Retro games are still up there amongst the best titles in the world.
There has been a mini debate amongst the kids in the office about the top 5 retro games.

We came up with the following:

1st: Mario
2nd: Streets of Rage
3rd: Street Fighter
4th: Donkey Kong
5th: Pac Man

We all can't help picking up an old gameboy / nes / snes / n64 / dreamcast / c64 / amiga / atari / megadrive / master system (yea theres many!) and playing it till our thumbs turn raw red!

I still think the old PC games are up there!! Doom, Wolfenstein, Half-Life etc!!
Feeling brave and fancy challenging us? ;)

I was going through my rss feeds from Smashing Magazine, being one of the creatives I thought that "Strategic Design: 6 steps for building successful websites" would be a good read. While reading through the post I came across something familiar! Carbonica! Nicely slotted in under "3. Determine your brand image", amazing!

It's really great to see something we've all worked so hard on popup on great sites like Smashing Magazine!

Thanks to everyone who has worked hard on this project and a big thanks to Smashing Magazine for using Carbonica.

Going through my archive's I came across a font that I created a while ago when fontstruct popped up on the scene.

Fontstruct is a free modular font creation tool using Flash.

I wanted to create the smallest pixel font for small web/flash use.
You can download the file from here.

Also check out some of the other cool stuffs people are creating on fontstruct.

pxls.zip (3.98 kb)

Project account management room:

Server room:

Stairs artwork:



Tech room:



Time-lapse video of tech room: 

It's Monday afternoon in the studio, our attention turned to the donuts sat in the corner of the room teasing us.
A quick discussion on how many someone could eat within a minute soon turned into a competition.
We timed eachother to see who could eat a donut the quickest.

Times are as follows:
Alex - 24
Nat - 33
Alexy - 32
Tim - 49
Rob - 42
Matt - 36

Can you beat Alex's time of 24 seconds?

Uuuuurrrrrrrgh I feel like DEATH! Had far too much too drink... but it was a very good night in the land of Wycombe!

Anyways heres something that looks much better than I currently do... over at Smashing Magazine theres a nice list of
70 beauty-retouching photoshop tutorials.

Nice list of design trends for 2008 over at WebDesignerWall

While browsing through the RSS feeds, I came across a nice resource of SEO and marketing bits.
Have a look through:
http://blog.seoptimise.com/2008/07/78-essential-search-engine-marketing-seo-resources.html

Awesome work by Bruno Borges, a great inspiration! 

Very interesting article over at Smashing Magzine on Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs.