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[TheDR]

This is Fallout Studios' brand new competition, ScreenShot Of The Month or SSOTM.

It works just like the SOTW or Modelling Contest, but you submit screens from any game which comply with the month's theme.
Each month we will have a different theme for the screenshots. For example it could be Best HeadShot, Lame Moments or most freakish,
later on we may take some theme examples from the Fallout Studios Community.
At the end of the month a vote will go up and the Fallout Studios community will vote on their favorite screenshot and we will award 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
2nd and 3rd just get a medal, 1st place however will win a a steam gift or online retail up to £12 GBP, so that should be a real incentive to get your epic game screenshots in!



This weeks theme is the Epic Death Moments! (Look Below for more detail).

The Deadline for entries is Monday, 31th August 2009. Midnight UTC+1.

The Rules

• Minium size of 800x600 and max of 1280x1064.
  
• The screenshot must be made by you and be recent, if we suspect otherwise with your entry it could be pulled from the competition.
  
• You can change your Screenshot three times per competition.
  
• You can only enter one Screenshot.
  
• To enter the competition, please post a direct link (not the image) to your screenshot in this thread.
  
• Your entry will not be accepted if the rules are not followed.
  
• Upload your entry to an image hosting site such as Imageshack or Photobucket.

If you have any questions, please PM them directly to myself or AJ, or post them in this thread.

The Entries

Amdrial:


Mr Kim:


Sgt Rho:


ultra1437:


MentalAss:


Wizard:


Commander Carl:


Pav3d:


Drag#!:


Liten:


Gabriel Angelos:


Dauth:


Jordan:


Rich:


AJ:


Ion Cannon!:


TehKiller:


Mbob61:

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More Detail of the Theme Epic Death Moments!
To have your entry submitted keep it to the theme, this month's would include flying bodies on TF2 or perhaps the last man alive on L4D when only seconds from a grizzly zombie-related death. Don't think its limited to FPS' either! Did you just wipe out the whole of the attack force on DOW or C&C? Are there bodies and vehicle trash everywhere? Then of course its an able candidate for the competition!
All entries will be looked at by a few others and I to see if they are able candidates for the theme, but as long as they have some kind of relation to the theme (even if rather small) they should go into the vote.

Edited by TheDR, 02 September 2009 - 16:04.

[Brad]

Nice to see another competition! And with a cash prize you can be sure of many entries

[Amdrial]

My not so epic entry. I will probably change it later on if I feel like it.


On a completely unrelated note:

Edited by Amdrial, 03 August 2009 - 07:06.

[Camille]

uh oh, money = trouble.

nice contest though.

[Jordan]

Is it okay if the screenshot is from a mod?

[TheDR]

Jordan, on 2 Aug 2009, 0:55, said:

Is it okay if the screenshot is from a mod?

Sure, as long its an epic death moment.

[Hobbesy]

Isn't this contest a bit unbalanced?

I mean, I could just whip up a Lua script for Gmod or Cortex Command that drops nukes on everything currently in the map and take a screen of it, insuring a victory while everyone else has to wait for a random event that may not even happen.

Edited by Høbbesy, 03 August 2009 - 05:11.

[Wizard]

Unless everyone thinks that your

Høbbesy, on 3 Aug 2009, 4:52, said:

Lua script for Gmod or Cortex Command that drops nukes on everything

is shit and doesn't vote for you.

Really is this something we need to bring in the "b" word for? It's a bit of fun.

[Libains]

Personally I'm hoping for more creativity/oneoffs from people for this - I did have a rather nice idea about using the bolter-thingy from FEAR and having bodies hanging all over the place, or writing a word in Hitman with dead naked bodies. It's fun, cool, original stuff people will likely look for, so overkill likely won't get rated very highly.

[Ixonoclast]

Wish I could use Oblivion or FO3 now...

God some awesome ideas involving MMM on hard.

[TehKiller]

I just remember a uber scene in CoH...now reading the rules i got somewhat confused because i dont got the screenshot but i do however got the replay (DrugKoala can confirm its my rep). Questions are: 1. Are RTSes allowed,2. am i allowed to use a replay to make the screenie

[RaiDK]

Quote

Minium size of 800x600 and max of 1280x1064.

If the game runs at a resolution lower than this, are we allowed to resize it so it's above the minimum size?

Totally gonna win this one.

[Wizard]

TehKiller, on 3 Aug 2009, 14:13, said:

I just remember a uber scene in CoH...now reading the rules i got somewhat confused because i dont got the screenshot but i do however got the replay (DrugKoala can confirm its my rep). Questions are: 1. Are RTSes allowed,2. am i allowed to use a replay to make the screenie

1/ Yes
2/ Yes

[Libains]

RaiDK, on 3 Aug 2009, 14:21, said:

Quote

Minium size of 800x600 and max of 1280x1064.

If the game runs at a resolution lower than this, are we allowed to resize it so it's above the minimum size?

Totally gonna win this one.

Yes, of course. This isn't a restriction for competition purposes, more to prevent people from posting massive screens tbh. Feel free to resize any image you like!

[MentalAss]

I have a question, how recent is "recent"? Would a screenshot from a year back be out of contention?

[MR.Kim]

Here is my entry.

Edited by MR.Kim, 05 August 2009 - 19:25.

[Sgt. Rho]

My entry. If you don't get it: It looks as if the thing in middle would be born out of the huge ship

[Wizard]

Some nice entries guys. Keep em coming.

BTW I've added this to the website.

[Dauth]

Rho

This weeks theme is the Epic Death Moments! (Look Below for more detail).

I'm not sure your entry fits mate

[Sgt. Rho]

Oh shi- Didn't see it...I'll remove it then, and get a different screenshot...

Here:



I guess someones base eating 35 Wolverine tactical nuclear cruise missiles is Epic enough, right?

[Libains]

It's OK Rho, no harm, no foul

First post updated, glad to see a few entries, looking for many more too guys

[CJ]

Hey I see 2 screenies that should be scaled down :
Admiral's one which is 1680*1050 and Mr Kim's one which is 1440*900

*Returns searching in his cave for some worthy screenshots*

[ultra1437]

I got a screenie for ya guys.

Here

I just took it.

[MentalAss]

Well here's mine, this is what happens when I'm bored in Company of Heroes

[Wizard]

Here's mine. It's a little bit graphic, but it's not real

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa207/w...sotm_entry1.png