Rush Hour

Rush Hour - Gameplay Trailer from Antonia Jade Heslop on Vimeo.

“Say hello to Colin the Commuter, this little guy needs to get to work! Help him along the London Underground in this new retro 8-bit open world adventure.”

The Cannibals

Everyone’s favourite vegetarian cannibals – actually they might even be vegan.

“The three cannibals seen in this game [Curse of Monkey Island (MI3)] are Lemon Head, Pineapple Head and Banana Head. The cannibals have now also completely abandoned their cannibalistic nature and consume only tofu, vegetables and fruit.” – Monkey Island Wiki

The grey one is Guybrush with a tofu mask.

Oh, and I did this by the way.

Pixel nostalgia

Everyone enjoys getting nostalgic over certain things every once in a while and I know there’s a whole lot of people out there who get nostalgic over pixels, like me. Noir Lac is clearly one of those people, so he’s made these wonderful pieces of pixel art for us to feast our nostalgia on. If nostalgia is something that needs feeding?

Pixel Superheroes

Sometimes the simplest idea/illustration/design(s) are the best. Pixels are about as simple as you can get but that doesn’t make these Pixel Superheroes by Ercan Akkaya any less awesome. Not to mention the nostalgia that pixel art brings to mind.

Some of my favourite pixel images…

In the style of Zelda

I am currently trying to draw in the style of Zelda, Wind Waker in particular (although I guess Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks are the same style as well). But I’m not actually drawing Zelda characters, I’m drawing characters from a book. So from my imagination. It’s hard – I’m not an illustrator. But maybe if I come up with anything good I will share…

The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

I also really want to play Wind Waker again but I never owned it myself. Currently watching a few copies on eBay, waiting to pounce on one of them.

Mario Kart

Yeah, I had to have a second take too. That really is Mario Kart in the style of a traditional Japanese ukiyo-e print.

jedhenry.tumblr.com

koikoikoi.com/2012/06/ukiyo-e-heroes-by-jed-henry

8-bit Google maps

Triforce Tribute

I was pointed to this by a friend on Twitter, a whole array of graphicy and illustrationy Zelda goodness.

"The Triforce Tribute is an epic multi-medium show celebrating all things Zelda. Curated by Jolby & Always With Honor. Opening Friday March 9th at 6pm and runs through April 21st 2012 at Land Gallery." – Triforce Tribute

Kokiri Forest, Trevor Basset

Link, Jolby

More Link, Meg Hunt

Gem in the grass, Jolby/Always With Honor

A little bit of Zelda (cropped), Frank Chimero

According to a post on the blog yesterday, there will be an online gallery with more of the images in soon. For now, there's some bits on this Flickr.

This is all relevant to me at the moment as tomorrow I am having a [two week early] birthday party, and the theme is "forest". That might not immediately shout Zelda at you although there are plenty of forests in the games, so I'm being a big indirect by saying "I'm going as Link!" But hey, it's my party. He wears green and is basically a forest elf.

I've made a sword and shield, and a pretty awesome (if I say so myself) Link-style hat so should look the part. I'm sure there will be photographs to share at a later date.

Yoshi costume: 1

I need more green foam to finish this, but I now have a Yoshi tail!

Another Sunday afternoon

And banjo playing pirates.

Yeah... I didn't do much work today.

Not that I ever finished Twilight Princess...

But new Zelda!

Mario is 25

I think it's about time I started playing video games again. It's been a while.

Monkey Island

The Monkey Island games are the quite simply the best video games I've ever played. I used to play the original point and click games when I was a wee girl, with my pa. The original game is older than me! And I have many fond memories of calibrating cacti and carving masks from tofu – I didn't know what tofu was before Monkey Island.

Anyway, the first two games have been remade and are available for iPhone/iPad. I don't have either of those but my dad has an iPod Touch so I eagerly made him download it.

Gizmodo also wrote an article about the MI2 special edition game.

Paper mario stop motion

This kind of thing makes me smile, (and want to play Mario).