Room of Reckoning Door (Brainstorming thread for website art asset)

Laura

A new call for art asset submissions is coming up on Saturday, September 22nd... post your ideas in this thread to start brainstorming and getting feedback now!

The submission prompt will be: Create a door for the Room of Reckoning by downloading and following the instructions on either of these two templates -- PCH Door Submission Template with layers (for use with programs like Photoshop), or PCH Door Submissions Template no layers (for use with programs like MS Paint). (Right-click on a template link and choose "Save As" to save the template to your computer, where you can open it.) Make your door as cool-looking and thematic as you can!

Nozcumber

Maybe something with a sword on it says 'judgement'...

Laura

Nice, @Nozcumber! I buy it, swords are totally judgmental.

Looks like you didn't have any trouble with the template instructions... if anyone finds the templates confusing, though, please don't hesitate to ask questions here. People will be happy to help, and seeing the answer to your question may help someone else!

Werehare

I'm imagining a stupidly heavy door (with cracks all around it and deep scratches in the floor where it opens). It has a huge metal thumb on it (Roman emperor style). Only once you've passed through the door and dragged it closed behind you do the cogs noisily spring to life and turn the thumb to either point up or down (so everyone outside knows what is happening even though you probably don't!)

I also imagine that the thumb turning downwards is usually followed by the Wilhelm scream! :D



(Before anyone points it out, my submission version won't have the background etc...)

Laura

@Werehare -- love the attention to detail with the gouges in the floor... and the rotating thumb for Roman-arena-style judgement is brilliant! =D

postArgus

I'm thinking about doing a big stone door with a relief of Cornerlius dressed like Lady Justice. No time tonight to actually put it together though.

JuryDuty

I like all of these ideas so far. It's going to be a tough vote.

Kale

Agreed, this is going to be a hugely tough vote

Nozcumber

Not using the idea myself, but a judge's gavel might make an interesting door hinge.

Nozcumber

While the paints are out, are you gonna need doors designs for the 3 chosen "location, location, location" rooms, @Laura?  The puzzly ironwork to Uncle's gate (as featured in the blog) might also be a fun community project.

Laura

Heh... I want to make some sort of wordplay about gavels and galvanized hinges, but I can't get it to hold together. Oh well. =P

Nozcumber said:

While the paints are out, are you gonna need doors designs for the 3 chosen "location, location, location" rooms, @Laura?  The puzzly ironwork to Uncle's gate (as featured in the blog) might also be a fun community project.

Our next room-related call for submissions will be almost a combo of this and Location, Location, Location -- we'll ask you guys to come up with both a room name (18 characters or less) and an image for the door to that room (using the same template as we're using for the Room of Reckoning door), and accepting the room name and door art together as a single submission.

One of the nice things about a call for submissions like this is that there will be no need to narrow the vote down to a single winner -- as much as possible, we want to create opportunities for multiple winners to come out of community votes. I imagine a lot of the rooms that get submitted will be new room ideas we've never seen before, though I can also image some submissions drawing on established areas of the clubhouse to propose door art for existing rooms.

So yeah -- if you have ideas for door art for rooms besides the Room of Reckoning, jot yourself a note, or even go ahead and put them together now -- we'll be calling for more room ideas and door art soon!

postArgus

Is this going to be opened to submissions soon? 

Laura

Blargh, thanks @postArgus -- it looks like the dates on this got mixed up when it was added to the database. I've passed word on and it should be open soon!

Laura

Sorry for the delay, guys -- the Room of Reckoning Door is open for submissions!

Seeing as this was open for brainstorming for so long, should we still keep the Call for Submissions going for 4 days (meaning we'll take submissions  up to Sunday and voting will start next week)? Or do people want to see this move into voting sooner? Let me know if you have an opinion either way, otherwise I'll err on the side of giving more submission time.

postArgus

I finally got a chance this weekend get an entry together. Figured I might as well post it here too (even though its too late to revise it at this point). A bit of collage work this time around.

Werehare

Nice!
And only slightly disturbing! :D

Laura

The vote to determine the Room for Reckoning Door has started - vote here!

postArgus

The images within the frames for all of the doors seem to be squashed rather than uniformly scaled (they're fine when displayed individually). Can we get these to stay resize proportionally when put into the frames?

Laura

Yeah, it's a bit unfortunate-looking. Let me see what I can do.

Nozcumber

Yay - the under floor banter box is back! These 2 are both awesome, but I think the key judgemental element - the thumbs up/down is clearer/more contrast than the scales - which might be further emphasised when it's shown smaller/at an angle. But I'm just glad the bohemoths got placed against each other in round 1 :)

postArgus

Now that I'm seeing the two rendering styles next to each other, I wish I had put more emphasis on the scales - probably just made the outline a little more intense. I guess the hope was that the iconography of Lady Justice would be enough. I also now realize that I had intended, and completely forgot, to make the Cornelius head wearing a blindfold. Doh! That's what I get for waiting until the last minute to whip up my submission.

postArgus

And yes - so glad the threads are showing up at the bottom of the voting pages again!

Laura

Glad you guys like it! We're trying something a little bit tricksy with the voting room comment threads -- instead of creating temporary comment threads for each voting room, that become hard to access when the voting round ends and the rooms disappear, we're hooking the brainstorming thread up to the voting rooms so these conversations take place in a single thread where they'll be easy to access later. It has the potential to cause some confusion, since the same thread shows up in multiple contexts, but it seemed worth trying as a way to not end up with a fragmented collection of threads

Also, Thumbs Up/Down Door against Cornelius and the Scales of Justice is such a match-up -- it's really hard to see either of them go in Round 1! I love Thumb Door too much, though... gotta admit, I'm hoping for a last-minute upset.

Laura

Somehow I thought this round was way closer to ending than it actually was -- think I must've been looking at the "1d" and forgetting about the hours.

Anyway -- less than 24 hours left to get your votes in for Round 1! http://puzzleclubhouse.com/pools?cc_id=20

Laura

postArgus said:

The images within the frames for all of the doors seem to be squashed rather than uniformly scaled (they're fine when displayed individually). Can we get these to stay resize proportionally when put into the frames?

Quick update on this -- it's not going to happen right away, but we should have the proportions of the thumbnail teaser images looking much better this weekend and from now on.

Laura

Less than 12 hours left to get your Round 1 votes in!

saeno

Love the thumbs up/thumbs down concept! Do you get judged as the door opens?

Laura

Round 1 voting ends in 40 minutes -- get your votes in!

Crito

Bummer, my round 1 fav. lost =).

JuryDuty

I must say, I liked the thumb up and down (though I didn't vote) better than Lady Cornelius of Justice only because of the room it's representing. As in image overall, I liked postArgus's submission best.

Actually, the Lady Cornelius door was one of my favorite submitted pieces so far in any contest and I really want it to be incorporated into PCH in some other fashion. Would it be conspiratorial for @Chez to accidentally put both doors in the episode? I heard a pink-feathered lawn ornament slipped him some puzzle pieces for a similar deal...

Tip o' my cap to you, @postArgus (and to your lovely daughter too for her awesome tooth-ghost submission)

And a thumbs up to @Werehare for his door. Brilliant idea and execution.

Nozcumber

For this particular purpose, I liked the thumbs up best. So I voted for it. The other door was another great execution too. It's early days of clubhouse - but I'm kind of glad every winning entry isn't going to be a fish shaped like uncle, a vase shaped like uncle, a statue shaped like uncle...