Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Much to say about this one. First of all, if you haven’t heard of The Binding of Isaac, go on Steam and download it for the “we’re giving it away for free” price of 5 bucks (less if you get it during a Steam sale). You’ll get countless hours of fun from the randomly generated [...]

Man, it’s good to have a scanner. I’ve had this sitting in my sketchbook for what seems like ages but it’s finally done. It’s not bloody or too violent but the prospect of Mario’s hand exploding should leave lots to the imagination, I think. The background is my nod to the Atari cover of the [...]

And the battles continue… The reason for doing this piece if two-fold. The first reason is that my Mario Versus stuff is all pretty saturated, bright and colorful which I actually like, but I also wanted something that had a different feel to it and what better than the monochromatic Limbo for that? The second [...]

No, this isn’t Mario vs. God. It’s Mario vs. Faith from Mirror’s Edge, the first character of the female persuasion to go up against the ol’ plumber. Mirror’s Edge is a great little game that has left a rather strong lasting impression in me. It isn’t really about combat so I didn’t want to do [...]

So it’s Master Chief with UNSC weapons and Mario with Covenant weapons. That was my main drive behind this one. And, of course, they had to be fighting on Halo. No question about it. I didn’t feel up to the task of rendering the background as realistically as I wanted (to make it fit with [...]

I’ll be honest here, I don’t like Angry Birds. It isn’t so much that I have something against the game itself or casual gaming for that matter, it’s the fact that, for some reason, society has deemed Angry Birds, as mediocre as it is, to be the greatest video game pop culture icon of the [...]

Pretty sure this is the first one to feature a cameo which is something I’ve been thinking about doing since way back when I did Mario vs. Meat Boy (wanted to put Bandage Girl in there somewhere). This also marks the first one of these Mario Versus pieces where I actually did thumbnail layouts before [...]

I really like how this turned out. I’ll be honest, I played Psychonauts a few years back and my memory of it is a bit fuzzy. I do remember that each level was completely unique so I had difficulty in deciding what to use as a background. I ultimately went with the swirly thing because [...]

Confession: I sunk way too much time into the first Disgaea. This came out pretty well, I think. I know that pixelated Mario heads for maps have been done to death in every game with a map editor but it just made too much sense to put it here. It was done in Google SketchUp [...]

This is both one of my least favorites (for reasons I won’t get into right now) and the most unintentionally sexual one in the Mario Versus Series so far. Oh, well. I think the idea of Sackboy furiously ripping out Mario’s moustache to complete the full outfit still has merit though. Next up I’ll do either [...]