FMF contest again

Per

Per

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The Fan Made Fallout team decided it would be a neat idea to hold another contest. (If you don't remember, the last one was about rats.) This time it's an art thingy and contestants are being asked to design the "Wattz 1500 Prototype Heavy Laser Pistol a.k.a. The HAMMER". The best submission will then be used in the Fan Made Fallout mod. Rules:<blockquote>1- You need to design the graphic for the Hammer. It should be larger then the pistol pictured and smaller then the rifle. It should have some visible characteristic to enbody the "Hammer" theme.

2- The graphics should 180 x 65 pixels so it can be used as a inventory graphic

3-You can make it in either 2d or 3d as its only the final result that counts. The art should be pressented in one final art piece with transperent background and saved as a .gif indexed using the fallout palette.

4- You can also show your consept art if you want. This should be presented as a single image (MAXIMUM 800x600)</blockquote>The deadline is April 30 and the winner will receive, in addition to a game credit and a rare chance to join a modding team, a surprise gift! Is it worth more or less than a credit in a mod that may or may not be finished? We don't know and that's why it's called a surprise.

Link: FMF art contest thread

Thanks to Sebastian of the Wastes
 
Just to clarify ...

A potential spot on the team as an artist is one of the prizes. The surprise gift is another. You don't have to join the team to get the gift.
 
I don't want to be too critical since I have nothing but support for all our modders, but honestly, Sebastian, "a spot on the team" isn't a prize. An unpaid position in a project that might never finish isn't a prize. It's a prize for you if a skilled artist is willing to join you, not the other way around.

Hence Per's remark.
 
Well certainly finding a good artist would help us in the long run and we wanted to make that available to a fan who won and wanted to help us out.

But we do say that it's up to the artist if they want to join. In the end we just want people who enjoy graphic design and would like to contribute to our mod in some way to have a fun way to do that.

Although some would say getting to work with me is prize enough ... :P Okay .. no, they don't really say that. And I probably didn't have to clarify that, either...
 
Sebastian of the Wastes said:
Well certainly finding a good artist would help us in the long run and we wanted to make that available to a fan who won and wanted to help us out.
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But if a good artist wants to join without jumping through any hoops you'll kick him in the teeth?
 
Hey, the FMF newspage looks like the majority of progress is made by wasteland passers-by. The gallery is cramfull of oriental biatches. The info about the project is mainly very humorously made, but it shouldn't. What's more, plenty of information is not updated and goddamn old. A big number of Czech people rates FMF as some kind of a joke...
Hence your chances to grab a good gfx artist is (after seeing things mentioned above) in comparation with eg. Shattered Destiny obviously pretty low. OK, it's better than Mutants Rising situation with no updated website (or am I misinformed?), but still pretty low, sorry. That's just not how it works.

(I'm obviously talking about major part of potential workpower that reads only NMA homepage, not a forum geeks that can be at least cleverly PM'ed)
 
well, one can't argue with you there ... the other pages are pretty horribly out of date, and it's something we're working on ... but let's be honest, what's more important .. that we have a snazzy updated site or that we're actually working on the mod.

I prefer the latter, but don't worry, we haven't completely disregarded the former either. we just have had other priorities. But I can't dismiss what you're saying and I'll see if I can't move that update process up a bit farther.

Thanks for the feedback, regardless.
 
Well, it's about radiating presence, Sebastian. It's good that you have these contest, mostly because they remind people you're still alive. But an updated site and good up-to-date tracking of the mod's milestones tell people on the outside "these guys are still alive"

That's not just important because we like to know, it's more important because people aren't going to join a mod that they assume is either dead or vapourware, which is the assumption for...well...pretty much all Fallout total conversion mods now.
 
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