The One About Diego's Art Nouveau
I were looking through the Week 2 loading screen submissions for Diego's Art Nouveau and though there was quite a significant improvement in the quality of the submissions, but still... I felt that some cutting edge creativity was still lacking.
Here's some ideas that could set YOUR submission apart!
1) Magic Eye 3D Loading Screens!
I used to be obsessed with those Magic Eye 3D pictures thingy whereby there is a sentence or picture inside a mosaic looking picture. Something like that:
Use your magic eye and check out the bird!It would be super duper awesome to have such loading screens in GE whereby the subject matter was GE-related and the user would only have like 5-10 seconds to figure out what was on the loading screen before he reached the next map. Not sure how to do up something like that though. There's prolly some freeware out there that enables you to do so.
2) Mini Games!
I think the key thing here is to entertain the community during those painful 5-10 seconds of waiting time. So why not mini games to amuse them in the meantime? Loading screens could be like 'Spot the difference' types whereby 2 screenshots are side by side, looking almost same same but different. The user would then have to spot like 5 differences in the pictures.
Other than 'Spot the difference', there could be trivia questions or GE-context riddles with the answers at the corner or something along those lines.
Yup, yup. So try to think out of the box and push your creativity and sense of imagination to the next level. Let the simple things around you inspire you, you'll never know where it will take you!
Oh wait, one more thing before I meet up with my colleagues for a badminton game, the Paid Game Services project has been delayed yet again due to unforseen circumstances. *sigh*
Everything had been working beautifully on the test server. But when imported to the live server, it was then discovered that the stored procedures given to us by HBS on the test server were a different structure/format from the one on the live server! *sigh* So... now we are awaiting the new stored procedures from HBS again. :_(
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7 comments:
Hrin, when is the Change of Character name etc. going to be released?
Hmm.. depends on when HBS gives us the new stored procedures. We are hoping by next week. Everything else is ready and working.
when will the week 2 results be released?
[full disclosure: yes, i did submit an entry.]
good ideas for the next ones, though!
Week 2 results to be released tomorrow! :)
Lookin' forward to the results :) Whoaw.. the Magic Eye tricks gonna be quite painfl X_X Since a lot of people I know Stick their eyes to the Paper Then slowly Move backward.. I think it's kinda harmful for players to stick their eyes to the monitor :p But then, I'd sure lov to learn how to do that :D
Magic Eyes are cool but i guess not many people knows how to see it.
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