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Global Game Jam is an annual event where game developers of all walks (hobbyists, professionals, students etc) meet and form teams to make a game over one weekend. There’s a theme which is revealed via the interwebs on Friday evening, this year it was ‘Deception’.

Last year I ground my hands to a pulp producing ~30hrs worth of art, which equated to not much sleep! This year I cut my participation back to about 16hrs (and went to the Big Day Out).

My main focus this year was a game we titled Bored Room. You can download the game install here and play it yourself! It has some very amusing dialogue.

I only had Saturday to make all the art, so kept it simple; but charming! Here are the characters:

And a room! Complete with a hulking security guy.

I designed this poster for the Team Fortress 2 demoman vs soldier propaganda contest. Just something pretty simple with limited colours.

I was gonna add text (taglines) but decided to keep it visual.

I also submitted a version with this logo at the top:

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I made a few RocketFuse rockets yesterday, and decided to do an impromptu photoshoot this arvo after an epic-length lunch with Nick.

All in all a very refreshing day.

Bring on Semi-Permanent tomorrow!

Today was mostly consumed by making art assets for Space Crash over at Rockethands. This is Jack’s game-in-a-week baby and it’ll be a free iPhone game promoting Rocketfuse. Just a few tidbits for today’s art post.

The Space Crash banner:

And an explosion!

It’s all cardboard themed, and that’s a meteor exploding, but the effect will be applied to all space debris when it gets destroyed.

I’ll point everyone in the right direction when the game’s released.

I don’t know who to credit for this image, but I am amused.

Kanye’s sure opened himself up to a world of memes.

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Here’s the last artwork for Operation: Star Hammer. An alien spacecraft with tendrils getting all “Take that! And one of these!” on a human ship.

Here’s the painting with a crash. The alien armada crashes onto the planet surface and spews forth a purple liquid known as Space Ribena*.

*May or may not be Space Ribena.

I got the last of the Apple Cider Tea Party paintings in today! Woot.

Time to squeeze in some work. I’m doing 3 sketches for Black Lab Games. Paul will be adding a bunch of Operation: Star Hammer content to the website including a back story about the game. These sketches will be used to illustrate the story.

This is a crashed Nautilid probe. It’s design was influenced by sea creatures. I think I prefer the image without the ~laser fencing~… especially since it’s not immediately obvious humans raised the fence.

You may already know I’m a member of the Rockethands team, a small group of Perth indie game developers.

RocketFuse is our first commercial release, of which the main developers were Jack and Rob. I did a little art direction and designed the logo, but most of the art credits go to Jack.

The game’s just been released, so if you own an iphone hit up the app store and make the purchase! If you don’t own an iphone, get one! Then reread this paragraph.

Just came across this article on Juxtapoz about Jonathan LeVine, the Space Invader, and being a Perth resident and artist makes it an interesting read. Although he’s more of a craft artist than a technical artist, a lot of his work seems to just be pixelated sourced images. It’s about the ~execution~ I guess, but I like his concept of invading spaces and what it reveals about graffiti laws and public facing street art. Read the rest of this entry →