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The Pickford Brothers

John Pickford and Ste Pickford celebrate 24 years of original video game development!

Welcome to the website of John Pickford and Ste Pickford - The Pickford Brothers!

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Character #2 finished
« 2008-11-17

Blueprint Version
« 2008-11-18

Character #2 sketch
« 2008-11-19

Rockyfella concept art
« 2008-11-20

John John's update

Mon, 17th Nov @ 12:14pm GMT

Well the daily update didn't happen. I'm making a bit more progress but this illness is still hanging around.

I'm cracking on with the tutorial stuff today. Most of it is in place but I need to code a couple of dozen end conditions. In fact as I was typing this I looked down to my hand written list and it looks like someone has swiped the top page from my notebook. ARRRGGGH.

EDIT: Found it. Phew.

Currently playing

Mon, 17th Nov @ 11:39am GMT

Over last week or so I've clocked up 35 hours on Fallout 3. Now this game is brilliant. I haven't played the earlier games in the series and wasn't attracted to the scenario at all but the general excellence of Oblivion convinced me to give this a try.

Over last week or so I've clocked up 35 hours on Fallout 3. Now this game is brilliant. I haven't pl...

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Ste Ste's update

Mon, 17th Nov @ 12:58pm GMT

I've been horribly slack about the victorian portraits I promised. Although I said I'd start on them last week, I'm *really* gonna get cracking on them this week!

I've been working on an update to the Naked War website / server system, to create a page for unregistered players to download their turns from, in preparation for dropping file attachments completely, and using email purely as a notification system for when new turns are available to download from the website.

I find myself frightened to change the server code though, some of which is four years old, in case I break something horribly. I should stick to drawing pictures!

Currently playing

Fri, 7th Nov @ 1:03pm GMT

All I've played this week is Naked War. Honestly!

I've been crap at that too, and forgetting to reply to turns. I've just not been in a game playing mood. I've not switched the 360 on for a week at least, and didn't even play Team Fortress on Thursday night, although that was mainly because Man City were on the telly.

Right. A bit of a rant today. Why do so many games begin with cut scenes or story sequences? It's ...

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