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Illustration: Artwork
Acrylic, colored pencil, digital and ballpoint pen painting Illustration: Sketchbook
Pages ripped right out of my sketchbook sketchbook Illustration: Comics and Cartoons
Traditional comic strips, storyboarding and character development comics Illustration: Vector Art
Vector art spanning more than one and half decades vector Graphic Design: Website Design
Including the design for this site website design Game Development: Sprites and Animation
Pixel art, vector and 3D rendered sprites sprites Game Development: 3D models
Textures, rigging, animation and optimization for mobile devices models Game Development: Snails
Winner of numerous international awards for mobile gaming Snails Game Development: User Interface
UI design and concepts game ui Game Development: 3D Mapping
Various game engines over the last decade.
3d

[ snails ]   randall schleufer

snails logo
Mobile Gaming
official Snails site
Exploding toads. Vicious homing mosquitos. Sticky (but tasty) napalm gel. Falling anvils and random trash. These are just a few of the weapons employed by the Snails for world domination.

Snails is a fun action-strategy game for the Pocket PC, PC, Palm OS, Handheld PC and Microsoft SmartPhone platform. It features fantastic graphics, rich sounds, stunning music and engaging head-to-head gameplay.

Developed and released in just four short months, it quickly became the singlemost popular Pocket PC game of all time. Constant updates for over two years kept it well in public view as it went on to win many international awards three years in a row. It is still considered a flagship product of mobile gaming.





Sprite Animation
Each character has hundreds of animated frames to make up their unique personalities. Some sequences require just a few frames, while others require dozens of frames.
more info about sprites

junk drown sewer snowy ginger village
Maps and Scenes
At the original release, Snails contained 10 maps. Its popularity inspired me to create 5 additional maps that eventually became part of the official game.
see all 15 scenes.

toad animation frames
Weapons and Explodie Things
Snails is all about destruction with its big explosions, sparks and smoke. The weapons are animated but contain far fewer frames than the characters.
more info about sprites

Shella Croft
Video
Shella Croft is the elusive fourth character that has never made an official in-game appearance. She appears briefly in the Snails Animatic, where she affectionately gives Guffie a smack on the lips. No official date has been set for her release into the public limelight.

Three levels were specially designed for Shellas introduction into the game: Nachos Grande, Ancient Ruins and Slimazon Jungle. These levels were eventually added to the official game without Shella.

DVD Packaging fullsize
DVD Packaging
I also designed packaging for the U.K. retail version, which included a full-color manual, CD ROM and a super sexy DVD case.

Most of our sales are through online purchasing/download, making the DVD case extremely rare.

copyright 2001-2007 Randall Schleufer- dev3