Swainy
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Post by Swainy on Feb 27, 2005 16:47:58 GMT -5
I'm probably jumping to the wrong conclusion here, but was Canvas part of Ocean? Only it seems that most of the team were made up of people who also worked for Ocean.
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 27, 2005 17:02:33 GMT -5
When I hear the name 'Canvas' I just get images in my head of REALLY crappo dog poo games. (Sorry Simon and Dawn, I know you worked there but the games WERE wubbish!)
Did they do anything that was good?
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LeeT
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Post by LeeT on Feb 27, 2005 17:35:43 GMT -5
I remember a feature about Canvas in CRASH - it seems that a lot of the staff were mostly ex-Dention Designs.
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 27, 2005 18:19:24 GMT -5
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Post by redballoon on Feb 28, 2005 3:37:20 GMT -5
Didn't Canvas do the Leaderboard conversions for the Spectrum?
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 28, 2005 3:59:06 GMT -5
The original set for Canvas was that Steve Cain and Ian Weatherburn both from Imagine and denton designs would set up Canvas.
Ian had summarily been booted out at the very beginning of the Dentons startups because of his dictatorial tendencies and almost immediately after setting up with canvas, Steve Cain jumped ship because Ian wanted to rule things with a fist of iron.
Silly boy.
He may have signed the paychecks but nobody paid a blind bit of notice to anything he said.
But I digress...as usual.
So Canvas started.
I was head of the graphics department and shortly after that we recruited this vision of loveliness from Southport, Miss Dawn Drake.
We also had the two naughty mice, Steve Calvert coder and his brother Martin on graphics.
Scott Johnson was general tea and errand boy.
We then had a long line of sometimes adequate but generally inept pixel monkeys all wanting to jump on board the games ship. They usually lasted a matter of weeks leaving Martin, Dawn and I to do just about everything.
Ian then brought in Chris Pink as a coder...I think he may have served a short period at Imagine.
Then the rot set in when Ian brought in his fat mate from Imagine Roy (I will eventually embezzle from this company and drive my friend to kill himself while I run with the money to America) Gibson.
We also had Steve Ward, another ex-Imagine guy.
So while the Denton's team sometimes showed their faces at Canvas they never worked there.
They looked down on us as the press had managed to convince them that their shit didn't stink and they were the next best thing to rock stars.
But as Mark said, Canvas produced mostly cack...as Roy and Ian thought, somewhat foolishly that Ocean would never notice if the games delivered to them were below par.
But that's another tale on elsewhere on this site and I can do without raising my blood pressure this early in the morning.
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Dawn
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Post by Dawn on Apr 7, 2005 13:06:07 GMT -5
But squeezed in between all of that Simon we had some fun! Scotts- botty friday sessions! Chris Pinks... 'NO SOAP' award. and freddie & Sues party at the old folks home...where we got bladdered and had goes on the staner stair lift...absolutely ace! but where did they put all the old people? Agree tho' -the rest sucked. Dawn x  |
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