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The Bloxart Contest two (2) -CLOSED-

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The Bloxart Contest two (2) -CLOSED-

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[ispoiler]The results are out[/ispoiler]
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Heya, wanna play a game on the internet?

This is the second edition of the Bloxart contest, in which you need to guess the names of thirty video games based on pixelated versions of their box-art. This time, the algorithm used to generate the images is true to the originals, so it should be easier. Hopefully not too much, but that's part of the experimentation process.

The first edition was hosted by Picochilla. I'm taking care of this one to help him gauge the difficulty.

Scoring system
  • +4 points for guessing the right game.
    +1 point for guessing the right system (automatically awarded if you guess the right game).
    x2 the points if you are the only one to get one right.
    If you get the right systems for at least 25 of them you get an additional 25 points.
Send me your guesses via PM by March 6.

The winner will get the

fantastic

userbar that I made for the contest.

Yay!

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[ispoiler]The results are out[/ispoiler]
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Re: The Bloxart Contest two (2)

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I wonder if I do better this time around. It will take a while to figure these out.
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march 6th huh. These are always so hard!
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Man, some of these things look like miniaturized character sprites. Hard for me to think of them as boxes, but I guess I could see if I could do some of them.
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oh wow, this looks difficult. but I think I have three of them figured out (I know one for sure, I played it to death before, no way I could not recognize it). Alright brain, time to work together for once!
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Killed my eyes for the night squinting at this. :D
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I'm surprised by how many of these I actually recognize, this is really fun!
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Man, what the heck. I probably wouldn't guess the majority of these even if they weren't pixelated. :lol:
But I'm really tempted to get a colored username or something. I feel like a peasant with this boring black stuff, because the guys with red text make me feel they're trying to be so flamboyant. (finally figured out what "mahtipontinen" meant in english, hah.)

All I could guess at most were

Cave Story

and

Kirby's Adventure (for the NES?)

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Here's a bit of magic to make the contest easier:

$(".postimage").css("width", "4%").css("height", "4%")

You get to use it if you can figure out what to do with it. :P
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Klaty wrote:All I could guess at most were

Spoiler Spoiler

and

Spoiler (for the Spoiler?)

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I didn't know that you joined the talkhaus Klaty. Welcome! Please send me your answers instead of posting them here. ò _ ó+
Klaty wrote:I'm really tempted to get a colored username or something. I feel like a peasant with this boring black stuff, because the guys with red text make me feel they're trying to be so flamboyant. (finally figured out what "mahtipontinen" meant in english, hah.)
Red usernames are reserved for official talkhaus contest and this isn't one of them. You might have a chance if you enter MaGL X2.
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Re: The Bloxart Contest two (2)

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I think I'll try this. I know a few by flicking through them. :)

Also, spitznagl, how did you get two userbars on the same line in your signature?
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GanonTEK wrote:Also, spitznagl, how did you get two userbars on the same line in your signature?
Just put the [img] tags back to back with no newline between them.

The single pixel gap is included in both images. Don't put two userbars in the same image or it will be resized for people with smaller monitors or when the window isn't full-screen.
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Submited my entry, and man, it went better than I expected.

Good luck to everyone else.
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For some reason I feel that googling images to verify guesses feels like cheating.
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I know about 5 of them ill submit them
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spitznagl wrote:
GanonTEK wrote:Also, spitznagl, how did you get two userbars on the same line in your signature?
Just put the [img] tags back to back with no newline between them.

The single pixel gap is included in both images. Don't put two userbars in the same image or it will be resized for people with smaller monitors or when the window isn't full-screen.
Still a bit confused.

Originaly I had this: (I replaced [] with () to be able to see it)

(img)http://i48.tinypic.com/34e6yas.gif(/img)
(img)http://i48.tinypic.com/o9mn29.png(/img)
(img)http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx25 ... .jpg(/img)
(img)http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx25 ... .jpg(/img)

Do you mean this?
(img)http://i48.tinypic.com/34e6yas.gif(/img ... .jpg(/img)

I get the same result if I do that so I'm thinking I don't understand your instructions. Sorry.
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Your second example is right. The preview window is smaller, so the userbars are formatted to only one per line in the control panel. Submit the change and it will appear correctly in your signature.
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spitznagl wrote:Your second example is right. The preview window is smaller, so the userbars are formatted to only one per line in the control panel. Submit the change and it will appear correctly in your signature.
Ohh, silly preview window!
Thank you!

Spent the past hour trying the contest. Got some answers and some guesses. Some are really hard. Can't even guess the system. Lots of fun though!
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spitznagl wrote: I didn't know that you joined the talkhaus Klaty. Welcome! Please send me your answers instead of posting them here. ò _ ó+
Yup! Not too long ago. I'm finally going to send that gift I promised to send, and also maybe enter MaGLX2. Sorry if I spoiled out anything (I'm not going to actually join this), but I doubt my spoilers will be of any help at that stage of pixelation. I didn't even tell the numbers. And I put them in black spoiler bars.
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I recognise

Kirby's Dreamland 2, EarthBound, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2

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People, stop putting answers in the thread. Even if it's in spoiler tags. It's a contest. Yes, it's just a bit of fun but don't spoil it for people.
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I'm pretty sure I recognize 28 of them. I'm debating whether it would be better to just send my answers now, or to wait a few weeks and try to figure out the other two.
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YES!!! I'll definitely not forget to take part this time! :D
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I suck at any kind of Contest :(

But it was true: i couls recognize more Games on my PC as on the WiiU
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