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HM3: Two prize items

Posted on June 3, 2009 | 7 comments

With thanks to Brambles and Mark Shute, I am happy to announce that I’ve just uploaded a version of ItemRightBladesTwo for the HeroMachine 3 Alpha that includes their contest winning prizes:

Mark’s stone dagger can be used either as a regular knife or, with a rotated handle, an axe head (that’s what the extra bindings are for). And those of you who have wanted a scabbard for a while have Brambles to thank for at least this first one. The cavalry sword he submitted was pretty cool looking, I think both it and Mark’s Neolithic weapon are fine additions.

Thanks to both of them and congratulations once more! If you’ve won a contest but haven’t sent me your request, make sure you do so at some point.

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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3

Random Panel: Let's just wiggle those broken limbs around some more…

Posted on June 3, 2009 | 3 comments

(from “Exciting Comics” number 20 , 1942.)

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

Character Contest 6: Animalia

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 119 comments

Your character creation challenge for this week is going to be a bit more focused than last time: you must create a character (or characters) based on the animal kingdom. That might mean a super chimpanzee, or it might mean The Battling Beaver super-hero, or it might be a space-zombie-fighting intergalactic robot horse, or it might be your take on the Beastmaster, or a fantasy ranger with his wolf companion, or or or anything else you can think of, so long as it relates in some way to an animal. The rules are the same as last time:

No editing in anything but HeroMachine (except for basic cropping or sticking a label on it or something);
Post a link to your image in the comments;
You must use a version of HeroMachine to create your image.

The winner will get to choose either one item or a caricature of their head to go in the HeroMachine 3 final version so they can serve as a model for countless legions of creative people the world over! The contest runs from now until next Tuesday, at which time a winner will be announced.

Good luck everyone, I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

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Posted in Challenges

Character Contest 5 Winners

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 39 comments

After the jump I have the winners of Character Design Contest 5: Fantasy Edition. That’s right, I said winnerS, plural; there were so many great entries (42 different individuals contributed 186 separate illustrations, which is mind-blowing) that I couldn’t decide on just one. So I’ll be showing you what I consider to be the best examples from five different categories, each of which will win either one item of their choice or a caricature of their head to be included in the HeroMachine 3 program!

Many thanks to everyone who entered; as always, if you don’t see one of yours called out here, it’s due to lack of space and not a lack of ability or creativity on your part. There’s only so much room, after all!

And now, your winners (WARNING: Lots of very large images to follow, users with slow connections beware!).

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Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges, Cool Characters

HM3: Ranged update

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 15 comments

With thanks to Violodion for pointing out the problem, I have updated the ItemRightRanged set by making the patterns and masks align properly in the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. As always, holler if the fix broke something else.

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Posted in Bug Reports & Fixes, HeroMachine 3

Random Panel: Low moments in side-kickery

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 6 comments

(From “Exciting Comics” number 20, 1942.)

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

Poll Position: Resistance is to be hoped for

Posted on June 1, 2009 | 18 comments

Much like the Los Angeles Lakers, the Borg in Star Trek come in two varieties: Pure, unadulterated, horrifying, assimilating, nasty, relentless evil and complete wusses who you still hate just on principle. To be clear, this week’s Poll Position is dealing with the former:

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Because when you’ve got a creation as creepy and awesome as The Borg, you owe it to yourself to not let them become completely emasculated, impotent weenies, and if you have to invade some other person’s much healthier (read: violent) creation to make that happen, then so be it. Discussion after the jump.

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Posted in Versus

Random Panel: It's my birthday!

Posted on June 1, 2009 | 37 comments

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

HM3: More ranged items

Posted on May 30, 2009 | 39 comments

I’ve just made the updated “ItemRightRanged” set for the HM3 Alpha available, which includes a lot of the suggestions from Solander and others, primarily in the “Thrown Items” sort of category. It also includes the prize for our first Character Contest winner, Imp, who requested:

Okay, how about this: a bow that looks like a bat – the arms would be the ‘wings’, with a kind of webbed look – sort of like a more intricate, stylized Batman symbol.

It’s the last item in the set, and here’s what the lineart looks like: