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[Taco Chopper]

Feenicks

obligatory firebird tileset submission
 
Huge Bedwetter

C'mon Cindy (oh my God)
C'mon Cindy (wait)
Don't you want to play with me? (Ah, yes, no, wait!)
Don't you want to play with me? (Yes!)
What's the matter with me, Cindy? (Nothing!)

Mitchfork

Blu Terra

Naldrag

A familiar landscape...? What nightmares does this land hide?

THEMDODO

Crimson eyes watch, close yet far.

xanadude

May the moon light your path...
 

[Hergiswi]

ok this is actually unfair, we get the first sotw in months, and every shot is using my favorite colors and tilesets. how do you expect me to pick any of these.

 

this is incredibly difficult but i think i'm gonna vote for huge bedwetter's shot. i live that blue and pink life and i think this shot is sort of a cross between using those two colors very well and giving off a "this game was original in black and white but now we're adding colors after the fact" vibe simultaneously.

[Naldrag]

Gonna go ahead and say I voted for MITCH.  I like the overall vibe going on in his screenshot, Huge Bedwetter's is probably in a close second for me though.

[bigjoe]

i voted for themdodo because i think crimson red dungeons are underrepresented

[Ether]

Feenick's submission is cool! Firebird is neat. I like the minty palette a lot, the elevation works pretty well. Ignoring a few generic Firebird complaints, the patch of ground just above the ladder looks odd to me, it took me a little to realize it wasn't just miscolored snow, I think because the color is still whiteish. This is me running my mouth and overthinking a screen that I'd like just fine if I saw it in a game because I feel like I have to say things.

 

Huby why the FUCK does this Waterfallia screen not have a waterfall, 0/10

Also the palette's not really doing it for me.

 

I have mixed feelings on Mitchfork's screen because it flagrantly and brazenly treats its mountains like Classic mountains. On the other hand the trippiness of it is pretty neat and the colors definitely work for it. I was deliberating for a long time between voting here and xanadude, and honestly part of my decision not to pick this one is because I kind of figure it'll win anyway?

 

Naldrag's screen is...I don't know, fine but not exciting. Hard to elaborate on this one, really!

 

THEMDODO's screen is too red. So so so red. Are you trying to invoke a game over screen on purpose? That's the only reason I can see for doing something like this, and even then Link is still traipsing around in bright green and throwing the illusion off. (And a full sized dungeon of that feels like it'd get old fast, although one that's only a few rooms might be okay.) For anything else, there needs to be more color contrast in the dungeon for this to work and not just look like you're wearing tinted glasses.

 

Xanadude's screen is absolutely gorgeous, I'm voting here. I love the double moons.

[Colin]

I echo everything Ether said.

[Shane]

Feenicks has good winter aesthetics and colours. Love the elevation and subtle ruins.

 

Huge Bedwetter and Mitchfork have some experimental stuff going on and I'm here for it. I really like Mitch's inverted colours and overgrown look.

 

Naldrag has a really nice nightmareish vibe to it so the caption does seem rather apt here.

 

THEMDODO's is very red, but it does look like it is more involved than the average Newfirst(?) dungeon screen, so I appreciate this. 

 

xanadude's is just gorgeous.

 

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I voted for Mitchfork's experimental screen. I think it was a success.

 

[xanadude]

holy shit what a good week

 

 

i'm always a firebird fan, so feenicks' shot feels very comfy. nothing crazy, but nothing's lacking.

 

i love the pallete on Huge Bedwetter's submission. it's super psychedelic, and at the end of the day i love that shit. bold use of the mountains that works imo. i voted here.

 

same thing here for mitchfork's. a really interesting pairing of shots, but i prefer the palette and screen structure of huge bedwetter's shot a tad more. both are super tight though.

 

I love a good messed up world, and naldrag nailed that vibe here.

 

the crimson palette in themdodo's shot is really nice, but i think a really nice secondary color could compliment it well.

[Magi_Hero]

I like the color palettes of these shots; they're very appealing.

 

Edited by Magi_Hero, 20 February 2023 - 09:14 PM.

[Mitchfork]

I think had I not entered I would have voted for Xanadude. While it's Cambria without too many frills, the palette and composition is really nice.

There's one thing about this shot that bugs me and it's the fact that the shadow layer is over the sky. I think you'd have to make some unique tiles to make this work, but it might be worth considering.

Hubydweyer forgot a waterfall and should be summarily executed by the ASUS Republic of Gamers.  Just my opinion but we're all entitled to one here.
 

I have mixed feelings on Mitchfork's screen because it flagrantly and brazenly treats its mountains like Classic mountains. On the other hand the trippiness of it is pretty neat and the colors definitely work for it. I was deliberating for a long time between voting here and xanadude, and honestly part of my decision not to pick this one is because I kind of figure it'll win anyway?

boy, don't you feel silly now

[Ether]

Kinda silly.

[Aslion]

xanadude's shot has the transparent forest shadows it's literally impossible for it to lose sotw

[FieryBirdyThing]

I think had I not entered I would have voted for Xanadude. While it's Cambria without too many frills, the palette and composition is really nice.

There's one thing about this shot that bugs me and it's the fact that the shadow layer is over the sky. I think you'd have to make some unique tiles to make this work, but it might be worth considering.

Thank you for clarifying this. I had been trying to figure out what was actually going on in that part of the shot; I initially saw it as some kind of lake with a very clear reflection on it, before briefly wondering if it was the sky, and then flitting between the two. As a result, it played havoc with my sense of the scene's perspective, and not in a fun 'Escher' way.

 

To add some positivity to this post, I'll add that I voted for Feenicks. It's true that I don't know much about screenshot making and composition, but I like the wintery colour palette and the cute enemies.

 

I'm not sure what, if anything I can say about the others without fully revealing my aforementioned lack of screenshot-making/compositing skills.

[Taco Chopper]

With 43.75% of the vote, the winner of Screenshot of the Week 772 is Xanadude!
 

May the moon light your path...

 

Thanks to everyone who submitted for the first SotW of 2023, and to everyone who voted or gave feedback!

 

Voting totals:

• xanadude - 14 (43.75%)
• Mitchfork - 8 (25%)
• Huge Bedwetter - 5 (15.62%)
• Feenicks - 2 (6.25%) 
• THEMDODO - 2 (6.25%)
• Naldrag - 1 (3.12%)