Welcome The Pickford Bros' Website
Find out more than you ever wanted to know about John Pickford and Ste Pickford!
Hello! We're John Pickford and Ste Pickford - The Pickford Brothers - veteran video game designers and developers who switched to 'indie' game development and self-publishing in 2004.
We used to work on high profile console games for people like Rare, Nintendo and Sony, but we swapped the large teams, big budgets, expensive licenses and crazy overtime of mainstream game development for cosy home offices, low budgets, creative freedom and seeing our families now and again.
Our website is used showcase some of our new game ideas, keep you up to date with what we're working on, and to document and preserve our past work where possible.
Oh, and since you're here, please try our latest game Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS devices. It's free, and dead good!
» Pickford Bros Career Timeline
John comes up with new game concepts, works on game designs, and codes both prototypes and finished games.
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John's latest Blog post
Is fairness the first casualty of b...
Blog posted by JPickford
Tue, 1 May 2012
Over the last few weeks I've heard of a business practice amongst indie developers that I found quite shockingly unfair. This lead me to thinking about the concept of fairness in business. I suppose, along with my brother Ste, I've been a businessman ...
John's latest Archive entry
Archive entry by JPickford
Fri, 17 Apr 2009
This sheet was stapled the Cosmic Pirate sketches I posted a few days ago. I think they were part of the materials we took to our first meeting with Rare. Urchin was a design for a Ghost & Goblins style platformer. The idea was that everything i...
John's latest Press cutting
Famous at last (in South Manchester...
Press cutting added by JPickford
Mon, 4 May 2009
We get a little mention in this article in the South Manchester Reporter which is a free paper. It's interesting that we're mentioned alongside Ocean as I *think* our game Wetrix was the very last Ocean title produced. Ocean were bought by Infogrames ar...
Ste works on game designs, provides the graphics and concept art, and manages the business and the website.
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Ste's latest Blog post
Blog posted by Ste Pickford
Fri, 11 May 2012
It's a funny thing being a self publishing indie game developer. The 'self publishing indie' bit can take up so much time and effort that I sometimes forget about about 'game developer' bit. I still consider myself to be primarily a video game graphic ...
Ste's latest Archive entry
Archive entry by Ste Pickford
Thu, 15 Mar 2012
I was just scanning in some sketches from my work notebook this morning, when I spotted this doodle I did on the train to London the other week. It's an attempt at getting a good look for the main character in I Sent My Monkey To The Moon, a new game id...
Ste's latest Press cutting
Pick of the Week - MacBreak Weekly ...
Press cutting added by Ste Pickford
Tue, 8 May 2012
Through the magic of twitter we were alerted to the MacBreak Weekly netcast video blog, where Jason Snell, editor of Macworld, was kind enough to name Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint as his pick of the week. The whole netcast is a great watch, but if you ...
We are The Pickford Bros, veteran independent video game designers based in the UK.
Our latest game is Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS. It's dead good, and it's free to play!
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