ANNOUNCEMENT: FFHacktics Halloween Sprite Contest 2009!!

[Sen]

as long as everybody wears a costume it's halloween party(not cosplay lol) am I right?

[DarthPaul]

My costume this year is a black mage. Been working on the fine details to make it look better than store bought costumes.

[jimmyjw88]

Ooo...getting more and more sprites. I think I've got to start mine too ^^
Well, it isn't very good but just enter ^^

[Vanya]

Ifreet are a kind of Djinn, yes.
In Islam Djinni (and by extension Ifreeti) are the equivalent of Christian Devils and Demons. Shaytan (the Islam name for Satan) is even said to be a Djinn forged by God out of flames. Generally, Ifreet are considered to be even more malevolent and ill tempered than other Djinn.


*I know a LOT of random crap and in great detail to boot!*

[Vanya]

My costume this year is a black mage. Been working on the fine details to make it look better than store bought costumes.

I have Materials for a whilte mage outfit I've been wanting to make for over a year now. If I wasn't getting Married on Halloween I'd go ahead and make the thing. =P

[DarthPaul]

Ah yes your knowledge is this subject surpases my own it would seem. All I know is that some Ifrit are "good" and some are "bad", and a few random facts.

I did red mage last year after much consideration and a friend who was going as a blue mage. Stabbed myself in the foot with a rapier as well. Showing off only works when you have a lot of practice. We did however have a white mage with a first aid kit.

I love this holiday.

[Vanya]

Nice! ^_^

[jimmyjw88]

Here Vanya ^^
Sprite: Vampire
Base: Priest/Orlandu/Beowulf/Calculator/Mediator/Oracle

Not really good though ^^

EDIT: Also, for red, do you have any other colours suggestion, Sir Cheetah? ^^

EDIT: Congrats Vanya ^^

[Cheetah]

Oh this is a great concept though, I'm really liking most of the colors except the red. On the sideways view the distant eye, the top red pixel should be black I think. Othewise he has a huge eye and no eyebrow. Man the sprites coming out of this are amazing.

Sen: Can I make a request? I have been really wanting a full scarecrow/dummy on a stick, do you think you could take your concept a bit further to get that?

[Sen]

Cheetah: I'll try my best for your request
I'll do it sometime, but look forward to it

[jimmyjw88]

Yeah. The scarecrow is looking awesome and I think it fits as a special enemy/magician/sorceror/dark wizards and etc in game.

EDIT: Update above*

[Bastard Poetry]

This is an incredibly lazy entry I'm submitting.

In a nutshell, the Ch2 AI Tournament I co-hosted on Gamefaqs recently ended with a secret boss battle. The winner chose a team of four out of the 16 units available to fight two special bosses at once in Lionel Castle. I threw together some quick hax, borrowed an existing custom sprite for one of the bosses and modified the other boss myself (this is the one I'm submitting). Here's the video of the battle:

http://www.museofoblivion.com/secrethorror.html

It's in divx format, which means it needs time to buffer before it plays. Sorry about that, but I've had it with youtube's fucking copyright protection muting bullshit, so I upload vids to my own website now. If you don't have a divx web player, there's a button to download it on the page.

I've attached my entry. Again, it's sort of lazy, since it doesn't involve dressing Quekie up in anything fancier than blood, but I saw this contest thread after I finished filming and thought.. Eh, what the hell?

Bloody Quek

[Sen]

Updated my scarecrow
added collar

[jimmyjw88]

That's looking great Sen ^^

[MiKeMiTchi]

That collar is overused. That will give other sprites without collar, plus points.
My planned entry has a collar, too.

[Sen]

I can only see 3 sprites with collars the other one with them uses a different one + yours
that's not too much
It also fits to the sprite
anyway It's up to the judges what points to give

[MiKeMiTchi]

Haha. imo the collars really fit the halloween theme.

[Kagebunji]

Collars FTW. A little tip, skulls fit for halloween too.

[MiKeMiTchi]

Enter Asmo's invoker.

[Sen]

there shouldn't be resubmitting of old sprites
perhaps tweaking it