Max, also known as Nyhgault (pronounce it the way you want) is a self-taught fantasy and furry artist and board game designer from Dijon, France.

His passion for furry art stems mainly from dragons and tales of metamorphosis. In late 2009, after eagerly watching art and reading stories for several years, he decided to pick up a pencil and start learning to draw with the aim of bringing his ideas to life.

He continued practicing drawing in his spare time while pursuing his studies in Chemistry at university. What started as a hobby slowly became a side job and a way to meet wonderful new people from all over the world. He became an active member of the community and enjoys helping to develop and promote the furry fandom in his region (Burgundy), through furmeets and local events. He also volunteered to help at conventions, and was part of the safety team at ConFuzzled in 2022.

After getting his PhD in physical chemistry in 2019, Nyhgault pursued his academic career as a postdoctorate researcher. But Covid had him rethink his plans. In 2023, after having been a teacher both at University and high school, he decided to devote himself entirely to his work as an artist.

Nyhgault’s also a great fan of board games and even as a child he designed his own little games out of cardboard and paper. At the start of the pandemic, he began to think of ways to combine his two passions, and started working on making his own games. Board games are a unique and incredible way to bring people together around a table to share a convivial moment.

In 2023, he released ‘’Too Many Kobolds’’, and could present it at board game festivals in France. This first, self-published small game in which the players are Dragons trying to make kobolds happy got an expansion in 2025.

Through his ‘furry’ games, Nyhgault also hopes that it can be a way for people from the community to share and talk about their passion, whether with friends or family who sometimes may have negative preconceptions about the fandom as a whole.

Nyhgault is currently working on several new projects, including ‘Hyenarchy’, which will be available as a demo during ConFuzzled.

Regdeh, real name Ross, is a mostly self-taught musician that sings, plays guitar and bass and records music from his home in the south of the UK, Reading.
His main influences that lead him down the music path was a mixture of family encouragement, video game music and a few lessons at school to get him started.

His parents, who are also musically versed as well. (His dad plays guitar, while his mum plays piano. Both also sing too) Helped him get guitar lessons during secondary years. After that, he continued by himself finding his voice and learning his style. Musical inspiration hit further when his deep fascination of Sonic games on the Dreamcast (and onwards), followed by Guitar Hero games introducing him to listen to each instrumental part and learn about bands while identifying different forms of song structures. Both game genres he still plays a lot of today.

After comfortably deciding to be a bird was right for him, he joined the furry fandom at around 2010. With ConFuzzled 2011 being his first con and his first ever time he met furries in general. It was an eye opener, but he also knew deep down this is where he found his second home.

During the time in the fandom, he has met many wonderful and talented people that not only also encouraged him to start recording covers and even original songs. But also encouraged him to reach out to others to collaborate with to make something special together.
Some music projects he has worked on has been a mix of start from scratch original pieces to big band cover collaborations, to taking part in someone else’s project to help them out.

Examples include covers of:
“I’m Still Here” from Treasure Planet, “Oo-De-Lally” from Robin Hood, “Wicked Little Town” from Hedwig & The Angry Inch, and the most recent release being a big fifteen-minute medley of Shadow the Hedgehog related songs called “The Ultimate Waveform”.

When he’s not recording at home, his joy in playing and singing to music is spent with occasional jam sessions with other likeminded musicians and karaoke attempts if the queue isn’t too long. And maybe, just maybe. You might hear him make an impromptu jam out in the con lobby.

Whether you hear or see this vibrant, orange and blue (blorange) long beaked Hoopoe bird around the con. Be sure to say hello and he will happily give a you wing hug if desired, just watch out for that beak, it’s a bit pointy.