During the Game Jam at the 360iDev San Jose 2010, Dan Byers (@coffeedan) worked on and showed a head-to-head tank game for iPad. The game has since been reworked as a space game, and Dan asked me to press the “make look better” button. Below are some samples of the work I did on Star Fighter X2, including a cool time-lapse video of building the spaceship in 3D.

View the game in the App Store.

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Ship

Here’s the original concept I was provided for the ship, along with the final version.

And some nice high-res renders:

Building the ship in “Fast Motion”

This was made using a sweet script I got from @majicDave that takes a screenshot every ten seconds.

I also made some animated power-up graphics, hand-painted nebulas, and made the Manic Gaming website.

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