Tales of Uberbob: Contest!
 

Did you guys know Tales of Uberbob is running again? Did you guys also know, like, two people are playing? For people that haven't looked at Tales of Uberbob in ages, Torkell sums up the current situation pretty nicely here.

But anyway! It's time to raise ToU Awareness, so I'm holding a CONTEST! The goal? Make a Tales of Uberbob sprite comic!

Description

Make a comic about the Tales of Uberbob characters. If you don't remember much about the characters, the first page of the thread has a link to brief descriptions.

There's a collection of sprites at this link: http://www.foxmage.com/ToU_Sprites.zip

The zip contains large sprites (they have antialiased edges if you import them into Flash/Photoshop/Powerpoint/whatever, or aliased edges for pasting them into Paint) and small sprites (for people that like working with tiny things). You can use either ones, both, or even none (if you feel particularly artistic and want to draw everything yourself).

The only criteria is that it has to be a comic.

Scoring

However, there's other criteria if you actually want to win. You're scored on three aspects:

- How accurately it portrays the Tales of Uberbob characters. As in, do they actually act like their counterparts in the story? Or even resemble them in the slightest? You won't score high here if you do a comic about Megaman, even if you use ToU sprites.

- How original is it? Doing something incredibly predictable or rehashing an old joke is no fun.

- How AWESOMe is it? In other words, the judges will decide which they like best.

And this will be judged by everyone who DM'd Tales of Uberbob in the past (presuming they want to judge). No fancy polls here. This isn't America.

PRIZESSS!!

If you make the best comic, you will be rewarded not only with the joy of outdoing everyone else who entered, but with a DRAWING!

By Risp!

Risp will reluctantly draw something of your choice, for you. Risp is as master of art comparable Michaelangelo and Leonardo DaVinci, producing such works as "The Train to Fun", or "2004-9-9-1". You can't miss an opportunity like that.


So what are you waiting for? COMIC IT UP!

Deadline in, saaay, a week. Next thursday. a while from now.

i only wurk 4 $$$
sry

fooled me D=

maybe if it weren't a sprite comic

Contest Entry SUBMISSION
 

plot==0

[IMG]http://www.chaos.foxmage.com/Ae/AeToUComic1.JPG[/IMG]

Ae, that's amazing. I love the kick, and it has at LEAST as much plot as ToU does at the moment.

I'm extending the deadline to "longer from now". Since nobody made the normal one.

I'm bored, so here's a random snippet from the life of Shuri:

[img]http://thomasmccorkell.me.uk/jj2/toucomic.jpg[/img]

Hey Rad, when's the deadline for this?

Hm, well, I know Strato is still working on an entry, and I want as many as possible. If anyone wants to enter, I'll probably wait for them.

^!.

I'll give Strato until Wednesday. Then he loses.

Right, Strato got an extra day, I now pronounce this contest husband and CLOSED.

As soon as I can dig up Lem, Risp, and Dev, we can decide whether Torkell or Ae is cooler. And which of them had a better submission.

Okay, and teh winnar is...



























Aeaeuo! By three votes and a Schrodinger's Cat. A Schrodinger's Cat because I didn't want to wait for Dev to show up and his vote wouldn't've mattered anyway.

Congrats to both entrants. When I asked Lem who he'd vote for, he nicely summed both up:

So, Ae, what do you want for your PRIEs?

Congrats, Ae.

Thanks!


I want a picture of these 3 or 4 styles of Fooruman BATTLING eachother.

I wouldn't mind seeing that myself. ;p

I feel like a part of me is missing whenever I think about what my prize could have looked like. Which means a few minutes ago when I found the .zip file with the sprites used for the comic.

Lucky for you, I can now threaten Risp IRL until he draws it.

Awwww, how cute!