[GDN] How did Binary Tweed get the idea for the watercolour-painted art style for Clover?
[DeeJay] Jeanette Abrahamsen does work in a variety of disciplines, such as oil painting and architectural design. I saw one of her greetings cards which featured the cartoony characters, and thought that would be perfect for the appealing art style I was looking for. The choice of watercolour was a consequence of trying a variety of approaches and finding that it yielded the most aesthetically appealing results, whilst still being quick to implement.
Binary Tweed has announced that the extended and upgraded version of Clover: A Curious Tale (previously only out for PC) has made its way onto Xbox Live via the Indie Games channel and is now available to download.
In the run-up to Clover: A Curious Tale's March 3rd release, Binary Tweed and Blitz 1UP are making the soundtrack to the Xbox LIVE Indie Games original Clover available for free.
DIYgamer.com writes: "DIYgamer only launched in October, but we have been busy playing independent games all year long. As the year winds down and news comes to a crawl as people head off for the holidays, we'd like to share what we found to be the best, most innovative, most interesting and all around entertaining indie games that came out this year. Our selection process was simple. Each writer here at the site was asked to submit their top five games of the year. We chose our game of the year based on the title with the highest number of appearances in those lists and the runner-up would be the one with the next most appearances. The rest all fall under honorable mention in alphabetical order, as each one struck us in a way to remain memorable and worthy of a top five of 2009 list."
