Some of my friends are in the middle of developing a real-deal retro arcade game from scratch and it’s crazy awesome. Check it out at Skycurser.com. They are killing it. Yeah… writing code, making all the pixel art, wiring the story, score, music, etc. Everything.
Anyway, they asked me to come up with some stuff for one of their earlier release parties, so I made this design and turned it into a couple of variations: the standard one for people who came and a “Top Killer” one for the high scorers of the event. This was something like a 30-40 layer photoshop deal and super fun to make.