Company Directors

DAVID ROWE

I obtained my B.A.(Hons.) degree in visual communication from Brighton Polytechnic, faculty of Art and Design and went on to Southampton College of Art to lecture in life drawing whilst establishing a career in illustration. I managed to sustain both avenues of work until 1984 when I gave up lecturing in order to pursue freelance illustration full-time. My earlier clients included: Quicksilva, Melbourne House, Interface Publications, Telecomsoft, Argus Press Software, Argus books, Mirrorsoft and Activision/Electric Dreams and I have produced cover artwork for titles like: Populous, Populous II, Aquatic Games, Risky Woods and Ferrari Formula I amongst others for Electronic Arts, Shadow of the Beast III, Bill`s Tomato Game and characterisations for Lemmings 2 for Psygnosis, James Pond Robocod and others for Millenium.

Other clients include: Virgin Games, Domark, Core Design, Microprose, U.S.D. Imagineer (Japan), Starbyte (Germany) and Neo Software Produktions (Austria) with whom I have been producing computer game graphics.In the area of publishing I have produced many magazine covers for Emap, Europress and Future Publishing. I have also produced a number of paper-back covers for Transworld/Corgi and, through my agent worked for publishers like Simon & Schuster and Harper Collins. I have produced a lot of material for the Television industry and provided a great many interior perspective paintings of dungeon interiors for the popular ITV children's programme "Knightmare". This work was initially for Anglia T.V. and later for Broadsword Television Productions for whom I have also provided illustrations for the programmes: The Satellite game, Timebusters and Cyberzone.

DAVID ROWE I obtained my B.A.(Hons.) degree in visual communication from Brighton Polytechnic, faculty of Art and Design and went on to Southampton College of Art to lecture in life drawing whilst establishing a career in illustration. I managed to sustain both avenues of work until 1984 when I gave up lecturing in order to pursue freelance illustration full-time. My earlier clients included: Quicksilva, Melbourne House, Interface Publications, Telecomsoft, Argus Press Software, Argus books, Mirrorsoft and Activision/Electric Dreams and I have produced cover artwork for titles like: Populous, Populous II, Aquatic Games, Risky Woods and Ferrari Formula I amongst others for Electronic Arts, Shadow of the Beast III, Bill`s Tomato Game and characterisations for Lemmings 2 for Psygnosis, James Pond Robocod and others for Millenium. Other clients include: Virgin Games, Domark, Core Design, Microprose, U.S.D. Imagineer (Japan), Starbyte (Germany) and Neo Software Produktions (Austria) with whom I have been producing computer game graphics.In the area of publishing I have produced many magazine covers for Emap, Europress and Future Publishing. I have also produced a number of paper-back covers for Transworld/Corgi and, through my agent worked for publishers like Simon & Schuster and Harper Collins. I have produced a lot of material for the Television industry and provided a great many interior perspective paintings of dungeon interiors for the popular ITV children's programme "Knightmare". This work was initially for Anglia T.V. and later for Broadsword Television Productions for whom I have also provided illustrations for the programmes: The Satellite game, Timebusters and Cyberzone.
JOHN JONES-STEELE I spent 12 years working in the Computer Unit at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and obtained a B.A. during that time. For the last 5 of those years, I was also running Abersoft part-time writing various programs for the Spectrum, C64 etc. In 1985 I left to write software full-time. Below is a list of software I was responsible for before joining Broadsword: Speedball II - CD32 -Renegade, SimCity2000 - Amiga, 1200/4000 - Maxis, DGeneration - CD32, Windows - Mindscape, Herewith the Clues - CD32 -Domark, Trivial Pursuit - CD32 -Domark, Alfred Chicken - CD32 -Mindscape, Championship Manager - Amiga ST, Windows -Domark, Populous - Mac -Electronic Arts, SimLife - Amiga -Mindscape, Pandaal Scanner Software V3.0 - Pandall Int, KidPix - Amiga -Electronic Arts, Super Space Invaders - PC -Domark, Ultima VI - Amiga ST -Mindscape, Castles - ST -Electronic Arts, Hard Nova - Amiga & ST -Electronic Arts, Dizzy - PC -CodeMasters, Nam - ST -Domark, Subbuteo - Amiga, ST & PC -Electronic Zoo, World Championship Boxing Manager - ST, PC, Amiga -Goliath, Tracksuit Manager - ST, PC, Amiga - Goliath, Weird Dreams - PC - Microprose, Tetris - ST, Amiga - Mirrorsoft, Tetris (US version) - ST Amiga, Spectrum - Holobyte, Alien Syndrome - Amiga - EDGE Games, BMX Simulator - Amiga ST - CodeMasters, Garfield - Amiga - EDGE Games, Slap Fight - ST - Ocean, Mordon's Quest - (All formats) - Melbourne House, Abersoft FORTH - (All formats) -Melbourne House.