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Find out more than you ever wanted to know about John Pickford and Ste Pickford!

Hello! We're John Pickford and Ste Pickford - The Pickford Brothers - veteran video game designers and developers based in the UK.

We've worked together for over 25 years, making home computer, console and mobile games.

As well as designing original games for ourselves and others, we're also a micro development team with John being responsible for coding and Ste specialising in graphics.

We used to work on high profile console games for people like Rare, Nintendo and Sony, but we switched to 'indie' game development, self-publishing and consultancy in 2004.

Our website is used showcase some of our new game ideas, keep you up to date with what we're working on, and to document and preserve our past work where possible.

Oh, and since you're here, please try our latest game Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS devices. It's dead good!

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John Pickford

John comes up with new game concepts, works on game designs, and codes both prototypes and finished games.

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John's latest Blog post

Poposity #15

Blog posted by JPickford

Sun, 30 Dec 2012

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John's latest Archive entry

Urchin

Archive entry by JPickford

Fri, 17 Apr 2009

This sheet was stapled the Cosmic Pirate sketches I posted a few days ago. I think they were part of the materials we took to our first meeting with Rare. Urchin was a design for a Ghost & Goblins style platformer. The idea was that everything i...

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John's latest Press cutting

Famous at last (in South Manchester...

Press cutting added by JPickford

Mon, 4 May 2009

We get a little mention in this article in the South Manchester Reporter which is a free paper. It's interesting that we're mentioned alongside Ocean as I *think* our game Wetrix was the very last Ocean title produced. Ocean were bought by Infogrames ar...

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Ste Pickford

Ste works on game designs, provides the graphics and concept art, and manages the business and the website.

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Ste's latest Blog post

Naked War iOS icon - finished!

Blog posted by Ste Pickford

Wed, 23 Jan 2013

This is the finished Naked War iOS icon, following up the rough concept sketches I posted yesterday. I'm quite pleased with it, especially with the 'fruity' colours. I did spend a lot of time tweaking the skin tones, over and over, going round in circl...

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Ste's latest Archive entry

Monkey sketch

Archive entry by Ste Pickford

Thu, 15 Mar 2012

I was just scanning in some sketches from my work notebook this morning, when I spotted this doodle I did on the train to London the other week. It's an attempt at getting a good look for the main character in I Sent My Monkey To The Moon, a new game id...

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Ste's latest Press cutting

Telegraph mini-review

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford

Thu, 4 Oct 2012

The venerable UK national newspaper The Telegraph yesterday published part two of their 500 Must-Have Apps supplement, covering all mobile platforms, which finished off with a nice little mention for Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint. The list wasn't just f...

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