2020 PAASC

[necaladun]

The 2020 PAASC!

As teased in the Discord, I'm proud to announce the start of 2020 Paradise Art And Spriting Competition!

The goal of this competition is for the staff to be able to see a whole bunch of different styles of spriting, the the aim in mind of getting the chosen style spread throughout many of our sprites.

The winner will be chosen by a vote of the Heads and Maints, and chosen on the mixed grounds of subjective personal taste, how identifiable items are, and how they mesh with the current look of the station sprites. 

The Prize, Details and Disclaimers:

The intent of this competition is for us to see a whole bunch of sprite styles, and hopefully select one to use as an overall style for the server.

The prize will be limited, as we don't want people trying extra hard for the competition. We want the work to be reflective of what you'd do if given the chance to redesign the sprites on the server - not what you'd do to show off your best art on a few pieces.

Given that, the prizes will be limited to accolades and bragging rights, with winner(s) seeing their sprites used in game and as a guide for future design.

We're also going to be using this process to help us select a Sprite Team, including an Art Lead. The winner will not necessarily be in charge of the team - great spriting ability =/= great leading ability. But we're going to use this as an opportunity to see the portfolios of people and help make our selection.

 

Competition End Date: 14 days from time of this post appearing in announcements. 

 

The Actual Competition: 

The following room has 27 sprites to redesign. You are not expected to necessarily redesign them all! Part of what we'll be looking for is people who know when not to redesign a sprite, either because it already works well or due to time constraints. We're looking for people who are going to be good at many of the practical aspects of sprite design in ss13.

Number 20 can be any form of poster that NT would allow.

Number 6, Monitor 1, Can be any monitor.

Number 10, Monitor 2, must be an operation computer.

 

You'll have to find those sprites in the game files yourself - that's a qualification you'll absolutely need!

Once you've recreated it, send me (necaladun#4908 on discord) all the seperate files in a zip or something, and a screenshot of the whole room together. I'll place them in this thread so everyone can see.

 

Disclaimer Parts:

Any sprites submitted to us for this competition are for Paradise to use, with attribution and credit - we might really like your jetpack sprite, but the rest of it might not work.

In the rare likelihood we don't like any of the designs, we reserve the right to declare no winner.

 

Best of luck to all entrants!