My name is Matthew J Wills, and I am an artist and game developer from Wellington, New Zealand.
I’ve been creating comics since I was about 6 years old, evolving from superheroes to fantasy to dramatic space operas about alien ghosts ascending to godhood.
I worked for almost a decade as a Senior Quality Assurance Tester at PikPok Games, helped create the game Clusterduck during an internal company gamejam and then moved on to license my own IP, Swords, as a card game which has now successfully shipped. I am now self-employed and looking for new opportunities.
When I’m not creating silly swords and strange monsters, you’ll usually find me sitting in a cafe somewhere drinking a long black or walking along Wellington’s scenic waterfront.
Projects:
Webcomics
Swords (2018-ongoing)
Stars (2021-ongoing)
Tabletop Games
Swords: Cut the Deck (2023)
$251,014 pledged of $10,000 goal
Leave a review
Video Games
Clusterduck (2020) by PikPok Games - Lead Artist
Merciless Dungeon (2020-ongoing) - In development
Brand Collaborations:
Makeship
Quest Sprout plushie (2021) - 1807% funded
Travel Goblin & Pest Sprout plushies (2022)
Quest Sprout V2 & Rapier Tapir plushies (2023)
Quest Sprout vinyl figure (2023)
Kargob, God of Darkness & The Everstabbed plushies (2024)
Quest Sprout Lvl 2 & Momma Sprout plushies (2025)
Next plushie tba (2025)
Awards and Accolades:
Swords
Winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Professional Publication 2020
Referred to as ‘The Most Wholesome Thing On The Internet’ by BBC News in 2020
Swords: Cut the Deck
Nominee for The Tactile Taste: Excellence in Physical Games at the NZ Games Festival Pav Awards 2025
Clusterduck
Winner of Best Quickplay Game at the Pocket Gamer Awards 2021
Nominee for The Accessible Ambrosia: Excellence in Accessibility at the NZ Games Festival Pav Awards 2022
