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[Russ]

I apologize for the huge delay. I had finals, then vacation, and I was hoping to get three shots. But oh well. here we go, the 14th S:CA. This week, the challenge was to remake this base screen:


And here are our two entrants.

Jared

Smell that new, clean water coming from the mountains.

Orin XD

A test screen for The Legend of Eldin. Everything, except the player sprites, are mockups

Hopefully, I'll have the next challenge (which I think should be the winner's challenge) up shortly. In the meantime, vote!

[The Satellite]

Can I vote for the base screen? I honestly think it's better than the entries, nothing against them, it's just, damn that's a nice classic shot. I can't? Aww... Well, I voted for Orin's. It looks better and is truer to the original's. Jared's... I'm sounding like a broken record by now but I hate all the squareness in it. I dislike it in the mountains, and I honestly think it looks absolutely hideous in the water.

[Adem]

I voted for Orin for the same reasons. I like your direction, but the surplus of ninety degree angles in the screen really makes it look less natural.

[NoeL]

Voted for Jared. I don't like the "squareishness" either, but I really can't stand the base DoR palette. Makes my eyes bleed.

[Shane]

Voted Jared, the squareness doesn't bother me much, what really does is when people use the DoR base palette and diagonal mountains on the edge of the screen.

Edited by Shane, 24 March 2012 - 10:01 PM.

[Red Phazon]

I like them both. Orin's is a much closer match to the original, I like the double waterfall, and the organic look of it. I see why others are complaining about the angular style of Jared's, and it looks less natural, but I like that.

[Hergiswi]

I think they both look great, but I'm digging Jared's tileset a little bit more. I actually didn't notice the squarish look, and I think it's like the GBC series where you don't notice the squares too much because the graphics look nice.

[Nathaniel]

I voted for Jared, but it was a close call to me. Both are decently designed I think. As for the choice of graphics, each fall short in ways that the other doesn't. Orin's screen is not as interesting, while in Jared's screen, despite the boxyness by itself doesn't look bad, it does create a few graphical oddities. For example, the grass between the river and the cave entrance is chopped off on one side by a straight line. I'm wondering how it would look if the grass edge overlapped the steam edge, as opposed to the other way around. It would make more sense to me, if that can be done, with the exception of the waterfall, as that clearly should go over everything else bordering it. If it can't be done, then it might be better not to have grass hugging the edge of the river. Still, Jared's screen looks nicer to me.

[nicklegends]

I voted for Orin XD because it matches the original closely but manages to incorporate a lot of detail and look relatively natural. Jared's design was also pretty good, but I was turned off by the square corners of the river and the grass.

[Russ]

Sorry for taking so long to close this, but... with 55.56% of the vote, this week's(month's?) winner is Jared! Congrats! The next challenge will be up shortly.