Ben Hartnett

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Fun with a Flight Simulator

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tiling cliff textures for flight simulator by Ben Hartnett

This little project is unique in my art history, and will seem dumb to real computer game artists! I made some free cliff textures based on rock photos for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002/2004, taking far too long to do so! The results have been downloaded a few thousand times from a number of sites (including Avsim, Aussim, FSField, FSPlanet, FSDome, Simviation and others. These links are slowly disappearing, it seems). I’m a star!

My textures (with some colour tweaks) even ended up in a project called “Vista Australis” (“VOZ”), and I became the smallest contributor to a major freeware success as a result. They claim an ‘installed base’ of over 350, 000 users! They’ve since left my textures behind in order to develop a new, much-improved payware version of their product called “Full Terrain Experience” (which I hope to enjoy one day) but my experience still gives me a buzz, as silly as that may be!

 

Click Tac Toe ‘Phone Game

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phone game title screen and comic by Ben Hartnett

Click Tac Toe comic

In stages from late 2007 to the first few months of 2008, I worked on some art for a Bluetooth ‘phone game called “Click Tac Toe”, a clever cross between Tic Tac Toe and Battleship. You can actually try the game for free; in fact, I believe it’s totally free for a limited time. I’ve worked for this chap once before and both experiences were very positive.

Both the ’splash page’ and the instructional comic were drawn on paper first. They were later redrawn in vectors in Adobe Illustrator in order to give better file size options. The splash page shown above isn’t the vector version; it was painted in Photoshop, and was designed to be cropped into different compositions to suit different phones.