Hang'Em High - Horror movie titles- OUT NOW from Appy Times

Check out Hang'Em High Horror Movie on Google Play!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appytimes.horror

A great little Hang Man game featuring different horror characters, classic mode and Horror Movie titles. Just in time for Halloween!

Halloween Cats - 20 year old game art found!

This is a piece of art I made around 20 years ago for a college project. I was working on my own game design using my Commodore Amiga 1200. For the college project we had to design a point of sale display stand. The bottom part of the image in front of the castle is on a separate piece of card. I took photos of the two pieces and overlaid them in photoshop with an added brown backdrop. The game featuring my cats at the time was never released and this is all I have left of it. I also started working on a sequel Peow Cats when I was learning to make games using The Games Factory on PC but that wasn't finished.

Putty CAD: Zombie Xmas Cards

Putty CAD: Zombie Xmas Cards: Want to own an original piece of art by Ric? All these Zombie Christmas cards are original hand drawn cartoons on quality card with envelop...

Hand drawn - Zombie Christmas Cards - Order now!

Bored of the same old Christmas greeting cards? Why not treat your loved ones to original hand drawn cartoon Christmas cards by Ric?

Several designs to choose from, each one individually drawn by Ric himself so each one is unique!

For starters here are a gore-geous set of Zombie Christmas cards! You can choose one design or buy the whole set of four cards!

To view the prices and order please click on the tab at the top of the page!

Happy holidays!

;) Ric

I'm a character in somebody else's game!

A while ago Nicoll Hunt asked people to come up with a name for the hero of his new game 'Fist of AWESOME!'

As the character is a lumberjack I suggested the name Tim Baaaa which was a finalist in the comp. The final name was Tim Burr.

As a reward all the finalists get to be in the game in retro pixelly goodness. Here is the link to Nicoll's blog with a picture of the in-game characters!

CHECK IT OUT...

http://nicollhunt.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/winners-of-awesome.html?spref=tw&m=1

Get your own character design by Ric...

Special offer for paypal customers:

Want a simple cartoon character to represent you or your business? Scroll down Puttycad.co.uk for examples. Prices start at just £40 for one character in one pose digital pack (emailed) and includes various size images with transparent backgrounds, avatars and banners to use on twitter, facebook, websites and blogs. As a bonus I will also post any original pen/pencil sketches made while working on the character to any mainland UK address for no additional charge.

;) Ric

140 Characters - Tukxi Tuc Tuc Taxi - Lyme Regis

Another character created, this time for Tukxi Tuc Tuc Taki at Lyme Regis

Please check out his site at www.tukxi.com

If you would like your own character for your website or blog please get in touch prices start at just £40 for one character in one pose like the example above.

Business Cards from Moo

Arrived just in time for tonight's Ga_Ma_Yo meetup! 

140 characters - Licky Likey

I finished another "140 characters" logo yesterday.

Licky Likey wanted a cartoon of "Lulu" their Ice cream van for their website and twitter avatar etc. So here is the finished result...

www.lickylikey.com

Please check out their website and try their delicious Ice Cream!

If you want your own mascot or site cartoon please get in touch.

;) Ric

New logo & business cards for Putty CAD

Gremlin Graphics Reunited at Games Britannia

Gremlin Graphics Re-United - Monty Mole Games Jam

On Friday I headed down to Magna at Sheffield to mentor a group of school children and their teacher on a Monty Mole game jam, as part of Gremlin Reunited at the Games Britannia show.

The kids were really enthusiastic and came up with a brilliant storyline involving a post nuclear apocalypse Monty Jr, trying to get medicine to save the original Monty Mole from radiation sickness, whilst avoiding soldiers and military drones. I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Jacob Habgood (SHU) who was overseeing the teams and made sure we knew where we needed to be and looked after us. One of his students Wesley Arthur was on hand to help the kids with the programming side of things and made good use of Game Maker to get Monty moving and help the kids design levels.

Team Utopia designing levels & testing gameplay.

The game jam was being filmed for Blue Peter with CBBC's Barney Harwood. I'm not sure when it will be shown but my own kids were very excited about that! (they really love "Bear Behaving Badly" with Barney)

Gremlin Graphics produced some of my favourite games when I was growing up, especially the Monty Mole series and games like Thing on a Spring, Potty Pigeon and Bounder. I was about 12 when the first Monty game was released in 1984 during the Miners Strikes and I remember seeing it on the local news, I didn't really understand the political side of things, but I really enjoyed the gameplay and the main character Monty.

Through Jacob I was introduced to my gaming heroes Peter Harrap and Tony Crowther, I also got to meet Ben Daglish and had a nice chat with Ian Stewart the original founder of Gremlin Graphics.

Tony Crowther, myself and Peter Harrap!

A massive thanks to the brilliant Mark Hardisty (Games Britannia) and fantastic Jacob Habgood (Sheffield Hallam University) for inviting me along to the jam and being such great hosts. I hope the kids got as much from the experience as I did, and go on to create their own games! It was a great opportunity for me to work on something I loved and I am very proud to have been part of!

http://www.gamesbritannia.com