[winners] BACKGROUND BLITZ: The Nursery (finished)

[Frikker]

Ok I've ran out of tweaking time so ill put up what ive got. Created entirely in Blender.

Here is my submission for "The Nursery" along with some badly written, scene setting dialogue between the protagonist and his friend shortly beforehand.

"The old Leary place in the forest?! Why the hell are you going up there?!" . "I need some old documents that I think will help my investigation, I heard they left everything in there when it was abandoned"  .  "And you know why it was abandoned ,don't you? " .  "nope..." .  "it was home to The Leary Family in the 30's , they had already had 4 kids when they unexpectedly had another, it was unplanned but they decided to keep it. There wasn't much space left in the house but they managed to clear out an old room and turn it into a nursery. The story goes, that as soon as that baby was born, darkness descended upon the house. The Learys were convince that the baby was posessed. One day, they lost the plot and smothered it to death in its cot, then they went out into the forest and hung themselves. The Bodys of the other children were never found and the officers conducting the investigation found the house so disturbing that they recovered the babys body and left instantly. Nobody has never been back there"  .

"yeh ok, enough of your silly ghost storys, im going up there tonight. And besides, even if there is any truth to your story, Its old documents and files Im looking for. I wont be going anywhere near the nursery. If they are still in the house, they are bound to be in the attic..."



Also, smaller version for tablet/laptop users:



Well done to those who managed to participate

[Mouth for war]

Oooh that is really nice!!!!!

[Frikker]

Thanks Mouth For War , your entry looks positively gruesome and creepy well done. Glad you entered it despite your doubts. Well done to everybody else who entered, great work all

[Mad]

Great entries one and all!

I'll close this competition sometime around 14 pm gmt. So, if anyone wants to submit something in any state of development,  there is still some time.

[Mouth for war]

Thanks Frikker

[Danvzare]

Wow Frikker, that is incredible!
Is that a photo, or a 3D render?
You know what, I don't care. It's brilliant!
The angle, the lighting, the story that goes with it. I love it.

[Frikker]

Haha thanks Danvzare, its a 3-D model made and rendered in Blender 3D software. There is no way I would be going anywhere like that to take a photograph!

[Mouth for war]

Please make a survival horror game with those graphics. Yeah you heard me...get crackin'

[Frikker]

That would be awesome, it would be a bit like outlast
I am actually creating an adventure game which I am using Blender to create the backgrounds for and hopefully AGS to produce it, and it will feature several areas in the game that will be similar in atmosphere to this. Unfortunately nobody on here has seen anything of it yet, even though it has been nearly three years in the making , as all the backgrounds are not rendered out yet so they dont really pass the "2 finished in-game screenshot" rules for the WIP forum. Hopefully ill have some rendered out and be able to start a game WIP thread within the year..... 

[Mandle]

There is no way I would be going anywhere like that to take a photograph!

Especially if the photo was not touched-up. I see the ghost-toddler. The cool thing is it took me a while to notice it so it was creepier when I did. Very nice! And you are a Blender GOD!

Cassie, I think you've found your go-to guru for help with the Blender beastie

[Mad]

So, I guess it's voting time!

And your categories are....

Concept - Artistic Execution - Playability

Judge wisely!!!

[cat]

Concept: Mandle
Artistic Execution: Frikker
Playability: Fred Five

[Danvzare]

Concept - Frikker
Artistic Execution - Frikker
Playability - Fred Five

[Fred Five]

My votes;
Concept - Mandle
Artistic execution - Frikker
Playability - Grok

[Cassiebsg]

Concept - Mandle (that is just so.... )
Artistic execution - Frikker (lovely, looks awesome! Congrats! )
Playability - Grok (actually it's a tie with Fred Five, as I think both are as playable with lots of places to investigate. Still, going with Grok due to the perspective that will give less character scaling.)

[Mouth for war]

Frikker to Everything!

[Creamy]

Concept - Mandle
Artistic Execution - Fred Five
Playability - Danvzare

[selmiak]

Concept: Mouth for war
Artistic Execution: Frikker
Playability: Fred Five

[Frikker]

Ok ive thought long and hard about this.... all entrys are great in their own individual ways , and all are so different in terms of concept and style:

Mandle - pleasantly disturbing/worrying and a great unique concept....
Grok - A fun idea in your usual trademark style with nice use of the light coming in through the window
Fred Five - Another great concept and a background that I would love to explore
Danvzare - Pefect for an old school nostalgic game that provokes curiosity as to what went on in there...
Mouth For War - Brilliantly creepy , you discover something new everytime you look at it .

Anyways , based on the voting categories , my votes are:

CONCEPT - Fred Five (Mandle a close second with that belter of a :shocked::shocked: factor)
ARTISTIC EXCECUTION - Mouth For War (im a sucker for 3-d art , Fred Five would be my second choice)
PLAYABILITY - Between Grok and Danvzare so a vote each if poss as I cant decide.

[Mandle]

CONCEPT - Fred Five
ARTISTIC EXCECUTION - Frikker
PLAYABILITY - Danvzare