23097928
Published: 8th March, 2009
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 7th March, 2009
Inspired by the 90ies computer game BlockOut, some sort of 3D Tetris.
20559811
Published: 28th October, 2008
Last edited: 19th November, 2008
Created: 28th October, 2008
This Fontstruction was produced after plugging in the Atari 2600 the other night and falling in love all over again with the minimalist simplicity of the game Breakout.
A little Jobs/Wozniak drama from the development story of the game Breakout:
"Breakout, a discrete logic (non-microprocessor) game, was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, after the latter had "rejoined" Atari after the merge of Atari subsidiary Kee Games.
"Al Alcorn was assigned as the project manager, and began development with Cyan Engineering in 1975. The same year, Alcorn assigned Steve Jobs to design a prototype. Jobs was offered USD$750, with an extra $100 each time a chip was eliminated from the prospected design. Jobs promised to complete a prototype within four days. Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak—employee of Hewlett-Packard—was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage.
"The original deadline was met after Wozniak didn't sleep for four days straight. In the end 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a $5000 USD bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375."
20723247
Published: 11th April, 2008
Last edited: 24th February, 2009
Created: 11th April, 2008
Based on a partial lowercase I designed in 2007 inspired by Einhorn, Eclat, Deftone Stylus, and Magneto. Contains full Latin, Latin-1, and Extended Latin A character sets. No Extended Latin B though (screw you, Vietnamese and Pan-Nigerian!)
UPDATED 24 February 2009: Fixed spacing (hopefully).