Star, for someone that didn't even know how to draw straight lines in Gimp, that's fantastic! Lol, props to you bro. Now I gotta get started working on my icon..
thanks! hahaha yea i figured it out after one of y'all showed me how. anyway, im gonna touch it up a little, maybe find a more attractive background color, fix up the rough patches and all... cant wait to see everyone elses!
Now you're starting to sound like me. Except I didn't say it will be epic, mine will probably come out crappy.
I have a feeling lots of posts are going to be made in this thread...so time to start saving submissions btw starmonkey, that was pretty good for someone who just got GIMP. I havent been able to draw a symmetrical stick figure with that yet.
thanks dashizwiz19! im gonna fix it up and add a few details soon. will post update lata! best wishes to all the entrants!
Well that is part of the title for the contest so....sounds good! Can't wait. And good luck to everyone else that enters.
Submit the icon here by adding an attachment to your comment for each one, a 512 x 512 and a 57 x 57. PNG format please.
Submitted. I thought it was kinda hard to do something interesting that pops out easily just with a vector image, so I went instead with bright green retro text, and some of the meteors and spaceships in the background. Since there are many similar games on the app store with the same icons, I thought "Battle for Vesta" looked more interesting, and will make people click on the app just to see what it is.
Do you want graphics similar to the game on the icon? 'Cause I can make some pretty bad (as in EPIC) 3-D stuff that goes with your game, but it wouldn't match the art style. But, you know what most major publishers say, "In game screenshots = bad game sales." Borderlands would've been the next COD (in sales) were it not for the terrible box art. And some of the gameplay.
Kgamelover, Since da shiz whiz gets to pick the winner he should weigh in. I am impressed with the efforts so far and I look forward to seeing what else people come up with. I will say that if I just wanted a crop of a screenshot I could have done that myself.
Kgamelover, it's alright if you use a different art style than the game. Most icons don't follow their game's artstyle anyways. Just try to use similar ship structures in your picture. Pretty much what I'm trying to say is don't go crazy and create random ships that you thought looked cool in star wars.
the box art seemed quite good to me when i saw it! it was epic, edgy and had a touch af artisticness to it
Wow! Humble Llama, that's epic! I'm gonna make something cool, but it won't compare to that. Illustrator CS4 + Photoshop CS4 = What I use By the way, here's a helpful blog article I found that tells you what to make in an app icon: http://pixelresort.com/blog/iphone-app-icon-design-best-practises/ I hate people that put words in the icon or use standard gloss.
