Creative Review

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The landscape of gaming has changed dramatically since the rise of early arcade video games in the 70s. While there has been much written about the influence of arcade games on popular culture, a new book is honing in on a small but vital detail of the gaming experience: the pixel typeface. Puzzli © Metro/ Banpresto, 1995.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Arcade Game Typography focuses on arcade games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, as Tetris and Space Invaders exploded in popularity — a time when fonts were crucial in communicating messages and attracting potential players. We might not immediately think of fonts. TO: Absolutely.

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Design Week

MAY 7, 2020

Projects usually take around 45 minutes to an hour, and are largely split between arcade-style coding games, invention and design activities and coding. Intending to give young people “brain food”, the topics covered will include design, creative writing, animation and video making. And as they do, they earn badges.

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Inspiration Feed

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Up until recently, the only way to produce stellar music was to endure grueling hours in a music studio. That’s regardless of whether you had vocal skills as impeccable as those of Marvin Gaye or Whitney Houston. But not anymore.…

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Canny

MARCH 17, 2022

Another (and probably my favourite of the bunch) features a yeti walking away from an arcade machine looking miffed. Anyway, let’s get back on topic. One features a ghost playing an acoustic guitar while a snake wearing a top hat lingers in the background. Which explains why the biro-like blue is one of only three unique colours used.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Interviewee: Well, I know this may seem a bit old fashioned, but there’s this arcade close to where I live that has a bunch of games from the 90s and I like… Being comfortable with silence will take some practice. It’d be awesome if we had more options there, or perhaps the players could come up with their own topic cards.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 14, 2023

If you’ve read my blog, you might know that I’m really into this topic. To tackle the complex topic of using sound to improve player performance, I started by thinking about the types of gameplay challenges that players face in video games. Old-school arcade games like Space Invaders and Asteroids and visual puzzles like Where’s Wally?

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