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1st place: Mad (6 votes) , golden cauldron.
2nd and 3rd place: ProgZmax and Sughly (3 votes each) , silver and bronze cauldrons.
4th and 5th place: loominous and Jimbob (1 vote each) , plastic and EGA cauldrons.
6th to 9th place: Dualnames, Alun, Sadistyk and Babar (no votes) , wooden, straw, shadow and paper cauldrons.

Congrats to all the entrants, and thank you for so many entries.

Qf4. (f6 to f4)

Jim Reed reporting, capt'n!

Have a happy one Danman!

1st place: Sughly
2nd place ProgZmax
3rd place: tzach

Thank you all for participating!

EDIT: Aye, Wonkyth!

Damn, I knew I missed something! I'll edit it right away.

I think you all put too much faith in this "art" thing. Here I made you a proper edit, and I bet you'll like it more than all of the other edits:

=P

Jimbob.
[biased vote]
Yes, I can vote, too =)

Thank you all for participating!
The voting starts now, and you have until the 19th to vote for your favourite sprite.

No categories here, just place one vote and off you go!

Happy Bday, Wonkyth and Khris.

Well, I notice your compostion is a bit lacking here, so I thought I'd comment on it.

When you flatten your BG to shapes, you can see how your pic isn't evenly divided. It leans heavily to the bottom right. I'm not saying here that people don't draw pics intentionaly that way, but I like balance, so I can only try my way on your BG. Anyway, I got rid of that vertical pipe on the right, as I couldn't find anything that would balance it to the left. I added a rooster figure on top of that tower, so the left side gets some detail. This will make the player examine the left part of the screen more, and not just dismiss it out of hand for being only irrelevant background. I added a few buildngs on the left, and reduced them on the right. I also reduced the darker parts on the lower-right by adding some buildings there. Making the background buildings higher, and adding the sun (which screwe up the ligtning btw) I effectively split the BG in four parts that are ~the same size. I think this makes the BG more interesting to look at. I think the BG buildigs could use some more detail also.

I realise that I'm not good at explaining my methods, as composition is something that I mostly "feel" than think about and calculate, but you can plainly see that my edit makes the BG look nicer (I hope it does)

Note: I didn't draw details, just shapes here and there, so dissmiss my bad technique on that part.

C'mon people, more entries, you still have a week to go! =(

Here's a link to the Wiki article about pixel scaling algorhytms.

Yes, Matt (Tier) decided to split for the holidays and saddled me with the hosting of this here Background Blitz. As we all *like* Matt almost as much as Babar, we're going to paint him a *nice* background depicting the places I...errr, we would like him to burn...err spend his holidays. =P

The image should be AGS compatible (I wonder what kind of image wouldn't be), and you have free use of any colours you like.

If someone could draw a torture chamber in hell for my wonderfull *friend* Matt here, I'd be obliged to vote for that entry when the voting peroid of three days start on the 18th this month. =D

Some of you, who don't know him very well, might even draw him something nice!

Obliged by tradition, I'll draw each participant a trophy.

For you who don't know, he's getting drunk...'scuse me, attending Mittens in Italy.

Yes, they do. Fireballs, levitation, summoning, divination, rituals, evocation, etc. take your pick!

["Magic users".]

Hi there sprite jammers!

For this sprite jam you are going to be restricted to these 16 colours:


The competiton will last for two weeks, and voting will last 3 days. Trophies are guaranteed to every participant. The theme is "Magic users".

You can draw any kind of magic user you wish. Everything from wizards, over necromancers to imps is allowed. As long as the creature/person uses magic in some way that you can draw it, please feel free to submit your entry.

Backgrounds and animation are optional. There is no size limit.

Have fun!

EDIT:
loominous pointed out to me that there should be another set of rules for non pixelart people.

So, for them, they can use 5 colours (+shading, anti-aliasing and transparency) with no restrictions to the canvas size.
Offcourse, he better enter then >=)

I guess I should make a new one now.

Actually, I cheated a bit and drew the floor and some other lines by heart  =P

I think the female has too wide shoulders, or/and too narow hips.

And this happens when you get cocky and start milkin' it.

My best score so far, and I didn't even defeat the UAO.

I noticed you don't use the mouse. Why?

EDIT:

Mwahahaha!



I wonder if I can dive deeper than 20000 under the sea.

EDIT2:
Yep, 21165!