Gaian Helmers

Gaian Helmers is an avid Video Game Designer who's been designing games since the age of 16. He's currently the President and Lead Designer at Genome Studios, an Edmonton based Game Development studio. Currently he has shifted his attention from the Video Game design field to something smaller and more tangible for a solo creative.

Get Rich. Get Rich is a webcomic presented as an "Unanimated" cartoon show. Focused around Wolfgang and Hayes, two young adults making their way in the world. The plot for each issue, 'episode', revolves around jobs and tasks they undertake to pay their monthly rent. Rarely do things go smoothly and wild adventures ensue, however they always manage to pay off their rent... though they never Get Rich.

Check it out at: getrich.genomestudios.ca

Beyond his drive for work, Gaian loves cartoons and playing video games. Gaian loves the shows: Simpsons, Futurama, Regular Show, Bobs Burgers, Rick and Morty and Adventure Time. His favorite themes in videogames are the bizarre and psychological. Some of his all time favorites are Bastion, Silent Hill, Eversion... Really there are so many to even count.

Gaian's passion at its core is that of creation, he often finds himself inventing things, thinking of short films, planning out applications and websites and so much more.