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[Voting] Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001448#msg1001448
« on: September 21, 2012, 05:39:37 am »
Card Flavour Text
Idea By: Various | Art By: Elements The Game

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It has been said time and time again for a little bit of a change for cards to come. This change I am speaking of is Flavour Text. Ever look at a Magic: The Gathering card and notice how it has a little bit of extra text on it? Maybe something about that creature, where it came from, its favourite snack, its shoe size. I don't know because I don't play MTG very much at all but I'm sure it's right along those lines. Well now you have the chance to come up with your own Flavour Text for Elements cards. And it is really quite easy!


Spoiler for Submission Phase Instructions:
First you need to have the cards you want to caption. That's easy enough. Just go to the card section of the forum and pick any card you want. Even if there isn't enough space on it, don't fret, I've got that covered. If you look just below these steps you will see a dark box that looks similar to the boxes found on cards. Just save that to your computer as well.

Now that you have your cards, right click it and save it to your computer. Now you can open it up in your own graphic editing tool or you can simply use this free online program: http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

As soon as you go to that link, you will have an option to open an image from your computer. If your chosen cards have too many words on it to easily add to it you will need to open that dark box you saved earlier along with your cards.

Now you just select the typing tool(It looks like a big A) and type on the card. It's best to make a new layer first.

For those of you that have to use the dark box, use the selector tool(A square made up of dashes) and select everything in the dark box window. Go up to edit, then cut, then change over to your card window and paste it on a new layer. Now you can extend the canvas(Image>Canvas Size), click on the top middle box and in the 'Height' window add 64 to that number. Now the dark box will fit comfortably under that card and you'll have room for filler text.(Just think that if this were to ever get in the game, it could be an extra pop up option or the like.)

These instructions are basically the same for most graphic editing programs. If you need any help feel free to ask!

Once your image is all fine and done, just save it(File>Save>Select .png as the type of file and name it) then upload it to any well respected image hoster. I might recommend http://www.imgur.com/

PM your submission to me when you are done with your cards.

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Rules and Requirements:
  • You must submit 3 cards with flavour text. All 3 must be submitted to me in the same PM.
  • If you wish to change one of your submission, submit 3 cards to me again, only this time with the changes you want.
  • The newest PM to me that meets all the requirements will be the one moving on to voting.
  • Your text cannot go over any other text already on the card, nor can it go outside the confines of the text box(either the card text box or the Dark Box text box). Any submission doing that will not be counted and the submitter will be asked to redo it.
  • Flavour text must be different than the card text in some way. Either italicized, a different color, or multiple differences.
  • Submissions may be serious or humourous, but must fit the Elements theme.
  • All submissions must use the below format when PMing me your submission.
  • You must have fun. This is a requirement.

Spoiler for Submission Format:
Submission Format(you must include the three images, as well as those three images within a 'Code' tag):

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[img]http://i.imgur.com/mHwsb.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/MYYHe.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/KpP3X.png[/img]


Phases:
Spoiler for Ended:
Submission Phase:
Each set of submissions will be PMed to me before the timer below is up. Any submissions posted here will not be counted in the voting phase unless they are sent to me. I encourage you to not post your submissions openly to keep any bias from who you are influencing the vote.

Voting Phase:
Voting will have one phase. Votes will be on all three submitted cards as a group, so it is important to make them all as best you can. Winner will receive a nice and shiny new forum award icon.

Voting Phase
Congratulations!

Voting
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001450#msg1001450
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 05:42:47 am »
What if I don't want to have fun? D:

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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001456#msg1001456
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 06:06:38 am »
Hmm... interesting! Time to come up with a few really nasty ideas. :-*
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001500#msg1001500
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 01:53:24 pm »
Kamietsu sama...

Is it really required to submit flavor texts in image format? I'd participate gladly but my current hardware struggles with having multiple tabs open, not to mention running a browser and a graphical application at the same time. Shameful situation for a videographician, but I'd rather not use company machines (and worktime) for such a task.

EDIT: Ahh, only 3 cards tops? Too bad, I thought I'll spam a lot of those. Than don't mind, making 3 is not so bad.

Submitted three - chosen with a SoSe.
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001563#msg1001563
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 06:35:48 pm »
Could you post an example of this "dark box" in use. I think I grasp what you're doing, but I want to make sure.
That and I'm sure some others would appreciate an example =P.
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001567#msg1001567
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2012, 06:55:24 pm »
Could you post an example of this "dark box" in use. I think I grasp what you're doing, but I want to make sure.
That and I'm sure some others would appreciate an example =P.


Just like that. Ok, not just like that. Make sure the font color can be read and you wouldn't do this on a card where you can fit all of your words in the original text box on the card, but that's how It'll look with the dark box if you need it.
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001568#msg1001568
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2012, 06:58:43 pm »
Would also be acceptable if we just posted the card without the ability?  If we stole images from the dropbox to recreate the card with flavour?

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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1001569#msg1001569
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2012, 07:05:06 pm »
Would also be acceptable if we just posted the card without the ability?  If we stole images from the dropbox to recreate the card with flavour?

I'm sorry but no. The card should retain any text that is already on it.
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1002669#msg1002669
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2012, 06:41:34 pm »
Just thought I should point out, images for most cards in the game can be found here:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,59.0.html
It was mentioned in the opening, but I thought a link might be helpful.
Not all of them have been put into individual images (e.g. some images are of the upgrade screen from bazar), but its still easier than trying to capture images from the bazar yourself.
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1003252#msg1003252
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2012, 08:11:30 pm »
Extended the deadline for Submission as there haven't been too many yet. I would like a lot more submissions. So if anyone needs any help feel free to ask me or any of the other CO's for help.
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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1003548#msg1003548
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2012, 10:51:56 pm »
Just thought I should point out, images for most cards in the game can be found here:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,59.0.html
It was mentioned in the opening, but I thought a link might be helpful.
Not all of them have been put into individual images (e.g. some images are of the upgrade screen from bazar), but its still easier than trying to capture images from the bazar yourself.


You can also use the "card" tags to get the image.

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Re: Competition: Flavour Text Revival https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43597.msg1004686#msg1004686
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