You’ve been wondering what the cover artwork for Phosphor Dot Fossils Level 2 will be like? So have I! Until my graphic design muse landed on my head on Saturday evening, that is. I think it’ll look like this:
I just like the image of Mario as the subject of an alien abduction via the Galaga boss ship’s tractor beam. As 2600 Space Invaders look on. Maybe I should hold a contest to see if anyone can name all the games whose graphics are on the cover.
Here’s a shot of volumes 1 & 2 together:
But wait! There’s more! I still have to design the cover artwork for the 2-disc bundle of both discs that will be available at OEGE (and online) too. As a spoof of both last year’s heavily-hyped “Orange Box”, and as a more reverent nod to video gaming’s “Book of Genesis” moment, the 2-disc bundle will be called the Brown Box, and it’s designed slightly resemble the Brown Box prototype that led to the Magnavox Odyssey…but it’s also designed to look slightly classy.
(In the back of my mind, I can hear Noel Crombie’s interview from the Split Enz: Spellbound documentary, talking about the label re-coloring his artwork for Waiata – “You can’t use brown on a cover, brown’s the color of shit!” 😛 )
One question that arose from the other day’s article about a major improvement in Level 2’s picture quality over the original was: will the first PDF DVD ever be remastered?
The answer is: I’m not sure. I’ll have to hit a point where I’ve got no other projects in the pipeline…and I’m just not sure that’s going to happen before 2009 is out. There’s also the small matter of having a decent – but not stupidly huge – stock of unsold copies of PDF 1 laying around (waiting to travel with me to OKC in April, where hopefully I can find good homes for all of them 😆 ). Once that supply is exhausted, and if I hit a bit of a break in the madness, I will strongly consider it. If that does happen, I may strongly consider redoing the cover artwork – which would be the fourth version since the original OEGE ’08 design – to meet up with the “pixellated game graphics” look of Level 2’s cover.
Speaking of Level 2, here are some more preview shots, this time from 1981, which is now being edited:
Awesome — glad to see I made the back cover! (It’s Jack Flack!)