Blog and Portfolio of Tokyo based web producer & illustrator, Hawken King.
Wario Ware Wallpapers
30th of Aug, 2004ce* in: babelmedia
We made a Girls version and Boys version, all of it lost on Nintendo Europe as usual.
Transformers T-Shirts
18th of Aug, 2004ce* in: babelmedia, dadako, illustration, print
Printed about 1000 of these for an Atari Viral Marketing campaign, during the launch of the PS2 Transformers computer game.
Koi Koi
9th of Aug, 2004ce* in: babelmedia, games
Fairly simple game, that we went on to reskin a few times. This game was really cute, well about as cute as we could get it without the client rejecting it.
Bockbusters “Gold Run”
30th of Jul, 2004ce* in: babelmedia, games
Technically this is one of the best quiz games I’ve seen on iTV, it’s also the last game Marc “never pays his invoices” Coupar worked on before he left babel to set up Bedrock TV.
In the final version of this interactiveTV game I had to disguise the fact that this is Bob Holness, because his daughter (who looks after his IP) couldn’t convince fremantle media (who own Blockbusters) to give her money… so I gave him a dodgy looking moustache! I recon Bob would have wanted his likeness used, by all accounts Blockbusters was his life!
The main game screen is dressed in authenic late 80’s studio set, faithfully recreated by my artist Mat.
Atari Global Site
12th of Jul, 2004ce* in: babelmedia, websites
Atari asked us to pitch for the new global website (for the second round) but again closed off the pitch after we submitted the designs. The Atari global website was later made inhouse by Atari’s team in America, and looks suprisingly like the above images…
SCI demo disc
11th of Jul, 2004ce* in: babelmedia
- can’t say fairer than that. This was a good project for us, bringing in an 70~80% profit margin.
Nes Classics 2
9th of Jul, 2004ce* in: babelmedia
A fun project for us, design wallpapers and screensavers for the release of “NES classics” - a new Game Boy Advance SP case and releases of old games from the 8-bit days (which were overpriced and somewhat of a let down, rose tinted glasses only last so long! All of these games can be played on emulation for free, and can be readily found on the internet).
I took my standard approach of dumping the roms, stealing the tiled graphics and making new levels for the wallpapers.
Domino Fall
9th of Jun, 2004ce* in: babelmedia, games
This is a re-skin of the DNA game we made earlier.
Tribal GBA
20th of May, 2004ce* in: babelmedia
Many thanks to Stuart Knox for lending his arm to one of these wallpapers. Nintendo of Europe don’t usually require us to create material from scratch but for this project I thought it necessary, so the wallpapers resemble print adverts because of the limited materials supplied. These are the more gritty versions, Nintendo of Europe are quite conservative (unlike thier Japanese counterparts) so some of the grit was removed.
F-Zero Legends
ce* in: babelmedia
Another classic pixel wallpaper, this time showing a section of track from the game. Of course in the actual game you never get to see the track like this…
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