Topic awaiting preservation: November 2004 Sig Contest - **GAMES** - Discussion and chatter

Yup, you read it right, this months contest theme is games.

Any kind of games. From the computer games (from Pong and Pacman to Doom and Final Fantasy) to the analog kind (Chess, Rock - Paper - Scissors, Bridge, Monopoly, Basketball, Playing hard to get), anything goes.

The usual applies: No recycles, and keep the discussion this thread and the sigs in the other one.

Bring it on!

just did this quickly, but i was compelled hehe will maybe try to fix it later.... or not....
good topic mahjqa







ew... forgot about the transparency.... will fix it later

(Edited by Lacuna on 11-02-2004 20:56)

Great theme : in the logical extension (is the word appropriate in this context?) of your SE-mahja-GA sig.

Lacuna: Good idea and execution, but that's not really a sig

Hey all,

As I have said before I am a sucker for the simple yet poignant sigs so I thought I would start with this simple one... Talk about nostalgia! Woo hoo, Someone give me a rock to throw!



Comments?

LOL... that'll teach me for not checking chatter before I post my sig... gonna go take down the pong one I just did and come up with something slightly more original.

Jung: super idea

skaarjj... post your pong!

poi... yeah... not really sig material, which is why i didn't 'offically' post it... but like i said, i was compelled hahah

Ok, the kid is on a roll... I think it was all the time last month judging with the pent up creative energy not being able to enter a sig myself that will make me submit a couple or three this month... Hope I don't get on anyone's nerves.

Anyway, here is my next entry...



comments?

c'mon Skaarjj. make an Unreal remake! Na Pali ownz!

Test...



(Edited by redroy on 11-05-2004 03:18)

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Jung said:

Ok, the kid is on a roll... I think it was all the time last month judging with the pent up creative energy not being able to enter a sig myself that will make me submit a couple or three this month... Hope I don't get on anyone's nerves.Anyway, here is my next entry...comments?

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hey... at least take the time to build up that "Jung" text . I'm sure it can be done. If you play your cards right, you only need to use a couple of colors (maybe 8 or so) in the animation, so you'll have plenty of frames to animate.

(Yup, sue me. I'm a "quality over quantity" type of guy )



(Edited by mahjqa on 11-05-2004 10:57)

Well, you *did* say any type of game went, so...

(Not mine, Tshirt available at http://www.dieselsweeties.com )

skIXIng

kinda weak, but I'll work on it some more




...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)

This is my second sig

testing:
sorta combined last months topic with this one
anyway, . . . spin the bottle anyone?

Jung: Nice sig. The antialiasing on the font looks a bit weird though.
Actually you're getting on my nerves as I wanted to do a Tetris sig where the pieces would fall and build a shape with my name.

Skaarjj: Really nice sig. The colors and typos works like a charm with the Asylum. The only cons is the difficulty do distinguish the figure in the middle of the 20 facets dice.

I X I: good idea, but white backgrounds are difficults to tackle with with the dark color scheme of the Asylum.

mahjqa: I wonder if you made the appearance and disappearance of the letters in your SEGA sig by hand or if there's some kind of magic trick. I'm not talking about the rotations, but specifically about how the white and blue bands go. Whatever, it rocks!!!



(Edited by poi on 11-08-2004 09:17)

test 2:

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poi said:

difficulty do distinguish the figure in the middle of the 20 facets dice.

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that's what's on just about every 20-sided spin-down die I've ever came across (MtG, no DnD for me...)

[edit: I think it's a lotus flower, but I could be wrong]




...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)

(Edited by I X I on 11-08-2004 19:06)

I've never played to an RPG and there's no dices in the MMORPG. I guess the figure is 2 dragons face to face or something like that.

outcydr: try adding in a few more frames to smooth out the animation a bit, it's looking kind of jumpy

something I like doing when working with rotation is take the number of frames you have for the rotating action and divide it into 360 (or 180 depending)


pay no attention to the jaggies

the IXI in the center moves 9 degrees over 20 frames, making for a smoother animation

(I'm sure you already knew all of that, but just in case)




...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)

thanks IXI. i know the first one is jumpy; added some blur to the second one to try and remedy that without increasing the file size very much. is it still too jumpy?

hehe this will be fun! lots of good entrys already. hmm now which game to choose

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mahjqa: I wonder if you made the appearance and disappearance of the letters in your SEGA sig by hand or if there's some kind of magic trick. I'm not talking about the rotations, but specifically about how the white and blue bands go. Whatever, it rocks!!!

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By hand, wasn't any other way. I just started out with the full letter, then cut it off part by part. After that, I reversed the animation. Not really that hard, just a bit work-intensive. The rotation and zooming was done with [edit>transform].

