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While we are voting on this year's music, hack and coding competition entries, let's have a little cover art competition. Here's the rules:

1. Pick a game to make art for. Homebrew, original SMS releases, the latest PlayStationBoxOne release, whatever.
2. Make some cover art in the style of a Master System game. Pick any "era" of art style you like so long as it's not too generic.

Here's some templates to get started on "generation 1" SMS art, and an example I knocked together in an hour or so. This is all for fun, probably no voting, and post entries as replies in this thread!

The "usual" Sega font is known as "ModernTwoSxtnITCStd" and you may find it here. I couldn't find an exact match for the box text font, so choose something close; I went with Goudy Old Style. Later styles may vary.

cover-all-blank.png (73.34 KB)

cover-front-blank.png (32.38 KB)

be no sqr.png (140.4 KB)

Example of what you might do

A Game by Tibone That needed cover art

StormtrooperRevengeCover.jpg (894.7 KB)

Here is mine , (^o^)!

JPEG Jacquette Christmas tale.jpg (625.57 KB)

pedro76 wrote

Here is mine , (^o^)!

Is it an existing game? Looks nice :)

Here's mine, done in the comic-book pseudo-realism style Sega used for games like Hang-On / Gangster Town / Ghost House. Not sure if I really want to use it in the end or go for the good old regular "horrible clipart" style of the early releases instead. I really have a soft spot for the latter.

bb-sms_boxart.jpg (123.75 KB)

badsector wrote

pedro76 wrote

Here is mine , (^o^)!

Is it an existing game? Looks nice :)

For the moment it's just a demo i have done last year for the sms competiton , i hope it will become a game next year.

Kagesan your cover is just amazing!!

Holy ravioli Kagesan, really well done!

Chicho wrote

A Game by Tibone That needed cover art

Thanks man! Awesome cover!

I'm glad you like it. Here's and updated version based on your input.

StormtrooperRevengeCover V2.jpg (893.96 KB)

Here's a lazy piece of cover art I did.

I decided to make myself (again) a copy of Dr Hello for my collection because, why not. I like puzzle games :D

Dr Hello - Copy.png (1.05 MB)

Nice.

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Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13914 Location: London	Cover art competition 2016 Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:06 pm Last edited by Maxim on Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:41 pm; edited 1 time in total
	While we are voting on this year's music, hack and coding competition entries, let's have a little cover art competition. Here's the rules: 1. Pick a game to make art for. Homebrew, original SMS releases, the latest PlayStationBoxOne release, whatever. 2. Make some cover art in the style of a Master System game. Pick any "era" of art style you like so long as it's not too generic. Here's some templates to get started on "generation 1" SMS art, and an example I knocked together in an hour or so. This is all for fun, probably no voting, and post entries as replies in this thread! The "usual" Sega font is known as "ModernTwoSxtnITCStd" and you may find it here. I couldn't find an exact match for the box text font, so choose something close; I went with Goudy Old Style. Later styles may vary. cover-all-blank.png (73.34 KB) cover-front-blank.png (32.38 KB) be no sqr.png (140.4 KB) Example of what you might do

Chicho Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 48 Location: Florida	Storm Trooper Revenge Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:47 pm
Chicho Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 48 Location: Florida	A Game by Tibone That needed cover art StormtrooperRevengeCover.jpg (894.7 KB)

pedro76 Joined: 18 Mar 2015 Posts: 9 Location: France	Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 3:56 pm
pedro76 Joined: 18 Mar 2015 Posts: 9 Location: France	Here is mine , (^o^)! JPEG Jacquette Christmas tale.jpg (625.57 KB)

badsector Joined: 01 Jul 2015 Posts: 151 Location: Berlin	Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:23 pm
	pedro76 wrote Here is mine , (^o^)! Is it an existing game? Looks nice :)

Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 649	Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:32 pm
Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 649	Here's mine, done in the comic-book pseudo-realism style Sega used for games like Hang-On / Gangster Town / Ghost House. Not sure if I really want to use it in the end or go for the good old regular "horrible clipart" style of the early releases instead. I really have a soft spot for the latter. bb-sms_boxart.jpg (123.75 KB)

pedro76 Joined: 18 Mar 2015 Posts: 9 Location: France	Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:46 pm
pedro76 Joined: 18 Mar 2015 Posts: 9 Location: France	badsector wrote pedro76 wrote Here is mine , (^o^)! Is it an existing game? Looks nice :) For the moment it's just a demo i have done last year for the sms competiton , i hope it will become a game next year. Kagesan your cover is just amazing!!

thelowestdefinition Joined: 26 Mar 2016 Posts: 36	Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:50 am
thelowestdefinition Joined: 26 Mar 2016 Posts: 36	Holy ravioli Kagesan, really well done!

tibone Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 280	Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 12:22 pm
tibone Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 280	Chicho wrote A Game by Tibone That needed cover art Thanks man! Awesome cover!

Chicho Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 48 Location: Florida	Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:35 pm
Chicho Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 48 Location: Florida	I'm glad you like it. Here's and updated version based on your input. StormtrooperRevengeCover V2.jpg (893.96 KB)

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 265 Location: Outback Australia	My lazy cover art :) Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:01 am
	Here's a lazy piece of cover art I did. I decided to make myself (again) a copy of Dr Hello for my collection because, why not. I like puzzle games :D Dr Hello - Copy.png (1.05 MB)

Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 649	Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:45 pm
Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 649	Nice.

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