Drop Dead Interactive - 2008

Throughout my studies during university, I have helped a fellow developer with odd jobs for his games. This varied from minor background art, brainstorming and developing animations. He is now the founder the indie company Drop Dead Interactive, which has been running for over three years. The company has produced various games for XBOX Live Arcade and is now developing for other platforms, such as PC, Xbox One and mobile devices.

When Joshua formed his company, he asked me to create a logo animation using his logo image. I accepted and the finished logo can be seen in the first 16 seconds in video below.

[Logo: First 16 seconds]

I developed all the artwork and audio, while a fellow colleague animated the character and grave hand. The collaboration was a great opportunity for us to concept a crazy animation expressing that this company's games will make you drop dead of excitement. However, we had to change the concept to conform to 16 seconds.

[Logo: First 14 seconds]

However, a newer and more polished version was then created by an old friend a year later, as you can see in the video above.

Joshua Adeloye is a regular Xblig contributor and is often an attendee at GameCity. We collaborated on a couple of projects after this and he will soon be releasing his newest game Gear Gauntlet on Xbox One.