PC game covers thread (was: Official PC game template)

[MisterCreazil]

http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/MisterCreazil.retail.win_creatureisleuk_gb.jpg


http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/MisterCreazil.custom.win_creatureisleus.jpg

[Hexxxer]

I am very pleased more and more people are adding to this section. There are so many old PC games that just shipped in cardboard boxes and end up lost after time. I hope that anyone who reads this thread and has older boxes sitting around find it in the to scan anything they have and upload it! Everything little bit helps and the sooner the better. I hope to continue adding what I can to this section with what I have... for everyone contributing, keep up the awesome work!

[Hexxxer]

Anders, what covers are you going to add?

[Anders]

Anders, what covers are you going to add?

I'm pretty much going through every PC game I own, so there's a mix of the very new (Mass Effect, The Witcher) and the less new (Manhunt, Swat 4). I've been a gamer for years and years, but all my old cardboard boxes are long gone, I'm afraid.

Right now, I'm not sure what I will add. I want new covers primarily for myself (to make the collection look nice on the shelf), but hopefully it might be of interest to guys as well.

[MisterCreazil]

Here are the raws from the Homeworld box, it's a little beat up and I've been kind of crazy busy lately, so if anyone would like to fix it up and make a cover out of it please do.

http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.custom.raw_win_homeworld001.jpg
http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_win_homeworld002.jpg
http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_win_homeworld003.jpg
http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_win_homeworld004.jpg

[sheep2001]

this any good?

http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/sheep2001.custom.win_pchomeowrld_none.jpg

[MisterCreazil]

wow, looks great to me   I would have done it myself but I've picked up more shifts at work recently and so when I get home all I want to do is surf the web a little bit then go to sleep.

[MisterCreazil]

another game, if someone can do it that's great, if not I'll probably get to it sometime in the next two weeks.

http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_win_creatures2001.jpg
http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_win_creatures2002.jpg
http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_win_creatures2003.jpg

Oh yeah, good news for Hexxer, Warcraft Orcs and Humans should get here next week, from the pictures I saw the box looks in pretty decent condition as well.

[Anders]

My first attempt, John Woo's Stranglehold for the PC. More to follow.

[Hexxxer]

Nice cover Anders

[Anders]

Thanks, Hexxxer. The next one is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Nordic version). An excellent game if you have the rig to run it, btw.



And Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl.

[MisterCreazil]

Got those raws for you hexxer

http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_dos_warcraft001.jpg
http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_dos_warcraft002.jpg
http://www.thecoverproject.net/uploads/raw/MisterCreazil.retail.raw_dos_warcraft003.jpg

I've still been to busy to work on covers right now

anyone else notice how the uploaded Adm_Skywalkers three new ones, but no one elses

[Lumberjack42]

anyone else notice how the uploaded Adm_Skywalkers three new ones, but no one elses

Remember, all of the admins do this in their spare time and Adm_Skywalkers covers have been in the queue for a while now.

Lumberjack42

[MisterCreazil]

there have been several before the three that he uploaded though that didn't get posted yet.  How did his get in queue before the others?

[Doom]

There is no formal queue, it's a kinda sloppy system. Here's how it works.

You, the users, upload covers you think meet the requirements to be uploaded to TCP.

Some crazy admin actually doing his job (not me ) downloads the file and temporarily deletes the cover from the queue so that another admin doesn't try to upload it again (which would result in a dupe cover)

If it doesn't pass quality control (in the admin's opinion), it is not reuploaded and if the admin is feeling nice, he tells the user it didn't meet the requirements for x reason.

If it does, it is uploaded via FTP to thecoverproject.net/uploads/ready, as well as a thumbnail scaled proportionately to 360px wide.

Then the magic happens. The admin uses the page Snowcone sets up to "officially" upload it to the site.



Profit!