Take a walk down the street and you’ll notice that advertising is all around you. Since I’m building a whole city, I need a whole bunch of fake advertising to fill those shop fronts, bus stops, postered up walls, billboards etc.
I’ve got a team of top men making these imagined brands into ads and I thought I’d open it up to you guys too.
Come up with your own fake brand for any kind of product / shop / service / band / movie you can think of that would advertise in Union City and post it in the comments.*
I’m going for a Grand Theft Auto tone to them, so make them kind of kitchy and fun. Just keep them clean and make sure they don’t already exist. No zombie related stuff, it’s all pre-apocalypse.
*By posting your ideas in the comments, you’re agreeing that it’s ok for me to use your fake brands wherever and forever in all forms of media across the world. Also, you’ll get a credit in the game!
— Final Update —And we’re done. Thanks for the input guys. I’ll go over these in the next few days and get back with my shortlist of ones I liked. Those chosen receive a credit in the game and will more than likely be created into an ad that lives in Union City!
It turns out that I can talk about what I’m working on. Joey Betz and I are putting together Crush the Castle 2 at the moment and it’s the game that I’ve been taking some time off from The Last Stand: Union City to work on. These delays in production happen, but this one is very productive and I’m sure you guys will love it. I’ll be back to working on zombies again in a week or so.
Here’s a timelapse starting about halfway through an illustration of one of the characters that I’m creating for the game.
As usual, I’m doing the art / interface / design stuff and Joey’s on code. We had a really great couple of days in Irvine to flesh out how the game will come together and nailed down some cool new features for it.
The editor for the new game is a big feature and it’s turning out to be one of the best in-game editors I’ve seen in Flash. Joey has it behaving a lot like Flash, it’d be a good place for you budding game creators to start playing around.
You can read more about Crush the Castle 2 over at the ArmorBlog. Oh and no this isn’t an April Fools 
