Badges

[J1M]

@Watser @Tweed @SpellSword @Tangerine @1998

The last badge that I'd like to give a revision is Shard of Spring. Thoughts?

[rusty_shackleford]

@Watser @Tweed @SpellSword @Tangerine @1998

The last badge that I'd like to give a revision is Shard of Spring. Thoughts?

rip watser

[Tangerine]

@Watser @Tweed @SpellSword @Tangerine @1998

The last badge that I'd like to give a revision is Shard of Spring. Thoughts?

The game is pretty ugly and doesn't really have any (good) distinctive art in it. Not sure what you can do other than the shard from the box art.

[J1M]

@Watser @Tweed @SpellSword @Tangerine @1998

The last badge that I'd like to give a revision is Shard of Spring. Thoughts?

The game is pretty ugly and doesn't really have any (good) distinctive art in it. Not sure what you can do other than the shard from the box art.

We are constrained to something that has the look/feel of pixel art. But it might be interesting to put a game sprite at native resolution on a badge, such as a notorious enemy type. I don't think we've done that yet.

[J1M]

Listing the current badge conventions.

Adventurer's Guild Classic
Pixel art

Selected game is a mod
Base game logo as backdrop, icon representing the mod on top

Junior Adventurer's Guild
Cram a high resolution piece of artwork into 19 rows of pixels that vaguely resemble the initial image

[SpellSword]

@Watser @Tweed @SpellSword @Tangerine @1998

The last badge that I'd like to give a revision is Shard of Spring. Thoughts?

The game is pretty ugly and doesn't really have any (good) distinctive art in it. Not sure what you can do other than the shard from the box art.

The DOS version's art was functional, but not really pretty to look at. The Apple II version was a bit more colorful but not really more detailed.

► DOS

► Apple II

I agree with Tangerine. The box's crystal really is the best bet for that one.

► Box

[Tangerine]

If you want to do something from the game, do the red overworld man from the DOS version.

[SpellSword]

Shard of Spring.webp

[SpellSword]

I do like the existing crystal badge's imagery enough that I'd be a bit sad to lose it.

Shard of Spring.png

What do you have in mind @J1M?

Shard of Spring Red Man Mock-up.png

[J1M]

Didn't really have any ideas. If there is a really low resolution piece of art from the game, maybe we could put it on there multiple times like a coat of arms.

[J1M]

AI suggested something like this. I think it has promise but hilariously when I asked it for a 32x24 px image it made one that is half a megabyte.

[CornCake]

I've a question. Does a game on the list need to have been completed recently, or is there no limit? I completed some of these games more than 20 years ago, so I understand if you want a wee bit closer to the present.

[Oyster Sauce]

I've a question. Does a game on the list need to have been completed recently, or is there no limit? I completed some of these games more than 20 years ago, so I understand if you want a wee bit closer to the present.

No time limit so long as you have some from of proof

[CornCake]

I've a question. Does a game on the list need to have been completed recently, or is there no limit? I completed some of these games more than 20 years ago, so I understand if you want a wee bit closer to the present.

No time limit so long as you have some from of proof

Fair enough mate. Unfortunate I dinnae know how to screenshot a game back in 1998, so I'll ave to replay Baldur's Gate again.

[Acrux]

"Yeah, I beat this game already." <---- my proof

[maidenhaver IV]

"Yeah, I beat this game already." <---- my proof

@Oyster Sauce give me the Mass Effect badge.



That's the og version.

[logincrash]

"Yeah, I beat this game already." <---- my proof

@Oyster Sauce give me the Mass Effect badge.



That's the og version.

We don't have a Mass Effect badge yet.

[maidenhaver IV]

I'll make some and give them away.

[maidenhaver IV]

I'm going to make a gen 1 pokemon badge and Fallout badge, too.

[maidenhaver IV]

I made one with the dialogue wheel icon and N7, but it sucks. Oh well.

[logincrash]

Tried making a bunch with the M game .exe icon and the N7 icon.

32 me1 M blue.png

32 me1 M black.png

32 me1 N7 blue.png

32 me1 N7 black.png

[J1M]

Black one for sure.

[maidenhaver IV]

The N7 looks great. I don't know why I tried using the wheel instead of the badge to make a badge.

Guess I'm a hipster.

[Finarfin]

The N7 looks great. I don't know why I tried using the wheel instead of the badge to make a badge.

Guess I'm a hipster.

Dialogue wheel, even if it's hated nowadays,WAS mass effect.

[Finarfin]

Tried making a bunch with the M game .exe icon and the N7 icon.

Black N7 is great

[logincrash]

The N7 looks great. I don't know why I tried using the wheel instead of the badge to make a badge.

Guess I'm a hipster.

Dialogue wheel, even if it's hated nowadays,WAS mass effect.

The dialogue wheel was hated by the actual gamers even back then. The normalfags ate it up because it was more "cinematic."

[rusty_shackleford]

dialogue wheels are hated because dialogue tree lovers want to feel like they came up with the super smart quips written by the writer

video game dialogue sucks and will continue to suck until we have more advanced LLMs

[J1M]

The N7 looks great. I don't know why I tried using the wheel instead of the badge to make a badge.

Guess I'm a hipster.

Dialogue wheel, even if it's hated nowadays,WAS mass effect.

The dialogue wheel was hated by the actual gamers even back then. The normalfags ate it up because it was more "cinematic."

The same complainers don't realize they are going to pick every option tagged as "Paragon" regardless of how it is printed on the screen. Would be nice to finally see a game with equally as many benefits for presenting a balanced stance as for going extreme.

[rusty_shackleford]

The same complainers don't realize they are going to pick every option tagged as "Paragon" regardless of how it is printed on the screen.

The solution to this is to remove the tags.
Don't know when they became popular, but Fallout did not display the tags on the dialogue. It's an antipattern(…antidesign?)

[J1M]

The same complainers don't realize they are going to pick every option tagged as "Paragon" regardless of how it is printed on the screen.

The solution to this is to remove the tags.
Don't know when they became popular, but Fallout did not display the tags on the dialogue. It's an antipattern(…antidesign?)

I can tell the difference without the tags. The problem is that there are interesting consequences for going all-in and are not for going balanced/whimsical/principled.