Amora Bettany

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Amora Bettany
Born1987 (age 38–39)
Occupation Video game artist
Notable work Out There Somewhere , Celeste and TowerFall
Website https://amora.ink/

Amora Bettany (born Raquel, 1987 [1] ) is a Brazilian video game artist based in Vancouver. Her work can be seen in Out There Somewhere (2012), TowerFall (2013), and Celeste (2018). [2] [3] [4] She prefers to work on concept and high resolution art, which is later pixelated by her partner Pedro Medeiros or used in game as it is. [5]

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Biography

Bettany was born in São Paulo in 1987. As a teenager, she created independent comics and sold them at conventions. Her first professional art job was as a clean-up artist at an animation studio, where she supported the production of Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013). She went on to work at other studios where she worked on Chico and Rita (2010) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). [1]

In 2010, Bettany was doing freelance animation and illustration while working on small independent games as a hobby. Eventually, video game art became her fulltime job. [1]

Bettany formed Miniboss with Pedro Medeiros and Heidy Motta, a video game studio, in 2010. [6] In 2019, she moved to Vancouver from São Paulo to join the Extremely OK Games team in-person to work on the project code-named EXOK1. [7] After several scrapped projects, the studio announced Earthblade in 2021 [8] , but this game was also canceled in 2025 after she and other members of Extremely OK Games left the team following a conflict concerning the intellectual property rights of Celeste [9] .

Games

Game [10] RoleYear
Out There Somewhere Game Design/Art/Writing2012
Deep Dungeons of Doom Game Design/Art/Writing2013
TowerFall Character Design/Concept Art/Localization2014
Celeste Writing/Concept Art/Animation/Promo art/Localization2018
Iconoclasts Testing2018
Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain Co-creator2024
Wanderstop Concept art2025

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bettany, Amora. "About me". About me. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "Celeste (Nintendo Switch) | Review". Broken Joysticks. 23 March 2018. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Beresford, Trilby; Fanelli, Jason; Heltzel, Natalie; Keeley, Pete; Newby, Richard; Parker, Ryan; Vincent, Brittany (6 December 2019). "The Best Games of the Decade". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  4. ↑ Otto, Isabella (26 August 2017). "Desenvolvedora de games, Amora fala sobre preconceito na área". Capricho (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Smith, Isaac (3 May 2017). "Interview: Amora Bettany from MiniBoss Studio". Last Token Gaming. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  6. ↑ Ciscati, Rafael (11 April 2014). "O machismo cordial dos videogames brasileiros". Epoca (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Thorson, Maddy (5 September 2019). "Hello, and Farewell". Extremely OK Games, Ltd. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  8. ↑ Thorson, Maddy (19 April 2021). "Earthblade: The Vibe Reveal". Extremely OK Games, Ltd. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  9. ↑ Thorson, Maddy (22 January 2025). "Final Earthblade Update". Extremely OK Games, Ltd. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  10. ↑ "Amora Bettany Video Game Credits and Biography". MobyGames. Retrieved 26 July 2018.


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