I recently got an e-mail from THE Levelord. The level designer I've been a fan of when I was an 11 year old kid.

The notoriety of my DA site as come to a point where I think it has clashed with the original Levelord and he's emailed me to change the name because of it. I certainly don't want him to be confused for an artist who draws really sexy images.


...dude, I'm not sure why you chose to use my nickname for your art work, but I'd like to ask you to change it.

I have had a trademark on the name for 11 years now, here in the USA. I'm a professional game developer and need to worry about my image online and the use of my trademark here in the States.

You, btw, are a great artist.

~ Richard 'levelord' Gray



Here's the story on how I stumbled across this name
I've used that name ever since I first found it playing Duke Nukem back in '96. I thought the name was pretty badass and I've used it ever since, for all my game aliases when playing Counterstrike, Doom, Quake, Red Alert and more. Since I got onto the internet, the name naturally spilled over to using it for my e-mails, my contacts and even my payal.
It never occurred to me that he had a site of his own until about 2006, but until then nobody has confused me with him, even until this day. I can't say the same in reverse for Levelord, he probably would have got people asking him why he's been drawing fanart.

I'll be working to change the name of this page, or if not, open another one.

Plus he thinks my art is awesome, so hah!