Lost Covers, Vol. 1

I don’t know why, but a few days ago, late at night, I was thinking about all my “failed” attempts at creating well-crafted cover art. I was visiting the Final Fantasy Shrine Forums, browsing through all that awesome cover art posted there and I wondered how much time the people over there invest in this creative, time-consuming hobby. Are they as nitpicky as me? Everyone loves his own creations, otherwise we wouldn’t publish it, but for my part it sometimes degenerates a bit. I often spend hours on one single image. I’ve created one cover with thirty-three different font types,…

“Outcast” by Lennie Moore

To mark the occasion of the recent release of Outcast – Remastered, I decided it’s finally time to take care of Lennie Moore’s 1999 masterpiece. His orchestral score was a pioneering one in many ways, paving the way to symphonic game scoring as we know it today. Generally one can say that a combination of the fonts “Slider” and “Grover” were used for all the album credits. However I strayed off course with the last custom (#4), which is supposed to represent a military supply parts container, filled with neat little knick-knacks for our Navy Seals main character. I spent…