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District News Comment your neighborhood

Social networking application District News for iPhoneNaaty Design is proud to be part of the first iPhone / iPodTouch application of french developer Bertrand Boudaud.

So, what is District News about?

Stay tuned about your district or the district you visit and the good stuffs around! District News tells you about your neighborhood comments and local news, considering your current location.

Participate and let your neighborhood know about what you think about the best shops, restaurants, bar, events around you, or just express your mood!

No login is required, everybody can post comment without heavy id checks!

The application is simple, light and fast, showing 2 views: a list view, showing messages sorted by date and a map view.

This social networking application is free and available on the App Store.

Book review: Dragon’s Dream Roger Dean

Dragon's Dream cover bookDragon’s Dream is the third book to be published after Views (1975) and Magnetic Storm (1984).

Roger Dean is an english artist and designer, well known for painting album covers for rock bands (remember the Yes ‘bubble’ logo?).

Psygnosis Logo & Owl Face - 1985In the middle of the 80’s, Dean has been commissioned by a software company, Imagine, then called Psygnosis and designed some of the greatest packaging artwork for video games (the first chapter of the book).


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Black sheep Squadron

a Black Sheep never should be... irritated - Black Sheep Squadron PC/MAC gameBlack Sheep Squadron is an old PC/MAC project that had been shelved because of a lack of time and motivation and unfortunately it will (probably) never be completed.

The game is a vertical shoot-them-up, tribute to all the 1942-series (Capcom) including five ‘oldschool’ worlds in the glory of the 80’s: Pacific coast, Jungle, Country/Desert, Warp Zone/twilight zone and Sci-Fi.


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Royalty Free content packs

Free content Packs by Naaty Design for both commercial and personal projectsNaaty Design is proud to announce the release of its first collection of Royalty Free content packs (also called stock art or game packs) that contains ready-to use items for your productions, used as placeholder graphics to prototype your games, ideas and mockups, etc.

Good news, the first content packs are 100% free for both commercial and personal projects (website, advertising and promotional material,.. ), featuring:

  • 10 shapes X 10 colours = 100 badges!
  • 246 countries X 5 sizes = 1230 icons!

Forthcoming content packs: casual and board games!

Tilt shift photography

Tilt-shift photos are done using special lenses (which control the depth of field and the perspective) and make real-life scenes look like miniature models.

Since this kind of equipment is quite expensive, here are a couple of fake tilt-shift images.

Tilt-shift photo 1Tilt-shift photo 2Tilt-shift photo 3Tilt-shift photo 4Tilt-shift photo 5

Casual game Pixie for PC and MAC

Casual game Pixie by Phelios and EMV Software for PC and MACPixie is a new casual game for both PC and MAC platforms developed by Phelios and EMV Software (remember Warblade?).

Story begins when the fairy Pixie loses her way in a magical forest one day and needs your guidance to return home.


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Naaty Design Website launched! Portfolio and content packs.

Naaty Design website - portfolio - content packsNaaty Design has launched its official website today!

In the portfolio area, you will find the work of Naaty Design including game graphics, illustrations, pixel, logotypes, web design and many other pieces related to graphic design.

Soon in the download area , you will find several content packs, in particular for game developers with assets such as sprites, tiles, backgrounds,… << UPDATE : Check our dedicated website Royalty Free Content Packs!

Used as placeholder graphics, these art packs will boost your development and will be perfect for commercial productions too.

Green business is everywhere, so we grow organic pixels!

Brad Mitchum Flyer

Smartphone game Brad Mitchum: lost in timeBrad Mitchum : lost in time

Who?
A mobile game developed by Angel Software, pixelised by Naaty Design and powered by the RabbitFactory from Bitrabbit studio.

What?
My name is Brad Mitchum and here is my story.

It was a number of years ago that I was struggling to find that which would make me an internationaly renowned archeologist. I will never forget that day on 21st June when I discovered a beautiful object whilst digging in Guanotugua.


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Welcome to the Fight Cube!

Welcome to the Fight Cube: arena - smartphone and pocket pc game

You know the rules…

A couple of days before 2005 Christmas, Naaty Design released a puzzle game for Windows Mobile Pocket PC in which you just need to know about blocks and horizontal lines.

Gravity of tetrominoes, scoring, does it sound familiar? :]

In the arena, you will meet other players waiting to beat you whilst making a fool of you.


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Crazy Jack for Pocket PC and digiBLAST

Crazy Jack - Don't forget your dancing shoes - smartphone, Pocket PC and Nikko digiBLAST game

Handcrafted by Naaty Design, Crazy Jack is a retro platform game released back in 2005 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC.

Also a special version has been done for digiBLAST from toy makers Nikko.

Gameplay is quite simple, not to say oldschoolish , you need to jump & collect (defuse) bombs before they blow up, avoiding enemies, picks, water, etc. and let’s make the most of bonuses!


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