Topic: July 2017 Castlevania Dungeon Sprite Contest

[Shiroi Koumori]

Deadline for submissions: July 27th (11:59 PM PST)
Judgement: by tribunal and popular vote from July 27th to July 31st at midnight and Winners announced on August (whenever the all judges are done)

Volunteer Judges:

Theme: Design a Relic (must not look too similar to the ones used in CV)
Prizes: Award medals for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.

Guidelines for Participants:
-Provide your sprite in 1x and 2x zoom at least if your sprite is small. (High resolutions sprites need not have a 2x version)
-Contestants can post as many entries as they want and may update their entries freely before the submission deadline.
-You may withdraw any entry at any time before the judgement begins.
-Here's a list of Relics used in several Castlevania titles.

Guidelines for Judges:
-Judgement will use a point system.
-4 points awarded for your first place choice.
-2 points awarded for your second place choice.
-1 point for your third place choice.
-When posting your scores write up an explanation/critique of your judgement.
-Additional rounds of judgement will be used for tie breakers.
-Judges cannot participate in the contest.
-There will be a poll to vote for the most popular sprite and this popular vote would serve as an extra judge.

Entries:
theplottwist's Relics for Adults (2nd place)

Descriptions:

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Common Calculator:
Prized for its ability to assist on fighting one of the vampire hunter's most dangerous foes: the bills.

Blue Thermos:
Keeps warm a fluid that is very important for a seasoned vampire hunter's focus.

Cheap Microwave:
Mysterious device that can heat Wall Meat on the fly. Useless without a power source, however.

Modern Mobile:
Slightly older than the most current version. Renders maps and newspapers superfluous with its mystifying powers.

CleanerMAX 2000:
Makes the vampire hunter's daily battle with dried grease that much easier.

Lelygax's Graveyard Duck (1st place)

Description:

(click to show/hide)

Graveyard Duck
Recovers HP while ducking. Used to have a silk bag.

[theplottwist]

Relics for Adults:


From left to right:

Common Calculator:
Prized for its ability to assist on fighting one of the vampire hunter's most dangerous foes: the bills.

Blue Thermos:
Keeps warm a fluid that is very important for a seasoned vampire hunter's focus.

Cheap Microwave:
Mysterious device that can heat Wall Meat on the fly. Useless without a power source, however.

Modern Mobile:
Slightly older than the most current version. Renders maps and newspapers superfluous with its mystifying powers.

CleanerMAX 2000:
Makes the vampire hunter's daily battle with dried grease that much easier.

[Lelygax]

Woah, a modern mobile! Vampires will become jealous since they have an old Nokia cellphone xD

[Shiroi Koumori]

Woah, a modern mobile! Vampires will become jealous since they have an old Nokia cellphone xD

The revived 3310 is out in the market!

[theANdROId]

Relics?  As in, "The Eye/Rib/Nail of Vlad, Cube of Zoe, Bat/Mist/Wolf Orbs" and items that otherwise provide new abilities, etc.?

[Shiroi Koumori]

Relics?  As in, "The Eye/Rib/Nail of Vlad, Cube of Zoe, Bat/Mist/Wolf Orbs" and items that otherwise provide new abilities, etc.?

Yup. But make your own. Of course the explanations should be your own too. Punny ones are totally OK. This forum loves puns.

[Lelygax]

Graveyard Duck
Recovers HP while ducking. Used to have a silk bag.

Felt inspired today and tried doing something, I really don't know how I finished this without looking at a duck for reference 
I think everyone will get the joke.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Cool duck!

Anyway, today is the last day to submit your entries.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Alright the contest is closed.
Please vote for the winner and help me think of the next possible contest topic.

[Lelygax]

Alright the contest is closed.
Please vote for the winner and help me think of the next possible contest topic.

What about Dracula's incarnation sprite contest? (in human form)
Or "Design your own sub-weapon". Design your own villain? Design your own Dark Lord candidate?

[Shiroi Koumori]

@Lelygax: Cool! Since you are already winning, choose one among all of your suggestions for the next contest.

[Lelygax]

@Lelygax: Cool! Since you are already winning, choose one among all of your suggestions for the next contest.

Heh, but I won't have won yet! xD
IF I win, I would like to see a Dracula's Incarnation contest or a new Dark Lord Candidate. Feel free to select from one of these two the way you see fit (if you can mix both into one some way, its even better). The important part is it being humanoid, so while it can have some special vampiric traits like Olrox or Brauner, it needs to be have resemblance to a human, no giant demonic form or something like that (unless the artist really wants to draw it as a bonus).

[Shiroi Koumori]

Heh, but I won't have won yet! xD
IF I win, I would like to see a Dracula's Incarnation contest or a new Dark Lord Candidate. Feel free to select from one of these two the way you see fit (if you can mix both into one some way, its even better). The important part is it being humanoid, so while it can have some special vampiric traits like Olrox or Brauner, it needs to be have resemblance to a human, no giant demonic form or something like that (unless the artist really wants to draw it as a bonus).

hehe. I'm just rooting for the duck to win, because castlevania reasons.

Hmmm... I'll think of a way to mix both, maybe.

[theANdROId]

It's a neat idea.  We did the one before about Drac's final form.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Congrats to Lelygax and theplottwist, for winning 1st and 2nd place respectively.
Please await the official posting of the next contest this weekend.