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Space Pirates!

shoutOut on 26/3/10 by nicetomeetyou in

Be the envy of all your friends! Get the official “Space Pirates” t-shirt! With advanced 8-bit graphics and realistic sound effects, this is sure to be the biggest game release of 1987. Play as Captain John Starslayer and pilot your ship through 14 levels of unimaginable danger – dodge asteroids and the space police, battle the villainous Commander Zorg, smuggle supplies to the outer colonies, and get the girl! The future of the galaxy is in your hands. Available for the Atari, Nintendo and Commodore 64 gaming systems.
This piece is inspired by old TV-game adverts I used to see in comic books. They always showed the most awesome cover art (although the graphics in the games never looked anything like the pictures on the box). 7 colours including white.

shoutBacks

Awesome design nicetomeetyou. Amazing illustration and use of colour! I’m actually feeling the whole “cheapness” thing :) Isnt that how games used to look back in the day anyway? heehee

shoutBack on 31/3/10 by Lexi87

Great use of colour!! Really emphasizes the design on the T-shirt. This design won’t look bad on white either. Love the way you put it in the form of a advert!! Go Springleap!!!! nicely DONE!!

shoutBack on 30/3/10 by Zave

Thanks for the good words guys! @foxyCleopatra: yeah understand what you mean about the cheapness – i was actually kinda going for that, but maybe didn’t strike the balance I wanted. Was aiming for that level of cheapness where it becomes obviously intentional, and is awesome because of that (dunno if that explanation helps). Still pretty happy with it though.

By the way, the colour palette comes from an ad for the atari game of the movie “Tron” that I found in the back of an old comic.

shoutBack on 29/3/10 by nicetomeetyou

I like the colour composition, but I’m just not loving the overall look. It’s come across as ‘cheap’. And it’s a bit busy. A little too much going on for me I’m afraid. Don’t think I’d be wearing this shirt…

shoutBack on 29/3/10 by FoxyCleopatra

I like this one

shoutBack on 26/3/10 by Sheps

Dude this looks so much like the old school art they used for game boxes. I like your bad guy…very Emperor Ming ;)

shoutBack on 26/3/10 by DuncanBoxie

Niiice!!! love the retro feel, oh and very well composed!

shoutBack on 26/3/10 by CHUCKY