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Big Space Gun: Free pixel-art graphics for your game

Robert — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:53:03 +0000

We’ve been working in BlackMoon on the game called “Big Space Gun”. It supposed to be a “Invaders” little clone, with nice pixel-art graphics and some humorous story. I’ve made a bunch of graphics, we even had a working prototype for the game, but the game didn’t feel quite right. We decided to postpone it at first, and finally buried the project few weeks ago.
But – there’s no reason for the pixel-art assets made for this game to be lost&forgotten in our archive. Therefore – I decided to give them away to anyone who would like to use them in their own games or other projects. It’s released under WTFPL licence. Just remember to shout in the comments if you’ll use it for something cool;)

Download layered .PSD file for the set

Click on the image to see the whole set

Pixel-art Cleveland

Robert — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:09:29 +0000

I’ve recently created a cover for “Cleveland Magazine” issue July 2011. The whole illustration is a pixel-art view of the city, with some very known and recognizable real buildings in there. Working on the project was extremely fun and I’ve found that Google Street View is great help if you need references of the real buildings from different angles.

Click on the image to see the whole illustration

Evil Robot Stole My Girlfriend comes to the iPhone

Robert — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:47:15 +0000

One of our flash games, Evil Robot Stole My Girlfriend have been ported to the iPhone. (Actually we didn’t exactly ported it – it was published in the AppStore as a AIR app, which have saved us quite a lot of time. AIR app in the AppStore is pretty much the flash game with touch enabled controls). You can grab the game here – http://bit.ly/kKzjlT

And here’s a video trailer what’s the game is about:

Evil Robot Stole My Girlfriend – trailer from Robert Podgórski on Vimeo.

Evil Robot Stole My Girlfriend

Robert — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:43:35 +0000

Buy in AppStore ($0.99)

Play on Kongregate

Here we come with another awesome game! It’s a “tetris-platformer” where protagonist needs to rescue his girlfriend kidnapped by the Evil Robot. We tried to make it a extremaly “retro” experience (there’s even a frame that looks like a vintage Game&Watch around the game in the flash version).

There are flash and iPhone versions of the game. iPhone version is available in the AppStore and the flash version has been sponsored by manu5games.com.

Here’s a trailer for the iPhone version:

Gameplay video from the Flash version

Click on the images to enlarge

If you’re interested more about creation process and stats – here’s a link to the game postmortem summary.

16k Lander: Flash game in under 16kb

Robert — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:39:19 +0000

Some time ago guys at 8bitrocket.com announced the contest for Atari inspired, web-based game that’ll fit under 16 kilobytes. We took the challenge and have created a game called “16k Lander”. As the name suggest – it’s a cover of the Atari famous arcade title called “Lunar Lander”.
We’re very happy to tell you that “16k Lander” actually won the competition and claimed the Grand Prize!
Yup – we rock!

You can play the game here.

Attack of the Mutant Sheep

Robert — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:32:25 +0000

We’ve launched our new iPhone game today – “Attack of the Mutant Sheeps”. The game is quite simple, yet it’s fun and challenging. We’ve put some crude humor into the game – you must protect your hot-dog from being eaten by a bunch of mutated (and possibly aggressive) sheeps.

Buy iPad version ($0.99)

Download iPhone version (Free)

Here are some screenshots how the game looks like (please click on them to enlarge)

And you can check how the game play looks like.

Asteroids Raid

Robert — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:22:03 +0000

Play the game on Kongregate

Buy a Site-lock license at FGL

The Asteroid Raid is currently available for site-locked sponsorship at FGL.com

Here’s another great game by BlackMoon Design.
It’s a remake of the very famous title from the 80′s called “River Raid”.
You’re a pilot of a spaceship on the mission to complete 50 engaging levels.
(The game is pretty damn hard;)

Watch the gameplay video

Asteroids Raid Gameplay from Robert Podgórski on Vimeo.

Click on the image to check how the game looks like

Firefoxzilla is back!

Robert — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:15:23 +0000

I’ve created another pixel-art illustration with Firefoxzilla (huge Fire-fox like mechanical droid that helps people) for challenge on Mozilla’s Creative Collective. It got to the top finals and scored quite a huge number of votes.
Let’s hope Firefoxzilla will keep coming back:)

Just visiting, a pixel art commission for Digital Artist magazine

Robert — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:46:56 +0000

I’ve created this pixel-art illustration for the purpose of the article I wrote for Digital Artist magazine. The article (and illustration itself) was published in April’s issue.
The illustration is titled “Just visiting” and it depicts a London street with a huge, ugly monster taking photos of BigBen (as you can see below).

Click on the image to check bigger image

The article is basically a overview of pixel-art style combined with a 6 page long tutorial on creating a isometric city scene in Photoshop and PixAIR (PixAIR is a small AIR application for creating pixel art developed by one of the BlackMoon’s team members – Michał).

Our article in SDJ

Robert — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:00:12 +0000

BlackMoon team write up a article for a magazine Software Developer Journal, about the process of creation a Flash game – starting with the idea, how to design graphics and what are the best code techniques. We’ve created a arcade style game called “Asteroid Raid” especially for the article purpose (the game will be launched soon as we’re still tweaking it). The game utilizes some nice pixel art and run over PixelBlitz engine created by Richard Davey.
Stay tuned for the coming game – in the meanwhile I encourage you to grab a copy of SDJ magazine from the nearest store and enjoy;)