Preserved Topic: * Feb sig comp: Video Games

I wanna see video game sigs. Old school, new school, Asylum school -- gimme video game sigs.

Fair warning: animated or not, I *will* take filesize (and dimensions) into consideration. Find balance and I'll be happy.

Video games.




[This message has been edited by warjournal (edited 02-03-2002).]

ooh... the time has come... heeheeheehee!!!

This can be really fun.

*fires up css64 for inspiration*

I can already hear "all your base are belong to us" swarming down the streets. --aa

my first try to a sig contest!

*BANG*



[This message has been edited by massacre (edited 02-19-2002).]

hehe, a cool idea wj!

massacre, i like that one. cool animation!

Video games........ oh ya it's pac-man party time........

warjournal could computer games work? like d2 or sc or wc?

Sure they can, I mean computer games are video games too right? anyway most computer games end up being consol games also..... go for it, I love warcraft....

hey syn, wut you mean you doin pac-man? don't you know me and him are bros? we be tight man, if you doing da P-Man you better know I doin him too, so let the challenge begin....

[This message has been edited by AusRA (edited 02-04-2002).]

i like warcraft too but i'll join with my invadersig!(the one above)




[This message has been edited by massacre (edited 02-19-2002).]

Alright here is my try at it...

Another old one for me. I will make a new one tho before long.




[This message has been edited by CarltonCig (edited 02-05-2002).]

This is my first try at a sig contest as well. Had to jump in sometime.
Cheers!

LOL! Thats really good Dave! I love Pacmans expression when he spots the tetris-block thing

Cheers

ok i know my sig isnt realy very good but it was a try.
il try a new one when i have mor time

a yes nearly forgot ..i like shooter *gg*

[This message has been edited by Blacknight (edited 02-05-2002).]

insider, dave,
i knew that someone would come up with these ideas...

also i guess someone will do a 3d rendered pacman.

[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 02-05-2002).]

I'm thinking about doing a tetris or can I do that with 2?

Nothing special, but one of the classic games I remember.

Bah, I'll prolly do another one, there's already two tetris-related ones.

I was going to do tetris! I just wasted 30 minuts of my day starting on that sig! its ok lol.

edit: the tetris sig is good [peer]!

[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 02-06-2002).]

-silence

how is this game called......is it roadfight ?

Hah.. From my old archives, a rendered pacman. Not a sig, but hah.

also, insider, enter yours as well! More stuff is more better!(R)

[edit]url tags are fun[/edit]



[This message has been edited by [peer] (edited 02-06-2002).]

<img src="http://www.bluestem.net/adrian/sigs/controller.gif">


There's my submision. Hopefully the transparency is ok.

I could use some pointers on how to make it look a little more 3d.
Also, who catches the Parapa the Rapa refrence?

You forgot "Turn" and "Pose." Actually, without those, I didn't catch the reference until you mentioned it.

Wacom, trackball, it's all in the mind...

Anyway, here's mine. Not really a competition sig, since it's 75k, and not really an example of my artistic skills, but I spent too long working on it not to put it up. (You'll note that it does fit with the Asylum color scheme...) I'll come up with something slimmer after a bit.

(Not completely optimized, but I'm REALLY in a hurry, so please bear with me.)



edit: removing regular sig

[This message has been edited by mahjqa (edited 02-08-2002).]

Mahjqa, is that your fire trick with Polar Coords? I did some playing with that and it came out pretty sweet. Explosionesque or something.

Where is DG and his old Spaceinvader-siggy?

That one was sweeet.

-nimraw

Yeah, where is that fuckin' guy?

Sorry folks, while I was sick, the registration for salvagion.com expired, and I haven't had the time or spare dosh to renew. Tragedy, I know, especially since mentioning it will probably cause scavenging..~L~

Nonetheless, the sigs are all locked up until further notice.

Peter

It's super spy hunter from the NES. There were buildings and stuff beside the road in the original sig, but I wanted to cut the filesize down so they were cut out. That left me with a 6 color gif.

