Pixel Madness 2013

Ralph · 2013-03-08T22:20:47+0900

Welcome to RPG Maker Web's first single elimination spriting tournament. Sixteen spriters enter, one spriter leaves the winner. The rest take a walk. But how do you become one of the sixteen? Create a single, never before seen sprite in the VX/Ace style. The VX/Ace style is important, as the tournament is judged by blind voting, so all sprites must be in the same style. Once your sprite is complete, PM it to me (Ralph), our forum Event Boss. All qualifying sprites will be put up without names with a poll allowing the forum users to rate each sprite from 1 to 5. The sixteen sprites with the best average rating will move on to the tournament. IMPORTANT: Qualifying has been extended! Full Schedule will be adjusted based on when we start. ENTER THOSE SPRITES GUYS! Each round will begin with a theme being announced. Once the theme for that round is announced, you will have four days (from the beginning of Friday to the end of Monday) to create a single sprite in VX/Ace style for that theme. On Tuesday, each sprite will be put head to head against another sprite based on the brackets. Blind polls will be put up allowing the forum users to vote for one of the two sprites. The sprite with the most votes by the end of Thursday of that week will go on to the next round. The other sprite goes home. The last spriter standing at the end of the final round is the winner! 1. You have until Midnight at the end of each Monday (GMT-5) to turn in your sprite. If you do not meet this deadline, you forfeit that round. 2. You may not tell anyone else which sprite is yours. All voting must be done blind. If for some reason you inform someone else which sprite is yours, PM Ralph with the name of the user and they will not be allowed to vote. Anyone found cheating the blind voting will be disqualified. 3. Anyone participating in the tournament is not allowed to vote in the tournament. Don't have any skill at spriting? Don't worry, there is still something for you to do in this contest. Its time to test out your prognostication skills. So look in that crystal ball and try to pick the winners of each matchup every round. Once the 16 participants are determined, you can fill out a bracket. In order to do this, you will fill in a fillable pdf form with the full bracket. You will need to fill out the full bracket with all of your predictions by the end of April 22nd. You will get points for each correct prediction you make as follows: Round 1: 1 Points Round 2: 2 Points Champion: 5 Points You can download your Bracket Entry Form here: BracketEntryForm.pdf Alternate Download Link You can find the themes and the brackets over here! At the end of the tournament the user with the highest point total wins! Spoiler Friday, April 12th: Last Day to Vote on Qualifying Sprites. Saturday, April 13th: Announcement of the Brackets Saturday, April 13th-Monday April 22nd: Bracket Entry Tuesday, April 16th: Announcement of Round 1 Theme Tuesday, April 16th-Monday, April 22nd: Round 1 Creation. Tuesday, April 23rd-Thursday, April 25th: Round 1 Voting Friday, April 26th: Announcement of Round 1 Winners/Updating of Point totals for bracket competition. Tuesday, April 23rd:Announcement of Round 2 Theme Tuesday, April 23rd-Monday, April 29th: Round 2 Creation. Tuesday, April 30th-Thursday, May 2nd: Round 2 Voting Friday, May 3rd: Announcement of Round 2 Winners/Updating of Point totals for bracket competition. Tuesday, April 30th: Announcement of Finals Theme Tuesday, April 30th-Monday, May 6th: Finals Creation. Tuesday May 7th-Thursday, May 9th: Finals Voting Friday, May 10th: Announcement of Contest Winner/Announcement of Bracket Winner Spoiler Champion: Any item from the forum store (includes VXAce or Member+) 2nd Place: 3 Months Member+ or an item from the store under $20 Participants: A participation achievement badge Credits to Ocean's Dream for the Banner Background. Credits to Conveito for doing my Alex request and the free avatars. Attachments BracketEntryForm.pdf 319 bytes · Views: 18

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Celianna

#261 Apr 9, 2013, 01:40 PM Source

Indeed, there needs to be a larger preview for all of them in the first round.
cosmickitty

#262 Apr 9, 2013, 02:10 PM Source

might be asking too much, but I'd also like to see an animated preview, since they won't be used statically in the end matters how they animate
dw817

