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After a few conversations with the Halfbrick we realised that it was important to use as much of the art as possible, so we went to some lengths to ensure that each and every page felt different, using lots of their amazing character and scene art to make the pages POP! This was simply a brilliant project and one that I am going to enjoy looking at for some time to come. I cant wait for the release of the game too, it looks amazing!

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As the game had a cool old school futuristic look to it, I had to ensure that the site reflected this, and for anyone who knows me will vouch, this was my perfect cup of tea! I was supplied with the character art and branding but realised that I had to turn these awesome characters into some kind of eye-catching scene, so I set about creating the piece that you see at the top of the page. This was made up of numerous textures, mock 3D and some intricate lighting. This was tooooo much fun! With the feature image in place, it was time to flesh out the content in a complementary style. Cool project!!

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Initially the guys at Thunder Game Works were gunning for something more serious, something a little more realistic, but I was convinced that giving this game something characterful, original, fun and memorable would work much better, so with that said, I went away and created some concept art to sell my vision. They were sold! Wahooo! I then started to flesh out the comical characters, animations, the different levels, the branding, the HUD, you name it, the whole lot. This was nothing short of brilliant, and is to date, one of my most favoured projects! Thanks Thunder Game Works for giving me the opportunity to work with you, this was awesome!

Take a peek at the branding and illustration section to see more!

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Everything seemed to flow really naturally, the brand and character came together really quickly and then the rest of the elements just slotted into place. It was great to work on an e-commerce site that was a little edgy and needed to have more punch than your run of the mill online store. You can take a look at the rest of the work in the other sections of the site. So if you’re in need of a kick ass modded controller, give these guys a shout, they’ve got everything covered!

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Man this was just a dream come true, WW2 fighter planes and games, I mean seriously, its perfect. It’s like if someone said to me, ‘Mike, tell me your ideal brief’ the guys at Legendo already knew it and knocked on my door with it in their hands! They also sent over the awesome 3D files too, allowing me UNLIMITED flexibility with the design. My goal was to make the aircraft feel as though they were in a dog fight and tearing out of the screen, so having the Max files to play with allowed me to achieve this soooo quickly. Ok I’m babbling I know, but I just loved this site!!

If anyone else out there is working on ANYTHING fighter aircraft based (WW2 or modern, and not just within the games industry either) please give me a shout, I love all things related to military aircraft...yes...I’m a full on geek ;)

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The solution came pretty quickly in all honesty as Simon's brief was so clear, so the boy and and dog were visualised and finalised in no time at all. Creating the site was great as I could expand on the game's feel and create a large expansive environment that spanned the browser window, great fun! The whole project was a joy to work on and I loved every minute! If you fancy a quick pick up and play game, give it a try, its great!

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The elements that had to be retained from the previous site were the logo and red hues, other than that, I had free reign, awesome! After recently creating the online interface and web presence for their new game, Chivalric Warfare (you’ll see that here very soon, it was an AWESOME project), I had a good idea of what they would want for their corporate site. I decided to play on the origins of the brand and give the site a rich, warm and historic feel, making the site feel welcoming and giving it a notable presence. To add to this, the site had to be infinitely expandable, so a solid grid structure was created to allow Hydra to grow and expand to any given requirement or change. I absolutely loved this job, Hydra were a pleasure to work with!

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So, with all this jaw dropping artwork in my hands, I was like a kid in a sweet shop! I always bark on about content being king and this time I had everything I could wish for! The most interesting part about this was the fact that Aranim is based in Jordan, so the site had to reflect its very individual routes. This couldn't just look like another comic company, we needed to inject some Middle Eastern flare to this design. This was achieved with some beautiful Arabic calligraphy in the background and the core shape of the navigation bar, somewhat different from the norm. Plain and simply, this was a very fun, original and thoroughly enjoyable project!

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Creating this design was a dream, and while creating blog designs can be slightly limiting in your creative freedom, creating this one was just too much fun! My core goal was to make that breathtaking artwork just POP! All the assets on the page were taken DIRECTLY from the game itself, so you can imagine how gorgeous this is going to be! Go take a look; they have just posted some original vs new screens, amazing!

