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While rough, everybody I've shown the dragon to has been extremely impressed

I do love how those of us with no programming experience can contribute to homewbrew development. I'm not even an artist like you and I was able to design the sprites for the Seawolf mines. Also, being able to playtest homebrews and provide suggestions to the authors is great, especially when put you suggestion into the game.

 

I can't wait for you to finish editing Stella at 20. While I've owned volume I for years, I can't wait to finally see volume II.

Thanks for putting all your work in one place, Nathan. Otherwise it would have taken a lot of research to identify which labels were yours.

 

(If you haven't noticed yet, my current avatar is Nathan's work as well.)

That is certainly an impressive list - I think it clearly cements your position as the leading homebrew artist on the Atari 2600. I am always amazed by how much of a difference some good artwork can make to a game - it creates the all-important first impression that often decides if a game is worth playing or not. The latest batch of homebrews have artwork that compares favourably to the very best games back in the day, and I think this is very important for their continuing popularity.

 

Chris

That is certainly an impressive list - I think it clearly cements your position as the leading homebrew artist on the Atari 2600.

Thanks - but I think David Exton is a much better artist. His labels and manuals are absolutely outstanding. It's the kind of work I look at and think, "Man... I've got to rip that idea off someday." (Not that I'm trying to put myself out of work or anything.)

 

I've lost count of how many 2600 games he's done artwork for, but I think the Fall Down manual may be my favorite (and he's got the coolest website, too).

Oh... I thought Chris meant in-game artwork, where I'd fully agree with him. For label/manual artwork I have to agree with you. I'm programming new games all the time, just to see some new art from Dave

 

Well, anyway you both just rule

 

(And of course I like your label artwork as well! )

I need to be careful not to step on any toes here, since all contributions to the 2600 scene are appreciated. However, I was referring primarily to sprite graphics, though your other artwork is also very impressive.

 

Chris

Thanks for the compliments. Yeah, I guess I've fallen into a nice little niche for doing game graphics, although there are certainly others around who are really good at it, too. I'd really like to see more people get into it, since they tend to come up with approaches that are different (and often better) than mine.