About

I am Robert Cadena. This is my website. I’m an illustrator in both traditional media and digital, and I am a solo gamedev.

I do primarily Fantasy subjects because I watched Conan the Barbarian too many times (not enough times, to be honest), played Sierra adventure games when I wasn’t playing D&D or writing my own games on the Commodore 64, and reading sci—fi and fantasy novels the rest of the time.

You can find my role-playing aids over at nomanpress.com. My games will be at nomangames.com.

What does “machine501” mean?

It comes from the Mexican “ballad”, or corrido, “Máquina Quinientos Uno”, (muh-kee-nuh kee-knee-ehn-toes-ooh-no) the story of a railroad worker who died while preventing a runaway locomotive loaded with dynamite from blowing up a local town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesús_García