Pixelhugger in the Field of Typography
“Anyone who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep.”
Frederic Goudy, American type designer
Inspired by the quote above,
Riffing off a series of typographic puns,
Finding a home a pixel font with no place in a magazine,
Emulating a range of games on the BBC Micro,
Grabbing the colour palette from a Nintendo Gameboy,
Pixelhugger in the Field of Typography was created in about 3 weeks, mainly at night while working at Deepend.
Rescue the abandoned pixels then defeat the evil Auntie Alias in this 63-room arcade-action strategy game.
Created in Director, exported in Shockwave format which reached its end of line is 2019, this game is now completely unplayable on the web unless you can find an emulator.
In classic old skool tradition, here’s map of the entire game that’s probably blurry as anything on screen right now, but will look great if you download it and view at full resolution:
