Topic: BACKGROUND BLITZ: Nighttime - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

[lorenzo]

NIGHTTIME

Images from: ShowHide

Albert Bierstadt, Lake Tahoe, Spearing Fish by Torchlight; Sylvester Shchedrin, Moonlit Night in Naples; John Atkinson Grimshaw, Reflections on the Thames; Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhône.

Your job is to create a background set at nighttime. It can be anything you want: a starry night in the countryside, a futuristic city at night, a dark alley, or something else entirely! Even a rock concert, as long as it takes place at night.

Deadline: 18th 25th of May 2018

Voting:

Concept: your background should tell us something about the place you have depicted.
Playability: does it have clearly defined walkable areas, things to interact with, etc?
Artistic Execution: does the image convey the wanted atmosphere? What's the feeling of the place?

Good luck!

[Mouth for war]

Great theme! Here's a little something I whipped up

[lorenzo]

I like your background, Mouth for war!
It has a lovely atmosphere, it makes you feel like you're under the moonlight. And the light creates some nice contrast.

[Mouth for war]

Thank you very much! I'm a sucker for doing landscape backgrounds haha

[Mouth for war]

Isn't anyone else gonna join this comp.? Come on people! night time is awesome!!!!!

[VampireWombat]

Since the deadline isn't until next Friday, I plan to to make my background this weekend.

[lorenzo]

A quick reminder: the deadline is Friday. If anyone is working on his entry and need more time, let me know, and I can add a few days to the competition!

Come on, don't let Mouth for war win by default!

[Click'd]

I could submit an all-black rectangle, if that helps.

[VampireWombat]

If you want more than a generic sky with a low detail moon then I probably do need an extension until like Sunday.
Unfortunately, Friday is also the due day for the GameJam and I'm still attempting to finish something for it.

[lorenzo]

I could submit an all-black rectangle, if that helps.

That would be a very minimalist background!

Unfortunately, Friday is also the due day for the GameJam and I'm still attempting to finish something for it.

Sorry, I didn't know about the Game Jam, I would've chosen another day otherwise.
I'll extend the competition for another week. The new deadline is the 25th of May!

[Hobo]

Maybe you should lure some MAGS participants to join the blitz. Someone might have already drawn a night scene for their MAGS game or perhaps is planning to.

I could submit an all-black rectangle, if that helps.

If you'd add a pair of eyes, it could actually pass as a fairly functional background

[Kastchey]

And here's my entry:

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Nighttime sounded like a good excuse to try out a limited palette

[lorenzo]

I'm always impressed with what people can create with a few pixels and a limited palette. That's a really cool background, Kastchey, very atmospheric! It's detailed enough to make you understand what's going on, but it leaves enough room to the imagination.

[Cassiebsg]

I just made a sequence for my MAGS game, and thought it could fit well in the theme (or as well as a tangent can be ).

[Pinback]

Amazing entries! Inspired me to do a quick one myself - this is a bit of a photobash experiment, some "dirty tools" too.

Rock into the night!

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[Mouth for war]

Ah nice to see more entries here. Great work everyone

[lorenzo]

Cassiebsg: as long as the background is set at night, it's fine. Best of luck with your MAGS game!

Pinback: great background, I love the lighting and the sense of scale.

[regularryan]

A work in progress. Won't have it finished by the deadline but still wanted to submit something

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[Gurok]

Looks really good, regularryan! Nice silhouettes in the distance.

[VampireWombat]

Alright, here's my entry.
Not too creative, but it's what I was inspired to make.