Mastodon Feed
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.
i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.
this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own
update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.
more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/
Attachments:
- A woodcut style line art illustration of a soldier, bird and sailing vessel caught in a great gale on an island. Palm trees bend with the wind and everything is being blown away with tremendous force (remote)
- Islands Build a powerful Caribbean island empire while inciting unrest and revolution in your opponent's land. T he story goes that, on the orders of King George III, two aristocratic brothers left London in the spring of 1799 and set sail for the Leeward Islands in the West Indies. The king was determined to turn the newly appropriated islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher into profitable colonies, and the brothers, as governors, were given five years in which to do the job. They arrived in the West Indies in early January of the following year and, each assuming control over one island, set about the task at hand. To all accounts, those early years were tough, with famine, hurricanes and rebel uprisings constantly threat- ening disaster. Whether or not the governors met the king's expectations remains unclear, because records are fragmented. However, today the islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher are thriving members of the British Commonwealth. Welcome to Islands, an educational strategy game that puts you in the shoes of one of the governors, charged with building your island into a viable economic and military entity. This may be accomplished through treachery against the other island or honest hard work in nourishing your resources. Though Islands is meant to be played by two, you can also enjoy striving for a high score alone. Starting to Build Type in the following boot program: 10 IF A=0 THEN A = 1: LOAD" + ISLE ML ",8,1 20 SYS 32768 Then type in Listing 1 (remote)
- Two pages of BASIC code from a type-in program that make graphics for the Islands game. (remote)
