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Find out more than you ever wanted to know about John Pickford and Ste Pickford!
Hello! We're John Pickford and Ste Pickford - The Pickford Brothers - 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.
Oh, and since you're here, please try our latest game Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS devices. It's free, and dead good!
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John's latest Blog post
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
Ste and I spent most of Saturday creating footage for our second (and final) Magnetic Billiards trailer. We filmed lots of gameplay footage on the iPad but the majority of the time was spent creating an 8 second animated sequence (250 hand drawn frames...
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. I think they were part of the materials we took to our first meeting with Rare. Urchin was a design for a Ghost & Goblins style platformer. The idea was that everything i...
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. It's interesting that we're mentioned alongside Ocean as I *think* our game Wetrix was the very last Ocean title produced. Ocean were bought by Infogrames ar...
Ste's latest Blog post
Struts - Blueprint new feature #2
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Tue, 31 Jan 2012
The new update to Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint (v2.0) is almost complete, so we thought we'd blog about some of the new features that we've added to the game. Along with Pegs we've also added another new feature to the Classic Game - Struts. Struts ar...
Ste's latest Archive entry
Archive entry by Ste Pickford
Tue, 8 Mar 2011
Here's a photo from the archives, taken early on in the development of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint. Development of the iOS version is almost complete, so I thought now would be a good time to post this photo here. I'd done a few sketches and drawin...
Ste's latest Press cutting
Second Best Puzzle Game App Ever 20...
Press cutting added by Ste Pickford
Wed, 1 Feb 2012
We were delighted to spot that Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint has come second place in the 148apps.com 2011 Best App Ever awards, in the iOS Puzzle Game category. We were beaten to first place by Disney's 'Where's My Water?' Just below us in third pl...
We are The Pickford Bros, veteran independent video game designers based in the UK.
Our latest game is Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS. It's dead good, and it's free to play!
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