Sprite Jam April 2-9: Under the Sea! (WINNER ANNOUNCED)

Afflict · Wed 05/04/2006 16:38:52

Yeah Stefano is entering!

Kewl now all we need is BB to do a new image.

lo_res_man · Wed 05/04/2006 20:02:41

And here is my entry.

It is a TERRAFISH, the opposite of a mereperson.

Mordalles · Wed 05/04/2006 20:18:25

Quote from: Afflict on Wed 05/04/2006 16:38:52
Yeah Stefano is entering!

KewlÃ,Â now all we need is BB to do a new image.

ssssshhhhh! not so loud! do you want the trophy or not?

Afflict · Wed 05/04/2006 21:16:16

LoL

I felt that the only way to justify a response was to add a sprite...

Just for Fun..

T-bag · Thu 06/04/2006 01:35:28

Here's my entry:

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110x192 12 colours.

Loads of good entries. Maybe we could ALL get a badge or something, just for enteringÃ,Â

MashPotato · Thu 06/04/2006 16:30:50

Quote from: Stefano on Wed 05/04/2006 15:11:56
Excelent entries so far. Gonna be a though decision, heh?

Yes, very... but I certainly wouldn't mind more entries to make it even tougher! ^_^

DutchMarco · Fri 07/04/2006 22:09:07

Here's my first entry, and my first sprite ever. Please be kind! Made with The Gimp after I dismissed ArtGem for being too counter-intuitive (amongst other things) and Painter Essentials 2 for being downright useless (to be kind) for pixel art. At least the Wacom tablet comes in handy!

13 colours (14, including background)
100 x 100 pixels

2x as big:

The vicious man-eating seaweed settles at great depths on the ocean floor. It has to since if it would live near the beach, it would not survive the first ebb. Say what you will about Darwin but at least he got some essentials right!

The seaweed catches it's prey by hypnotizing it, luring him within reach of it's sharp tentacle fangs before proceeding to rip the poor fella to shreds.

The seaweed also hopes feverishly that evolution (or the graphics artist) will give it a mouth to ingest it's prey through, or Darwin'll catch up with it pretty darn quick after all.

Drawken · Sat 08/04/2006 08:30:16

This Sprite Jamming stuff is hard.
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15 Colors
107x180
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Gilbert · Sat 08/04/2006 13:41:35

189 x 173 15 colours total

Anghellic · Sat 08/04/2006 16:19:36

1x

2x

Sorry about the image looking so weird. I accidently saved it as .JPG.
I'm not sure about the colors but atleast the size followed the rules.

MashPotato · Sat 08/04/2006 17:04:02

Hooray, more sprites!

Also, a reminder that this jam ends tomorrow... I'll be closing it around 3:00 EST, so if there are any more entries, please post before then ^_^

Anym · Sat 08/04/2006 18:40:09

Gilbot: Is your character fingering herself? Rrrrr!

Quote from: MashPotato on Sun 02/04/2006 19:32:07
Imagine an adventure game that takes place entirely under the sea (...) no copyrighted characters (...)

I had to think of the sunken city of R'yleh and was wondering if the copyright on Cthulhu had expired (yet). Does anyone know?

I made something different, though.

Size: 200x200
Colours: 16
Entry:

Snarky · Sat 08/04/2006 19:38:03

The copyright status of Lovecraft's works is complicated (see the Wikipedia article). Cthulhu is in the public domain unless 1. August Derleth got the copyrights from Lovecraft. 2. Derleth renewed the copyrights some time between 1947 and 1978. He probably didn't do either.

In any case, Lovecraft's willingness to let others use his creations, and the influence of his work on popular culture, has disseminated his original elements so widely and created so much precedent that you could probably get away with pretty much anything under fair use.

Stefano · Sat 08/04/2006 22:09:24

Quote from: Afflict on Wed 05/04/2006 16:38:52
Yeah Stefano is entering!

Kewl now all we need is BB to do a new image.

Yes! I am!!!

I've updated my post (last one on the previous page) for those interested.

Nikolas · Sat 08/04/2006 22:17:57

I really don't know how a sprite jam is judged, but Stefano: this is amazing! Simply amazing! Great! Awesmoe (<-debt to META)! Unbelievable! Wher edo I donate? And for that matter mine sucked bigtime, but it was really a fun half hour doing it (hey I'm brand new to that sort of thing!)

buloght · Sat 08/04/2006 23:11:45

stefano :o :o someone kill stefano

Anghellic · Sun 09/04/2006 07:28:19

oh there goes my change of winning :o

Tomas · Sun 09/04/2006 19:01:43

I have no idea what I just created, but here goes:

15 colors, 171x119 pixels.

(1x)

(2x)

And if no one else is going to be nit-picky: While being an amazing image, Stefano's entry is actually taller than 200 pixels and has too many colors (at least the one with a bg)

MashPotato · Sun 09/04/2006 19:13:00

Quote from: Tomas on Sun 09/04/2006 19:01:43
And if no one else is going to be nit-picky: While being an amazing image, Stefano's entry is actually taller than 200 pixels and has too many colors (at least the one with a bg)

I went by the one without a background... it's 24 colours (which is fine) and 23 pixels too high (once you trim away the dead space). I was planning on letting it pass since it didn't seem the other entries were too pressed for space (most were well under the limit), and so it didn't seem to give Stefano a really big advantage to have a little extra space ^_^. If anyone thinks that is unfair, please say so before the close of the competition...

Stefano · Sun 09/04/2006 19:30:09

Oh, my. You guys are correct. I missed it completely.

EDIT:
a quick fix... not as great as the original, but it fit the rules now...