Little lantern game development using Game Maker

I recently discovered The Obakemono Project: http://www.obakemono.com/ A guide to the fantastic folk monsters of Japan. It's a great source of inspiration for character development.

In the game the player is a small lantern, a Tsukumogami (an inanimate object brought to life after 100 years). 

A few weeks ago my partner and I attended an independent gaming event called World of Love, which was awesome. It inspired me further to develop my own games.

At World of Love I was really excited by Red Redemption's Fate of the World, in which you're given the power to either save or destroy the earth by manipulating weather, food supply and other scientifically accurate data. The game raises awareness of real issues, and by giving you control over their resolution makes it easier to understand their impact.

Jane McGonigal's TED talk is another good example of games being used to inspire change.

All the speakers from World of Love were really inspiring, and Jim from Rock, Paper, Shotgun has posted a great write-up of the event on the site. Hopefully there should be some footage of the talks posted online soon!

Rose and the Silver ghost / Published by Orchard books

Front and back cover artwork for the fourth book in Holly Webb's Rose series.

Game Maker experiment

Game Maker experiment

Environment design

Environment design

Reindeer comic panel 10

Reindeer comic

Reindeer comic panel 4

Flat monster

Reindeer comic panel 6

Reindeer comic panels 5 and 7

Reindeer comic panel 3

Space crystal sketchbook

Reindeer panel 3

Reindeer

Panda in the brain

Midlake / Commission for Mojo magazine

Feature illustration for Mojo magazine on Midlake.

Nordstrom package

Nordstrom holiday campaign 2009

This year I worked with Nordstrom again to help create their holiday campaign.

Birdhouses.

Birdhouse interior.

Initial sketches and developing ideas.

Backgrounds: These were created as uber big files to be used within the window displays. Uber, uber big files.

The giving tree.

Holiday bag.

Holiday ornament.

Downloadable birdhouses. Nordstrom's design team did a beautiful job at creating these designs from my existing images.

Gift cards, gift tags and other bits and pieces.

Screen shots, animation and links.
You can download the gift tags and 3D bird houses for free here: http://bit.ly/4gt80p
A short animation featuring some of my artwork: http://www.incorpmedia.com/holiday09_horizontal_web/