Welcome The Pickford Bros' Website
Find out more than you ever wanted to know about John Pickford and Ste Pickford!
John Pickford and Ste Pickford - The Pickford Brothers - are veteran video game designers and developers who switched to 'indie' game development and self-publishing in 2004.
We used to work on high profile console games for people like Rare, Nintendo and Sony, but we swapped the large teams, big budgets, expensive licenses and crazy overtime of mainstream game development for cosy home offices, low budgets, creative freedom and seeing our families now and again.
We also waved goodbye to a regular income, but we just wanted to make good games and and this seemed like the best way to go about it!
Our website is used showcase some of our new game ideas, keep you up to date with what we're working on, and to document and preserve our past work where possible.
John is currently playing
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 20 Oct 2008
I'm still playing Fallout 3 when I get a chance. This game continues to impress. It really is an incredible piece of work and Bethesda thoroughly deserve their success. I think my save file is just about nudging 49 hours (I completed the game at the 24 hou...
John's latest Blog post
Blog posted by JPickford
Fri, 26 Mar 2010
After nearly 30 years of coding (on and off) I still haven't the slightest clue how long a given task is going to take.
John's latest Archive entry
Archive entry by JPickford
Fri, 17 Apr 2009
This sheet was stapled the Cosmic Pirate sketches I posted a few days ago.
John's latest Press cutting
Famous at last (in South Manchester...
Press cutting added by JPickford
Mon, 4 May 2009
We get a little mention in this article in the South Manchester Reporter which is a free paper.
Ste is currently playing
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Fri, 2 Jul 2010
I got myself a PS3 a few months back, mainly to check out some of the downloadable games available on PSN (which seem to be a lot more interesting than what's available on Xbox Live Arcade). I've enjoyed PixelJunk Shooter, but the PS3 mostly refuses to co...
Ste's latest Blog post
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Fri, 30 Jul 2010
This is the finished Billiards Hall doorway graphic for the intro to Magnetic Billiards, following up from the initial pen drawing I posted yesterday.
Ste's latest Archive entry
Amaurote loading screen (Amiga)
Archive entry by Ste Pickford
Sat, 10 Apr 2010
Here's a strange thing I found on an old backup disk - a half finished version of the Amaurote loading screen, but drawn on an Amiga / Atari ST 16 colour screen.
Ste's latest Press cutting
Press cutting added by Ste Pickford
Sat, 21 Feb 2009
I picked up a set of about 10 old 'progs' of 2000ad comic from ebay a couple of weeks ago, to fill a gap in my collection.
We are The Pickford Bros, veteran independent video game designers based in the UK.
Our last game was Naked War, and we're currently working on two new games for release in 2010.
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