{"id":697,"date":"2026-09-16T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/?p=697"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:40:57","slug":"alien-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/alien-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Based on the cover art for Vortex\u2019s (excellent) videogame, Alien Highway<\/a>, my original intent was to have a pop at my own take and try to keep the same vibes but less intensely green. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I got so far with things then when it came to adding the Vorton (a curiously Dalek like robot that pushes mines down roads in space) found myself hesitating. Not because there would be anything especially stressful about drawing a Vorton but I just kind of liked how things looked without it and so here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been a few weeks now and whilst I may yet find myself tempted, for now I think I\u2019m going to have to concede that it\u2019s not very likely I\u2019ll go much further on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Based on the cover art for Vortex\u2019s (excellent) videogame, Alien Highway, my original intent was to have a pop at my own take and try to keep the same vibes but less intensely green. Unfortunately, I got so far with things then when it came to adding the Vorton (a curiously Dalek like robot that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[57,144,147,11,145,146,86],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-videogames","tag-1980s","tag-alien-highway","tag-dalek","tag-robs-art","tag-vortex","tag-vorton","tag-zx-spectrum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}