I was only saying last night how impressed I am with indie strategy title Death Inc.'s art design, so it's only fair tonight that I elaborate with this collection of works from Tim Holleyman, the art director at developers Ambient Studios.

Death Inc. is an upcoming strategy game where you play as Death. Not the badass one like you see in Darksiders. More like, the one who's running his business from the basement of his gran's house.

What do you do after helping craft some of the cuddliest, most heartwarming games of this past generation? If you're the guys at Ambient Studios—some of whom worked at Media Molecule on the big-hearted LittleBigPlanet games—it's making a game about Death and the horrors of the bubonic plague.