[BW Contest] I'll Skin You Alive!

[YoshL]

Originally Posted by justin_ator

Important question, Velo.

When skinning for MP, should we design for a 4 person MP match? Or just the traditional 2?

oh geez i completely forgot about multiplayer. do we have to skin the gameplay too? (like the actual playing game screen) and results screen?

[Zageron]

Try to approach the designing process at an object oriented standpoint.
Think about how something could be used once, or twice, or three times, or four times. Paint a dynamic picture, or piece together a vector puzzle. We reserve the right to change the exact way your style is implemented remember. Some things that you give us will be either impossible or lag the game to the ground.

I'm really exited to see what people come up with, being that I have a vast and creative mind but absolutely zero artistic ability.

If you are artistically inclined, and fast at it, pump out as many high quality themes as you can! You're allowed to do whatever you want, like velo said. If you want the genre wheel back, put it back! If you want a bulliton board with the grenres pinned up on it, go ahead! If you want the genres to be little turds floating around in a toilet bowl, **** it submit the thing!

Just remember to be reasonable, artistic, and realistic. We can't do 3D yet, and neither Velo or I are interested in programming 2.5D at the moment.

[yo man im awesome]

2.5D lol?

[condoct]

hmm...

[darkshark]

So I'm guessing my first design a while back is a no no and completely scrapped?

[Velocity]

well, pmuch.

It was kinda hard to expand the engine if required since almost everything in BW will be extendable like Genres and Songs, along with support multiple languages.

[condoct]

I'm the only one that sent skins so far. lol

[justin_ator]

Yes, and I want this here for when we receive more. I don't expect them to roll in very fast honestly. But I want to be prepared for them as they come.

[justin_ator]

Updated because I've had someone ask already:

If you need a way to get the file over and don't link to it, send it to justin_ator@yahoo.com

Also, all breakdowns of submission scoring will be posted here in addition to tips and suggestions from the judges.

To all judges: please PM me any tips and suggestions for the skins, so that I can add them into the scoring breakdown posts.

Also, my judges, we need to fill those last slots in order to get the judging going. We have 3 skins (submitted by Condoct) that can be judged. But I'm not going to randomly select seven people from a list of seven people. Let's recruit more staff. Lol.

[justin_ator]

Originally Posted by Velocity

game will support 2,3 or 4 players. Best idea would be for 2 player be one design, and anymore then that be another

For reference.

[nois-or-e]

ymia has asked me if i'd like to partake in judging for this contest. Whether needed or not, I am more than happy to offer any assistance that may be required for thi project ~____~

[justin_ator]

We do need 2 more mods to judge. We need 10 judges, and were hoping to stick to staff, ymia, and myself. Once we have that, I will start to do judging groups and distribution.

Expect a PM from me, current judges.

EDIT:
This will be added to the main post as well.
For submission, you can submit either pictures, flash, or psd documents. If submitting picture files for the pages, PLEASE send them as PNG's. They keep much more of the quality while maintaining a decent file size.
If you have any questions, please ask.

[ic0slay3r]

This really need a front page post.

I'm gonna start working on something but I doubt I will win, anyways im gonna try.

[yo man im awesome]

Originally Posted by ic0slay3r

This really need a front page post.

I'm gonna start working on something but I doubt I will win, anyways im gonna try.

Actually, I was thinking of taking his thread that shows results and such, and possibly making that a semi-front page news thing. The front page news would show your name, if it was accepted or rejected, and a link to the real scoring thread we have now.

[justin_ator]

Well two comments:
1, the scoring page is more for reference to those that are designing, and we really wanted to use the main page to get people interested. (Velo was waiting for the maintenance message to go away before posting the Skin post)
2, the skins themselves will only be available for viewing to the judges that are going over them. When the accepted ones are released to the public, everyone else can see them.

EDIT:
Also, two more things.
July 25th to July 30th, I won't be around a computer. If you need something, contact Velo or yo man. As we don't have ten judges yet, it won't really matter on the judging since I'm not sending any out yet anyway.
Second, we need two more mods or admins to step up for judging. If none do by the time I get back (August 1st), we are going to recruit community members to judge. But please, don't beg us. We're going to be very selective.

[yo man im awesome]

I believe the 21st to the 23rd or 24th, I won't be available either, I'll be in Hershey Park just a heads up.

EDIT: I asked JenovaSephiroth, but I haven't gotten an answer yet, obviously.

[Velocity]

and I won't be around from July 28 - August 1st, then from August 7th - August 21st.

[justin_ator]

Alright:
21st-24th, get ahold of me or Velocity.
25th-27th, Velocity or yo man.
28th-30th, yo man.
August, yo man or myself.

Night. Have to get up at 4:30 tomorrow for work.

[Elite Ninja]

oshi theres gonna be 4 player O.O?! You should allow 2v2 team match ups!

[Zageron]

In before I somehow magically get something stupid like 16 vs 16 working.
That would make for some fun competitions.

Also, I want to be informed of and shown all of the skins that are submitted. I, obviously, can't vote on the ones that I'm not selected for but being that I'm writing the game I'd like to see what people want as soon as possible.