Juggernaut - Phil Gascoine
Outcast- Phil Gascoine
Professional Soccer - Phil Gascoine
Robin of Sherlock - Phil Gascoine
They Call Me Trooper - Phil Gascoine
Per signature
Special Delivery
"Packaging designed by Blake Sears"
Stagecoach
"Packaging design by Blake Sears"
Story House
"Packaging design by Blake Sears"
Tower of Evil
"Designed by Blake Sears"
Per inlays
They seem to me to be graphic design credits, but probably not cover art credits. I think Blake Sears is an agency, not a person (now known as Sears Davies).
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 10:16 pm
So the question is... as we don't know the artist but the company he worked for... should this company be in the credits instead of the artist itself?
IMHO 'cover design' and 'cover artwork' are basically the same thing in this context. I think, at that time (early to mid eighties), was very uncommon that more than one person was involved in doing the art work. Later on when companies started to pay attention to the product presentation in large boxes with illustrated instructions and so on, probably there were more people involved, even some design studios, but in a 1984 game with a very simple cover is rare.
Audionautas wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:04 pm
IMHO 'cover design' and 'cover artwork' are basically the same thing in this context. I think, at that time (early to mid eighties), was very uncommon that more than one person was involved in doing the art work. Later on when companies started to pay attention to the product presentation in large boxes with illustrated instructions and so on, probably there were more people involved, even some design studios, but in a 1984 game with a very simple cover is rare.
There were definitely cases where cover design and cover artwork were separate, eg at Ocean and Imagine. Personally I wouldn't treat them as the same thing.
Mountains of Ket - G Williamson (per .txt instructions)
Temple of Vran - Kimberley Gunn (per inlay)
The Final Mission - G Williamson (per .txt instructions)
Confuzion - Matthew Tidbury, Peter Carter (per instructions)
There are other credits in the instructions, which are not showing in SC:
SPECTRUM CONFUZION
AUTHORS: BRENDAN KELLY and PAUL SHIRLEY
LEVEL DESIGNS: PAUL SHIRLEY and IAN ANDREW.
COVER BY: MATTHEW TIDBURY and PETER CARTER
MUSIC BY: PRIVATE PROPERTY (Joanne Holt, Gary Seaward, Matt Smith, Steve Salt and Chris Weller)
PRODUCED BY: IAN ANDREW
The cover artist was Mark Wilkinson. (This info is listed on other sites, was mentioned in YS back in the day, and has been confirmed by Fergus McNeill)
In the game entry, Glenn Fabry appears as the author (I supposed is the original comic artist). Besides, in the game instructions recently uploaded by Pavero, it can be read:
'We would like to thank the following people:
[...]
Steinar Lund - for airbrushing the Creative Reality logo.'
Do you think S. Lund should be included as a second artist in the game entry for 'airbrushing the logo'?