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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Looker10

#301 Apr 14, 2013, 08:16 PM Source

I've sent in my entry already :3 I spent about 4 hours on it, hopefully I do well :D
ct_bolt

#302 Apr 15, 2013, 01:31 AM Source

Darr123 said:
I've sent in my entry already :3 I spent about 4 hours on it, hopefully I do well :D
Really only 4 hours??? :unsure: ... best of luck to ya :) , still working on mine now. ;)

These aren't due until April 22nd I believe, so I plan on taking my time.
Celianna

#303 Apr 15, 2013, 02:30 AM Source

There is no right way to spend your time; if someone is excited and finished it this early, well, no harm done. You can take your time if that's what you're comfortable with.

I'd take a lot longer than 4 hours ... this is why I don't do pixel art :D
themo

#304 Apr 15, 2013, 03:34 AM Source

Sometimes you just nail it first try heh. I am still messing with mine.
Andinator

#305 Apr 17, 2013, 01:24 AM Source

have I missed the theme announcement?
ct_bolt

#306 Apr 17, 2013, 01:31 AM Source

Andinator said:
have I missed the theme announcement?
It's on the page below ;) :)

Ralph said:
You can find the theme and brackets over here!
PS. Congrats for making it into Pixel Madness 2013. :rock-left: :cutesmile: :rock-right:
Jayshr

#307 Apr 17, 2013, 07:30 AM Source

8) I sent in my entry~ Ha ha I'm liking this theme :D
Emmych

#308 Apr 17, 2013, 03:20 PM Source

Woo, that's a lot of names I don't recognize in there! 8D

And a couple that I do, and hopefully some death matches waiting to happen?!

Awwww man I am hell of excited to see how this goes down. Good luck, y'all!
Celianna

#309 Apr 17, 2013, 03:27 PM Source

Emmych said:
Woo, that's a lot of names I don't recognize in there! 8D
You and me both. I recognize like 4 names, but I only know the work of two of them ... so I have no idea what everyone's skill level is.

Filling in the brackets is quite a guess based on this.
ShinGamix

#310 Apr 20, 2013, 11:53 PM Source

well my entry was at the time when there wasnt enough entries to hold the contest or to get it started...so I was just trying to help the contest take off and nothing really more.
Archeia

#311 Apr 22, 2013, 07:27 PM Source

I just thought I'd need to clear up one of the rules since I just found out something interesting earlier!

The rules only say same style, not that you have to use the base. If it fits the rtp charactersets then your entry is eligible.

and a friendly reminder that the contest entries are to be submitted by the end of today!
Celianna

#312 Apr 22, 2013, 09:07 PM Source

Exactly which time zone are these dates using? I think knowing that would help with deadlines and such.

Edit: never mind, it were listed at rules :D GMT -5 it is.
ct_bolt

#313 Apr 22, 2013, 11:05 PM Source

...just wanted to let everybody know I might not make it on time, my PC keeps freezing and crashing randomly. :( I'm going to try my best though :) ... might end up submitting it incomplete. >_>

Edit:
Well I summited something :) ... not what I was working on originally but it's better then nothing. ;)
Jawnsunn

#314 Apr 22, 2013, 11:55 PM Source

Archeia said:
I just thought I'd need to clear up one of the rules since I just found out something interesting earlier!

The rules only say same style, not that you have to use the base. If it fits the rtp charactersets then your entry is eligible.

and a friendly reminder that the contest entries are to be submitted by the end of today!
Does this mean we aren't restricted to a 32x32 canvas for each frame of the sprite. My sprite is slightly taller because I didn't want the hair to feel so scrunched up.

I'm almost done, so I can get in on time. On time I mean sending a sprite in a Tuesday afternoon.
Touchfuzzy

#315 Apr 23, 2013, 01:03 AM Source

Yeah its ok to break the 32x32 size. as long as it imports into the maker correctly and is in the same style as the rtp. We had some pretty big sprites in the last Pixel Madness (A couple of sprites had big wings)
Touchfuzzy

#316 Apr 24, 2013, 06:37 PM Source

So I decided to make one of the starting times for voting on my birthday and that was really kind of dumb because I ended up not doing ANYTHING yesterday. I'm eating breakfast now, will put up the voting soon.

I will go ahead and announce the round 2 theme now though: Facial Hair of Power.
Looker10

#317 Apr 24, 2013, 06:46 PM Source

Facial hair of power? xD I like the sound of that :3
Jawnsunn

#318 Apr 24, 2013, 11:50 PM Source

I'm ready.
Celianna

#319 Apr 25, 2013, 04:36 AM Source

I'd have liked to see everyone's entries, but now I'm leaving soon :(

Either way, good luck everyone!
ct_bolt

#320 Apr 25, 2013, 05:44 PM Source

So umm... that schedule is a lil' off again huh? ;) Voting hasn't started yet but it was supposed to end today, lol. :)