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Congrats to Jazz who made it on #2 and the runner-ups Solink, Croshi and Ndsfreak.
Once again, thanks for your votes guys.

I didn't think I could win the previous comp. so I had to come up with an good idea quick.

I've decided on BACKGROUNDS, since there are too less custom Mario-related bg's out there (on the internet).
Yeah, this comp. has been done ages before by Duckboy.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS COMP PRESS ALT+F4 THANKS

Please stick to the rules:

-NO old work
-NO edits
-NO castle interiors
-your backgrounds HAVE to loop, horizontally, vertically or both.
-parallax is allowed
-you have to make 2 or more then 2 bg's, since there's this rule with the frames.
-your backgrounds can be animated
-color limit? Well, don't use too much colors, like shading with photoshop.
-GRADIENTS ARE OK FOR THE SKY
-the size can be from 200x200 to 512x512. Example: 320x480.
-KEEP THEM USEFUL
-ONLY sprite locations that have been seen in previous Mario games
-DON'T MAKE UP LOCATIONS LIKE "TEC 2 ROOM" OR "THE CORE OF EARTH"
-You CAN add stuff like leaves for a forest BG

For some inspiration, you can sprite grassy hills, waterfalls, mountains, volcanos, beaches, forests, snowworlds etc. Go here for some examples.

Comp ends in two weeks, on 15th of April.

This post has been edited by Funky on Apr 15 2009, 11:28 AM

ALT+F4'd

This post has been edited by OmegaK on Apr 1 2009, 10:07 AM

Thanks! Don't enter then!

I may have an idea, but Im not sure if Im going to be around a computer all that much.

Alright, I know you said to leave if you don't likt the idea, but backgrounds? Really?

If you want to go for something original, try to look for an obscure character or group of characters. Backgrounds are just... boring.

so why havent we done something from say Super paper mario or M&LRPG3?

hell have we even sprited anything from M&LPIT at all?

This is pretty cool. Maybe we could get some backgrounds for the CFP out of this.

Sounds good enough. BG had been one then hardest most annoying thing for me to sprite, yet I'm goin to enter this comp with atleast 5 BGs.(I dare myself to do it ;p)

this is wip btw

This post has been edited by ndsfreak on Apr 1 2009, 05:28 PM

hahaha

I'm in.

Now when you say backgrounds, are we talking the farthest back screen, or what mario actually walks on and interacts with?

What are the odds.. I was making a background today for one of my games.
And.. I really don't know what to make a background out of since mostly all the backgrounds in the games was basically the sky.

the furthest back screen

oh and by the way, I know thers's no castle backgrounds allowed but what about ghost house backgrounds. And who doesn't love illplaced italics?

Cool idea, I think you can de-"smurf" the text now, though. It's kind of distracting...

Just the backgrounds, no tiles and stuff.

The background, however, can be tiled.

I'm gonna have to agree here.

I don't think i'll be in this one

Sounds like a good idea. I won't be entering, but still, good idea.


Though, could you change the max size restriction from 500x500 to 512x512? That's the size that many Mario backgrounds are.

(Fun fact: YI backgrounds are 512x1024, but that's rather large to fill up :P)

well this compo is rather exciting!
only two WIP and its been 2 days!

This post has been edited by Jazz on Apr 3 2009, 11:07 AM

I guess Ill enter. Nothing better to do.
Edit: A WIP of my first BG:


This post has been edited by MONEYMAN on Apr 3 2009, 07:52 PM