In addition to its publishing side, Dream Pod 9 is fully established as a design studio. The staff works on special projects as they are presented, creating worlds and backgrounds to order for a large variety of clients.

Scenarios, characters, concepts, game design -- Dream Pod 9 can create entire imaginary worlds for computer games and other media (television, cinema, novel, comic strip). With a well-rounded team of writers, artists, graphic designers and modelers on hand, DP9 can tackle any kind of project, from creating the background of a new computer game to establishing the style of new technology for a science-fiction movie. The Pod crew have the skills and personnel to create and develop everything from basic ideas to full-blown production concepts, right through prototype models if requested.

Intellectual Property Design

We can create universes according to your needs! What's in a universe? Mythology, geography, culture, history, magic, technology, environment, characters... all interweaving with one another to form a rich tapestry and backdrop for storytelling and entertainment.

Universally comprehensible cultures and backgrounds are essential pieces for both science fiction and fantasy properties. You can profit from our extensive experience in IP creation and management to generate stories, creatures, characters and so on that will mesh with one another into a seamless whole. The coherence of the universe increases the interest, immersion and addiction of the user, and the lifespan of the product is thus increased.

The recent successes of mass entertainment intellectual properties prove that one must not simply think in terms of byproducts, but must consider - from the raw beginnings - a multimedia strategy that will reach across all forms of delivery. Dream Pod 9 can help you in this endeavor by creating complete reference "bibles" that simplify the transfer of the ideas across the medias. According to the needs of the client, Dream Pod 9 will provide the foundations of a universe, detailing the origins and laws (natural and social) of the world, down to each civilization, region, city, object, fauna and flora. All these elements contribute to the richness of the IP, and the success of the property.

This work progresses through a close collaboration with the other creators assigned to the specific project: art and graphic staff, game designers and producers. According to the requirements of the specific tasks, our services are carried out in both our own studio and on site, in order to ensure productive relations with the client's own teams.

Layout and Graphic Design

Dream Pod 9 is well-known for its exceptional layouts and graphic design. We can build an entire ready-to-use graphic grid for your new game manual, or do the layout ourselves if you prefer. The job can be done in partnership with your design or marketing staff, or you can simply purchase one of our existing in-house creations. Roleplaying, strategy, simulation, board games, instruction manuals -- we can handle them all, closely binding the game and its visuals into a coherent whole.

Game System Design

Dream Pod 9 is the source of many game and rule systems. We can create new concepts of play in partnership with your game designers, or simply adapt one of our existing in-house creations. Roleplaying, strategy, simulation, game design for persistent worlds -- we can handle them all, closely binding the universe and mechanics of play into a coherent whole.

Game Doctoring

Sometimes, an unbiased, external opinion can save many hours of labor down a wrong path. Bring in Dream Pod 9 during the development process of your own productions; we can act as impartial end-users and editors, detecting possible defects likely, in the long term, to cause problems. This expertise and our proposed solutions are based on our knowledge of games, players, and the problems involved in transmedia projects.

Licenses: Ready to Use IPs

Licensing an existing Dream Pod 9 intellectual property is to gain a head start in the creation process, saving precious time during the pre-production period. You will benefit from the coherence and notoriety of ambitious, already-tested projects that can be adapted to all medias. These have often been best-sellers in their field, tested, re-tested and developed for several years, with enormous content to draw upon, to which one can very often add a pre-existent community of fans. Original universes have also been developed more recently to answer particular requirements (topics, environments, demographic target).

Ready to Start!

Dream Pod 9 can work on either a retainer or license fee basis, depending on the nature of the project. Our staff can handle:

• World and Background Design;
• Layout;
• Characters, Vehicles and Background Design;
• Storyboards;
• Prototyping;
• Props Design;
• Books;
• Print and Web Advertisement;
• And many more types of creative jobs!

Please get in touch with us if these services interest you!