your suggestions: how should the games cover look like?

[LadyH]

They started a thread in the german section.
http://forum.sunflowers.de/showthread.php?s=&threadid=932

what are your suggestions about the package of the game?
how should it look like?

i like to play with my graphics program
so take a look at my suggestion for the cover (http://www.ladygames.de/koh/covertest.jpg)

[Havoc]

a castle under siege

[Rnett]

I think it is a marketing issue, but I like your cover anyway. :go: Nice work:hello: :hello: :hello:

[Havoc]

Originally posted by Rnett
I think it is a marketing issue, but I like your cover anyway. :go: Nice work:hello: :hello: :hello:
well if you put it that way then maby it should be super(uber) duper like a realy bigg battle or some thing thats realy cool but not nececerly in the game like(a panzer killing knights)
:D j/k:D

[hawk_knight]

Nice work LadyH :go:

[Heretic]

As an artist I can say it is a pretty cover.
But I hope I will not pall to everybody here,but eee...I would like to see horses on the cover...:D :cheers:

[hulkster225]

I think there should be a close up of a knight, or group of knights in armor riding their horses.

[timurlenk]

Originally posted by hulkster225
I think there should be a close up of a knight, or group of knights in armor riding their horses.


the most important is to look different to other games. sounds easy, but isnt it - obviously.

different can be:
size
shape
graphic design (pictures, font, etc.)
smell :D
material (e.g. strucure of the box)

please not "more of the same"...


for am mediaeval game i prefer mediaeval design. well, no wooden chest, but maybe in shape and graphic design - maybe i will specify it more detailled another day...

[Duke of Shropshire]

Originally posted by timurlenk
the most important is to look different to other games. sounds easy, but isnt it - obviously.

different can be:
size
shape
graphic design (pictures, font, etc.)
smell :D
material (e.g. strucure of the box)

please not "more of the same"...


for am mediaeval game i prefer mediaeval design. well, no wooden chest, but maybe in shape and graphic design - maybe i will specify it more detailled another day...

I agree...I would also see something of artistic and not Computer graphic. I mean ...I like computer graphic on cover (your cover Lady is wonderfull ) but I would prefer something more prestigious...more antique and just beauifull like...like...like a great old book ....I would love it.

God guide your hands! ;)

[LadyH]

:go: great ideas over here
horses will be cool
i like old book style too

go on ... more of this great ideas :)

[Duke of Shropshire]

Originally posted by LadyH
:go: great ideas over here
horses will be cool
i like old book style too

go on ... more of this great ideas :)

Thx dear and honorable Lady... :P
I think that a PC game could be also a good looking box to expose in my castle! :D
...maybe between my old books collection! :)

The Duke.

[hulkster225]

I don't think it needs to be "medieval" looking or anything fancy like that. I just think they need to do a good job on the artwork for the cover.

[HexHammer]

A bunch of kngihts who stands and fight, 1 kngiht break formation and get swarmed, getting dragged down by polearms.

In background, there should be a siege, camera angle from the parapet, watching how soldiers scale the ladder other places, sigetowers land the men, storming out.

[Elewyn]

I wil prefere more a king standing on a hill and observing a battle. It's not battle simulation like M:TW, but more kingdom strategy, so something which includes it too. Like his vassal on his knees infront of king on a throne/a horse offering his daughter to him. And as background there can be great siege with towers etc.

[fallen_saint]

i like your idea elewyn and perhapsa defeated castle behind the siege with smoke coming up in the air and a flag being raised up.

[Angryminer]

...a horse offering his daughter to himMaybe you should edit this a bit to make clear what you meant ;) .

Angryminer

[timurlenk]

her some examples of examples of mediaeval graphic style.
they show style, not content!

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9552301/mediaeval/039_chiavenna_klein.jpg

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9552301/mediaeval/kmp.ht3.jpg

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9552301/mediaeval/picc1x.jpg

i repeat: please not more of the same (@ hulkster :D ) but a unique artwork! create the one box, that catchs the eyes at first...


the questions are: which game artwork do you remember? which artwork called your attention? which artwork caused you to look at a game and buy it?

[Heretic]

Hm,if I know how to put drawing into the some site,I could fantasize how it can look like and draw it...:rolleye:
Drawings of Middle ages can be background of the cover,but I think it have to be composed with not-authentic detalis (like scenes from the game,knights drawn by computer or some like this)
It is a good thread,very important,so thanks,LadyH!;)

[Elewyn]

You're right, timurlenk and Heretic.

The cover must tie your eyes to it. Maybe some medieval drawing can do it...

to correct my suggestion before..

a kïng sitting on a horse or on a throne and offering his daughter to some other king or knight with battle in background. Maybe it can be all drawn in medieval style? ;)


...or why not let KoH team to use their own imagination? :D

[the_holy_knight]

Maybe a bit of that French tapestry thing forgot the name (something like bayeaux tapestry) :blush: thats depicts the battle of hastings and other things in french history! If that's not authentic then what is???