Background Blitz - Unholy Temple - CLOSED, WINNER ANNOUNCED!

[formica]

AND THE WINNER IS...

Thank you guys for making this blitz completely awesome. I loved waiting to see each new piece as you finished it.
Here are the placings:

Concept category:

     Tied between Aikex222 and kastchey with 3 votes each!
    jwalt with a close 2 votes.
    Cassiebsg with one vote.

Artistic Execution category:

     Kastchey with 7 votes!
    Tied between jwalt and aikex222 with one vote each.

Playability category:

     Aikex222 with 6 votes!
    3-way tie with one vote each: jwalt, durinde and cassiebsg!

Congratulations and thank you guys again! We need someone to start the next one, do any of you two 1st placers want to have a go? First come first serve since we have 2 this time.

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UNHOLY TEMPLE

Most temples are nice places to commune with a benevolent god. Some are not.

Your evil temple can be for any god, demon, entity or alien. The only criteria is that this deity demands BLOOD SACRIFICE, and it will not be denied!

Your entry must be able to be used as a background in AGS, but what sort of place it is is completely up to you. Maybe it's a nice-folk church in the Midwest with a dark secret, or maybe it's a golden edifice built in the skeleton of a space dragon. Go nuts.

Please submit your entries here by the 21st of November. There will be trophies!

[Miez]

Nice theme!

[Kastchey]

I totally second that.

[formica]

Sweet, glad you guys like it Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with, there's a lot of interepretation that could go on.

[selmiak]

indeed a cool theme. And please tell me where is that last screen (bottom right) from?

[jwalt]

I suspect it may depend on an individual's liberal/conservative bent as to whether or not The Boardroom is an Unholy Temple. Regarding the blood sacrifice, the Newspaper headline, from Black Tuesday, 1929, says: "Wall St. in Panic as Stocks Crash." Seemed apropos in view of the years that followed.



Edit: Since Anim8or doesn't seem to give me some of the textures I'd like (at my current level of ability), I took the model into Bryce for textures and rendering:

[formica]

Awesomeness

That looks fantastic! I'd say it counts. Maybe more so with every passing day.

indeed a cool theme. And please tell me where is that last screen (bottom right) from?

Cheers That one is from the 2005 King Kong. Miserable movie but pretty cool sacrifice pylon-thingy.

[Adeel]

WOW. JWALT. THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL...

Seriously, you've excelled at 3d rendering a lot! That's so cool! Brilliant concept!

Formica: I really like the theme of your competition but, unfortunately, I'm not that much of an artist. Had I been one, I would have definitely participated in this one.

[Durinde]

[imgzoom]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1X5WC4IAAEB88B.jpg:large[/imgzoom]

I'm trying to teach myself to do background art so at least I'm not stuck in a loop of "It's pointless to code because I don't have any graphics." I thought I would take on this theme.

Anyway, one can make sacrifices 10x easier if you have a handy-dandy mine-cart for all the corpses. Hope you enjoy.

[Cassiebsg]

It's lovely Durinde! Love your location!

I've made a sketch, so I'll definetly be entering on this one. Though, not sure how much finished it will be.
Will outline it later, as soon as I can find my coloring pens or my black pen.

[Kastchey]

A sacrificial site raised in an attempt, most likely futile, to please a certain resident of this charming realm. Special guest appearance made by Yog-Sothoth in the role of the Greater Faceless (but not Mawless) Eldritch Cosmic Horror.

It has turned out a little more panoramic than I originally intended but hey, if Mr. Faceless is made into player character, the image should do just fine as an AGS background...

[imgzoom]http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii203/Kastchey/unholytemple_gr04_zpsbf9c8662.png[/imgzoom]

[Durinde]

Nice BG Kastchey, before I even read your description I felt your piece was very Lovecraftian!

[Cassiebsg]

Now you just depressed me... That is one killer BG!
Now am almost ashame to show mine... lol... oh well, outlining and coloring is done. Need to add some shading and see if I can make it look more realistic with digital effects.

EDIT: Arrrrhhhh. I've spent most of the day adding special effects, making my bad painting look a bit better, adding shades and highlights, and just when I was sorta happy with it and decided to add a bit more mist into the picture, Corel crashed! And, of course, well aware that my Corel keeps crashing, I did (NOT) save my progress on the picture!
Now all I have is my original scan and a screen grab from the crash...
Will need to start over... oh well, maybe I get to do a better flooring, it kind of sucked anyway.

Here's what it looked like at crash time (75% of original size):

(Last Edit: 06-11-2014, 20:27:45 by Cassiebsg )

Okay, redone the painting, and give it as finished.
Here's my entry:

[formica]

Ahhhh no Cassie! The worst feeling in the world, when the little box of doom pops up. Still I think the result is awesome! I like the weird rainbow halo effect on that light column thing, really cool.

Kastchey: Woah now. I would definitely play this game. I can almost hear the like velociroptor scream that thing would make.

[...]

Greetings.

Hmm I wonder, if I am able to do it in two days. Well I just will know, if I try. I have something in mind, why not. And the last day I must find a good picture host, hahahaha.

[Mandle]

Loving all the entries in here so far! Good luck to all!

Cassie, I must say I admire your perserverance after your puter crashed. I can't say I would have had the patience to redo so much work, although it's very true that being forced to redo something right from the start often results in a superior result (as it has in your case: Beautiful background!!!) as you know where all the pitfalls lay... ahead of time...

