When writing this post I often wrote "iCon" instead of "icon"... Damn you Apple. Anyway I got a folder full of different icons for PewPew, and I thought it would be cool to look at the evolution. The first icon shows the classic ship shooting at an enemy, but when resized to 47x47 pixels (the original iPhone's icon size) it didn't look great. I shipped the first version of PewPew with it back in 2009, but quickly iterated on it. I simplified it and ended up with this. [Update from 2016: I still like its purified appearance a lot!] I was pretty happy with it and shipped quite a few versions of PewPew with it, but at some point I decided I need to make it more eye-catching: after all, I want people to download and play the game! Up to now I was using Adobe Flash (!) to create the graphics. I decided to learn a bit about Photoshop and was able to add a glowing outline and some gradients. It's interesting to note that the glow...
Currently working on PewPew Live