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The solution had to be epic, bold and in your face, and with a totally blank canvas, this was going to be fun! After a number of meetings with the owner we nailed down the direction and started working. I wanted to the design to have an epic and movie like appearance to show that TGW was more than just an average flight by night iPhone developer, as their mission is to source the best people from around the world to create the best games around, no expense spared. There will be a lot more to show from TGW very soon, as I was lucky enough to be selected as their official artist for their very first title, Trenches! Trust me when I tell you, Trenches is shaping up to be something VERY special!

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I'd been playing around with a few techniques for a while along these lines and wanted to pursue them a little further, so I dedicated a big fat chunk of time to doing just that. I soon came upon this idea and started to flesh it out into the three images you see here. It was really nice to create something like this purely for fun, it made me feel like an artist again :)

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I'd been playing around with a few techniques for a while along these lines and wanted to pursue them a little further, so I dedicated a big fat chunk of time to doing just that. I soon came upon this idea and started to flesh it out into the three images you see here. It was really nice to create something like this purely for fun, it made me feel like an artist again :)

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I'd been playing around with a few techniques for a while along these lines and wanted to pursue them a little further, so I dedicated a big fat chunk of time to doing just that. I soon came upon this idea and started to flesh it out into the three images you see here. It was really nice to create something like this purely for fun, it made me feel like an artist again :)

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As the brief mentions, the guys at Interwave have a bit of a love for dark and moody designs, so this set the tone for the site immediatly. So it was a case of creating a bridge between dark, hardcore gaming and respectable corporate business. The mix was great! Making a site that had a little menace as well as being a shade corporate was great fun!

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I’d been dying to get my gubby mitts on this site from the day I designed the company site back in 2008, so I was overjoyed when Weston over at Black Jacket got back in touch and asked if I’d be interested in creating the microsite for Metal Drift! They threw me over a working demo of the game and it is simply AMAZING! It’s like Speedball 2 meets Unreal Tournament meets Wipeout, it’s just brilliant! The quality of the gameplay, visuals and finishing effects can only be described as AAA! Anyway, yeah, getting carried away there, the site was ace to work on and after playing the game so much I just had to inject as much of that excitement into the design as possible. So overall this was intended to feel like a high paced, neon filled futuristic sports battle zone. Great fun! Oh yeah, and its already scooped a few design awards too, yey :)

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This obviously had to start with some dark and gritty textures, graffiti and a big dose of attitude! I wanted to logo to REALLY reflect the story, rising from rags to riches, reaching success and in a way, telling the story on its own. With the logo nailed down pretty quickly, we moved on to the look and feel/UI, this was unreal! I loved working on this in just about every way! Once everything here was complete we moved onto the icon, app store graphics and then finally some advertising to re-skin the touch arcade website as part of a large promo, ace!

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With the limited assets available it was initially tough to find my final direction, but after a little playing around I found it! I managed to cut up a number of different elements from the in game UI, character art, armour and concept paintings to create this deep and menacing design. I love pretty much every job I do these days, but this one in particular was very much my cup of tea as I just LOVE futuristic, sci-fi, gritty stylisation. Man this was bloody awesome to work on! Cant wait for the official release!

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The assets for this project were limited to about 3 photo's of Adrian in action, so initially it seemed as though this was going to be a real challenge, but I was determined to find an angle! After a little playing around with ideas, I hit upon the idea of making this aspirational, dream like, to portray the deep message of the foundation and to visually portray the feeling of achievement and hope. The final result was a bright, rich and engaging look that the client was immensely happy with!

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I couldn’t believe my luck when I got contacted by the guys over at Subatomic Studios to see if I’d be interested in the re-design of their new site! Fieldrunners is quite possibly the best iPhone game I have ever laid my hands on (and I have many screens worth of games on my iPhone desktop!) so the chance to design the new site was sooooo exciting! The artwork that these guys have created for the game is so unique and inspirational that designing the new site was always going to be fun. It’s one thing to love what you do, but to then get to a new project that is both in the field that you love (games industry) and then also to be a game that you love, is nothing short of a project miracle. Adam as ever was my technical guru and right hand man, yet again, making another beautiful transition from my PSD’s to a fully working site. It was also a good challenge, as this not only had kick ass online, but also through the iPhone browser, so we had to pull some nifty tricks to make this load quick, look slick and show off Fieldrunners at its very best. Adam, you rock! If you’ve got an iPhone, buy this game as it is aaaaaamazing.