Warjournal; It's not. It's easy.

Start with a looping animation. This was just a tileable pic scrolling down.


Then simply link all layers (all frames of the animation) and distort the layer with the transform tool. (CTRL-T)



Copy, or mirror one so you've got two sides. (one up, one down) Then make a black gradient on the outside, and a white gradient on the inside, add a gradient map (available only in PS6.x, fiddle with hue/saturation in earlier PS versions), draw and add a picture of an alien and you're done.

Any questions? Just ask.

Heh. That look a bit easier than the polar coords route I took. Copy, Offset, Polar coords, repeat x15.

Wow mahjqa, that's really cool... "as always"

(file size was big, so i resized way down)

"I am working on a different, much smaller animated one as my second submission....."

Ok mahjqa, so ur saying to have a gradient as a new layer over the moving tiled animation.

Questions

What is the gradient layer set to?

How did you come up with that tile and how did you make it scroll in an eternal pattern?

Your fire has always interested me.

Insider, It's a [gradient map], a new feature in PS6.x. You can add one with [image>adjust>gradient map] or as an adjustment layer. It's quite easy. A gradient map converts your image to a grayscale image, then replaces the grays with the colors of a gradient. So, if you apply a gradient which goes from red to yellow, the black areas of the picture will be red, and the lighter areas will be yellow. If you still don't get it, there's a *.PSD below.

(321 KB)

Ok thats one question down now how do you make the scrolling part repeat itself?

very interesting choice ausra, no i haven't forgot about doing mine, my pac-man submission is comming soon....

it took me long enough to mess with the animation, I lacked the patience to make it transparent...

[This message has been edited by moaiz (edited 02-10-2002).]

exellent Moaiz! hehe ..

Yes!!! I am LERVIN IT! Great work MoaZ!

I just caught myself staring at Moaiz' sig for about 3 minutes straight. Great job!

Moaz did you create those images of mario from scratch or did you download them?

oops, thanks peer. lol




[This message has been edited by Wolfen (edited 02-12-2002).]

I grabbed all the images as animated gifs from The Mushroom Kingdom. I opened them in image ready, copied out the elements and started building an animation. It came out ok considering I had 100+ layers, I had started with the intent of having a walking turtle on the top that gets flipped/bounced/kicked out away from the pipe and a mushroom pops out of one of the "?" to be promptly eaten by Mario but by the time I got the bricks, blocks. coins, and mario animated I really didnt want to mess with it any longer. I didnt even make it transparent, I couldnt remember how to do it in imageready since it dosent get much use. Initially I was thinking of doing somehting along the lines of beserker or crazy climber but I couldnt find anything that clicked with me for either of those games.

That would be "Wolfenstein" :P

that a really cool idea, mario rocks... i knew it was only a matter of time until someone went with an animated mario



[This message has been edited by Synthetic (edited 02-13-2002).]

/me smacks moaiz around a bit with a rather large trout

moaiz!! I LOVE IT!! i think i may have to take part in this months sig contest.. if i ever find the time to open photoshop that is

moaiz - you're getting far too much praise here - this isn't healthy - but I have to admit it, its a really really really good animated sig.

In my scepticism, which I'll apologise for in a moment; I need to satisfy my grumbling doubt - asking - "Just how much information/animation/inspiration, did you get from the images you found at the 'Mushroom Kingdom'?".

I invite you to display the original gif(s).

I'm sorry for questioning your creative abilities, heres why: When I first saw your sig I instantly thought "He's stolen that from somewhere. Not the whole thing, but maybe the pixel-perfect Mario, or the spinning coins, or something". That was when I first saw your sig and hadn't read anyone's responses. Then I came back tonight and saw how delighted everyone seems with your sig. So I re-evaluated and pretty much became mesmerized with it - I LOVE the way you've made it stop animating eventually and simply display your name - thats beautifully subtle.

So I love it, yet I doubt it. Put me out my misery so I can appreciate it as much as I want tu!

Or you could just tell me to piss off. :-)



::edit:: Typos Typos Typos (yeah - 3 of them.)
::edit:: Typos Typos Typos TYPOS (*sigh*)

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I think this is my first ever sig competition entry. Have to admit I didn't try *too*hard though.
[edit]Durn UBB code[/edit]



[This message has been edited by Schitzoboy (edited 02-16-2002).]

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Sonic Snail sez...
moaiz - you're getting far too much praise here - this isn't healthy - but I have to admit it, its a really really really good animated sig.

In my scepticism, which I'll apologise for in a moment; I need to satisfy my grumbling doubt - asking - "Just how much information/animation/inspiration, did you get from the images you got found at the 'Mushroom Kingdom'?".

I invite you to display the original gif(s).

I'm sorry for questioning your creative abilities, heres why: When I first saw your sig I instantly though "He's stolen that from somewhere. Not the whole thing, but maybe the pixel-perfect Mario, or the spinning coins, or something". That was when I first saw your sig and hadn't read anyone's responses. Then I came back tonight and saw how delighted everyone seems with your sig. So I re-evaluated and pretty much became mesmerized with it - I LOVE the way you've made it stop animating eventually and simply display your name - thats beautifully subtle.

So I love it, yet I doubt it. Put me out my misery so I can appreciate it as much as I want you!

Or you could just tell me to piss off. :-)

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...SonicSnail it appears you are guilty of the fundamental attribution error. I must confess that my initial reaction was to allay your plagarism concerns by providing the origional PSD file, but you know the saying those who cant trust...

You my find my response a bit less politic than the ideal but we all have our shortcomings.

I am sure that you have the best intentions but maybe there is really no right way to make unfounded allegations of copyright infirngement. So, with that in mind, I will choose to go one step further beyond simply telling you to go fuck yourself, (I really dont use 'piss off' much in the course of my day.)

Here is a zip of all the *.gif's I downloaded from The Mushroom Kingdom, (event he ones I chose not to use) and a *.psd of my sig that has been converted to layers in imageready...Just For You

Now, with the that out of the way I can tell you to go fuck yourself with a clear conscience.

I have a question regaurding my sig. Does it show up as a missing image to everyone? It seems like it does unless you cache the image by directly going to http://wind.prohosting.com/thedorm/zorksig.gif and then coming back. Is this some wack kinda don't host images on your free server technology or is it just my computer being mean to me?

Thanks, Schitzo

Image is broken and link is broken.


These eyes have walls.

Oh no, um... hey syn any chance you keep a backup of your ftp server? I acciedntly deleted the wrong folder and lost my sigs you were letting me host... including my entry into this contest

lol, I do keep a backup for the past 24 hours... how long ago did you screw up? I hope it was less that that... But I'd really like to know why you don't havea backup of it on your own comp? then you could just upload it again silly...
anyway I take a look for them.... "that's a typical girl for ya" opps did I type that out loud?

They're coming..




[This message has been edited by Liluth (edited 02-22-2002).]

Liluth... what did we say again about sig size? But it does rock.... oddly enough the blue/green and orange work well together.

yes, i also enjoy the dark green....hey which tower is it?

About a week left!

ok, not really what i wanted it to look like (still misses something), but anyway...

edit: pfff, removed it
to ugly, to big, to ...

[This message has been edited by eighdee (edited 02-26-2002).]

space invaders definitely rock!

I threw this together in LiveMotion just today just to be a part of this competition before it ends. I don't expect to win, but I thought it'd be fun to make fun of these little sprites. This sig is not for kiddies...

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This sig is not for kiddies...

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..or modem users

j/k HS. I like it.



This is a pure rip from the C64 with just a little bit of editing. Not much work done by me...

I love Zelda!

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

Massacre: it's the 'Nationale Nederlanden'-tower, one of the biggest in Rotterdam.. (It has been painted before in reality, a famous footballplayer, during the Eurocup I thought.. )