Topic: A Location of Knowledge
Any place that you would associate with knowledge. It Could be a school, library, brain.. Use your imagination.
Voting: July 10
Restriction: AGS compatible.
Good luck!
At the War Department archives.
Professor: "The files are gone! This is the Baron's handiwork!"
Winthrop: "Ooh ooh eek eeek eek!"
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/179/3/3/abandoned_archives_by_oraxon-d3ke186.jpg)
Professor: "Yes! Quickly, back to the time machine, Winthrop!"
Is it ok if I draw a new background for an ongoing game project? I'm currently making a game and it needs a library, so is it ok if I combine that project with the competition, or would it sort of break the rules?
(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3904/blitz2k.jpg)
I'm afraid I'm better with pixels.
edit: improved
- Alan
those are really gorgeos backgrounds
how do you guys do it???
@ David Umm...paint/draw I guess. Pictures don't appear from wanting ;D
@ David: I made mine in Maya. Got the rust textures free from morguefile.com. Once I modeled one file cabinet, I just duplicated it around the set. The cables are simple, too, just extruded curves. Don't tell anyone. :)
Nice work guys. I didn't know you did 3D stuffs oraxon!
Oh nice entries so far! Still thinking of how I'll approach this one... :)
Nice ones, guys!
WHAM, sure, go a head.. I don't know how the rules usually are, but I think it will be alright.
A dark, forgotten mansion in the middle of the Scottish countryside. The young nobleman who built the house in the late 1920's was a man who knew the value of knowledge. He gathered books from all over europe, and built a quite formidable collection. Some of the books he hid in his own office, while others he displayed in the small library he had had built into the house. Here his guests could peruse the less rare, but still valuable texts at their leisure.
(http://whamgames.com/site_mansion/pics/cont/mansion_promo_04.png)
Room shown here in 2x size. Is to be used for a 320x200 game and will scroll a little as player moves around.
Competitions like this give a good jolt for me to get my creative juices flowing. I need to push out two rooms per week minimum to meet my deadline, and thanks to this competition I got this one done in a day!
I decided it'd be a cool idea to have a location where knowledge was being collected and recorded.
A classic stake-out is taking place! In the building across there have been some dodgy deeds happening. So the government has set up a camera and had agents continuously watching the place, whilst eating bucket loads of junk food. The agents have a wall devoted to all the information they have on the suspected persons and are hoping to catch them in the act soon!
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/185/1/c/stakeout_by_mattcoles-d3kxnv2.jpg)
Hope you guys like! :D
Just... about... finished...
And done, finally...
I realized about half way through that I am really bad at coloring...
Well, good experience, learned some new tricks, but I really didn't feel I did it justice. I'll probably submit it to the scrutiny of the critics lounge and see what I can learn.
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/191/0/f/ags_background_comp__learning_by_bobbobbobboby1234-d3ll5pi.jpg)
I have tried to go with the idea that the location is the book itself which shapes itself to suit the needs of the user. For instance the pages forming the stairs which allow the reader to access the higher text on the upright page.
Love it, Snath! ;)
Nice entries everyone! Great participation!
Let's start the voting, I will keep the voting open for the next ~48hours.
[b]Idea[/b] -
[b]Atmosphere[/b] -
[b]Design[/b] -
[b]Composition[/b] -
[b]Functionality[/b] -
[b]Technique[/b] -
Idea - Snath3000
Atmosphere - oraxon
Design - oraxon
Composition - oraxon
Functionality - oraxon
Technique - Alan v.Drake
Idea - Snath3000 (fancy)
Atmosphere - 2d_Matty
Design -
Composition - oraxon ( you could have used a few more textures, though :( )
Functionality - WHAM ( put some contrast in your drawing, it'll make stuff more solid! )
Technique -
Idea - Snath3000
Atmosphere - 2d_Matty. I like how they got a rifle against the wall...just in case...
Design - Alan v. Drake. Imagining books floating to the player if they enter the right code.
Composition - 2d_Matty
Functionality - WHAM
Technique - Snath3000. Wish more games were like this.
@ Alan v. Drake: I know, and a few more lights, too!
@Sughly: only when the set is basically a bunch of cubes. :)
Just wanted to pop in to say that all of these are amazing in their own right and it's really cool to see these different styles and how each of them has their own charm.
The background blitz really has become a showcase of awesome recently :D
Yeah, this place is thriving at the momen. :)
Idea - Snath3000
Atmosphere - Alan v. Drake
Design - 2d_Matty
Composition - WHAM
Functionality - WHAM
Technique - Snath3000
Idea 2d_Matty
Atmosphere Alan v.Drake
Design WHAM
Composition oraxon
Functionality WHAM
Technique Alan v.Drake
I hate voting... I find it hard to view things unobjectively... I always feel like I'm leaving people out.
Btw, oraxon, about the 3d, do you ever use 3d to work out the layout or perspective of a scene before drawing it in 2d or do you find it unnecessary if you develop a good 2d skill base?
[EDIT] Sorry, this may be a bit off topic... was just curious because I haven't seen much 3d work on these boards. I'll shift to another board if necessary.
Idea - 2d_Matty
Atmosphere - 2d_Matty
Design - oraxon
Composition - Alan v.Drake
Functionality - WHAM
Technique - Snath3000
Idea - Alan v.Drake
Atmosphere - Alan v.Drake
Design - 2d_Matty
Composition - oraxon
Functionality - oraxon
Technique - Snath3000
Idea - Snath3000
Atmosphere - Alan. v.Drake
Design - 2d_Matty
Composition - oraxon
Functionality - WHAM
Technique - Alan. v.Drake
Ok guys, you're maybe wondering why I haven't ended this one yet. I was hoping to get another vote so sort out the current tie for the first place.
I guess that vote will be mine.
Idea - Snath3000
Atmosphere - 2D_Matty
Design - Snath3000
Composition - 2D_matty
Functionality - WHAM
Technique - Alan v.Drake
Which Would make Alan v.Drake the winner!
Congratulations!
Thanks.
Tomorrow I'll come up with something for the next blitz.
- Alan