Hey! We’re Authocracy!
Authocracy is a creative studio and publishing house for the digital age – an organisation of world-builders who, quite simply, live to create; bringing new frontiers of the human imagination to life.
We believe that artists know art better than business people. It’s as simple as that.
Fantasy and Sci-fi Upgraded
We create high-concept fantasy and sci-fi books and games - it’s as simple as that.
Where it all began
A pair of world-builders in England. A philosopher in the United States. An illustrator in South Africa. All of them knew that they wanted to be a part of something bigger, dreaming of a day when they’d find people who shared their vision for storytelling done by an artist-owned studio and held the knowledge and skills to make that happen.
They met in the latter half of 2019 and became fast friends. Then the global pandemic hit, and it became clear that the world was changing in ways that gave their international, all-remote team the same work flow and opportunities as anyone else.
Over the next several years, they began assembling an all-star team of incredible talent. Illustrators, animators, game designers, writers, and composers with a singular mission: to make good art together, to create the careers for ourselves that we’d always dreamed of.
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Where it’s going
Over the last several years, we’ve been perfecting our craft: testing formats, exploring new and bold ideas: now we’re ready.
We’ve got stories in troubled futuristic utopias, stories in barbaric wastelands yearning for redemption and rebirth, stories in cartoon fantasies that maybe aren’t all that they seem to be…
We have a Trading Card game being described by early fans as ‘more competitive, attractive, and accessible than Magic the Gathering’, a tabletop roleplaying system that’s extremely easy to pick up and puts story first, and many other exciting games in the works.
We have deep contacts in the industry that are waiting for us to demo for them, but we refuse to bring less than our A game. We’re well on our way though, and the support of key industry players is only growing. You’ll be hearing a lot more about us in the future: that much is certain.
Meet the Authocracy Team
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Joseph Pierce
FOUNDER
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Laurens Colson
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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Ben Mills
ART DIRECTOR
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Kevin Hinkle
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER AND ARTIST
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Brandon Ellis
HEAD ILLUSTRATOR
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Tim Khun
HEAD OF GAMES