#295 - Behind the scenes of the Phantom video game

Stephen East, Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker catch up with the team behind the Phantom Video Game. With pre orders for the digital version of the game now open, we thought it would be a great opportunity for us to catch up with Ash Nicholls the Director behind Art Of Play, but also two of his colleagues who have left their imprint on the game.

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Anthony Spay is the illustrator of the art from the game who has Frew and Team Fantomen credits as writer and illustrator of the comics and the third guest is Matthew Cutler who is the 2D animator for Art of Play and is behind the magic of the Phantom and Diana fighting against tyranny on our Switches, PlayStation's & X-Boxes.

For those who came in late, we have chatted with Anthony Spay before in Episode #188 (May 2021) and Ash Nicholls in Episode #242 (Feb 2023), #251 (May 2023) and #268 (Dec 2023). This is the first time Matthew Cutler has joined us on a podcast and he starts of the podcast explaining to us what he does for Art of Play and the Phantom video game.

We spend an hour talking shop and geeking out with the three creators as they spill the beans about behind the scenes information on the game. Some of the topics we chat about are: 

• How Anthony Spay got involved with the game.
• The process of hand drawing everything to animating it.
• What is drawn on traditional paper and what is drawn on the computer.
• What will be happening with the original artwork?
• The physical nature of the Phantom and Diana and how they are different to each other in the way they walk and fight.
• The differences drawing for comics to video games
• What is happening with the hand drawn original pencil and inked artwork?
• Will we see a Defenders of the Earth video game?
• The sprite backgrounds and how every one is hand drawn and unique.
• Some of the contents for the physical Limited Run collectors edition including the art book.
• We go over the future key dates in 2025.

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