Background Blitz: August 27th - September 6th [Winner: HillBilly]

[ildu]

Right . Take out your ballots for the voting booths are now officially open!

Vote according to the instructions in the first post and please give reasons, if at all possible!

[BunnyMilk]

* Best Idea - Grinder

* Best Design - Grinder

* Best Functionality - Clip

* Best Technique - nihilyst

[Neil Dnuma]

Idea - Hillbilly. I love images which tells stories. The way you use Flash is so damn good. Clean and appealing style. Now back to your game!
Design - Grinder. Not crazy about the sky design, but otherwise this is a very atmospheric piece. Love the building.
Functionality - Yiclepigeon. Can't not work as a BG.
Technique - Nihilyst. Cool to see a different style from you! Could have been a bit more consistent, but has some amazing touches, esp. the fog. Great sense of depth.

I like it Tuomas, but why did you jpeg it? Many nice entries!

[buloght]

Best Idea + functionality: Hillbilly
Best technique + design: nihilyst

[Tocsik]

Best Idea - grinder
Best Design - clip
Best Functionality - yicklepigeon
Best Technique - nihilyst

[YicklePigeon]

Ignoring my entry (of course):-

Receiving Best Design: Clip
Receiving Best Functionality: Clip
Receiving Best Idea: Tocsik (gotta give the guy/gal/it some credit)
Receiving Best Technique: Clip
Receiving the Oscar...: Clip
Receiving the Emmy for Best Drama...:Tuomas....

The others look nice, some feel as if railway track was added just to be entered legitimately, but I don't think I could use them for anything other than one-off cutscene backgrounds...and being the tightwad that I am, I like to reuse imagery alot

Tuomas get's the comedy award btw.  Not that one exists but y'know...it's the thought that counts

Regards,

Yickle.

EDIT: Modified for his highness Ildu.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Best Idea: biotheblop
Best Design:Hillbilly
Best Functionality:YicklePigeon
Best Technique: Hillbilly

[Obi]

And the winner for 1986's Best Film IS
Best Idea- HillyBilly
Best Design- Clip
Best Functionality- YicklePigeon
Best Technique- Grinder

Congratulations to those had the greatness to enter. And remember I'll see you next year!

[Tuomas]

hmm.. ok.

Best Idea: Biothlebop

Best Design: YicklePigeon

Best Functionality: HillBilly

Best Technique: Grinder

imo

[Tuomas]

I like it Tuomas, but why did you jpeg it?

because it offered to save it in jpg and png and I didn't see the difference at that time so I didn't quite frankly care that much

oops, did I just doublepost?

[lilemX]

my votes are
(im not going to explain them because im no good at explinations  : )

best idea: TOCSIK
best design: NIHILYST
best functionality: ( i couldnt choose) YICKLEPIGEON and CLIP
best technique: NIHILYST

I liked everyones though!!!

[Buckethead]

I liked everyones though!!!

I bet you over saw mine then.

[lilemX]

I liked everyones though!!!

I bet you over saw mine then.

as i said i liked everyones

[Cino]

Best Idea - Privateer Puddin'
Best Design - grinder
Best Functionality - Clip
Best Technique - nihilyst

[HillBilly]

Idea - Hillbilly. I love images which tells stories. The way you use Flash is so damn good. Clean and appealing style. Now back to your game!

Thanks!

Best Idea - Privateer Puddin'
Best Design - biothlebop
Best Functionality - YicklePigeon
Best Technique - biothlebop

[Buckethead]

forgot to vote, silly me:


* Best Idea - me if that's possible otherwise Raddisk

* Best Design - HillBilly

* Best Functionality - YicklePidgeon

* Best Technique - Nihilyst

Sorry if I made any spelling errors in names 

[Ubel]

Best Idea - biothlebop
Best Design - HillBilly
Best Functionality - YicklePigeon
Best Technique - grinder

[ildu]

If it's not too much of a conflict of interest for the host to vote, I'd like to, more to pay respect to some great entries, if not anything else. And I haven't counted up any votes or even payed much attention to them yet, so it shouldn't affect my votes.

Best Idea - HillBilly. Yes, a funny one, traditional HillBilly material .

Best Design - Clip. Cutesey colors, minimalistic outlines, pleasant design. Do I need to say more?

Best Functionality - Clip. It's so functionally simple and naive, that it actually inspired me to start a new game .

Best Technique - grinder. In my opinion this was absolutely one of the best techniques here. I love the whole calculated scruffiness of it, kinda like with Marlboro Man. But beware, Clip's technique was a close contender.

[ildu]

Wow. What a load of entries and votes. Couldn't be more pleased with the outcome . It was an awesome blitz to host and I'd like to thank all the competitors and voters for participating. And yes, I doubleposted. Deal with it .

It was truly a very close race. Five bgs clearly led the race in a category of their own. So here are the results:

Third place (actually fourth and fifth ) was divided between Clip and Yicklepigeon both with 8 votes.

Second place went to grinder with 9 votes.

First place was a divided victory between HillBilly and nihilyst both with 10 votes.

So any suggestions on how were gonna decide who hosts the next blitz? Should we just hold a short election for people to vote for either candidate or should I just forfeit my own host's vote and let nihilyst get the prize? Or how about you guys host together ?

[nihilyst]

Cool, and thanks for your votes!
I hosted a BB once, so HillBilly can host the next one, if he likes to.

cheers
nihilyst