Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Super Mario Bros. Afterlife



Click for the big version.

Oh yeah, I rock at Photoshop. Apologies to Nintendo and Snapple.

I used to love the Mario games. Super Mario Bros. 3 was the first game I played, and my dad taught me all the tricks. I even enjoyed Sunshine. But New Super Mario Bros. on the DS was bad. Real bad. The only reason I finished it was because I just had my wisdom teeth removed and I was out of commission for a few days. It was like they weren't even trying. "Hey, what new things should we add to this game?" "How about Mario becomes gigantic and destroys everything in his path?" "Okay great, meeting over. Send that shit to print."

Galaxy actually looks like fun, but I haven't played it yet. I'm just surprised they went straight from an island to outer space; it'll be hard to ONE-UP themselves now (pun intended)!

ETA: Of course now I find out they actually are making a second Galaxy game. I could change the 2 to a 3, but it still works.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Braid, Machinarium and Samorost 2 box art

For Christmas, I gave my brother Machinarium, Samarost 2, and Braid.

Since they're downloads and didn't come with boxes, I took some old computer game boxes and made some box art.







 

None of this art is mine, of course. I used the art from the games and patched it together in Photoshop. The hi-res images that came with Machinarium and Samorost 2 were of great help, and so was David Hellman's Braid Graphics Briefcase.

They're all great games, and last I checked they were super-cheap. Samorost 2 was nice and short, and I've only played the Machinarium demo, but I bought Braid for myself and it's really great. And hard. I'm still stuck in world 4, I think.