I love fonts and typography.  There’s something so amazing about the power of text in design beyond the meaning and words.  I really love UI and organizing things on screen in meticulous ways and today I have a confession to make: I’m addicted to this font.

There’s something so balanced and eloquent about the font Futura. It conveys modern yet simple typeface and can deliver practical use for most situations in my games.  I’m typically a sans-serif guy and have employed many fonts over the years including Myriad, Helvetica, and Calibri… but these days Futura is fulfilling all my needs.

Here’s as few of my recent games with the font in-use:

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In the end I have come to realize that every game I make seems to adopt a font or two that it persists through the entire game.  As a developer knowing fonts is crucial to changing a tone or style to a game.  When I want to go cruise control with a good, balanced, well-rounded font it doesn’t seem to get any better than this.

Oh, and in case you are wondering… yes, I do dislike Comic Sans (purely from overuse, not from its actual style) but I have more of a qualm from Impact (purely from misuse, it’s like a world where everyone types in Caps Lock).

Hey there friends, new game out today, it’s Balloon in a Wasteland.  This game felt like it took forever (in John time).

So our friend Mr. Tophat (yes some of the commentators on this site named him) is back for more strange vehicle mishaps.  First it was an elevator, then it was a random plane, and now its a crashed balloon.  The point of the game is to survive until you can fix your balloon.  While you fix your balloon a caravan of different store fronts show up to provide weapons and fort building materials to better protect yourself.  Set traps and build barbwire to slow down and injure your enemies.  There’s a lot to do.

The route you take is up to you.  There’s several strategies to be had in this game that you can find all different ways to reach the end. Either way, fix your balloon, shoot the bad guys, and overall… just survive.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Enjoy.