Mark Sheeky#Video games
{{Short description|British Artist}}
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{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}
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| nationality = British
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Mark Sheeky (born 1972{{cite web|url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-roman-legionaries-discovering-the-god-king-albion-turned-into-stone-102966/search/keyword:sheeky|title=Two Roman Legionaries Discovering the God-King Albion Turned into Stone|publisher=Public Catalogue Foundation|accessdate=20 October 2016}}) is a Cheshire-based British artist,{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/local-news/virtual-gallery-art-brings-new-5184412|title=Virtual gallery: Art brings new lease of life for Mark|date=8 December 2011 |publisher=Chester Chronicle|accessdate=20 October 2016}} computer game developer, music artist, and author.{{cite book|title=The Many Beautiful Worlds of Death 2015|id={{ASIN|0957194730|country=uk}} }}
From childhood Sheeky designed and developed computer games,{{cite web|url=http://www.amigapd.com/interview-mark-sheeky.html|title=Interview - Mark Sheeky|publisher=Amiga Pd|accessdate=20 October 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/artist-donates-exceptional-painting-grosvenor-5202866|title=Artist donates exceptional painting to Grosvenor Museum in Chester|date=27 October 2010 |publisher=Chester Chronicle|accessdate=20 October 2016}} and began painting in 2004.
In 2010, he donated the 2008 painting "Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone" to the Grosvenor Museum collection, and won First Prize in the Grosvenor Art competition in 2012 for his work "The Paranoid Schizophrenia of Richard Dadd".{{cite web|url=http://www.cheshire-today.co.uk/9652/chester-grosvenor-art-competition-winners/|title=Chester Grosvenor Art competition: winners|publisher=Cheshire Today|accessdate=20 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020173315/http://www.cheshire-today.co.uk/9652/chester-grosvenor-art-competition-winners/|archive-date=20 October 2016|url-status=dead}}
Radio
- ArtsLab (2016–2018)
Books
=As author=
- {{cite book
| last = Sheeky
| first = Mark
| year = 2012
| title = 365 Universes
| publisher = Pentangel Books
| isbn = 978-0-9571947-1-7
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Sheeky
| first = Mark
| year = 2015
| title = The Many Beautiful Worlds of Death
| publisher = Pentangel Books
| isbn = 978-0-9571947-3-1
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Sheeky
| first = Mark
| year = 2018
| title = 21st Century Surrealism
| publisher = Pentangel Books
| isbn = 978-0-9571947-6-2
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Sheeky
| first = Mark
| year = 2018
| title = Deep Dark Light
| publisher = Pentangel Books
| isbn = 978-0-9571947-4-8
}}
=As illustrator=
- {{cite book
| last = Blake
| first = William
| year = 2014
| title = Songs of Life
| publisher = Pentangel Books
| isbn = 978-0-9571947-2-4
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- {{cite book
| last = Edgeley
| first = Deborah
| year = 2017
| title = Testing the Delicates
| publisher = Ink Pantry Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-5472372-5-8
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Blake
| first = William
| year = 2018
| title = Songs of Innocence and of Experience
| publisher = Pentangel Books
| isbn = 978-0-9571947-5-5
}}
=As contributing author or illustrator=
- {{cite book
| last = Various Authors
| year = 2014
| title = Hide It!
| publisher = Mardibooks
| isbn = 978-1-909227-66-8
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- {{cite book
| last = Various Authors
| year = 2015
| title = The Ball of the Future
| publisher = Earlyworks Press
| isbn = 978-1-910841-25-9
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- {{cite book
| last = Various Authors
| year = 2015
| title = Journeys Beyond
| publisher = Earlyworks Press
| isbn = 978-1-910841-37-2
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- {{cite book
| last = Kingsley
| first = Nadia
| year = 2018
| title = Diversifly
| publisher = Fair Acre Press
| isbn = 978-1-911048-26-8
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Discography
=Singles=
- 2018: House Of Glass, Cornutopia Music
- 2018: Masculinity Two, Cornutopia Music
- 2024: Gunstorm (collaboration with Tor James Faulkner), Cornutopia Music
=EP=
- 2017: Finnegans Judgement, Cornutopia Music
- 2018: A Walk In The Countryside, Cornutopia Music
- 2024: Gunstorm (collaboration with Tor James Faulkner), Cornutopia Music
=Albums=
- The Arcangel Soundtrack (2000), Cornutopia Music
- Synaesthesia (2002), REV Records
- The Incredible Journey (2002), Cornutopia Music
- The Spiral Staircase (Original) (2004), Cornutopia Music
- Animalia (2004), Pravda
- Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack) (2007), Cornutopia Music
- The Spiral Staircase (2008), Cornutopia Music
- The End And The Beginning (collaboration with Tor James Faulkner) (2009), Cornutopia Music
- The Twelve Seasons (2009), Cornutopia Music
- The Infinite Forest (2010), Cornutopia Music
- Once Upon A Time (2010), Cornutopia Music
- Pi (2010), Cornutopia Music
- Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack) (2012), Cornutopia Music
- The Love Symphony (2012), Cornutopia Music
- Bites of Greatness (2013), Cornutopia Music
- Synaesthesia (2015), Cornutopia Music
- The Anatomy of Emotions (2016), Cornutopia Music
- Cycles & Shadows (2017), Cornutopia Music
- Genesis (2017), Cornutopia Music
- Tree Of Keys (2019), Cornutopia Music
- Music Of Poetic Objects (2019), Cornutopia Music
Video games
- Flatspace (2003), together with Andrew Williams, Cornutopia Software, released for Microsoft Windows. The player assumes the role of a spaceship captain. The game use 3D graphics with a top-down view and combines features from space trading simulators and action role-playing games. Play is open-ended: activities available include trading, missions, exploration, bounty hunting, space piracy, and police work.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101008173042/http://www.gametunnel.com/chat-with-cornutopia-about-flatspace-article.php An Interview with Mark Sheeky about Flatspace by Game Tunnel] Game Tunnel rated Flatspace 9.5 out of 10, and were impressed with the tracking of every individual ship, found the battle with different scale ships to be "exhilarating" and the varied, open-ended gameplay to be enjoyable.{{cite web|url=http://www.gametunnel.com/html/reviews-104.html|title=Flatspace Review|work=Game Tunnel|accessdate=2010-07-03}}
- Flatspace II: The Rise of the Scarrid (2005).
- Flatspace IIk: The Scarrid Dominion (2012).
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.marksheeky.com/}}
- [http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-roman-legionaries-discovering-the-god-king-albion-turned-into-stone-102966/search/keyword:sheeky Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone] in the Public Catalogue Foundation
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Category:British surrealist artists
Category:Indie game developers
Category:Artists from Cheshire
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