VIDEO: READ-ONLY MEMORY WRAPPING SENSIBLE SOFTWARE ART BOOK CAMPAIGN
With less than 48 hours remaining on his Kickstarter campaign, London designer Darren ‘Wallzo‘ Wall has just put together the above awesome pixel-animation to remind people that the time is nigh to order a copy of his Swiss-minimal ‘definitive biography’ of foundational UK indies Sensible Software, featuring a guest appearance by company co-founder Jon Hare.
If you missed it the first time around, the previously-featured campaign — which has since managed to get the necessary funding to move forward — includes backer rewards starting from a copy of the limited-run book itself serving as a visual history of the Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder developers, as well as a 12-inch EP featuring studio recordings of songs from the above. See more about all of the above at the project’s Kickstarter page.
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THE WELL-READ PLAYER: SENSIBLE SOFTWARE & PUNCH-OUT!! BOOKS WORTH INVESTIGATING
With roughly two weeks left to go on each, two games culture design books on Kickstarter that look well worth your support: the first, Read-Only Memory (a fantastic name for a games print house) is putting together this look back at the history of seminal UK developer Sensible Software, which, even just in preview, looks gorgeously minimalist/Swiss/grid-ed out, and comes — at higher levels — with its own 12″ LP.
(As a side note: if the Amiga slipped you by — as it did many Americans — the campaign has inspired QWOP/CLOP/GIRP developer Foddy to put together this primer on the greatest games of the platform’s past.)
Meanwhile, Melbourne designer Daniel Lanciana is working up this exhaustive look back at all aspects of Punch-Out!!s past, with an “unofficial 240-page encyclopedia” that includes a cross-platform history, biographies, strategies, merchandise & more — the hitch being that it also includes a number of copyrighted materials he’s only just beginning to receive word from Nintendo on for possible inclusion. Follow his progress on that front here.
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