The Queen's Gambit Chess: Character Overview
Character Overview
A Younger Beth Harmon
Although Beth is, quite literally, the poster character for The Queen's Gambit we put just as much effort into assembling a fully-realised cast of other opponents from the show, all of which bring their unique character to the game.
Beth Harmon - The White Queen.
Representing Beth at the end of the show, she's pictured here in her all-white outfit. We even tried our best to make it feel fuzzy!
The fantastic Fan Art by Dan Eder. This became our most important reference point for the game!
Harry Beltik
Benny Watts - With the feather in his hat, of course.
Vasily Borgov
Mr Shaibel
D. L. Townes
Ripstone’s Rockwater Studio recently launched The Queen’s Gambit Chess, a videogame counterpart to Netflix’s award-winning miniseries.
Now that our love letter to the show is out there for all to see, the Rockwater Art Team will be revealing a whole host of incredibly cool art we created along the way!
From the endlessly enthralling Beth Harmon and her mentor Mr Shaibel to the charismatic Benny Watts and the intimidating Vasili Borgov, it is these characters that form the focus of our first in-depth article revealing how key parts of the game were developed.
All Character art was produced by the incredible Dan Eder - https://www.artstation.com/daneder
Renders, In-Game Materials, Grooms and Lighting by Jake Parrott - https://www.artstation.com/jakeparrottart
Additional 3D Support from Matt Beech - https://www.artstation.com/matthewbeech
You can find a full breakdown and deep dive into how we created the characters over on our blog! https://ripstone.artstation.com/