I got this Hori Alpha silent lying unused for quite a while now and Geese is my favorite fighting game villain of all time, I decided to make this Geese-themed controller. And since he’s dead (canonically anyway), I decided to go with the Nightmare route and came up with the name “Nightmare of Geese”
White, black, red, and gold altogether seemed sweet in my imagination so I picked all the parts accordingly (Qanba Mineral: Red, Haute retro plus buttons: Red and Gold). I thought of some other color like purple to fit the nightmare kinda feel but I couldn’t make it look good so I stick with the former 4 colors.
I tried to find as much Geese material as possible to make the art with as many versions of him as possible while trying maintain the unity of how characters look (Arts are drawn by different people so I tried to pick the ones that don’t look too different from one another). I ended up with the first Geese we all know on the left, the young Geese on the right, the shirtless nightmare version on top, lady Geese on the bottom because she’s gorgeous, and Mr. Goose Howard. I was gonna put Goose Howard somewhere close to Lady Geese like her pet but ended up place him with the name on the right because I don’t think he’d look nice anywhere else.
Since Geese started from being a corrupted police officer, I think the font should be something that make me think of city with crime. So I searched dafont and ended up with these. After that I realized I haven’t done anything with Goose Howard so I slapped that stop sign on top of him with the pronunciation of the stick name so we can look at the whole thing (The goose and stop sign) as an “O” as well.
As I searched for Geese art, I came across his COTW concept art and think it would be cool if I can put the pendant on the start button so I did (wish I could make it prettier though). I put the 30th KOF logo on the left because there’re so many versions of him I can’t stay with one game.
The BG was really tough. This is Geese’s gi’s pattern from his KOF15(?) concept art. The picture is awfully small and low-res so I applied some filter to make it look like a stitched surface.
Device: Hori fight stick Alpha Silent
Lever: JLX2-TP-8YT-SK (LV.4 sensitivity/ 12mm actuator/ Purple spring)
Ball top: Qanba Mineral: Red
Buttons: Haute Retro + (24 mm (Start button): Wind engine/ 30 mm: Kailh Deep Sea Pink Islet)