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Needless to say an approach like this is rather fun to work with so this project was an absolute blast! Once we had the character signed off I was chomping at the bit to get into the site and flash work as I knew this was going to be fun! As the design started to come together, I soon realised that it was crying out for extra illustrated touches, so I set to work creating lots of quirky bespoke elements to add some really original touches to the site. All in all this was a dream job and one that I really, really enjoyed. You can see some more of the illustrations created in the illustration section. Oh and if you have an iPhone, check out their latest release ‘Shift’ its brilliantly playable!!!

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I worked with the guys to help them develop the brand ready for the new launch, which I have to say, with the artistic finesse of Cory Strader, they visualised the concept BEAUTIFULLY, just watch in action on the trailer, it rocks! Needless to say, with the brand in place and a handful of damn sexy in game rendered assets, I got to work on crafting a site that felt as though you were in the world of NS2. So the design you see here isn’t just a big render, its a finely crafted collage of various in game elements. Bloody great fun!!

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As I always mention in just about every new project posting, I can’t get enough of the games industry and just grab a hold of almost every games project that I’m lucky enough to have come my way, so Slick Entertainment was a rather exciting opportunity! Needless to say, the site can now don a very snazzy skin for each new game, so if you wander over to the site and go from through the different games pages, you’ll notice a totally different look adorns each page. Great fun.

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YEY, website number two for the guys over at Klei Entertainment, and this time it was for the dev blog of their new game, Shank! Once again I got to work with the amazing artwork of Jeff Agala, which let’s face it, is totally awesome!! As they have gone for a very stylised look with Shank, it was imperative that I designed the site in a way to perfectly reflect the rich atmosphere of the game. Pop over and take a look, there is some jaw dropping concept art on there all ready to get your mouths watering for the new game. I love games sites :) Can anyone tell?

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This was a big project, as the site is pretty vast with many subsections, all of which needed that special design touch. On top of this their new app, Playback, needed its brand icon creating too, so it was great little creative task to create something that was crisp, slick and would stand out from all the other Mac icons when the user is browsing through their machine.

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This was a sizable project too, as it was not only a re-design, but, a re-brand and build...but not just a build, a multilingual build!! Once again, a big thanks to Adam for his hard work on the this, as the new Mac à Montréal website is presented in both French, English and is 100% CMS driven, superb! Thanks to Adam and everyone at Mac à Montréal for a fun project!!

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Sticking close to their brand values was imperative as the people that follow their games have a close affinity to their thinking and ethos, so the site had to hold a mirror up to the essence of their games. Also a big thanks to Adam again on the build, top work Adam!! And if you havent ever played flOw or Flower, you need, to, they are just brilliant!! Awesome fun.

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This was a cool one to work with as the brand is soooo funky. All that old school USA flare, pin striping, motorcycles and amazing insignia. I wanted to portray as much of this as possible in a really gritty, textured way to help pull out the key parts of the brand. Another fun part of this was the flash piece on the ‘Garage’ page, a nice opportunity to inject some movement into the page and introduce even more of the heritage. And to top off a fun project it also picked up a few awards and made it into a number of design features, nice!

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How cool! So to be asked to create the brand, site, t-shirts and flyers was simply brilliant! The branding had to portray an explosion of fun and quirky playfulness, so it was immensely fun to work on. It was such fun to create this, anything that HAS to be fun is a damn great start point! I HIGHLY recommend playing through some of the games as they are bloody marvellous! My personal faves are Splume and Velociraptor Safari!! Go play!!!

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What this created was a site that has a strong visual impact on the homepage, then followed by a more reserved structure for the subpages, thus saying a big hello to the newcomers and then allowing the regulars to get to what they need to without too many graphics. Fun little job!

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Ooooh another dream client, Klei Entertainment! I was lucky enough to be contacted by Klei Entertainments Founder to see if I would be interested in re-designing their new site...I almost bit his arm off! I have been a big fan of Klei for a while, especially that of their artwork, pioneered by Jeff Agala , the director of Atomic Betty, so the chance to work with these guys was whole heartedly accepted!! The site had a very tight deadline and is testament to the teamwork of both Klei, Adam (my wonderfully talented developer and friend) and myself. I am also pleased to announce that the new site picked up a WDA too, awesome!!

