I have no doubt you are nearing the hundred thousandth time of hitting the refresh button, desperate for the next installment of Art on a Shelf. For days you’ve probably slept very little, hoping that the next time you visit the blog it will be posted. Well deprive yourself of sleep no further, for it [...]

Hello all! Let me take a moment to introduce myself. I am JKR, creator of the cartoon Fred the Monkey, as well as the (now complete) Cubetoons web comic. Those who frequent the Vertigo Games forums probably know me from my ramblings there. If those weren’t enough, now I’ve taken over the blog!

Way back when I first started to make the Oil Blue, I thought I’d try out the art first to see if it was possible to do it on my own…to nail a sense of atmosphere I had in my head. A ton of photoshop filters later, I finally got the look I thought would [...]

It’s the year 2062, and thousands of oil refineries on tiny islands across the world have been abandoned. Some due to war/territorial conflicts with other nations, others due to lack of food and water. But most were due to the incredibly difficult livelihood of living on the ocean itself. But you and a band of [...]

Just a quick note that there are less than 24 hours to go for the Kickstarter Liquisity 2 project, which seems to be a tremendous success so far.

I’d like to take a moment and thank all the backers so far, including Billy King for getting the word out and to the rest of you who [...]

(Every week I’ll be spotlighting a company that is featured in the Oil Blue, an indie PC game coming late February.)

“The fear was never that we’d run out of oil. The fear was that oil would become unprofitable.”
-Jacob Taylor, founder of MSU