CEO/Creative Director – Darryl Hughes

Posted in Game and Gamification Creative Development with tags on June 4, 2017 by Hughes Who Productions, LLC

Hughes Who Productions (“Hughes Who” say it 5 times fast  :- ) – Not just a tongue twister, was co-founded by Darryl Hughes and Edye Deloch-Hughes. Hughes Who is a demanding, creative & ebullient creative & game development  shop of  seasoned  professionals who enjoy designing games. Hughes Who designs and produces: online &

Darryl Picture2offline games; animations for television, videos and films; & art & gamification for start-ups, businesses, organizations & ad agencies. This includes digital & online education. “We’re Game for Anything”

Among the many highlights of my career, I’ve worked as an art director for Ford & McDonald’s campaigns. In gaming, CEO, COO, game designer, creative director & executive producer on PC, arcade, online, & platform games for Viacom New media, Konami & WMS Gaming to name a few. Over 10 game patents. I served as a freelance animator for “Warner Bros. Tiny Toons and Tazmania”, created award-winning children’s animated films for Encyclopedia Britannica.

A professor in secondary education, teaching animation, producing & game development.

I was a panelist at the White House Initiative (Dept. of Education) on Historical Black

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Panelist SBIR – STTR Conference

Colleges and Universities at Alabama A&M University SBIR -STTR Conference.

http://www.aamu-rise.org/sbir-conference.html?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

Keynote speaker for the International Conference on Computer Games sponsored by the University of Louisville. My speech was on games with a purpose: “Educating Our Children through Games”.

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=18740

Our Draco’s Fire game that’s still online in the U.K. doing very well. This is our original game design, art and animations and music. Play it for free and see the review at the link below.

http://www.vegasslotsonline.com/amaya/dracos-fire/

Hughes Who created a 3D interactive exploratory educational/gamification online game for the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago.

We are currently developing our own custom online “Pay to Play” game engine.  The game engine will be available for mobile, HTML and other platforms.

 

One of many industry quotes about one of my games:

“Milk Money is so fun and funny, I could play it ‘til the cows come home (or ‘til the money runs out) I congratulate the mad genius who created this slot machine”.

Pam Droog, Casino City Times

We have over 50 years advertising experience in TV, print and marketing. Some of our clients include Office Max (corporate) and Kennedy King College (Chicago).

Specialties:

We specialize in game development/gamification for training and education, game design, character development, 2D – 3D art, graphics and animations, creating original and unique music for games and commercials.

We also, do art direction for ad campaigns, writing for TV, print ads and radio.

Current Overview:

In the last 3 years Hughes Who Productions filled for several gaming patents, copyrights and trademarks. We have developed over 50 games that are currently online and in the casino markets in the US and overseas and developing 3 more at this time.

Partnerships:

Hughes Who Productions is currently partnered with these companies/organizations: Living, Learning, Working.org, Liminal VR, Kool Nerd Club, EconoTeque, Alabama A&M University, Alabama A&M Rise Foundation, 100 Black Men of Chicago, and ChildServ.

 

Liminal VR Partner                          Kool Nerd

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Lectures and Training’s:

Darryl Hughes and Edye Deloch-Hughes are constantly doing lectures and training’s to educate and train employees, educators and students about games as an educational and training tool, called Gamification.

 

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Co-founders of Hughes Who Productions, Darryl Hughes and Edye Deloch-Hughes with Dr. Orok of Alabama A&M University at the SBIR – STTR Conference

 

 

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Darryl a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Computer Games at Louisville University. My speech was on: “Educating Our Children through Games”

 

 

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Darryl took a 4 student team to a Regional and National Championship with Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Competition

 

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Hughes Who Games Workshop. We’ve developed a custom game workshop to teach high school and college students about game development

 

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Our Digital & Online Technology Training workshop for kids on the West-side of Chicago at the Sankofa House. Incorporation with Congressman Danny Davis & Northstar Lottery Group

 

Our Games:

 

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DuSable 3D Interactive Exploratory Digitally Online Educational/Gamification Game –  Unity Game Engine

 

DuSable 3D Interactive Exploratory Digitally Online Educational/Gamification Game Screen Shot – Unity Game Engine

 

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Soulless 3D Interactive Faith-Based Digitally Online Educational/Gamification Game –   Unity Game Engine – In Development Phase

 

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Soulless 3D Interactive Faith-Based Digitally Online Educational/Gamification Game  – Game Screen Shot – Tutorial Level

 

 

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Soulless 3D Interactive Faith-Based Digitally Online Educational/Gamification Game  – Game 3D Character

 

 

Draco's Fire-Slot Reels Interface

Draco’s Fire Slot Game Online in the U.K.

 

 

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The “Big Playback” Online “Pay to Play” Slot Game

 

Commercials & Films:

 

Cheesehead String Cheese

Cheesehead String Cheese Animated TV Commercial

 

HFC TV Commercial

HFC Household Finance Corp. Animated TV Commercial

 

 

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Michael Jackson Flash Animation for Michael Jackson Live Action Documentary Film

 

 

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Michael Jackson Flash Animation for Michael Jackson Live Action Documentary Film

 

Little Doug E. Fresh Character-“The Show” Kids Original TV Concept

 

 

Our Work:

 

Mutant Rat-Soulless Video Game

 

Demon character – Soulless Video Game

 

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Fairy – 2D Art

 

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Sheriff Dillon – 2D Art

 

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Odin – 2D Art

 

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Pickup Truck – 2D Art

 

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3D – Elephant Character

 

 

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3D Gluttony Character – Soulless Video Game

 

 

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3D Mech Gun

 

 

Warehouse door

3D Warehouse Door – Background

 

Farm House

3D Farmhouse – Background

 

Jungle

2D Jungle – Background

 

Apache Background

2D Indian Village – Background

 

Pirate Ship

2D Pirate Ship – Background

 

 

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2D Background – Pencil Sketch

 

 

 

Advertising Storyboard

 

 

Advertising Storyboard

 

 

Our Original Slot Game Glass

 

 

Our Original Slot Game Glass

 

 

Island Game Character

 

 

Island Game Character

 

 

Character Sketches

 

 

Character Sketches

 

 

 

Hughes Who Ad & Graphic Design Samples

 

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Affirm Hair Ad – Avlon Industries

 

Office Max Booklet

Office Max Diversity Ads

 

Kennedy-King City College Mailer Brochure

City Colleges – Kennedy King College Brochure

 

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NEOPOP Online Gallery Flyer

 

 

Hello world!

Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2011 by Hughes Who Productions, LLC

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