The Grand National Championships poster!

Well, it took me way too long to finish this, what with me looking for work most of my time (a situation that has *hopefully* been remedied!), but here it is! The Grand National Championships poster! I'm posting it here before anywhere else so that the guy's at the show will get a chance to proof it and give me any feedback they might be interested in. I'm really quite happy with it for the most part, especially the text, since if there is one thing I will admit to being horrible at, it's typography. The only thing left to do at this point (assuming they don't have any suggestions or revisions) is to reformat this into a usable banner for there blog. That shouldn't be too hard if I'm not mistaken, just some editing and moving.

So Corin likes his cheese, Jerrad is apparently the handsome one of the group, and Alistair is staring down my take on A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.

Grand National Championships, THE VIDEO GAME.

No, not really. Just the sprites. These sprites are for possible buttons to be used by the show. They are each a pixel character portrait of the three hosts, Alastair St. Hill, Jerrad Mcleod, and Corin Aitchison. I'll label them as such:

Corin

Jerrad

Alastair

Each one also represents a genre of old-school gaming, Corin is Shooter/Arcade, Jerrad is Action/Platformer, and Alastair is Fantasy/Adventure. I had a lot of fun doing these, and I hope the guys at GNC like them. This is only for the buttons though, the Banner/Poster/BIGDEAL, is the main project, so this was more of a warm-up to that. Also, if by you haven't started listening to Grand National Championships then you totally should.

Vidya gaemz! And Grand National Championships!

Firstly, both a shout out and an apology to those of you that found me through my interview on Grand National Championships. Great show, great music, and I know I said that I would have this thing out on Monday BEFORE the show ended, but that just didn't happen unfortunately. HOWEVER, I have completed the game, and I present it here, for your viewing pleasure!

Screenshots:

DOWNLOAD LINK:

http://www.yoyogames.com/games/130053-supa-blast-o-naut

I can assure you no viral harm will come to your computer, no matter how much it may warn you about the dangers of .exe files. The website I have it hosted on scans for that sort of thing before it allows it to go live, so no worries eh? Also, apologies to MAC users, this won't work for you guys. Sorry :(

If your wondering what the game is like, it's sort of a cross between and old school arcade shooter (Galaga, 1942, etc.) and a matching type puzzle game. You must guide your ship using the W,A,S,D keys through a densely packed asteroid belt, while also using the mouse to place mines on the different colored rocks. When the mines go off, the explosions continue outward from the source until they reach the edge of their range, or they are stopped by a different colored asteroid. You can circumvent this by using one mine to set off another that is placed on a differently colored asteroid!

Theres also a powerup system that lets you increase the abilities of your ship at the end of each level, and just for you folks that visit my blog, heres a cheat code! If you press "J" at the start screen, you'll start the game at level 17, with all your powerups maxed out! Good Luck!