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Do you remember the famous Honda ad with the diesel engine that went scudding around the countryside, making the world beautiful? The one with the flamingos and the whistling and with good old Garrison Keillor singing a song about the power of hating things? Can hate be good/ Can hate be great/ Can hate be something we don't hate? Reece Millidge helped make that."The Honda Grrr campaign was the ad that really put our company on the map," Millidge laughs, casting his mind back to the years he spent working as a commercials animator. "It was basically a diesel making the world clean: it was absurd. Anyway, we expanded from a company of about six people to about 60, and when a company expands like that, it means there's always a new space to fill. I went around and did a bit of texturing, modelling, compositing, pre-production, post-production - a bit of everything. It was the perfect grounding for an independant developer."
And that's what Millidge is up to these days, hacking away in Brighton as one man micro-studio Damp Gnat. He's made glorious browser games like Wonderputt , which uses crazy golf to explore everything from the water table to the workings of a torpedo, and he's just finishing Icycle: On Thin Ice - an iOS reimagining of one of his early Flash efforts, and a touchscreen treat that should be available later this year via a publishing deal from Chillingo.
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