Viktor Antonov was a Bulgarian artist, video game designer, writer, and worldbuilder who worked on numerous first-person shooter (FPS) games.
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A street in Sofia in 1969, during Bulgaria's socialist era
City 17 is built like a series of panopticons: prisons in which a guard can monitor every inmate at once, but the inmates cannot tell if they are being watched.
Antonov's concept art for the final version of the Citadel skyscraper. Its drastically tall design and placement in Half-Life 2's world make it an orientating landmark and recurring source of motivation for the player.
Dishonored's character designs were inspired by illustrations made for old adventure novels like Captain Blood (1922).Artists born in the 1970s 6
About this person
Viktor Antonov was a Bulgarian artist, video game designer, writer, and worldbuilder who worked on numerous first-person shooter (FPS) games. In 2017, Blake Hester wrote for Vice that Antonov "has created disturbing, memorable, and unique worlds" which "conjure images of cyberpunk metropolises and grim London alleyways."
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1972 to 2025 · aged 53
Written about in
10 languages
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