HOW WE MAKE CORTEX VORTEX

Cortex Vortex is made by a very small independent studio that likes new tools and hides nothing. Here is exactly how it gets made.

THE WRITING IS HUMAN

The setting, the rules, the species, the classes, the adventure and every word of the book were written by people — Kelsy Quiroga, Leonardo Marinas, Abraham Rengifo and Giampiero Paglione — over four years.

THE RULES WERE PLAYTESTED AT REAL TABLES

Real sessions across 2025, with named players who are credited in the book. Mechanics that did not survive those tables are not in this edition.

THE VISUALS ARE AI-ASSISTED, UNDER HUMAN ART DIRECTION

We generate, select, reject, edit, composite and lay out every image ourselves against a fixed brand system. A generated image is a starting point in our pipeline, not the output. We are optimistic about these tools and we use them deliberately, at the edge of what they can do, with a person deciding every time.

WE WILL HIRE HUMAN ARTISTS AS THE PROJECT EARNS IT

As Cortex Vortex earns enough for us to do it, we will bring human artists onto the book. Every dollar this project makes moves that line further. That is the honest sequence for a studio this size: ship the thing, earn the budget, commission the artists.