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I know that me sounding off saying ‘Oh my god, I loved this project’ is starting be a rather regular thing, so sorry to say it again, but this was a storming project to have been involved with! The guys at Black Jacket Studio’s are awesome, great fun to work with and boy do they have one HELLUVA game on the way! I was lucky enough to play an ‘in-development’ version of Metal Drift (a kind of kick ass mix between Unreal Tournament and Speedball) and can honestly say that it is brilliant! Anyway I’m getting carried away. So all I’ll say is that this was great to work on and involved the whole process, branding, design, site build and integration (Adam'd done a great job on the build here, great work!). Keep your eyes peeled for the launch of Metal Drift as it is aaaaaaaaawesome!

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This was an ace project to work on, it really was. This was my first DJ site, and what a joy! With his awesome mixes and killer client list, I was pretty clear in my direction. Crisp, clean and fresh. Nice.

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As this is a rather stale subject, I wanted to inject a little politics and passion into the equation, so rather than take the usual approach I created a fictitious company called GEN (Or Green Energy in full) toward the earthy folk of the world and show how a design could house some real personality and appeal to people on a level higher than simply ‘being the cheapest’. I already had a few emails from people regarding the article (thanks everyone...and no its not been to complain about my stupid photo ;) so it looks as though its struck a really positive chord, which is ace, just what I wanted. I always enjoy these projects for .NET Magazine!!

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I wanted to make this as visually stimulating as possible, to try and convey the 24/7 party atmosphere of the casino. The top area was a 3D/flash piece, where as you selected a thumbnail from the right, the whole thing collapsed and revealed hundreds of images below whizzing past (further showing the none stop, all action nature of this casino and its buzzing night life) and then suddenly, the one you chose comes flying into focus and fills the space. Great fun!!!!

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This was more than just the usual site design too, it was a branding exercise, as Israel needed a new brand for the site. Station 71. It was great to work on something so fresh, something that had no existing brand, or current style guide associated to it, allowing me to create something new, from a completely blank canvas. Israel wanted something gritty, raw and that had impact, this was the outcome.

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What can I say here, this was a dream concept to work on!! Ferrari, Ferrari, really, what else can I say? It was immense fun to have such beautiful photos to work with and then to create a design that could make those cars do the talking. This concept was a slick hybrid, using a silky flash piece to navigate the new car range and good old HTML, CSS, to build in the rest of the site, keeping up the SEO requirement. This actual concept for was a Ferrari dealer in LA. Niiiiiiiiice.

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This was quite a small project, but one that had a good amount of creative freedom which is always welcome :) We decided on creating a look that was light, sleek and had a feeling of speed, to reflect Jeff's position in the team. This coupled with it being in flash, and having the opportunity to animate every element, made for a really well finished final site!

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Well, what can I say? Actually, I know what I can say, three words should cover it...Dream...Come...True!! This is pretty much my ideal project. Data Realms asked me to redesign their homepage and to throw in some sexy flash animation too, great. The subject matter is my all time favourite, gaming and even better, retro gaming. It was quite a tough challenge initially to create something that was a contemporary as it was retro, but man, what a great challenge it was, both Data Realms and myself were really, really pleased with the outcome.

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The best bit about this job was the mix of clean white mixed with the total gore fest of splattered blood…definitely something I’d never played with before. The small flash piece was also great fun as it allowed me to play with some nice little video clips to create an action packed banner.

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I soon settled on trying to add some real texture and reality to the site, to portray the hard work that these people had to endure and give it a feeling of exploration as much as discovery. I was really happy with the end result and so was Andy!

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I soon realised that a subject as rich as precious metals needed something not only professional, but luxurious, premium and elite. I really wanted to inject this feeling as let’s face it, you don’t get a whole lot more premium than a precious metals! So a sexy dark canvas with elegant typography and crisp contrast was the order of the day. This was a contract project for Ciplex, where I created the homepage, flash and a subpage design. I really enjoyed this.

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The solution for this had to be quite unique, so I decided to create a very personal feel to the design and scatter the page with lots of girlie bits of pieces and to include lots of hand written elements, to further add to the diary feel. Great brief, great little job.