Sydney Treads the Catwalk - Released!

The sequel to Ivan Dixon's Sydney Finds Employment has been released.

Sydney Treads the Catwalk finds our lackluster hero fighting to save his television show, "Better Homeless Living." It seems the rating are low and the big man himself, Mr. Corps, has given Sydney an ultimatum: get the viewers or get lost!


Featuring art by Ivan Dixon and music by yours truly. Download and play the game HERE

Sydney 2 in production

"Sydney, a bum turned star, finds his new career in the media has hit a hiccup when his television show doesn’t receive the ratings it expected. Keith Corps (head of Business Corps) warns Syd that if he can’t even compete with the fashion channel he’ll be forced to axe the show and throw the lovable tramp back on to the streets. After stumbling onto a string of suspicious accidents within the fashion industry Sydney and his friends uncover a mystery that could cost them their lives or worse- their limbs!"


Sydney Treads the Catwalk, the sequel to the AGS game Sydney Finds Employment, should be the best adventure game of 2007! With Ivan Dixon on the pixels and myself with the tunes, it'll be good times had by all. Read the production thread at the Adventure Game Studio forum as well as Ivan's own blog

SFE: The Original Soundtrack

All the music I created for the indie game, Sydney Finds Employment, is now available and uncut for your listening pleasure over at SoundClick. Kudos to Ivan for creating the cd cover which will eventually be printed out as a cd envelope to be distributed as promotional offerings, gifts for friends, and whatnot.

Check eet!

In other news, I'm sick yet again. Down with the flu because I decided that cuddling with my sick little 20 month old niece was a better idea. Curse that devil child! It's been a long time since I've puked up this much liquid. Water is NOT my friend. Anyways, I won't go into any more detail.

Sydney Finds Employment: Finally released!

Sydney is a bum. And he's a bum with a problem. A new policy set in place by a joint venture between the political parties, churches and big businesses to rid the streets of homelessness and unemployment sparks the catalyst for this adventure game.
Part comedy and partially a message to the public about the problems on the streets, SFE is a highly entertaining and visually appealing adventure in a style long forgotten by modern gaming.
With story, coding and graphics by Ivan Dixon (aka iSTVAN) and music by Steve Larabie (aka Pixelblink aka me), this is an all out PixelJoint admin showcase! Not to mention it features 100% pixel graphics.

Download the game here!

Origami Hero

It's been awhile since I've posted so here's some scoops for y'all. As you've noticed, I'm trying to redesign this site (slowly but surely). It's a work in progress but I plan to add some visual navigation to this mess of things. Let me know what you think so far.

Sydney Finds Employment is just about ready to be released as I've completed 95% of the music. Hoping it'll get done before 2006 is over. After that, I have some ideas for another point 'n click adventure game that I'll try and get Ivan in on. Mum's the word for now but, once the ball gets rolling and we have some screen shots, I'll release the details.

On that note, I'd like to introduce you to some awesome indie games I played recently from Bernie over at OrigamiHero:

Cedric & The Revolution tells the story of a couple of guys fed up with the king's unruly rule. They decide to kickstart the revolution. But how will they convince the rest of the population to join in on the protest? Find out how it all goes down and download it.



Reactor 9 begins with a bang... literally. You play a convict stuck in the bowels of the prison basement with your correctional officer when all of a sudden the ground shakes and you're both trapped. The reactor is about to blow sky high and you're the only one able to save everyone. Featuring a trust meter, you must use your skills and wit to convince the CO to help you along your quest.

Darkside Adventures is a 2d platform game in the same vein as Super Mario World. Battle through a magical world full of bizarre enemies as you attempt to retrieve the lost crown.


All of these games can be found and downloaded at OrigamiHero

Mr. Magnet's Electro Madness

Last weekend I took part in the 72hr Game Development Competition. Teams of up to 3 join up and create, from complete scratch, a workable game based on a theme that gets voted upon. Granted, I didn't get into a team until the middle of the competition so I had my work cut out for me. This time around the theme was magnets. 25 games were submitted for the event and there are some excellent games to be played, particularly the Team Calypson game. Amazing art! Download our game (under Wizzard Creations) at the 72hrGDC download page

Check out my version of our game in this neat little mockup:

I'm also still finalizing all the music for Ivan Dixon's game, Sydney Finds Employment (SFD), an old school adventure platform game about a homeless guy on his quest to put an end to the "final solution" and find his place in the world. Part comedy and partially a message to the public about the problems on the streets, SFD is a highly entertaining and visually appealing adventure... not to mention the awesome music (wink).
Here's a screenshot of the music... just for silliness' sake:

Pixel News!

Ivan Dixon has been working hard on Sydney Finds Employment, his old school adventure game (eg. Day of the Tentacle). Work is almost completed and I have the pleasure of providing the music for the game. The game revolves around the struggles of it's main character, Sydney the homeless dude, on his quest to find (what else?) employment. Loving the screen shots so far and can't wait to try out the game.

Pixeljoint is hosting another halloween challenge, Pixelween 2: The Lesser of Two Evils, in which pixel artists must create a scene using the template of two horror movie villians battling it out. We've got some great submissions so far. The challenge ends October 29th, so if you're hankering for some pixelling you'd better get cracking as there's only 8 days left!

And now for my latest pixel: