player_1: Jamestown Charge Ship Dress Shirt

The latest in our player_1 collection was released over the weekend, featuring Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony.

Again, another personal favourite of mine, I spent days on the Martian frontier shooting at pixelated space aliens and attempting to keep from throwing my controller across the room from sheer frustration ;) I think at one point we placed #83 on the leaderboards going through the Gauntlet on Divine. I also found myself humming bits of the soundtrack while I did the dishes and similarly inane daily tasks. It all shortly turned into a well of inspiration, and soon I found myself on the phone with the guys at Final Form Games talking about shirts and junk.

The art used for the shirt is straight from the ship and weapon options screen, for the Charge Ball ship.

You can get the shirt here, priced at $35.

Coincidentally, Jamestown was just released in this year's Humble Indie Bundle, please check it out and donate what you can.

And Happy Holidays internet-land!

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player_1 and Space Pirates and Zombies

player_1 is our new collection of licensed merchandise. It features independently developed video games and their awesome art. Each shirt uses in-game imagery and graphics screen printed in white on black dress shirts. The idea behind the collection is to provide high quality shirts for gamers and save them from the fashion coma that is the screen printed t-shirt.

The first in the collection is for the game SPAZ, or Space Pirates and Zombies. After playing countless hours of the game, I was inspired by a lot of the blueprints for the different ships and all the fantastic background art that appeared through out my many space adventures.

With sourcing the shirts from a local suit shop in LA's fashion district, we were able to find an amazing artist and screen printer who worked in the area as well.

Shortly after fidgeting on the art and trips to the screen printer, we are proud to present the officially licensed Space Pirates and Zombies Dress Shirt.

We will be launching a new shirt from a different game every two weeks and currently have about 4 more titles that will be involved, so keep watch for more merch!

Stay casual, fashionable, and video games :D

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Behind the Magick:A Short Story About a Bathrobe

My power colour is Purple.

After jamming out on some local co-op with a friend -- me on the mouse and keys, he on his gamepad...
My friend: "Wouldn't it be cool if you made Magicka Robes?"
Me: "Wouldn't it be cool if I made Magicka Bathrobes?"

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Old Projects, New Post:The Left 4 Dead Collection

For the past year I have been focused on some of my own designs as seen on my storefront 16 Bit Fashion. The inspiration behind many of the items are found in comic book and videogame art and culture. This is the first item that appeared on the store that received any recognition in the world of geekery. It is the Health Pack, the in-game item used to heal your teammates who become injured by various zombie inflicted afflictions in the videogame Left 4 Dead. After nights of executing zombies with my friends, and days of sewing together various projects... the merger of the two ideas seemed inevitable. Noticing that there wasn't anything else like it currently available to gamers such as myself, it came into creation and was quickly brought to the attention of Destructoid, a very popular gaming news website and blog. Shortly after, it was the only thing I was making for quite a while... they are currently still in high demand for convention goers, cosplayers, and overall enthusiast. Listed below are the many stages of the design through this last year.

In this experience, I have become aware of the marketability of design and importance of versatility and growth of a product. It is something I attempt to carry with all the items I continue to create for my store, and an awareness I bring to the development of all projects I work on for other designers.


The Health pack in-game.


Another picture of the pack as it appears in the game.


June 2009: L4D Health Pack


June 2009: L4D Health Pack Inspired Coin Purses


August 2009: L4D Health Pack with FIRST AID Detail


February 2010: L4D Health Pack Inspired Purse


April 2010: L4D2 Health Pack


June 2010: L4D2 iPad/Netbook Messenger Bag





Currently finishing a custom Health Pack that will fit a MacBook size 13" x 9".

UPDATE 2011: Although the Health Packs are no longer available to purchase, you can find them here.

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Old Projects, New Post:180 iSnuggy

I designed and produced this iSnuggy for Ron over at Headcase Games to promote his iPhone App "180".


First Prototype: Moon Heart Star Coins


Final Design: 180 Logo


Production

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