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[Albert]

/features/MentalKombat/Time to fire up your favorite drawing program again! Since it worked so well the first time around, we figured it was time for another label contest. The subject this time is Simon Quernhorst's Mental Kombat. Mental Kombat is a two player puzzle game based on a concept originally developed by Simon and a friend for the Commodore 64. As with our first label contest, the winner of this contest will receive the first copy of Mental Kombat, numbered #01 and signed by Simon. For more information about the contest and how to enter, please check out the Mental Kombat Label Contest Page. Good luck!

[krisjohn]

Are there GIF versions of the screen grabs, or a .BIN around somewhere? The JPGs just aren't clean enough to work from.

[Cybergoth]

Best wishes to you Simon.

Hope you receive as high-class entries as I did.

I surely won't submitt an entry though...

(Guess why I started a conntest to find a label for my game... )

Say, do you need anyone to playtest the BIN? I'd do a top-secret & secure job in case

Greetings,
Manuel

[Simon]

I will take some non-loss screenshots (.bmp) of the game and mail them to Al. He'll post them on the MK-development page afterwards...

I'm looking forward to all entries for this label-contest and hope to be able to finish the binary of MK within december.

BTW: This is my first post to this messsage-board. Posting this message just brought back memories of calling the C64-BBSes back then using my 2400 Bits/second-modem... ;-)

[liveinabin]

can I play?

[Bob Mackey]

I'm working on an entry as we speak. Hope you like it! Is it all right if I send it to you as a PCX file?

[Albert]

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Originally posted by Bob Mackey:
I'm working on an entry as we speak. Hope you like it! Is it all right if I send it to you as a PCX file?

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Yep, PCX will be fine. Look forward to seeing your entry.

..Al

[ATARIPITBULL]

I loved doing the Gunfight label, and now with what I learned from that I now I will do better!!.

[krisjohn]

Any have the font that the red labels use for "2600"? Anyone know what it's called?

[Albert]

The first three contest entries have now been posted:

- Chris Johnson - Submission #1
- Chris Johnson - Submission #2
- Eric Edvalson

We're off to a great start! If I had some artistic talent I'd try my hand at creating a label.

..Al

[sway3]

Those three look GREAT!

Awesome job so far!

[liquid_sky]

i have little talent so im not gonna submit but i have an idea if anyone wants to use it.. 2 mentally disabled people in a fight.. and on the back of one of ems orange straightjacket have it say MENTAL COMBAT in army style font

[moycon]

All entries look great, so far my favorite is Chris Johnson - #2 But the contest is still young. Way to go guys!!

[Simon]

Wow! The first three entries are great! I really liked that idea with the brains in the bottles. :-)

My worst nightmare seems to come true: choosing the winner out of all the amazing entries... ;-)

BTW: Is someone able to supply me with a Supercharger or something else to test the binary on a real machine? I want to see it myself on the real 2600 when the game works perfect in z26. I'm told that some bugs may only appear on the original machine. Please contact me via eMail. Thanks!

Simon Quernhorst

http://www.quernhorst.de/atari/

[Bob Mackey]

Unfortunately, I'm using software that's around 7 years old. But that's not going to stop me! The only real trouble I'm having is doing the fonts, but I figure I can find a way to conquer that...

I've been wondering, what resolution should the images we send you be?

[krisjohn]

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Originally posted by Bob Mackey:
Unfortunately, I'm using software that's around 7 years old.

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I hadn't realised, but I'm using Photoshop 3, which would be 6 years old by now. How time flies.

[MattyXB]

I have use Paint from Windows. I hope my Lable and Endlable are arrived here. But I think I have not much chance, because the most of you have more talent then I.

Matthias

[Atarinvader]

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Originally posted by Chris Johnson:
Any have the font that the red labels use for "2600"? Anyone know what it's called?

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SF Atarian System

[Albert]

Just added four new label submissions to the Mental Kombat Contest Page. Here they are for your viewing pleasure:

- Jason Parlee - Submission #1
- Jason Parlee - Submission #2
- Matthias David
- Brett Gladson

..Al

[moycon]

WOW Jason Parlee - #1 IS AWESOME!!!

[Albert]

I just posted uncompressed Mental Kombat screenshots to the game's In Development page. For those of you who are looking to use one of these screenshots in your label, now you have cleaner versions. Thanks to Simon for sending them to me.

..Al

[Albert]

Two more entries added. I can't imagine how many there will be by the time December 18th rolls around.

- Jason Parlee - Submission #3
- Jason Parlee - Submission #4

Enjoy!

..Al

[sway3]

I know it is none of my business, but my favorite so far is Jason Parlee #3.

They are all damn awesome!

[krisjohn]

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Originally posted by atarinvader:
SF Atarian System

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Thanks, that led me to some really interesting game fonts, but the numbers don't match the big 2600 on the top of the main label. Anyone else able to throw up a font name?

[Lemmi]

OMG OMG i would buy this game just for this label

The movie Scanners was the first movie to ever freak me out when i was a kid

2 Thumbs up on this label
http://www.atariage....onParlee_4.html