Not sure if anyone will be interested in this but I did a lot of pixel work on Amiga games in the 90's. I have a website for anyone intersted at:

www.mjonesgraphics.com


Check out the "Past Projects" button and enjoy. Some games I worked on were Darkmere, Dragonstone, Stormlord, Rubicon, and Total Recall.

for a direct link try:

http://users.adelphia.net/~mjonesgraphics/darkmere.html

(Darkmere)

Mark Jones

Edited by mjonesgraphics

Thanks for reporting the broken link. Should all be fixed now.
And thanks for the praise. Not having used any extra colours before, we didn't know what we were miissing. Having to go back now, from having millions of colours to just a few would be quite a jolt!

Mark.

There's a few games I haven't added to my website, basically 'cause the stuff I did was crap! There's at least two otehr Mark Jones' in the industry, or were in the industry. One was an artist with me at Ocean, and another was at some other British company. There may be more....


Episode II - Art  of the Clones

I know this is an old thread, but Mark was always seen as one of the best.

I come from back then, and I can say that going back to palleted graphics was easier than I thought it would be. The problem back then was not necessarily the lack of colours. The lack of greyscales was harder to deal with. Now you can keep your work to 32 colours, but it can look really nice with all the intermediate shades you could wish for. I have yet to do anything big, with a lot of subjects, but with 256 colours with 256 greyscales, I am sure I will not be looking for a "good enough" colour to add to that difficult pixel, or dithering like mad like I once had to for days at a time.

Arkanoid and several Elder Scroll games? You sir are amazing.

That is why it is always more fun being artistic director. I couldn't take orders from someone ever again.