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NG Screensaver Contest!

Posted by Rawmin - July 6th, 2008


So I've decided to start a contest here on newgrounds.

The thread pretty much sums it up, but basically I wanted to start a contest in which users would create their own, NG based screensavers in flash, which would then be judged, winners having theirs end up in the downloads section.

Read the thread for details, but I'm gonna need some judges, someone willing to convert the swfs into screensaver format, and permission from Tom.

Also, in the thread, I said to use a 640 x 480 resolution, but that was just a random resolution, since it won't matter what with the vector graphics, but I think it would be better to use a 1024x768 resolution, or something like that. I also want to offer different sizes.

Anyways, leave a comment with suggestions/willingness to help!


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<a href="http://www.creamshavers.com">http://www.creamshavers.com</a>

That's a tool to convert swf's into screensavers :) I haven't tested it myself though so I don't know how good it is.

Cool, thanks! I may end up doing the converting myself since no one seems to want to, but this seems fairly legit so it may not be too difficult!

Who the fuck uses a 1024x768 resolution, this is Newgrounds, so the majority of people do intense vector art and animations which usually leads them into buying large monitors and set them to their max resolution to have the most space to work on. I would suggest;
Wide
1680x1050
1920x1200
Standard
1280x1024
1600x1200

It really doesn't matter, as I said, it was just a random resolution! Its more than likely going to all be vector anyway, so you could scale it up as big as you want, and It will still look super clear!

As long as it has the right aspect ratio it's good. So 1024 x 768 (I think that's it) is good.

I was hoping entrants would do some size variations on thier entries

Cool, I was thinking of doing a screensaver myself, but didn't know wha ttheme to do it for, this just answered my question :)

This has been done before you know. So I'll submit my entry for that one, which won 9th place.

Tom said that he's not going to post them on the download page, because he didn't post the previous ones, so I guess its pretty much not going to happen.

Man I feel like a douche... I gotta dig up that old contest from the forums and go through all that stuff one of these days. :(

Its ok Tom.

(Wow, Tom Fulp commented on my news post!)

HOLY SHUIT TOM FULP

Hello, I've watched "No Mercy For The Damned" a few time ago and I found it unbelievable, im wondering when you gona make a new animation...

I'll be waiting for you.