Tuesday 30 May 2017

Raiden Inspired MaLa Layout for Shump Arcade Cabinet

I had a repeat customer looking for a Raider inspired layout for a friend.
If I'm correct the cabinet was going to be a vertical cabinet and used for SHUMP games.
(Shoot Em Up's).

The customer was really happy with his previous layout and pretty much gave me the creative control on this.

The info windows were inspired by the Raiden arcade flyer.

All in all I think the project came out really well and I'm happy to say another happy customer.

Monday 26 December 2016

Joe's Arcade

I truly appreciate all my customers.
I love that I can contribute to some truly incredible projects.
Some of the stuff I see over on BYOAC knocks my socks off.

Check out Barrel Of Kong for example, what an incredible project.
You have some AMAZING projects over there. Some truly talented, creative builders.

Joe was pointed in my direction from users of the BYOAC site.
He wanted me to modify an existing layout and I told him I could not, and would not.
It's not what I do............I do custom work.
Why pay me to modify somebody else work ?

I told Joe I would do something custom for him and that he would love it.
HE DID!

We finished off this MALA layout with a custom load screen and sound effects from Hyper Sports.
(Joe's favorite game)

KOMRADE Marquee

I love repeat business. It lets me know I'm doing something right and that people are truly happy with the product/service they receive.

I had the pleasure of working on a marquee for a customer.
Previously I had done a MaLa layout for his "KOMRADE" project.
Now I had the chance to work on the marquee for this project.
Next up is the control panel.



Monday 3 October 2016

Back To The Future MaLa Layout

I've been approached to create a layout inspired by Back To The Future.
This will be used on a MAME cabinet with a horizontal arcade monitor.
I've designed it at 1024 x 768 this way I can easily scale it down to the required resolution after.
The customer wanted the layout to reflect the Back To The Future circuit.

I used an LED style font for the games list, and a font called "Impact Label" for the labels.

I've got two different backgrounds for this layout. One a galvanized steel background, the other a
polished metal.

For the load screen I was thinking something inspired by the Hover Board graphics, I'm awaiting the customers feedback on the idea.

I wanted to share the work in progress samples.





Sunday 31 July 2016

KOMRADE MaLa Layout

I was approached the other day to work on a layout with a Soviet theme and feel.
The story behind this layout and what it means is an awesome one.
(not my story to tell, but I was honored to work on this)

The layout is 640 x 480 and has both a horizontal and vertical layout option.
Each version has a custom load screen.

It took me about 24 hours to complete the layout for the customer.



Wednesday 6 July 2016

Custom Street Fighter Project

I was asked if I could help create a complete set of art for a Street Fighter cabinet.
I've done a few bartops, but never a full size machine. I'm concerned about some of the resolutions,
some great images are available. But would they look good blown up ?
I'm unsure, but I will print samples when I get final approval.

It's a big job, I'm taking it slow. Getting one image done, then moving to the other.
For now I'm doing the marquee. You can see the evolution of the marquee. The lighter images were early on, the darker black background is what I'm working with now.

I thought I would share the samples.

As always feedback, input, criticism all welcome.











Tuesday 5 July 2016

Sienar Systems Mala Layout

I was approached to do a Star Wars layout recently. Shockingly despite the popularity of Star Wars I had never done a Star Wars themed Mala layout before.

The layout was designed at a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels and scaled down to 800 x 600 @ 100 DPI.

It features a gameslist window, video/snaps preview and a separate window for game info.
 (not shown in this sample)
It was designed with two custom load screens and features the Imperial March as background music.
The music begins to play as soon as the layout boots up.
I gotta say it is pretty cool! Darth Vader sound effects are featured upon game start and game quit.

If I can find some cool R2D2 sounds I'll modify the sound effects to feature some additional sounds.