Bill Gibbs
Graham Pearson
Chris Price
Dave Tolley
"Initially designed in October 1991, Playdays was developed to cash-in on the highly successful Fun School genre. The design brief (from a graphical point of view) was for fun, colourful characters and an animated interactive host called "Why Bird" who guided the child though the 10 (or so) mini-games. The game centred around the main characters from the show including Peggy Patch, Wobble (the clown) and Humphrey, who eagerly congratulated the child when doing well. Development went pretty smoothly and the title was released to generally good/excellent reviews (enabling conversions to Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad computers). An interesting note is the graphics for all computer versions were created with Deluxe Paint III on an Amiga 500, and special utilities were written to "download" the IFF graphic files to the respective machines. Once the graphics were displayed on-screen, attributes would flash to show any graphical errors produced by illegal characters/colours etc. The system was surprisingly fast and efficient, and it enabled me to draw all the graphics on the platform I was most familiar with."
Comment and Development Gfx kindly supplied by Dave Tolley.
