Is a full-fledged competition really necessary yet? This forum's community is really very small, imo a heavily structured, tight-ruled competition seems counterproductive in contrast to a more open-ended sort.

quote Homunculus Lover

Header Banner size - Your banner size must be 600X150 (widthxheight). If it's bigger, it cannot compete. (I would assume for a Header that would be big enough)

imo, for a standard issue forum banner that's large enough, but it's potentially restrictive of the freedoms that designing a header grants. I think that as long as entries are not excessively large, there's no need to set defined restrictions on them.

I argee with Strayfire here, This isn't exactly an active forum, and let's be honest... Bioshock isn't exactly what would seem to be a long lasting game =/. Maybe play it through a couple of times, I don't see a large community building up in this forum >.>...

It doesn't matter, a banner contest is a great way to get a community an it gives some life to the standard Neo forum page. Again it doesn't matter if the game lasts 1 minute or 7 years. Look at Fable that takes a matter of 12 hours and that has a huge fan base.

Fact of the matter is, there is still a community and unfortunately most of the Bioshock community is in the 360 forum. We will still gain a few drips and drabs of members needing help but if no one is prepared to put the effort into a mere banner contest then yes there is no reason to have this forum at all

quote R3sistance

I argee with Strayfire here, This isn't exactly an active forum, and let's be honest... Bioshock isn't exactly what would seem to be a long lasting game =/. Maybe play it through a couple of times, I don't see a large community building up in this forum >.>...

i dont see how bioshock can not be a long lasting game. i mean have you seen the threads (not just in here but in the 360 forum aswell)? talking about the different choices you can make in the game, the many different gun and plasmid combos you can use to despatch enemies, the way you can deal with big daddies, this game has an infinite number of ways to play through it and that makes it a long lasting game in my opinion. its what makes this game so interesting.

but yeah a contest like this will definately spice things up a bit more.

And gives us neo-newbie designers something to work on

Thanks to all the people who got this idea off the ground while I was away, particularly to Homunculus Lover for getting the ball rolling, Mish for giving it his seal of approval, and Charuzu for the sweet work.

You may as well mark me down as a participant HL though I won't get my banners in until around the 27th

Sorry for the double post but I have done a few banners. However I have kind of done mine a different way around (meaning instead of putting bioshock within the forum header it is in the footer etc.)

Also I am not too sure on my header so I will state now that it is a test just to see how it looks on Neo and not my official entry unless I say so (I hope this is ok and I don't mind changing them if it isn't, I have kept the .PSD files before merging all pictures together, though I am working on another header but unfortunately the big daddy pictures I am finding are either crud or too fiddly to mess with. What I am trying to say is, between now and the 29th the final product may change slightly (might add some text like welcome to rapture etc.)

Header



Header Link

Footer



Footer Link

dude, those banners just look all squished and funny.

yeah I noticed that with the header after I uploaded it (though I am not happy with it altogether so it will be scrapped)

The footer one looked alright set with a height of 200 but had to squash it down since I forgot the limits of this contest was 150, however I had to stretch the bioshock logo to accommodate the pic which I noticed my cutting of it makes the little sister's head looks pointed

A few flaws but not bad for an hour's work (most it just looking for the pictures) at around 3am

Can I join if the height is over the limit? The width isn't...

If so... here are my entries.

Header


Footer


The header will appear transparent if/when it is put up as the header but if the PNG file is needed... I have it right here.



This message was edited by Robert Ninja on Sep 30 2007.