http://www.kernowweb.co.uk Helping People Start, Build and Promote Their Web Businesses Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:47:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To promote Colorific's "Woodworx Racers" paint and race kits, they wanted a driving game that was as fun to play as their kits are to build and paint. After brainstorming a number of ideas we decided to go for a head 2 head topdown arcade racer, based on the ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/portfolio/woodworx-racers/ 2011 has been a hell of a year here at Kernow Web, and 2012 is already shaping up to be even bigger! We've had the privilidge of of working on some awesome games this year, for some big clients such as Lucasarts and Hasbro. We've created action games, puzzle games, ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/news/bigger-better-faster-stronger/ Our latest game for Hasbro, to promote the new "Ultimate Prime" toy is a side scrolling shooter, loosely based on the classic Amiga game of the early 1990's - Walker. The game has a dark and atmospheric theme, with the player taking control of Optimus Prime in an effort to protect ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/portfolio/ultimate-prime/ It's been a loooooong month with lots of late nights, but it was worth the effort. Our latest game, Kreon Chaos, launched this week and was an instant hit! The game was developed for Hasbro to promote their Transformers "Lego" toys, Kre-o. Launch of the game instantly doubled the average time ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/blog/another-hasbro-game-in-the-bag/ Every now and again I take on a project that I get really excited about, and this was one of them.  Hasbro's latest range of toys, Kre-o, are Lego style construction kits based on the Transformers toys and characters.  Both full kits and "mini figs" called Kreons are available, and ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/portfolio/kreon-chaos/ This was an interesting project, and another collaboration with an overseas team. The concept was for an arcade style game for promoting the benefits of a new car battery technology from Malaysian manufacturers Century Battery. We were approached by Malaysian developers Fuse Creative to design and develop a ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/portfolio/tahan-megalama-challenge/ We were approached by a client in the US who wanted realistic looking graphics with one game hunting deer with a bow, and a second arcade style game shooting a variety of targets with a shotgun. The result was 2 very different games but both with a similar look ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/portfolio/extreme-hunting-iphone-games/ Since founding Kernow Web Designs in 2002 a lot has changed. The Internet is a very different place now than it was 9 years ago, and it continues to evolve. Kernow Web has also evolved during that time. What started as a web design business servicing small local businesses ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/blog/introducing-frosty-pixel-games/ As a welcome break from coding Flash games, one of our currect projects is the development of a large directory of yoga sites and studios.  The idea for creating a worldwide directory of yoga teachers came about when searching online for yoga teacher training courses earlier this year, and struggling ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/blog/new-worldwide-yoga-directory/ The beauty of working as a freelancer developer is the variety of projects you get to work on.  While Kernow Web Designs is now firmly established primarily as a Flash games development studio, we still get our hands dirty with web design, e-commerce and even print design. In fact, we're not ... http://www.kernowweb.co.uk/blog/latest-projects-roundup/