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 […]
Turbo Tomato
I had a fantastic time working on this project as it gave me an opportunity to create some print ready work for a physical box release of the game along with the logo and the challenge of taking the artwork and recreating it on the Amiga in 32 colours. The Amiga 32 colour Title screen […]
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!
Zzap! 64 2021 Annual Kickstarter
It is with great pride to announce I have teamed up with my old mate Chris Wilkins of Fusion Retro Books to bring you an exclusive art canvas presented as a tier level reward with the new Zzap! 64 2021 Annual Kickstarter campaign. The 12″ x 12″ canvas features the iconic Commodore 64 set against […]
A chance Tweet – Web of…Terror?
I like how things sometimes just happen… Take this morning for example, I was just checking my Twitter feed, sipping my morning cuppa when I gazed upon a tweet from YORE COMPUTER. The tweet was showing an advert from the 11th issue of Zero Magazine 1990 – the advert was a game I had “helped […]
Retro Tea Breaks: The Book!
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Neil for his Retro Tea Breaks series last year which as a regular viewer of his superb channel was a real honour. So when Mr.RMC himself asked me if I would be interested in creating some pixel art portraits of selected guests for his new book I […]
A4 Lightbox Review
Light boxes used to be quite chunky – a light bulb inside a box with an opaque panel to work on, simple but effective. The one I used to use generated quite a bit of heat due to the incandescent bulb and had only one light setting, how things have changed looking at these new […]
Mean Machine Dean Podcast!
I had the pleasure of speaking in depth about my career in the games industry with the awesome Dean from the Mean Machine Dean Podcast recorded recently with my lockdown hair and wannabe Gandalf (feeling) beard! Oh and my trusty ZZap! 64 mug courtesy of my ol’mate at Fusion RetroBook Chris Wilkins.
Retro Tea Breaks – Pixel Portraits
I was honoured to be included as a guest in Neil’s Retro Tea Breaks Vol.1 book but to then be asked if I would be interested in creating Pixel Portraits of my fellow interviewees , well what could I say? I liaised with Neil on what I thought would work for the portraits and we […]
BBC Level 23! I was on it!
Before I start this post I’d like to send out a big thanks to Quang from Asobitech for putting Danny (BBC Level 23) in touch with me without whom I would not have been a guest on the show – thanks man I appreciate it! (Quang is awesome by the way check out Mao Mao […]
