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John Pickford

John comes up with new game concepts, works on game designs, and codes both prototypes and finished games.

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Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint goes ...

Blog posted by JPickford

Wed, 04 Sep 2013

As of today, our iOS game Magnetic Billiards is now free for the main game (20+ levels). We've also dropped the price of in-app purchases to the lowest tier (69p / $1) for level packs and the Skeleton Key which gives you all the content plus access to pr...

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Urchin

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...

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Famous at last (in South Manchester...

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Mon, 04 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...

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Ste Pickford

Ste works on game designs, provides the graphics and concept art, and manages the business and the website.

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Acorn - A World In Pixels cover art

Blog posted by Ste Pickford

Fri, 08 Jan 2021

In early 2020 I was asked to design a cover for a new book, Acorn - A World In Pixels, by the publisher IDesine. The book would be a kind of encyclopaedia and celebration of all the games released on Acorn's BBC Micro and Electron home computers. I kne...

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Plok SNES flyer - front

Archive entry by Ste Pickford

Thu, 29 Nov 2018

Here's an interesting little curio, Tradewest's pre-release flyer for SNES Plok, featuring the otherwise unseen original cover artwork. Click on it to see it full size. We developed the game at Software Creations as a self-funded original title, without...

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NintendoLife Wii pitch interview

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Thu, 10 Jul 2014

NintendoLife got in touch a week ago to ask us about the pitch we did for a Wii version of Naked War (subtitled No Surrender) which we submitted to Nintendo a few years ago, to no avail. The interview resulted in quite a nice piece on their website, whi...

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