Craig Erickson and Zombies

Craig Erickson, games industry veteran of over 25 years, has seen Sherlock Crowd and likes what he sees.

Sherlock'Undead' is a genre variant suggested by Craig himself and is now planned as the first Alpha test of the crowd sourcing aspects of 'The Sherlock Crowd' that will let other developers make their own Victorian adventures.

Craig Erickson

Craig Erickson, President Netwonian Group: "I'm working with 'TLOstudios' (part of The Liverpool Office Ltd.) to develop a Zombie killing, undead extravaganza storyline version of their Victorian based Sherlock Holmes action adventure game."

Steve Mitchell, Managing Director of TLO Ltd.: "I've known Craig for decades and recall his time spent in development management positions at Atari, Namco and Sega well. Craig bringing an exciting variation to the Sherlock Holmes core theme is a great way to show off our crowd sourcing tools and customisation technology as it develops.

Craig will be amongst the first people working with us in refining and making the most of the new 'freemium+crowd' publishing model that Unity based cross platform online distribution is bringing to the forefront of the video game industry."

Follow Sherlock Crowd on twitter http://twitter.com/SherlockCrowd

Checkout http://sherlockcrowd.com for the developing blog on the core technology and game.

For TLO website go to: http://theliverpooloffice.com

(c) 2014 All Rights Reserved, The Liverpool Office Ltd.

Screen Shots

Links to some recent screen shots taken from Unity and various tools.

http://www.tlostudios.com/sherlock/screenshots/Marmoset2%20real%20time%20screenshot.jpg

This is using Marmoset 2 Toolbag realtime rendering. Physically based rendering (PBR) [This is what Unity 5 supports].

http://www.tlostudios.com/sherlock/screenshots/Unity%20real%20time%20PC%20screenshot.jpg

This one is in Unity Realtime Marmoset Skyshop. The next five are taken from the PC running Unity4

http://www.tlostudios.com/sherlock/screenshots/Screenshot1.jpg

http://www.tlostudios.com/sherlock/screenshots/Screenshot2.jpg

http://www.tlostudios.com/sherlock/screenshots/Screenshot3.jpg

http://www.tlostudios.com/sherlock/screenshots/Screenshot4.jpg

http://www.tlostudios.com/sherlock/screenshots/Screenshot5.jpg

Draft Genre logo for 'Sherlock Undead'

To make it easier for the team to understand the variation between the core concept of The Sherlock Crowd and it's genre variations we've created a blood spattered logo with finger painted genre title.

Harsh red:

Or subtle grey:

The difference is between the realism of dried blood being dark and somewhat matte in finish or a Hollywood version in crimson 'blood' red.

Dark red is more realistic but is harder to see on dark background such as a grained wood as often used with The Sherlock Crowd logo now.

Sherlock Crowd

Starting the new blog for Sherlock Undead (Sherlock vs Zombies).

Check http://sherlockcrowd.com for more information
or follow on twitter by adding us at http://twitter.com/SherlockCrowd