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Post by Celebes on May 24, 2019 9:34:21 GMT -5
Hoi Everybeast! Another activity proposition for ya! We all know that the Redwall Series has a global reach, and as such is localized by a myriad of publishers that each like to add a different cover to the book. What we're left with is a host of many lovely images for our favorite books in the series, both on the covers and as chapter headings. Personally, I'm unfamiliar with many of these as my libraries tend to specialize in US editions, and I find it fun to see what other countries books looked like. So, I thought I'd make a game of it. The goal of the game is to guess the book a cover goes to, an image posted by one of us. But as we live in a world now where we put even a blinkin' image in a bally search engine, it's not as simple as just putting up a virgin cover. You gotta tamper with it. Blur it, obscure the title, swap the colors, anything you want. If you're the poster, your goal is to get as few DABers to guess your cover as possible. The only catch is, you have to have at least ONE person guess your cover correctly in order to score. Otherwise, we'd all just make black boxes and call it a day. So if you're the host, you gain 1 point for every incorrect guess, but 0 points if no one gets your image. And if you're a guesser, you gain 1 point for correctly guessing an image.
A great (and free!) program for image alteration is called Krita, its what I use for all of my digital art. It allows you to distort an image every which way, more or less functioning like Photoshop. You may even be able to get away with Microsoft Paint if you are particularly creative, but its tool kit is relatively sparse.
And with that, I hope everybeastie has fun!
Scoreboard
(2) Aqua
(2) Barkfur (2) Burfle (4) Celebes (2) Isaiah
(1) Riv
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Post by Celebes on May 24, 2019 9:37:17 GMT -5
Host: Celebes Deadline: 31 May 19
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Post by Riverstream & Riana on May 25, 2019 17:36:43 GMT -5
This is a cool idea! Definitely going to get me more familiar with different styles of the book covers that I'm not familiar with. Going to send in my first guess now!
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Post by Celebes on Jun 2, 2019 11:42:20 GMT -5
Sorry for the wait, but here she be! The UK cover of Mossflower. Congrats to Burfle and Barkfur for keeping their wits about them and seeing the true cover through the fog of deception. If you have an idea for the next cover, go ahead and post it up!
Scoring
(+0) Riv (+1) Burfle (+1) Barkfur (+1) Celebes
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Post by Isaiah on Jun 3, 2019 23:35:13 GMT -5
Host: Isaiah Deadline: 10 June 19
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Post by Isaiah on Jun 12, 2019 13:27:01 GMT -5
Apologies for the wait! But here's the grand reveal: Mattimeo!
Congarats to Burfle, Barkfur, and Celebes for being master book cover connoisseurs.
Scoring (+0) Riv (+1) Burfle (+1) Barkfur (+1) Celebes (+1) Isaiah
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Post by Celebes on Jul 23, 2019 0:21:49 GMT -5
Host: Celebes Deadline: 2 Aug 19
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Post by Celebes on Aug 2, 2019 20:01:06 GMT -5
Here it is, in all it's weirdness! Besides Dinny and possibly the cat, it's rather hard to tell who anybeast in this cover is supposed to be! Congrats to Riv for seeing through the deception like a true German fan!
(+0) Isaiah (+1) Riv (+1) Celebes
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Post by Isaiah on Aug 9, 2019 0:25:29 GMT -5
Host: Isaiah Deadline: 17 Aug 19
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Post by Isaiah on Aug 13, 2019 13:03:36 GMT -5
And here is the cover! While I like this style, it's a bit too generic to really figure out which book it is at a glance.
(+0) Isaiah (+0) Riv (+0) Celebes
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Post by Celebes on Aug 25, 2019 13:30:42 GMT -5
Host: Celebes Deadline: 6 Sep 19
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Post by Celebes on Sept 7, 2019 11:06:03 GMT -5
Here we go! Another German cover. This time I tried to doctor the image a bit more to remove Cluny's signature blade tail, but you guys seemed to know who our villain was right away with the eye patch alone. I did consider removing it as well, but for whatever reason I don't readily associate the eye patch with Cluny. Great job to Isaiah and Aqua, who blasted into the competition with an amazing 100% correct guess rate!
Scoring
(+1) Aqua
(+0) Celebes
(+1) Isaiah
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Post by Isaiah on Sept 20, 2019 14:44:27 GMT -5
Hopefully this one isn't too easy... Host: Isaiah Deadline: 27 Sep 19
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Post by Isaiah on Oct 1, 2019 0:26:32 GMT -5
Well done to Celebes and Aquamarine! Perhaps the anchor was a bit too much of a giveaway? Scoring (+1) Aqua (+1) Celebes (+0) Isaiah
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