Been a busy time for me lately. Got my first job coming out of university as a freelance graphic designer. Not as sexy as it sounds, believe me. I haven't had a lot of time for games as a result but I'm finding the time occasionally. As always I keep up with my daily design and have done a few videogame related ones which I will post here.

Hardcore Dave Says...

As I said, I do a daily design blog where I make something every day. I started January 1st and plan to go to the end of the year. I am at Day #259 at the moment. As you can imagine, ideas start to get thin. I also don't have any time to dedicate to these now that I have a job, so I take what I can get. One Saturday I decided to make a silly T-Shirt design featuring an illustration of Hardcore Dave.

The idea behind the design is that it was simple for people to paint over what I wrote under Dave and type their own, without having to hand out an editable PSD. Then Vager comes along and writes a script so that people can simply type what they want Dave to say and the image is created. Along with MisterChief he created the website hardcoredave.com where they made it super simple to create and share your own making it a hit with the community and even Whiskey Media Staff members. God knows why.

Anyway, seems as though Whiskey decided to pick it up as an official T-Shirt, except instead of Hardcore Dave Says it just says Duder. You can buy yourself one of these fine T-Shirts over at the Whiskey store. Oddly though, I knew nothing about this. As of yet Whiskey Media hasn't made any contact with me at all. I've emailed them but nothing back yet. I find it highly irregular, seems weird that I wasn't even asked if they could do this or even ask for the files.

Dead Island TNT Shirt

Well, the first episode of the new TNT format was crazy. The guys seem to have fun with Dead Island, and it's a shame the community wasn't directly involved. The truck on truck action was too much for me to take though. After the "Truck Rich" phrase was uttered somebody on tiwtter suggested a T-Shirt based on that, so I obliged. Like I said, I do a lot of extra design work and I run short on ideas. Don't look at me like that.

The 4 trucks represent Patrick, Jeff, Vinny and Brad. It's a silly throw away meme design but I thought it was a funny TNT. On the subject of the game, I'm really enjoying it. A friend bought me a copy on PC and it's a lot of fun to use the analogue combat to rip zombies apart. I don't enjoy the co-op much because there's zero patience and I like to look around for items and quests.

Posters + Designs

I've done some videogame designs recently. If you look back in my blog history you can see many, many designs I've done based on games but I'll post some of the recent ones here.

Gears of War 3

I cannot contain my excitement for this game. Gears of War blew me away early in the Xbox360's life and has become a flagship title for the platform ever since. With good reason. It set so many standards for third person gameplay, handling, controls and cinematic quality. A lot of people dismiss it for it's generic nature, limited colour palette and dudebro attitude. None of that ever bothered me, and I'm glad because I've had a great time playing with friends over the years.

I don't really have much to say about the game because I haven't played it beyond the beta, but I am replaying Gears of War 1 & 2 in preparation and the first thing I do when I get off work Tuesday is go and play this game. Assuming the post arrives while I'm out and I actually get the game. Just wanted to let people know... I think this game is pretty cool.