sketch of Citizen Sleeper’s Eye
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 07/05/2026
JOTA
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 05/05/2026
HAPPY CITIZEN SLEEPER DAY! 🎉 The series is 4 today and I have ⭐NEWS⭐ 🚀 Announcing CITIZEN SLEEPER: HELION RISING, a full TTRPG in the CS universe, coming 2027! ⭐LAST CHANCE to get CS2: DESIGN WORKS at Lost in Cult! ◼️What's next for JOTA? Something is growing in the dark, see it emerge June 7th...
Citizen Sleeper Day 2026. HELION RISING. CS2 DESIGN WORKS. And what's next for Jump Over the Age?
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/04/2026
A Citizen Sleeper fan put together a "The Rig" island in Tomodachi Life populated with CS 2 crew members and the video highlights are taking me out 🤣😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGeL...
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/04/2026
Very happy to reveal that Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector has been nominated for a 🚀Hugo! 🚀 I grew up reading Hugo winners and nominees, and many previously nominated and awarded books are among my biggest inspirations! www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history...
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 03/04/2026
I bought this pen recently and I really love this pen
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