Hi Gang,
Hope everybody is well
-- UPDATE 29-07-07 --<Cough>
So, um, Mittens 2007 was great...
Before I start a new thread for the third and probably final Annual, which obviously didn't come out this year (Apologies to those Brittens / Mittens 07 attendees who only came for the freebies
) I remembered that I still had some unfinished business from last year, and having just found the box of Annuals, I thought I should act on this before too much more time passes.
The Winner of the 'Design a Cover' competition was Limping Fish. I'll drop you a pm in case you don't see this, but if you want to pm me your address I'll send you out a copy of Volume 1, and Volume 2 which has been 'signed' by CJ.
In the end, I also used an image supplied by 2ma2, so again blah blah pm blah address, I'll send you a copy of Volume 2.
The following attendees are still entitled to a copy of the Annual:
M0DsMagintz - Scotch
Layabout - Adam &
Becky - CJ
AGA - Annie (OneThinkingGal and ._.)
- Creed Malay (Davy Malay)
- Dave Gilbert
- Hajo
- Jake (Hotspot)
- Privateer Puddin' (custard)
- spleen (Iqu)
- YicklePigeon
And that should be it for the 2006 annual!
-- UPDATE 10-08-06 --Ok, so tonight is the deadline for anyone who wants to send in a cover for this year's Annual. I'll announce the winner at Mittens and organise sending the prizes out when I get back.
To save on space in my luggage I will probably bring the discs out in slim CD cases, and then supply printed DVD covers for people to take back sandwiched between their notebooks / magazines / porn etc.
This appears to be the final breakdown on attendees:
- M0Ds
- Magintz
- Petteri
- Chrille
- Grundislav
- Scotch
- Quintaros
- Radiant
- Layabout
- Farlander & Lorena
- Adam & Becky
- Goldmund & Dominika
- CJ
- Helm
- Mattgoble
- Sinitrena
- Disco
- AGA
Which I make to be 18 (21 if the couples want 1 each
) - So 25 copies should cover you guys!
- Annie (OneThinkingGal and ._.)
- Creed Malay (Davy Malay)
- Dave Gilbert
- Hajo
- Jake (Hotspot)
- Privateer Puddin' (custard)
- spleen (Iqu)
- YicklePigeon
And 8 attendees to Brittens who won't be in Spain. Guys & Gals, if you want to PM me your snail mail address I will drop a copy in the post when I get back.
-- UPDATE 09-07-06 --So the games are coming in thick and fast - many thanks to everyone who has offered the projects up, or said 'yes' when asked!
This year's annual will very quickly fill a CD-R, so I was wondering whether people had a preference to either a DVD-R or multiple CD-Rs?
-- UPDATE 04-07-06 --OK Guys, there is still time to send me details about your games, music, photos, plugins, modules, whatevers to be included in this year's annual.
As an extra 'thing', I would like one of you talented individuals to design the front for this year's DVD Cover. (Mods - didn't know whether this should be also posted in competitions & activities?)
The back of the case will included a list of the content of the disc, while the spine will match last year's annual, so entries should be limited to the front, which has a dimension of:
1536x2175 pixels (wxh)
Also, due to the constraints of bringing these discs to Mittens, I might package the discs up in normal CD-Jewel cases and include the DVD Cover artwork on the disc - it all depends on how many copies I need to bring (more on that later). If this is the case, I can scale & crop the winning artwork down for these cases, although please feel free to also enter a design based around a 12cm square at 300dpi.
Remeber, the main aim is for the DVD Cover artwork, NOT the CD Sleeve Entries should be supplied as either TIFFs, PNGs or JPEGs (the less compression the better), and emailed to me:
mattgoble is my username, gmail is my account. Hope that makes sense
Below is a link to last year's artwork (Not the greatest, I know, but a last minute, late night attempt by yours truly)
What does the winner get?Whether the 'winner' is coming to either Brittens or Mittens or not, I will send them a final copy of the annual, along with any other 'goodies' I can think of.
-- END OF UPDATE --
I thought I should start this year's submissions for the AGS Annual a little earlier, considering how disorganised I was this year...
For those of you who are wondering what I am talking about, can visit this topic:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=20863.0The deadline for submissions will be a couple of weeks before Mittens, or Brittens or whichever 2006 gathering comes first!
In the meantime, please feel free to contact me via PM with submissions and suggestions - I will do my best to contact as many of you as possible, but please don't wait for me as I do have a tendancy to miss out on some of the most obvious games!
All the best
