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 […]
Retro Tea Break Interview

What a crazy situation to be in, you’re about to make a cup of tea then all of a sudden you find yourself sitting down having a Retro Tea Break whilst being interviewed about your life and your work – I say interviewed, talking with Neil is more like sitting down with a mate and […]
A new old interview.

An update to an interview I gave to the excellent Retro Video Gamer website a few years ago with answers to new questions and soem of the things I’ve been upto since. Please check it out along with many of the other excellent interviews and reviews too. Check the image link below… Lovely stuff.. RVG […]
At last! The new website lives!

What seems like an eternity of web development woes, which I should state was mostly down to my own inexperience of server side geeky techie stuff, the new site has finally gone live on this 26th day of October 2017. The old hobeka.com site will be removed and all future content will be added to […]
Football sprites… I wondered I did…

I was sitting on the sofa, as you do (or don’t if you have successfully mastered the art of levitation), when a thought crossed my mind. I pondered I did, I pondered again and this time the thought went a little something like this..”I wonder how many times I’ve drawn football player sprites over the […]
What?? HD art for iPad(1.2.3)?? Part 2

Here’s a snippet of the new ‘updated’ Blobbit Push tile set for the Sand Sludge Bog area. Yes I know it looks like the old one, or does it? Hang on why don’t you compare yourself. Marvelous. (fiddles with some files… uploads…that was so quick , I’ve not finished typing this yet). Right then, here’s […]
Retro Gamer & GamesTM Interviews

So I did this interview recently for Retro Gamer magazine where I answered a few questions about my days at Sensible Software and the joys to be had creating art on the wonderful Commodore Amiga. Issue 94: Art Attacktasticles!!! Come to think of it the interview isn’t that recent now but just like the good […]
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