Archive for the 'photoshop' Category
Bored one afternoon flicking through an old magazine online. Loved the type and layout so thought I’d crank up Photoshop and have a go.
Font is Delicious and Delicious Heavy.
No updates for a little while so I thought I’d offer some thoughts on the progress of the game (Hoth Strike).
The last stuff to go in was the Pod / Pod Launcher stuff. Anyone familiar with Defender will know all about these little devils. The theory is simple: you shoot the pod launcher (carrier) and [...]
Like any other game designer I take my inspiration from all manner of sources. Hoth Strike is a fairly easy one to research since the movie The Empire Strikes Back is one of the top grossing movies of all time. There is literally a truck load of material out there. Obviously I also have the [...]
Animation, it has to be said, has never been my strong point. I enjoy drawing the sprites and working with limited colour palettes but actually making the damned things come to life was always somebody else’s job. So imagine the headaches I’ve been having trying to bring this bloody walker to life.
In the movie the [...]
A few months back I updated this blog to suggest that I was working on a new JavaScript arcade game. The game was tentatively called Mutant Mayhem and was a deliberate exercise in using multi-directional full screen scrolling. To cut a long story short I hadn’t any faith in the design. I knew I wanted [...]
Well I checked my stats on WordPress for a change and noticed the following incoming link: http://webresourcesdepot.com/25-amazing-javascript-games-some-fun-and-inspiration/
There’s a good deal of fine JavaScript games on there including the fantastic DHTML Lemmings that I remember from several years back.
To see IFM listed like this makes me a very happy game designer :-)
One of the titles that [...]
Yup. This guy drops acid when hit. Imagine what an entire level full of these critters could do to your hovertank !
Some times when designing games and characters you get Eureka! moments. Realising that I really ought to expand on the cartoon / B-Movie theme with the cutesy Spaceman Spiff inspired settings and creatures was mine.
I put some work in to defining the visuals a bit more and deliberately over-egged the classic blue/orange palette. I find [...]
I’ve always been a fan of Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin’s imaginary Spaceman Spiff got me thinking.
Invaders from Mars was always something of a working title for the game whilst I finalise the technology. Since most of the technology is proven and in place I’m now spending a great deal of time on the game’s artwork. [...]
