Trying to find the character designer

[DenpaEater]

Title. Does anyone know anything about the character designer/artist? I've had a lot of trouble finding anything about them.

[Groen90]

There's a link on the eXceed wikipedia page that takes you to the archived version of the developer's web page, there you can find the staff that worked on the game; the illustrator seems to be 天川浅葱 (Tenkawa Asagi? not sure how to read it)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060511024740/http://flat.web.infoseek.co.jp/EXCEED/ex01.htm

the illustrator for the cover of the soundtrack is apparently different, danbooru says it's Kawamura Hiroki

[DenpaEater]

Thanks for the help!

[Krius]

You can also find most collaborator's old sites on the archived Flat and Tennen-Sozai link pages.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060101165125/http://flat.web.infoseek.co.jp/FLAT/link.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20210622234841/http://tennen-sozai.com/link.html


天川浅葱 is credited as Asagi Amakawa in eXceed2nd credits. He was the character designer on Gun Bullet Children and eXceed2nd
https://web.archive.org/web/20051230001233/http://www.nk.rim.or.jp/~amakawa/
It's mostly unarchived though.
https://vndb.org/s19986

The character designer on eXceed3rd is 己即是空 / Onsoku Zekuu
https://web.archive.org/web/20061015221101/http://zec.nihon.to/
https://vndb.org/s2770

Also credited on eXceed2nd/eXceed3rd for Character Graphics is サフィ / さふぃ / Safi / Safy
NSFW warning
http://windtone.jp/

Backgrounds on all eXceed games were done by 雪見月 / Yukimizuki
http://yukimi.moemoe.gr.jp/

[DenpaEater]

Thanks for the extra info, appreciate it.

Edit: Its a shame most of it is unarchived like you said. The character art grew on me so I wanted to see what else the character designer had worked on. Might just another case of obscure early 2000s doujin artist lost to time.