According to the following site, "Steve Kerry and Marco Druoe provided the artwork"
https://www.gremlinarchive.com/index.ph ... -spectrum/
This information came from old WoS. Pete Frith even gave WoS a formal approval to host his games:
There is extra information on the instructions:Audionautas wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:33 pm * IVAN "IRONMAN" STEWART'S SUPER OFF ROAD (1990). VIRGIN GAMES. According to Mr. Rowe's website he did the poster included with the UK edition of the game with a completely different art to the game cover. Link: https://davidrowe.net/ivan-ironman.html
Illustration by Words and Pictures
Packaging Design by Khartomb
Yes, this is a very good point. This sounds like an arbitrary decision, better to have simple and clear guidelines.
That is what I feel, and poor Einar knows I'm serious But for now I'm pasting all this cases on a spreadsheet to compile a list and see how many we have.Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:17 am So it probably makes sense to credit both, but the graphic designer should have a different role from the artist. To describe them both as artists seems wrong to me. They are very different creative roles. Including graphic designers with artists obfuscates the artist information.
Yeah, I like the way Mobygames credit the authors, for example, but they don't seem to have a centralized role system as the ZXDB, more concise and elegant, but on the other hand is forcing us to be careful about changes that might impact the legacy information on the database, or create a void of information we might need to fill.Audionautas wrote: I agree with you @Rorthron and @druellan that more information the better. In my opinion if we even have only the name of an advertising agency we should include it on the ZXDB, that's better than nothing and a starting point to research for others or ourselves in the future. The perfect scenario on the ZXDB would be to have to every contributor to the game credited as it deserves; programmer, graphic artist, musician, cover artist, cover designer and so on. That would be great, but for the moment I think we should include the most accurate information possible and even go beyond if we can.
Interesting, on the ZXDB we have Paul Griffiths on the team, but seems that he only did the playtest:
I was trying to dig into this a bit more, but there are no information about Martin as a cover artists, BUT he was an artist, so it is very plausible, but since we don't have confirmation and the author is credited in the game on other roles, perhaps is better if we leave this one alone for now. Martin is also the level designer, so, we can credit him for that, aaaaand this game has border effects!
Yes, leave it out of we're not certain. I just wanted to make the partial information available in case anyone could use it.druellan wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 1:09 pmI was trying to dig into this a bit more, but there are no information about Martin as a cover artists, BUT he was an artist, so it is very plausible, but since we don't have confirmation and the author is credited in the game on other roles, perhaps is better if we leave this one alone for now. Martin is also the level designer, so, we can credit him for that, aaaaand this game has border effects!
He seems to work among NIgel Speight making the music, he is mentioned on this game from the same author: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3840
Both pictures also carry Steinar Lund's signature.Rorthron wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 10:20 pm Shoot-Out (Martech): Steinar Lund
https://twitter.com/postersdecine/statu ... 6657930241
The Flintstones (Grandslam): Steinar Lund
https://twitter.com/postersdecine/statu ... 1655245825
The credits for this game has some interesting bits. For start, on the ZXDB a "Twitchy Fingers (UK)" is mentioned, this is extracted from the loading screen: