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[Mitchfork]

Moo2wo

Hooray! An extremely vague remake of another screen that I've already entered in SotW!

Koh

Filler for a timely start, but if you like it, vote!

Ironfist


Ebola Zaire

i'll wear your clothes when we're both high

[Christian]

Voted for Moo2woo since I am a sucker for Minish Cap graphics =)

[Jared]

Wait, I DIDN'T enter?? >:[
Anyway, voted for Moo2wo.

Loved all the others. I loved Ebola's, but the caption killed it for me. Not a fan of that stuff :\

[Tree]

Not as long this week, but it's still nice

Moo2oo: That's amazing! Every Single graphic is from Minish Cap! It better be with a tileset that's going to be finished!
9/10 *Votes*

Koh: Ehh, I don't really like the feel of this screen. It's nice an all, but I just don't like the darkness and crap. 6.5/10

IronFist: Very nice PR forest shot. No complatins 8/10

Ebola: It's a very nicely detailed GB screen, it just seems like it's missing something...MOAR TREES! It just seems a bit empty to me is all. 7/10

[Nathaniel]

I love them all. The only problem is that I can only vote for one.

Moo2wo - 8/10
A bit too bright on the ground for me, but amazing otherwise.

Koh - 7/10
Interesting screen. Looks pretty good for something that was probably hard to cram in one screen.

Ironfist - 8/10
A nice looking forest that I believe does everything right when it comes to its design. I like how you did the shadowing too. Makes me want to see the entire forest area of that overworld.

Ebola Zaire - 8/10
I like Souvlaki too. Love the overall feel of the screen.

Tough call for me on this one, but I went with Ironfist this time. Sometimes it takes a second or third glance, pretty much.

[Aslion]

Moo2oo - It's alright. Nothing wrong with it. Nothing spectacular about it though. 7/10

Koh - Not as good as it could have been, but it could have been a lot better. The grass on the sand looks odd and i don't like those rocks on that upper left mountain. It looks like they were hasily thrown in for the purpose of covering corners which you don't really have to do if you can't walk up there. It just looks unnatural. The rest is pretty cool though. 7/10

Ironfist - bad shot bad bad bad you're gay 1/10

Ebola Zaire - It's really good. The dmap title and caption really bring the shot together I think. Slowdive are good and Souvlaki is good and Allison is good and its like "wow why am i even looking at screenshots I can just go listen to Slowdive" and I TOTALLY DID LISTEN TO SLOWDIVE AFTER SEEING THIS I'm listening to Souvlaki of course, on Souvlaki Space Station. Fantastic album. 9/10

[Cukeman]

Moo2wo: Can't say I care for the red subscreen background. It's a fairly nice screen design though,
I can easily see myself looking for chest access, then hopping down once I get it. I am worried about
the trees directly below the cliffs though, cliff jump would land you on/in(?) the trees(??) and if cliff jump
is not enabled it still seems as if there should be some kind of border to prevent you from just walking off the cliff.
Maybe if the tops of the trees overlapped the edge of the cliff? And the green tree trunks don't look so good.

Koh: The palette just doesn't do it for me. It's a pretty good layout though. Link looks too small.

Ironfist: You got my vote! Very nice screen with a lovely toned palette. This screen really feels
like part of a specific story, it has a lot of mood to it. If you aren't letting players go south though,
I would consider bringing a little more of the hedge into the screen so that it's clearer that
the path to the south is blocked off.

Ebola Zaire: I lol'd. Nice shot. My only comment is that the tree at the bottom may not be fun
to squish past, and the top of the pillar needs a little breathing room.

Edited by Cukeman, 11 July 2011 - 12:30 AM.

[Mitchfork]

Moo2wo: Nice screen. Very solid, and my favorite this week (outside my own, of course ). It really captures the MC style, and not just in graphics. I'm still skeptical of the practicality of Big Link, and the subscreen needs some more work, but screen-wise everything's there. I think the tree trunk palette is off, so be aware of that when you work on this next.

Koh: Not my favorite this week. I think that the Screen Rebirth restrictions just make it too weird of a design for SotW; I think the really winding streams just look off.

Ironfist: Nice, open design and a pleasing palette. I think that the "gap" in the lower left corner could be expanded a bit to look better but that's nitpicky. The only other thing to say is that I think the details could be more consistent; you've got five tiles on the screen that you only use once, and consolidating those into one or two details would help the screen, I think.

Wait, I DIDN'T enter?? >:[

'Fraid not pardner. I even checked again to make sure.

Loved all the others. I loved Ebola's, but the caption killed it for me. Not a fan of that stuff :\

I'm not a fan of it either, it's just a lyric from a great song on a great album by a great band.

Ebola: It's a very nicely detailed GB screen, it just seems like it's missing something...MOAR TREES! It just seems a bit empty to me is all. 7/10

But it's not a forest...

Ebola Zaire - 8/10
I like Souvlaki too. Love the overall feel of the screen.

Why am I always surprised by your musical taste?! Thanks for the compliment, even if I didn't get your vote.

Ebola Zaire - It's really good. The dmap title and caption really bring the shot together I think. Slowdive are good and Souvlaki is good and Allison is good and its like "wow why am i even looking at screenshots I can just go listen to Slowdive" and I TOTALLY DID LISTEN TO SLOWDIVE AFTER SEEING THIS I'm listening to Souvlaki of course, on Souvlaki Space Station. Fantastic album. 9/10

One of these days I'm just going to turn SotW into a thread for discussing whatever music I'm listening to at the time I posted it.

Ebola Zaire: I lol'd. Nice shot. My only comment is that the tree at the bottom may not be fun
to squish past, and the top of the pillar needs a little breathing room.

I definitely see what you mean about the bottom tree, and I'll probably end up removing that (as well as reworking the mountain at the top of the screen), but I don't know what you mean about the pillar. Do you just mean that it looks weird fit into that space?

[Tree]

@Ebola, It doesn't have to be a forest. I'm mostly complaining about the bare mountains. That's where more trees could go.
Unless you can walk on the mountains, I'd just put somoar trees.

[Twilight Knight]

Voted for Moo2woo, his screen was most appealing. The design isn't spectacular, but the graphics make up for it.

Koh's screen has that weird design from last screen rebirth. It would have gotten my vote possibly if you edited the screen to get rid of the design. In other words, I like it, but I ditch that design.

Ironfist's screen has the nicest design of this week, but it looks rather empty. The forest brush could have some more trees, the transparent overhang lacks variety, one type of tree was used, few grounddetailing.

Ebola's screen seemed more like a basic screendesign to me with detailing as if it's set by rules, and not an outburst of creativity.

[Mero]

Didn't vote for anybody because none of them have that special glimmer that I like to see in these screen shot contest. Oh well, it's not that they're bad. Just not what I would vote for.

[Adem]

I voted for EZ. I love Moo2wo's screen as well, but I think it's mainly because of his choice of tileset rather than the design. I'm not saying the design is bad in anyway--it's not--but I'd hate to vote for a screen simply because I like the tileset.

EZ's screen has certain feel to it that I really like. Kind of a sense of mystery. Not sure if that's what he's going for but hey.

[Moosh]

Moo2wo
Very boring and squarish, unnatural design. 'Tis the price of using the MC tileset. Also, a very ugly subscreen, what's with those arrow sprites? And the red background? 4/10

Koh
I dunno, it's OK, but the Zora palettes are a bit weird. Also, once again, the red subscreen? 7/10

Ironfist
I really, really like this, but I didn't vote for it... 9/10

Ebola Zaire
And THIS is why. I absolutely LOOOOVE this screen. I guess I'm just as sucker for the GB tileset...10/10

[Taco Chopper]

One of these days I'm just going to turn SotW into a thread for discussing whatever music I'm listening to at the time I posted it.

I await that day. Also Souvlaki is the third best shoegaze album, Rachel Goswell was hot back in the day, Alison is the greatest opening song to any album ever, blah blah blah but that isn't why I'm posting!!

Moo2wo's screen is almost as if it was transplanted straight from an MC cartridge, in a very good way. It would have belonged in the game quite well by the looks. Koh's is, um, a bit bland and mediocre for my liking, and I really dislike the GB Octoroks, and those weird Zora and Link graphics that clash with what I'm assuming is the Pure tileset or something that's been adapted from that. It's not that great. I remember seeing Ironfist's screenshot when he first tried making a "real good screen" one day, but I have to say that I preferred the old palette it was in. and it probably needs a bit more ground detail around the place. Otherwise it's a good shot. Zaire's sucks because its caption quotes Slowdive and I hate people who quote band lyrics constantly. Like I said about Moo2wo's shot and how it feels like something straight from MC, this feels like something from a hipster approach on Link's Awakening. Those trees annoy me though.

Because I'm a whingy old man, I was considering nulling because all I do is complain (and the fact I can't really split my vote between Moo2wo and Ebola Zaire), but ultimately I decided that I would vote for Moo2wo because I go on impulse decisions when I'm stuck for a vote like this.

[Yapollo]

Although all the sceens are good...

Ironfist's forest screen brought many fun memories of many great ZQuest games.