You’ve been wondering what the cover artwork for Phosphor Dot Fossils Level 2 will be like? So have I! Until my graphic design muse landed on my head on Saturday evening, that is. I think it’ll look like this:<\/p>\n
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\nI just like the image of Mario as the subject of an alien abduction via the Galaga boss ship’s tractor beam. As 2600 Space Invaders look on. Maybe I should hold a contest to see if anyone can name all the games whose graphics are on the cover.<\/p>\n
Here’s a shot of volumes 1 & 2 together:<\/p>\n
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But wait! There’s more! I still have to design the cover artwork for the 2-disc bundle of both discs that will be available at OEGE (and online) too. As a spoof of both last year’s heavily-hyped “Orange Box”, and as a more reverent nod to video gaming’s “Book of Genesis” moment, the 2-disc bundle will be called the Brown Box, and it’s designed slightly resemble the Brown Box prototype that led to the Magnavox Odyssey…but it’s also designed to look slightly classy.<\/p>\n
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(In the back of my mind, I can hear Noel Crombie’s interview from the Split Enz: Spellbound documentary, talking about the label re-coloring his artwork for Waiata<\/em> – “You can’t use brown on a cover, brown’s the color of shit!” \ud83d\ude1b )<\/p>\n One question that arose from the other day’s article about a major improvement in Level 2’s picture quality over the original was: will the first PDF DVD ever be remastered?<\/p>\n The answer is: I’m not sure. I’ll have to hit a point where I’ve got no other projects in the pipeline…and I’m just not sure that’s going to happen before 2009 is out. There’s also the small matter of having a decent – but not stupidly huge – stock of unsold copies of PDF 1 laying around (waiting to travel with me to OKC in April, where hopefully I can find good homes for all of them \ud83d\ude06 ). Once that supply is exhausted, and if I hit a bit of a break in the madness, I will strongly consider it. If that does happen, I may strongly consider redoing the cover artwork – which would be the fourth<\/em> version since the original OEGE ’08 design – to meet up with the “pixellated game graphics” look of Level 2’s cover.<\/p>\n Speaking of Level 2, here are some more preview shots, this time from 1981, which is now being edited:<\/p>\n You’ve been wondering what the cover artwork for Phosphor Dot Fossils Level 2 will be like? So have I! Until my graphic design muse landed on my head on Saturday evening, that is. I think it’ll look like this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-toiling-in-the-pixel-mines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Phosphor](\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q1-09\/podofo.jpg\")
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