IXI: I have happy memories of that skiing game. Can't you do something with the big grey monster?

EzRa, I dig that pixeled sig you made.

Outcydr: [Filter>blur>radial blur is what you're looking for, I think. Or, for an even better result:



1) put your bottle in a SQUARE canvas. Fill the background with #2B0404, and merge the bottle layer with the background.
2) [filter>distort>polar coordinates]. Setting: rectangular to polar.
3) [filter>stylize>wind].
4) [filter>distort>polar coordinates]. Setting: polar to rectangular.
5) you're going to have to cut out the background of #2B0404 to make your animation transparent, though. I recommend [select>color range].

If you want know what polar coords does I'd look it over either at guru's or the help manual... What it basically does: it folds a square space to a circle, like this.

If you have any more questions, just ask.

mahjqa: thanks for the confirmation. It must have been a boring task

Well, I was basically stuck in my room for the whole evening. It was this or watching TV

(I ended up doing both at the same time )

(And I like how my previous post is completely color-coordinated. All the graphics in red and orange



(Edited by mahjqa on 11-09-2004 23:32)

much activity since last I was here, that's always good to see

I've been playing around with filters all FRIKKIN night, not doing anything productive, but I'm fidna get to work on my skI-X-Ing sig right about now... will upload what I get done over the original, so just check it out up there or over in the contest sig

outcydr: your image is still fairly small at 26k, and the spin is pretty smooth in your second try, but a few more frames would go a long way IMO

mahjqa: THA YETTI!!! yeah, I'll have to put him in




...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)


[edit]
almost done, got a glitch in there toward the end, but my tired eyes say "No More!" lol

whadday think?
[/edit]

(Edited by I X I on 11-10-2004 08:15)

I thought this was supposed to be the Discussion and Chatter of the original Sig Contest thread.

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Redroy I think you need a transparent background because I can clearly see that maroon background you're using.

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Yannah said:
I thought this was supposed to be the Discussion and Chatter of the original Sig Contest thread.

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Well, it is. What's your point?

Nothing important, just saying...'cos it seem to me that we have more submissions in here than in there, that's all.

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Yannah: That's probably because the inmates submit their WIP here to hear others reviewing their work, and to avoid to turn the "entries thread" into a whole mess

Which is, of course, entirely the reason these discussion threads were created in the first place. There's always going ot be more sigs here than in the entries thread becuase people will post WIP here, and may post a sig at different stages several times.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Yannah: considering his maroon backgorund is actually a gradient fading to black, something gives me the feeling that it's deliberate.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Ok, I get it now. Thanks.

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thanks for the tips mahja
i knew about those filters, but evidently not enough
i've been out for a few days (intensive tentacle therapy)
and as soon as i get caught up with things
i'll read up on them

*pours fresh mushrooms into still

Couldn't resist.

or..



I will resize them down but I just wanted to post them for now.

(Edited by Wolfen on 11-14-2004 09:37)

Just a quick hello all.. wanted to see if this sig will work.
It's like my first 5 minutes in this place.. "well" I lOvE iT..!
Lot's 'O' time invisted I see and am looking FW to pitch`n in as much as I can.
I have to bail right now, going to see my little girl for the first time today
and it's storming outside like hell, sorry if this is placed in the wrong section of the board.
I will correct that as soon as I get a chance to catch up on everything here.. pEACe


(Edited by [Dr]bologna on 11-14-2004 15:30)

And another monster animation by mahjqa, one. 115 frames My 2 frames "animations" are a child game.
Wolfen: Really nice sigs. Though like you said, a bit big.



(Edited by poi on 11-14-2004 15:38)

[Dr]bologna;

Glad you like it here! I'm not really sure wether your sig is posted in the right place... You did get it to the right forum. (***WARNING*** BIG SIG APPROACHING)

However, this thread is for the monthly sig contest we have. This month's subject is Games, read the first post for all the info. If you want us folks to review your sig, just post a thread of your own.

I dig your sig, though. One thing that could spice it up is some nice gif transparency, as the forums here don't have black as a background color (although it may seem that way when your monitor is set too dark)

For more info on GIF transparency, check here

or..



made them smaller.

(Edited by Wolfen on 11-16-2004 07:12)

Now I'd really like to see DGs ancient space invaders sig in here.
Recycled as it might be, it was still very cool.