The Yog-Sothoth Shrine picture sends shivers down my spine in all the best ways: Especially when zoomed-in and the fate of the sacrifice victim on the far right becomes clear....OUCHIES!!! Remind me to NEVER visit a proctologist with more than 7 unpronounceable syllables in their name...

Also loving the mine-car pic: I would totally LOVE to play that game in all its unaltered rough pixelly goodness!!!

Adventuress, I hope you get your own done in time. I just can't get enough of seeing what people are doing with this awesome theme!!!

[...]

No, this time I have to pass. To much stuff going on. What a pitty, I realy liked that theme.
3 little snacks and a major project on the horizon, looks like you have to be patient, @Mandle. But don't be sad, future holds a lot in hand.

Nighty-night.

[formica]

Trophies are done!! I should clean up those stray pixels but they're ready to go.



I don't know if it comes across but it's meant to be from everyone's favourite scene in Temple of Doom.

Last chance to enter guys, I'm going to open this for voting tomorrow. That's a shame adventuress, maybe next time?

[aikex222]

ahhhh finish today
i wish i could be flash with pixels xD so i could enter with a background.

Well good luck everyone waiting for the votes to start

[...]

Well sometimes you have to handle things of high priority first. Sounds logical, or. Was getting started on a quick doodle, but couldn't get the project out of my mind. So I screwed it up and was getting started on serious stuff. And besides, I haven't had many of official forum days yet.

@formica, don't worry you will see things from me. I wonder, what the next winners will come up with. I beginn to feel the little tickles in my fingers. I pixel since the age of 12, you could say I love it. Absolute nothing tops pixel art.

[formica]

Ok guys, opening this for voting! You can vote in the thread or anonymously via message to me.

There are 3 categories you can vote in:

Concept
Artistic Execution
Playability

Which are exactly what they sound like.

Vote your hearts out! These are what you'll be winning, along with respect and admiration of course:

[Mandle]

HAHAHA!!! You put so much, dare I say it...

...oh what the heck...I just can't resist...

Spoiler

love

[close]

...into those trophies!


EDIT: And, oh yeah, I'll vote later when I have the time to comment properly...

[aikex222]

nooooooooo :C i was sending mine now xD

[formica]

nooooooooo :C i was sending mine now xD

Please do! I'm giving a bit of slack due to timezones and such. I'm sure no one will mind.

[Cassiebsg]

Please do aikex
The more the merrier!

[aikex222]

thanks 
it was my fault >_> when i start something the time flies.

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/FSNf5iH.png[/imgzoom]

[Gurok]

Concept: aikex222
Artistic Execution: jwalt
Playability: jwalt

[Mandle]

Concept: Kastchey (I just can't not vote for a Cthulhu Mythos themed temple, especially one this well done)

Artistic Execution: Kastchey (For me this was the background with the most foreboding feeling, especially in the retro-feel style. You can literally feel the pain each of those tiny pixelated sacrifices went through even though they are just about the bare minimum of pixels needed to even make a recognizable human form)

Playability: aikex222 (If I understand this category as meaning the most flexible background to plug into a game, providing instant playability then this is the one. The player will know exactly how and where they can move as soon as they see the screen.)

All other entries were awesome too! I would certainly play any game done in any of the styles all entrants presented here.

[cat]

Concept: jwalt
Artistic Execution: Kastchey
Playability: aikex222

[aikex222]

Concept: Cassiebsg
Artistic Execution: Kastchey
Playability: Durinde

[AprilSkies]

Concept: Kastchey
Artistic Execution: aikex222
Playability: Cassiebsg

[Cassiebsg]

Concept: jwalt (just love your idea, not traditional at all. And looks great on Bryce to!)
Artistic Execution: Kastchey (just plain beautiful! I can't get tired of looking at it.)
Playability: aikex222 (I want to get up those stairs and find out what's up there! Maybe even take a skull and spike along, never know when you gonna need such items!)

[...]

As for me.

Concept: kastchey (for what was requested, it is the most logical choise for me)
Artistic execution: kastchey (colors well determined, love the 'compositional sketch' means allocation)
Playability: aikexx222 (absolute playable without any trouble)

[Durinde]

Concept: Aikexx222 - You can tell "bad things" happen at this location. What those "bad things" will be is left of to the imagination.

Artistic Execution: Kastchey - A level stuff. Feels like I'm looking at a screen shot for '90s horror game from a top studio.

Playability: Aikexx222 - I feel this is the easiest thing to plug and play here.

I had fun. Can't wait until the next one. Gives me something productive to work on.

[AprilSkies]

It was an Amazing comp!
Really a great one guys and gals!
My eyes enjoyed a lot

[selmiak]

Concept: Aikexx222
Artistic Execution: Kastchey
Playability: Aikexx222

[formica]

Ok I'm gonna close voting now, and announce the winner in the edited first post. This was a close one! lots of ties.

[Kastchey]

I'm happy for aikex222 to host the next competition if he likes
I post with a speed of a wounded turtle stuck in a pool of strawberry jam anyway, which doesn't help hosting competitions

Also,

Remind me to NEVER visit a proctologist with more than 7 unpronounceable syllables in their name...

Lol! Cast your puny little fears aside, and show true faith. Doctor Fghnyhg'thg will sort you out in no time.