Background Blitz: Alien World (10th Nov - 26th Nov) *Winner!*

[Kastchey]

Create a background for a game that takes place in an extraterrestrial world. Include at least one distinctive feature to convince the viewer that this place is not Earth. It can be anything: fauna, flora, terrain formations, weather conditions, architecture or even different laws of physics if you can find a way to depict them.

Examples, references, inspirations:


Trophies:

[Dualnames]

Nice theme there, Kastchey, I think I'll be joining. 

[Kastchey]

Can't say I'm surprised that this kind of topic has caught your interest, Dual
Thanks and good luck with your entry!

[Derrick Freeland]

Couldn't resist this one.
I give you:
FLOATY  ROCKS

[Kastchey]

First entry, great!

Also, updated the main thread with trophies.

[Ilyich]

Happy that the forums were back, I've decided to participate in the current blitz, and, given the theme, I thought I'd start by drawing some random squiggly lines and work from that. Word of advice - don't ever do that.

It took a while to make it into something at least relatively cohesive, but I'm happy I gave it a try - so here's my Alien world thingy:

[Derrick Freeland]

Looks like the squiggly line method worked out pretty well. 

[Cogliostro]

Just a little something entitled:

LANDING IS NOT AN OPTION



- Cogliostro

[DrewCCU]

I'm not much of a background artist ... but here's my try.

[Kastchey]

Whoohoo, four entries!
Thanks for participating, everyone.

Does anyone need an extension? Dualnames?

[Dualnames]

I'm gonna try to whip up something today, if everyone is okay with that. Just give me 6 hours from this post.

[Kastchey]

Sure thing.

[Dualnames]

Definitely not the best entry. I wanted to spend some time on the tree, which means actually drawing it, but well, here goes, mostly photomanipulation.



In case it's not obvious there are two planets.

[Kastchey]

Awesome, thanks for the entry

If anyone else would like to post a last minute entry, I'll keep the competition open until tomorrow around this hour.

[oraxon]

The intergalactic bankers who used this extremely remote outpost have been gone for 200 million years. Recent explorers nicknamed it "Planet Cash".

[Kastchey]

We have a total of six entries, thanks everyone for participating!

Voting categories as usual:
Idea:
Atmosphere:
Design: 
Composition: 
Functionality: 
Technique:

Voting ends December 2nd, again around this hour.

[Derrick Freeland]

Idea:  Cogliostro
Atmosphere:  Dualnames
Design: Cogliostro
Composition: Dualnames
Functionality: Ilyich
Technique: Ilyich

[Ilyich]

Idea: Derrick Freeland - it's a bit hard to read the idea here without the title, but it's definitely there and it's not just an Earth landscape with some extra moons thrown in.
Atmosphere: Dualnames - although it barely qualifies as an alien landscape (yeah, I know, 2 planets ) or as a game backround , it's still beautiful and very atmospheric.
Design:  oraxon - clever use of coin stacks as elements of the landscape. I only wish there would've been more of an aerial perspective going on.
Composition:  Dualnames - simple, but precise and well defined composition.
Functionality:  Cogliostro - it may not be a playable background, but it will surely make a very good cutscene.
Technique: Dualnames - because it's pretty

[Dualnames]

Idea: Derrick Freeland - Though I believe there could be a better expand to your idea, I think regardless, it's the least abstract of all the others, oraxon being second close.

Atmosphere: Ilyich - I just love that background

Design:  oraxon - The whole coin stack deal, gave me a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy vibe, and kudos just for that.

Composition:  DrewCCU - Despite I don't like the blue part of the picture, I really love the rest of it. Even if most likely that's just a randomly drawn thingie.

Functionality:  Ilyich - Not sure who could draw a character there, most likely you, but I can see that scene work easily with a nice fishy-like character.

Technique: oraxon - Well, i believe any of the entrants could fit there, but oraxon has always surprised me with his entries, varying a lot in terms of how they were built.

[Cogliostro]

Idea: Derrick Freeland - I simulateously see an alien landscape and a bad acid trip.

Atmosphere: Dualnames - You feel the chill in the air.

Design:  Ilyich - Chaos evolves into order.

Composition:  DrewCCU - I see the storm passing and the Fremen coming out, so Stilgar can chat with Paul Atreides - Assuming composition is is defined as: the background that does the most storytelling. 

Functionality:  Ilyich - Characters can *do* something in this room, the rest of us drew pretty pictures.

Technique:  Ilyich - You started with random squiggles!

- Cogliostro