Lots of really good entries I find apon my return, nice work
I'll have to get busy. Are these card thingys like the Pokamon games? I have to admit I don't see many new games (post 1990's) living under this particular stone in my cell.
*from the dark recesses of what Tao laughingly calls his memory, comes an idea for a sig. He meanders off, eventually finding the door and leaves, humming a happy tune*

Tao: the cards things are rather inspired by Yu-Gi-Ho

being just a tad more specific, the card wolfen did is yu-gi-oh and the card jung did is classic Magic: The Gathering.





...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)

Ah so that's it thanks poi and I X I.
[doh]8 words 2 typos[/doh]

(Edited by Tao on 11-22-2004 03:08)

I realise now this is not exactly how these tile games work, there are usually more tiles and there is crucially one tile missing, to facillitate swapping places in the real version.
I however, only recalled this fact after I had nearly completed it. So I thought I'd post it up anyway till I made another version

Tao, IMHO that's stunning: an absolute masterpiece

Tao, I'm already looking forward to the new version

About Jung's latest sig;

I don't know if this is a possibility; but if you make the console and the screen two separate images, you can cut dozn on filesize and colors.

And, is that antialiasing I see on the screen? Why not use pure pixels? Did you resize or something?

[/whinage]

mahjqa, i am sorry to ask this in here, but did you receive my mail?

Thanks Ian, you are most generous in your praise
mahjqa, it worked! Enticed as I was, I decided to get my teeth into this version.

Yeah, I did resize... I tend to work large and resize down when satisfied with the thing.

Is that a mistake?

I am very new to animation and even newer to Image ready. Before I just used Animation Shop that came bundled with Paint Shop Pro but like the freedom to go back and forth which Adobe allows so easily.

But will see about the two image idea...

Peace,

mas; I seem to have missed it. Where'd you send it?

Tao; that one's even better!

Jung; Working big and resizing down is often good (if you make small mistakes nobody will notice after resizing) but since you're emphasizing the low-tech graphics of the game, hard pixel edges would emphasize that.

then again; if you really want to go low-tech you can add scanlines and stuff. Don't mind me, just tossing out ideas.

i sent you the mail from here....used the asylum link

Added a little glowy thingit was a good idea at the time but now I'm not so sure
Also. I tried to resize it from 110px square 100px to make the filesize a bit smaller only to find it went over 60kb
I usually aim to keep sigs well below the 50kb mark, but sometimes I miss
[ed] adding silly stat' to cover up my spolling correction[/ed]
I'd say 98.5% of my sigs fall well short of the 50kb.

(Edited by Tao on 11-25-2004 00:09)

Tao: I have to say that is one Hell of a sig

~back to lurking for another decade or two~

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mas said:

i sent you the mail from here....used the asylum link

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Just send it to mahjqa (a) gmail (.) com, then.

just thought i would throw this sig in the chatter area to let y'all know that comments and advice are welcome.

...and i know it could use my name, but it's already got my hands in it! Was maybe thinking of making the title "Scissors Paper Rock!" to "Scissors Paper Rock with Reitsma!" - but that can wait until after the weekend

reitsma

Excellent idea!

reitsma, where I come from its called Rock Paper Scissors.

(Edited by Schitzoboy on 11-26-2004 09:46)

Ok... Worked a little on cleaning up the Atari Adventure sig. Added a retro TV and tried to smooth out the animation (with little to no luck) and tried to seperate the two images by removing the console but couldn't get it to work right. The re-set button doesn't sync up well if in a seperate image... Not sure.

But I do like how the red dragon goes after the dude a little more in this version but besides that I think I like the first one more...



*sigh* I just get in such messes when I try to animate... *walks away in disgust*

Peace,

- Jung

wow, so many great sigs this month
glad I don't have to worry about picking a winner

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT FOR THOSE LAST MINUTE UPDATES AND LATE-COMERS!


...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)

Nice work reitsma, I was thinking of doing the same thing, (paper, scissors and rock). The way I envisioned it was far too complicated. Your version is much better than the one I had planned, I never thought of using the rotator at all.
I like your Atari console Jung, never had one myself though. Do you find that ImageReady is easier/better to use than Animation Shop in PSP?
I had never ventured into ImageReady untill I was encouraged to do so by some inmates here a couple of years ago, that was a bit scary
Tao

An awful lot of submissions... and so far I like each and every one of them. Picking the best is going to be tough. I'm keeping this open for submissions, officially 'til 0:00 AM tonight (European time) but most likely I'll start judging at about 11:00 AM tomorrow, European time. If you still want to submit something, better hurry

(btw i sent you the mail a while ago...to your gmail address)

cheers tao,

that was a fun part, actually - i hadn't implemented the PHP rotator before, so it was an enjoyable challenge.

of course, it leaves me a little frustrated when my online hands beat my real world hands... but at least i win every time!

reitsma