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Competitions & Activities / Background Blitz: Seashore (Winner!)

« on: 14 Feb 2013, 23:02 »

SEASHORE

The task is extremely simple: draw a seashore. Any interpretation that comes to your mind is fine, as long as it is a seashore of some kind: a sunny beach, a stormy jagged cliff, an edge of a lush jungle, a crowded resort, an industrial port.. anything! Even a more metaphorical interpretation will work (sea of garbage? sea of flowers? sea of people?) as long as it evokes the impression.

Have fun

Trophies!

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Competitions & Activities / Background Blitz: Alien World (10th Nov - 26th Nov) *Winner!*

« on: 10 Nov 2011, 15:10 »

Create a background for a game that takes place in an extraterrestrial world. Include at least one distinctive feature to convince the viewer that this place is not Earth. It can be anything: fauna, flora, terrain formations, weather conditions, architecture or even different laws of physics if you can find a way to depict them.

Examples, references, inspirations:


Trophies:

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Competitions & Activities / Sprite Jam: Brides of Dracula (18th Sep - 30th Sep)

« on: 18 Sep 2011, 18:15 »

Brides of
DRACULA

This Dracula is in serious trouble. Being a vampire lord just ain't what it used to be back in 1599. No more desolate castles, no more terrified peasants, hell, you can't even kidnap yourself a maiden anymore! Without getting police involved, that is.
But police or no police, a self-respecting Dracula just can't go without brides. Left with no better options, he contacted the local newspaper...

Classified Ads - Personal - Men Looking For Women
Vampire lord (35, apparent age) is looking
for a bride    (or preferably: three brides).
Good looking, honest, respected, wealthy.
Will meet females  (20-30) with affinity for
stone castles and unusual pets (eg bats).
Pictures required!       Serious offers only.

Did he get any answers? Provide the pictures of the potential candidates for brides, keeping in mind that:
1. They usually come in set of three: blonde, dark-haired and ginger. That's the latest fashion.
2. Any theme is fine - serious or parody, modern or historical (it's not that hard to rent a costume, right?). The sprite doesn't have to follow the style of the original (above) picture.
3. Dracula has a reputation to uphold (no brides, no vampire lord), so he's desperate enough to accept just anyone, not necessarily luscious vixens. Overweight? Plain? Dull? Fine, if nothing better comes along...
4. You can name your bride candidates and give them a short description.
5. You can be creative within the limits of the above story. Hint:

Why can't Professor Van Helsing use the opportunity to disguise himself and track the vampire down? Sure he can. He and his two accomplices.

Trophies:

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Competitions & Activities / Sprite Jam: Lexicon Daemonica, 7th to 15th Nov - Winners announced! (see edit)

« on: 07 Nov 2009, 09:01 »

Draw an infernal being. It can, but doesn't have to be of humanoid shape - a sexy succubus is as fine as a pesky little imp or even a large floating eyeball with tentacles.

Optional: name your demon and/or give a short description of what sort of havoc can it wreak upon unwary humans.

Have fun!

Trophies:

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Competitions & Activities / AGS Coloring Ball - Jun15th-Jun23rd - What's That In the Distance?

« on: 14 Jun 2009, 21:58 »

So.. what is this large silhouette on the left? A mountain? Some ancient ruins? A sleeping giant? It's up to you.

Rules:
1. No resizing, flipping or rotating.
2. Minor outline alterations are allowed.
3. Only a part of the picture is subject for this competition (the large shape on the horizon - look below), but you are free to color the whole picture if you like =)

And if you don't want to color the full picture:


Good luck and have fun!

Edit: Trophies!

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Competitions & Activities / Sprite Jam - Life After The Apocalypse - Apr 26th-May 5th

« on: 26 Apr 2009, 20:24 »

So you are given this background, and your task is to create a sprite of a person or a creature that the main character would have a chance to encounter in this desolate world of dead trees, tar pits and ash fields.

Rules:
1. Your sprite must fit the theme of the background, which is a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. So, no power suits this time, though gadgets like old-fashioned rifles are allowed. Just don't make it scream 'hi-tech'.

2. It would be nice if your sprite fit the style of the background, but it is not required. Make it fit size-wise instead.