#263 Apr 10, 2013, 03:51 AM Source

cosmickitty said:
might be asking too much, but I'd also like to see an animated preview, since they won't be used statically in the end matters how they animate
Perhaps both static and animated, if possible. Turning multiple images into an animated .GIF is a bit of work for some ...
Archeia

#264 Apr 10, 2013, 04:31 AM Source

:C

:C

:c

:c

okay,jpg
BILL_NYE_THO

#265 Apr 10, 2013, 06:30 AM Source

Yeah I don't even know how to do that.
ct_bolt

#266 Apr 10, 2013, 06:32 AM Source

BILL_NYE_THO said:
Yeah I don't even know how to do that.
It's really not too hard. ;) I use GIMP and that let's me export layers as gif files. :)

I'm just unsure which frames to use... VXAce uses a certain pattern for walking.

Does it just repeat frames 1 & 3 (I really should know this by now, lol), then when stopped it displays frame 2?
Archeia

#267 Apr 10, 2013, 06:50 AM Source

2-1-2-3-2
ct_bolt

#268 Apr 10, 2013, 07:46 AM Source

Archeia said:
2-1-2-3-2
Ahh I see I see... Thanks for the info. BD
gpgekko

#269 Apr 10, 2013, 09:52 AM Source

Or everyone who wants to see them animated can just grab the spritesheets, import them in an empty project and see for themselves how they animate... That's what I did anyway, wasn't all that much work. :p
Archeia

#270 Apr 10, 2013, 11:22 AM Source

That's also what I assumed at first haha...
themo

#271 Apr 10, 2013, 11:48 AM Source

New rules: all submissions must be in gif, jpeg, png ... actual size, 2x and 10x and accompanied by a fully developed game environment and/or a 60min+ animation depicting the evolution of dance? :p
Archeia

#272 Apr 10, 2013, 11:56 AM Source

Ralph will do it. He's a hero after all. He has to do all of the hard work.
Ralph

#273 Apr 10, 2013, 11:57 AM Source

This quest better be worth it.
gpgekko

#274 Apr 10, 2013, 12:16 PM Source

themo said:
New rules: all submissions must be in gif, jpeg, png ... actual size, 2x and 10x and accompanied by a fully developed game environment and/or a 60min+ animation depicting the evolution of dance? :p
The following is a joke and should not be taken seriously.

Spoiler
Nah, but all submissions have to be written in binary code by hand. All submissions using predefined binary code (for example by means of using a graphic program) will have to be tagged as such and the used code listed (note, not only the used program but also all pieces of code generated by that program that made its way into the file). We will call it Bit Madness and it will be awesome and fair for everyone!

Sorry, I've been wanting to make this comment ever since the first post discussing frankensprites, but figured I'd better wait till it all settled down a bit. If anyone feels it's to early to make jokes about it yet, I'll remove it.

Ralph said:
This quest better be worth it.
Ralph, save us~ *gives a magic mouse to aid him in his quest* A recent demographic survey showed that there are quite a few ladies on this forum who's hearts you could conquer with your actions~ :p (and by the overused classical storywriting standards, this makes your quest worth it)

Now a bit more seriously: I do think a bigger version of the spritesheet (along with the normal one) would be a good thing. The animated seems unnecessary to me though.
cosmickitty

#275 Apr 10, 2013, 12:53 PM Source

I usually draw as frames anyways, so i just stick my frames here to test... guess it's not quite as simple if you work from a sheet though...

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/animatedgif/
dw817

#276 Apr 11, 2013, 04:26 PM Source

When is judgment day ?
Archeia

#277 Apr 11, 2013, 04:35 PM Source

Tomorrow. According to the new Full Schedule.
BILL_NYE_THO

#278 Apr 11, 2013, 06:22 PM Source

Wait, he's banned? What happened? Also... does that mess up the bracket?
Celianna

#279 Apr 11, 2013, 06:26 PM Source

BILL_NYE_THO you really need to stop asking why people are getting banned. This matter does not concern you.
BILL_NYE_THO

#280 Apr 11, 2013, 06:26 PM Source

Sorry, didn't know there was a rule against it. I figured out on my own anyway, I apologize.

Edit: I mostly just wanted to know if it messed up the bracket.