Mousematt Ltd.


Mousematt is a UK design company run by Matthew Burton McFaul, producing motion graphics and social games.

Baltimore Drop is a big Czech hit.

This format sat shelved at Endemol after running as a game show-style web-game called 'The 24 Hour Drop'. Then, producer Brian MacSweeeney asked me to re-imagine it for a betting shop kiosk audience. Once I nailed the layout and key animations, we developed two styles for the look : one skin used a kind of 8-Ball chic with baize and brass, and this route, by Mark McClure, was produced from a Wurlitser/ pinball brief. 5 years later, Endemol continue to license this lucratively on kiosks like this one all round the world - a big market reportedly being the Czech republic.

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Update. 26/01/12 19:30

Here is the Route 1 flash demo I made - and the moodboard I did for the Wurlitser route.

 

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Why I didn't show a single game at my games interview.

I recently interviewed for a role at Mind Candy in Shoreditch, London.
It's the company behind Moshi Monsters.


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It's an amazing place, focussed clearly on the pursuit of creativity and user enjoyment. The interview was also very focussed - but not on games. The recruiter wanted to know first what I did outside of work, then the talk turned to how I frame creative challenges and how I develop them with others.


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The next day, I sent the company 5 pieces of work I had done, none of which actually were games. They were comics and game shows and cartoons.
But I realised they showed how I - and presumably a lot of game designers - actually get creative with games.

Here's the page I sent them.