dskneo said:
Quite often developers get sent random game ideas or CVs - mostly they're nothing remarkable and go straight in the bin (sorry if that shatters anyone's illusions
)In the UK however, occasionally a developer will see something quite special - an original concept from *the* Dennis Greenidge. He's self-styled artist/designer/visionary.
It's happened to many companies - every one an original creation. Sometimes we UK developers get together in secret to exchange copies of these masterpieces. Somewhere on a forgotten hard-drive I have a reasonable collection (which if I knew a good image host and I could actually remember what I did with them, I could post). I expect many have been tragically lost forever by a producer who just didn't realise what he had in his hand and binned it with the rest of the daily spam.
Either we don't quite get his genius, or he's just barking mad.
His designs mostly consist of a single page of paper, scrawled on in felt-tip pen, coloured pencils or maybe crayon. There will be some surreal character, a title and one-line sub heading that seems to be the entirity of the "design" and (sensibly) always a clear indication that this is the work of Dennis Greenidge himself and not some wannabe.
You'd be forgiven for assuming this was the work of a 7-year old with ADHD, but looking closer you can see that in fact this is from the mind and hand of a full grown adult - just one unlike any other. Also, there was actually a mini-documentary made about the chap. Apparently he doesn't limit himself to game designs and actually makes little computer animations and music...
He's certainly creative, I'll give him that.
I've done a couple of searches and not found much.... I'll see if I can dig out my stash if anyone is interested.
