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Blog posted by Ste Pickford on 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.
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.
Blog posted by JPickford
Thu, 25 Mar 2010
The great thing about independent development is you can come up with a new idea and instantly change direction without having to consult anyone or get approval from someone who might not really understand the game. It feels like we're making the best gam...
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 8 Jun 2009
Something I found in an old backup folder.
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 25 May 2009
Another old prototype. This one didn't get developed very far, hence the simple graphics (borrowed from Sticky Balls).
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 11 May 2009
A while ago we were offered an opportunity (funding) to make the game which has become Magnetic Billiards. Taking up the offer meant putting the second version of Naked War on the 'backburner' for a while.
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 27 Apr 2009
This is the test panel which appears in (our version of) Magnetic Billiards when we boot it up.
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 13 Apr 2009
Perhaps not the most exciting image I've posted but this is what I've been up to this week.
Blog posted by JPickford
Thu, 2 Apr 2009
Another game I'd pretty much forgotten about till I stumbled on some old documents recently.
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 23 Mar 2009
We're currently overhauling the tutorial aspect of Magnetic Billiards.
Blog posted by JPickford
Mon, 2 Mar 2009
My wife found a box full of old papers whilst cleaning the spare room the other day.
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Thu, 29 Jul 2010
As we close in (increasingly slowly) on the completion of Magnetic Billiards, we've been determined to get more non-functional graphics and data in the game. We tend to work on the essentials of game mechanics and balance, at least initially, rather than ...
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Sat, 3 Jul 2010
I've been doing tons of drawing for the new game (Magnetic Billiards) over the last couple of weeks.
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...
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Tue, 22 Jun 2010
I've never felt the urge to write about anything other than video games or game development on this blog. I guess I don't know much about anything else. But, the death yesterday of Chris Sievey - aka Frank Sidebottom - has really upset me, and I feel tha...
Magnetic Billiards Apprentice Pamph...
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Wed, 26 May 2010
Here's another little bit of graphics work from last week. This is what I did last Friday, with an extra hour or so of tidying up over the weekend.
Magnetic Billiards Apprentice panel
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Thu, 20 May 2010
After what seems like an eternity spent working on website stuff and back-end server code since we temporarily stopped work on Art of Soccer, I'm finally back doing graphics and design stuff for Magnetic Billiards again.
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Tue, 4 May 2010
Art of Soccer is a new sports strategy game that we started work on in May 2009.
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Sun, 18 Apr 2010
I'm completely addicted to Drop 7 on the iPhone. It was pretty much the first, or maybe second game I ever purchased when I first got my phone, and it's still the game I play more than any other.
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Working on a massive overhaul / spring clean of the Zee-3 website. The whole thing will probably take me months, but I'm working on it stage by stage, between game development work. I've got a new account system working, and a neater page layout / naviga...
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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