CHALLENGE: Gears of Summer

Summer is right around the corner for those in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, challenge winner Adarias challenges you to create a PSP mockup for a beach party game featuring ROBOTS!

Oh yeah, you know what I'm talking about...all those bronze beauties rubbing oil on each other, letting off some of the year's steam and kicking it into neutral for a while, recharging their batteries and going wild on pure ethanol. Yup, it's robots on the beach!

Canvas Size - Exactly 240 x 136.
Colors - Unrestricted.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Gears of Summer pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

Adarias said this on the gallery's challenge page and it may be useful to some who don't quite get the PARTY part of the challenge.

Mockup, in the vein of beach and party games.  Party games are any that can be multiplayer or where you can pass the controller around by design (so mario party definite is, as is Super Smash, Left 4 Dead counts, Call of Duty possibly is, final fantasy definitely not).  Something like DOA beach volleyball and that kind of sub-genre (that's what i had in mind), only it's robots.  Of course, come up with your own format that involves robots and beaches and you could earn bonus points (I don't vote).  It would be a tough argument but if you can do a piece of full-screen static art and sell it as a game mockup (beach robot multiplayer dating sim?) more power to you.

The only requirements are that it must be 240x136 and that it must appear to be a party game mockup.

Again though the basic rules are there and beyond that it's up to fate and the audience.  You could potentially sell a picture fried chicken as long as it's 240x136 with no transparency, it's just going to be a hell of a lot harder to convince.

I've got animation mapped out, just need to mind-numbingly put it together >.<



(I originally read it as a game about a robotic party :D )

* - gradients
* why is the Dubai Bank logo the only AA'd thing in this whole piece?
* ...There are also some really ugly jaggies/unrefined lines
* insert coins...into a PSP!?
* should be transport without the s

And where are robot beauties?
Beach theme and title of the challenge require (though inderectly) some robotic girls in the mockup. Without them most of the fun is lost. Imagine 60's beach movie only with bearded men as the cast!

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 06 December 2009 at 9:26am

Let me explain. There are 3 colors used in this piece. It's like a fake classic video game on the PSP. The "press O" button is because there is a real "O" button on the PSP, for those who have never seen one before.

I'm doing the best I can, although the rules were sort of confusing. :|

Thanks AB! Although, I really don't FEEL like it should be explained, it's just usualy needed to be explained anyway, some people are really clueless. OK so, edited the palmtree, and the O button... but I need an opinion. I have 4 versions of this picture, 3 of witch are retro, and the other 1 is the original.

OOOKKKK so,

1rst one has tall pixels...

the good part is that it looks retro... although some of it is not understandable.

2nd one has wide pixels...

it's like the 1rst one...

3rd one is the normal one.

It's my personal favorite, although it has less of a "retro" feel.

4th one is the 16x16 pixel grid.

It has a retro feel, the text is readable, although it's hard to tell what the center of the picture is.

OK, so if no opinion is given before the end of the day, I'm going to submit the normal one.

Yah I never liked those versions any way. So I think the normal one looks the best, y'know. It still has that 3 color restriction, and it still makes since.

I didn't add the Palm tree last though. I have no clue why it turns out the way people says it does though, and it doesn't help when I can't see the problem. I do something similar to you, each time I make a notable change, I create a new file. Thanks for the advice though.

2 ALL MODERATORS: I know I'm late to this challenges. But I have a whole day was off the Internet. At the city was a terrible snow. Entire 4Hrs I reached the house. Please pass my work for the competition. I worked for a week. I can not conquer, but I want very participate. http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/48492.htm