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Fonts

Fonts and font work, pre- and post-Chequered Ink era, have been used by:

Music
Ariana Grande / B.o.B / Charli XCX / Chipzel / Chris Brown / DaBaby / David Guetta / Dawin / Excision / Flo Rida / ILLENIUM / JKT48 / Kara / Krewella / Lil Reese / Metric / Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds / Paty Cantú / Pop Smoke / Savant / Steve Aoki / The Prodigy / Zedd

Video Games
Agents of Mayhem / Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX / Amid Evil / Bomb Rush Cyberfunk / Color Switch / Cosmic Star Heroine / CounterStrike: GO / Cyberpunk 2077 / Deep Rock Galactic / Don’t Touch the Spikes / Dusk Diver / Fire Pro Wrestling World / Grand Theft Auto Online / I Was a Teenage Exocolonist / NBA 2K / Need for Speed Unbound / Polybius / Starfield / Starwhal / State of Mind / Syndrome / Watch Dogs 1 and 2 / Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood

Films
Bill & Ted Face the Music / Blood Machines / Game Loading: Rise of the Indies / Head Hunter / I See You / Pokémon: Detective Pikachu / Scoob! (2020 Scooby-Doo movie) / The Main Event

TV
Another Life / Conan / Comedy Bang Bang / Monster High: Adventures of the Ghoul Squad / Salve-se Quem Puder / Top Grier / Wednesday

Board Games
5 Minute Chase / Dwar7s / Escape Tales: Low Memory / Everyday Heroes / Plumber Pants / Prowler’s Passage

Companies
AEW / Bayer / CZW / Dajto / DC / Head Gum / Lego / NJPW / PBS / Purina / NBA / Secret Lab / Status Error / Trans World Sport / Uptime Energy / UFC / WWE

Sports
Braun Strowman / Bray Wyatt / Cesaro / Chris Jericho / Jim Williams / Ken Shamrock / Kenny Omega / Kota Ibushi / LA Knight / Matt Hardy / Phil “The Power” Taylor / Sheamus / Tommy Dreamer / Zack Ryder

Miscellaneous
Derren Brown’s Ghost Train ride at Thorpe Park / Hasbro’s “Plumber Pants” / Honest Trailers / Kidrobot x Mega Man / Smooth McGroove

Note: the above are only examples spotted in the wild, and do not include usages where Allison James or Chequered Ink Ltd. signed an NDA during the licensing process.

Games

Specialising in niche independent game experiences, her work is fairly underground, but here’s where you may have seen some of it.

Console Games
Ink Cipher (Nintendo Switch)
Maddening Euphoria (Nintendo Switch)
Maddening Overload (PS4)
Pong Quest (Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One)
Revolver and Co (Nintendo Switch)

Magazine Coverage
Innoquous (Edge Magazine December 2008: Internet Game of the Month)
Innoquous 3 (PC Zone: Included on DVDZone cover disc; PC Gamer: Included on cover disc)

Physical Releases
Ne Touchez Pas 5 (Super Rare Games Mixtape Vol. 2)
Pong Quest (Limited Run Games)

Website Coverage
Hi Me Ro Me (Indie Games+)
Innoquous 4 (PC Gamer)
Maddening Overload (IGN Hungary)
Maddening Relapse (Supermaddening WIP) (PC Gamer)
Maddening Relapse 2 (Rock Paper Shotgun)
Ne Touchez Pas 4 (PC Gamer)

YouTube Coverage
Dreaming On E (Vinesauce)
Dynapogo (Vinesauce)
Hi Me Ro Me (NerdCubed)
Innoquous 4 (Bytejacker; Vinesauce)
Japanese Infomercial (Vinesauce)
Maddening Relapse (CinnamonToastKen, JustSnake, Kuplinov, Willong)
madnessMADNESSmadness (Bytejacker)
Remaddening (Vinesauce)

Additional Work

Atari

As half of Chequered Ink, Allison and Daniel Johnston worked with Atari and Juju Adams to create Pong Quest, a 2020 game in the storied Pong franchise that brings new RPG elements to the table. Trailer

YoYo Games

Allison worked for YoYo Games Ltd. for five years, from July 2010 to August 2015, as a Game Developer. She was credited on the following games in that time:

B.A.S.E. Jumper (Lead Programmer)
Fire Escape (Lead Programmer)
Froad (Lead Programmer)
GameMaker: Player (Prototype Programmer)
GDC Bomberman (Prototype Programmer)
GDC Cut the Rope (Prototype Programmer)
GDC Texas Hold ‘em Poker (Prototype Programmer, Fontography)
GDC Veg Ninja (Prototype Programmer)
Grave Maker (QA)
greenTech+ (Additional Programmer)
Maddening (Lead Programmer, Designer, Creator)
Mr. Karoshi (Additional Programmer, QA)
Ninjammin Beat-Jitsu (Additional Programmer)
Planet Descent (Additional Programmer)
Pollushot (Additional Programmer)
Prison Ball (Additional Programmer)
Project YourWorld (UI Programmer, Additional Programmer)
Reflexions (Lead Programmer)
Rick O’ Shea (Additional Programmer)
Simply Minesweeper (Lead Programmer)
Simply Poker Squares (Lead Programmer)
Simply Solitaire (Lead Programmer)
Simply Sudoku (Lead Programmer)
Simply Wordsearch (Additional Programmer)
Skydiver Drop Zone (Lead Programmer)
Skydiver Mach II (Additional Programmer)
Stick ‘Em Up (Lead Programmer, Fontography)
Super Snake HD (Additional Programmer)
Sync Simple (Additional Programmer)
Teka Teki (Additional Programmer)
They Need to Be Fed (QA, Ideas - one level)
Word Song (Prototype Programmer)

Commissioned work and miscellaneous credits

Atari - branding font work
Atari Recharged Series - Charge Vector typeface used in logos and in-game
Chicory: A Colorful Tale - expanded language support and controller prompts to main typeface
Jet Lancer - asset used
The Swords of Ditto - technical work on typeface
Wandersong - technical work on typeface

Allison James on MobyGames

Skills

Font creation
Created over 900 fonts to date with tens of millions of downloads across multiple sites, and having been used by some of the largest businesses in the world alongside thousands of others

Game programming
Proven as an independent developer with a fast turnaround thanks to her portfolio alone, having used GameMaker since 2003 and at a professional level since 2010

Graphic design
An avid user of Fireworks since 2005, practiced in website layout design, package design, poster design, thumbnail design and beyond

Writing
A competent poet and writer of short stories and game cutscenes. Mostly comedic and sometimes adult in nature but she has occasionally dipped into more serious and personal notes

Reviewing
Casual reviewer, mostly of entertainment products, for over a decade, mostly in online magazines and independent reviewing blogs

Proofreading
Extremely eloquent when needed, with exceptional spelling abilities and a sometimes-too-good ability to spot a spelling error that slipped through everyone else’s fingers, and experience in doing so in a number of casual publications. She can even use its and it’s correctly

Music creation
Not very good at this but she’s made some music before so that’s lovely

Chequered Links

Main: Chequered Ink
DaFont: Chequered Ink
FontSpace: Chequered Ink
itch.io: CI
Steam: Chequered Ink Ltd

Get in touch

Email: nal AT nalgames.com
Facebook: AllieJJ
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