3. You are free to make literally anything, a human (or elven or whatever) being, a monster, an animal or a magical creature, as long as it has something to do with an idea of a devastated world (a mutated unicorn, a tar monster, a goblin junk collector etc.)

4. I'm gonna borrow ProgZmax' idea since it turned out really interesting and fun: you can name your character or creature and give them a short description. But this is not obligatory.

And again, try to follow the theme and the atmosphere, and not necessarily the style of the given picture.

Okay then, so after a real hurricane of entries submitted for the Camp Copycat, the sprite jam is back to the usual, 'trigger but a few entries' old form, I guess. Still, hope you have fun with this one too =)

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Identify the characters - mini-game anyone?

« on: 21 Apr 2009, 22:28 »

So this is my entry from the previous BG Blitz, depicting Stan from MI selling a full stock of second hand adventure game characters. I thought it might be fun to post this as an 'identify them all' mini-competition thread. Every featured character comes from an adventure game. I know some of them look pretty generic, and for those I added a gadget or a specific piece of clothing that might ring a bell.

Feels like fun for anybody?
(If it does, use [ hide] tags when replying)

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Competitions & Activities / Background Blitz - A Sorcerer's Dwelling - Ended

« on: 21 Apr 2009, 21:09 »

Create a picture of a place where a sorcerer (or a sorceress) lives, studies magick, creates golems, plots to destroy the world or capture a member of the royal family, performs tricks, raises zombies, patronizes the villagers living nearby, does voodoo, casts charms and curses, opens portals to another dimension.. anything you like.

It can be a solitary place or a house in the middle of an habitated settlement, can be merry or dreary, tiny or huge, fantasy, historical or even high-tech sort of place - it's up to you. Just make it obvious (or semi-obvious) that a magic user dwells there.

The magician is not required in the picture, but feel welcome to add them if you like.

Colors&resolution restrictions: I'm gonna quote loominous - resolution and colors should work with AGS.

Good luck and have fun!

Edit: Trophies added.

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Competitions & Activities / AGS Coloring ball - Apr 16th-Apr 24th - Chasing a phantom

« on: 15 Apr 2009, 18:26 »

In a dream I saw a silhouette of a woman, trying to lead me somewhere unknown. I followed, though no matter how hard I tried, her face eluded me. All I could see were strands of long, wavy hair and an airy dress flowing in the fog - or so I believed.
Suddenly, the shadow stopped. She turned her face to me and I saw...  uh, this:



... so, what did I see?

Rules:
1. It can be everything as long as it has some means of walking. Legs, wheels, tentacles, anti-gravity device - whatever. Just keep in mind that I saw this creature moving.
2. Try to make the colors stay within the outline.
3. No scaling and, attention - no flipping this time!

Good luck and have fun =)

Edit:

umm...Remember that flipping and rotating are two different things. So add rotation to the prohibited list if it was your intention

Okay so no flipping, rotating, revolving, twisting, side turning, mirroring ie. turning around a center point or axis in any direction.
And trophies added:

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Critics' Lounge / Sprite+background, does it go together?

« on: 13 Apr 2009, 00:15 »

I want to finally decide which graphics style should I pick for my game. I would be really grateful for opinions, if anybody would care to give one.

So basically I have this character sprite:

and this background:

and I need to make them fit together.

I suppose I have two main problems here. One is a saturation difference between the background and the sprite - I should either use more vivid colors for the sprite, or desaturate the background.
The other is that the background is painted and the sprite is pure pixel art. It doesn't yet mean they won't go together, but perhaps I could start a new set of pixel art-style backgrounds to match the sprite better. Or maybe simply resizing the background would do the trick, I'm not sure.

So I came up with these three possible solutions so far:
1. 300x240 background, warm colors + vividly colored sprite


2. 240x170 background, desaturated + vividly colored sprite


3. 240x170 background, desaturated + cold colors for the sprite


I haven't yet made a sample of a pixel art background designed specifically for this game, but it could be something of this sort (but a different color choice). This might be considered the fourth option, but I don't have a good sample for that.

Does anyone feel like expressing their view on this, or have other ideas? I know there's not much difference between them and all, but still I'm a bit puzzled.