friendster analytics
Read Daryl's Blog

Read Daryl's Resume
Druglord Wars Game Art

Druglord Wars Gameplay

Druglord Wars Splash

Druglord Wars City Images

Druglord Wars Concept Art

Druglord Wars Icon Sheet
Client: Epic Applications
Software: Photoshop
Format: PNGs, JPGs
Platform: Blackberry Mobile Devices

Download Druglord Wars for your Blackberry

Druglord Wars began as an upgrade project to the existing Berry Wars game released in May 2009. The game was going to more cities, dealing more drugs and moving to higher levels. What began as an upgrade project, turned into a new, stand-alone game with 140 custom graphics.

Using Sin City as my inspiration, I produced the first concept of the look and feel of the game. Some technical challenges with this project included multiple blackberry device support, so the game needed to look good at 480x360, 480x320 and 320x240 resolution. We also did a complete interface redesign compared to its predecessor. It took a few trials - particularly for variable font sizes between the various supported devices - before getting the layout right.

140 custom graphics later and the vision of the game was complete including:

  • Game Icon, Logo Splash Screen and Main Menu Screen
  • 24 city backgrounds - 12 distinct locations with two backgrounds each that needed the quality vs. file size finely balanced
  • 50 item icons - divided into 17 drugs (2 versions of each), 8 weapons and 8 storage containers.
  • 40+ custom buttons - with accompanying select overlay graphics. Since we can't load a new font on the device, all use of the text needed to be images.
  • 10+ event images - composed of 8 attackers, loan shark, drug bust and drug flood events.

I am very proud of this game, and it was an absolute blast to work on.