The Colouring Book of Retro Computers
Exciting news! I shall keep this brief, I’ve teamed up with Neil over at RMC The Cave to create a very cool colouring book of retro computers (and maybe the odd bit of associated tech too).I’m over the moon and greatly honoured to be tasked with creating all 30 (maybe more) illustrations for this book […]
20% OFF CODE “FOOTY20”
Over at my shop I’ve uploaded the front and backend stuff to enable me to sell customised Footy Canvas prints at long last! To celebrate this fact I’ve also added a discount voucher code which runs until the end of 31st may 2021! Enter this code at checkout to receive 20% off everything, including Pixel […]
The Design Droid – Coupons
I was doing some updates to www.thedesigndroid.co.uk over the weekend and I found the coupons section after a quick read up on how they work. Well , what can I say, how utterly brilliant! Once I’d worked out how to bring in a few graphical assets I then went about adding them all together to […]
Finally, My Shop Lives!
www.thedesigndroid.co.uk Well well well, it appears after what seems like an age and a lot of replies to my wife that “It won’t be long now, almost done” my new shop is finished and is online. Yay!
1987 wasn’t that long ago… was it?
Back in 1987 I was fully immersed in learning as much as I could about game development on my dream machine, the Commodore 64. As a teenage boy the C64 was to me the most desirable piece of tech in the whole wide world. While I had a Vic20 at school, a couple of my […]
Urbx Warriors – Pre Launch Video
Our Campaign page for the game:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tonywarriner/urbx-warriors-an-original-game-for-the-spectrum-next Back in November 2024 at Crash Live 2024, Tony and I demoed Urbx Warriors in public for the first time. We were both unsure how the game would go down, would anyone actually want to play it and if they did would the feedback be positive? Thankfully our uncertainty […]
Atari 7800 – Online!
I was browsing a few Atari sites recently casually reading about the old hardware – yes, even after all these years I still get a geeky buzz from digesting the old hardware specs. I think it stems from those 80s days when reading about what was under the bonet of new hardware was just as […]
A Logo I did draw
If you’ve been following my journey, you know I’ve been hard at work on a game called UrbX Warriors with my deve partner, Tony Warriner. After much deliberation, we finally settled on the name “Brazen Gameplay” and the challenge of creating a logo began! Inspired by the iconic 90s arcade art, I wanted our logo to reflect our vision while maintaining a fresh look. Join me as I share the creative process behind our logo design, the struggles, and the triumphs that led to the final result. Exciting times ahead as we prepare to launch our Kickstarter campaign!
UrbX Warriors – Part 1: Colour Graphics!
You’ve probably heard of the Spectrum Next, right? Out of all the new machines to come out based on the “what if” progression of old hardware, the Next has to be one of the best looking I’ve seen and having learned a bit about the hardware, a very plausible, believable progression in the Spectrum line up. I can’t help but think if Sinclair/Amstrad had continued development of this much loved British Icon it would probably have not been too dissimilar to what we see in the Next today.
Norwich Amiga Group Meet
I was in Norwich this Saturday just gone visiting my son who is at Uni there, you know the usual thing, taking him shopping (paying for it too – Bank of Dad) and as it happens my visit coincided with the monthly meet of the Norwich Amiga Group, which I’d kindly been invited to by […]
Amiga Expo UK 2024
A few months back I received a message from co-host of the Retro Hour Podcast, Ravi Abbott, a superb podcast I’d previously been a guest on with his Amiga partner in crime Dan Wood. To cut it short Ravi asked me if I would be interested in being a guest speaker at the Kick Start UK 02 event he was organising for the end of June 2024.
The video is now up of that interview.
Premium Aluminium Coasters – No more!
This is just a quick post as a comment on the coasters I sell over at my lil’old art shop The Design Droid. When I sell prints of my art one thing I must get right is that the quality of the print must be as close as possible to the original; whether that be […]
Arcade Attack Interview
Here’s an interview I gave to Arcade Attack posted on YouTube and available now! The interview was audio only but has been turned into a video with various bits of gameplay being shown in the background. Enjoy! And don’t forget to give the guys a like and a subscribe if you like it.
Amiga 1000 Illustration Finished!
Yep it’s done!You can now watch the final part of my series, Colouring in an Amiga 1000, based on the illustration I originally put together for the Colouring Book of Retro Computers Vol.1! Which by the way if you fancy a copy of the book copies are still available at my shop here Now that […]
