indiegames
February 28th, 2010, 18:20
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/thumb160x_nintycereal.jpgLast week a box of 22-year-old cereal sold for more than $200 on eBay (http://kotaku.com/5476743/box-of-cereal-old-enough-to-drink-legally-and-vote-sold-for-200). Video game cereals died in the 8-bit era. Since then there have been four console generations - and zero cereal systems. That's where you come in.
This week's assignment: Create a game-themed cereal box whose crossover is just as cynical, whose contents are half as nutritious, and whose lifespan would be even shorter-lived than the Nintendo Cereal System of 1988. Considering the hundreds of games we've seen since then, this is the most open-ended 'Shop Contest topic to date. But don't be limited by that timeframe. If you want to do some Frosted Mini-Fairchild Channel F Wheats, have at it.
Your source material is basically infinite, but here is a very good site to get you started:
Cereal Box Covers at Cover Browser (http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/cereal-boxes)
There are some 850 cereal box covers spanning the history of 20th century breakfast at that link.
I am honestly expecting no fewer that four dozen Team Fortress 2 submissions, and at least one Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Cereal of the Official Game of the Movie. Get cracking! We'll round up the 20 best next week.
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kotaku/full/~4/7dCfuuNXBUg
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/7dCfuuNXBUg/kotaku-shop-contest-next+gen-cereal-system-edition)
This week's assignment: Create a game-themed cereal box whose crossover is just as cynical, whose contents are half as nutritious, and whose lifespan would be even shorter-lived than the Nintendo Cereal System of 1988. Considering the hundreds of games we've seen since then, this is the most open-ended 'Shop Contest topic to date. But don't be limited by that timeframe. If you want to do some Frosted Mini-Fairchild Channel F Wheats, have at it.
Your source material is basically infinite, but here is a very good site to get you started:
Cereal Box Covers at Cover Browser (http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/cereal-boxes)
There are some 850 cereal box covers spanning the history of 20th century breakfast at that link.
I am honestly expecting no fewer that four dozen Team Fortress 2 submissions, and at least one Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Cereal of the Official Game of the Movie. Get cracking! We'll round up the 20 best next week.
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=7dCfuuNXBUg:EY8Qvy0umqo:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kotaku/full/~4/7dCfuuNXBUg
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/7dCfuuNXBUg/kotaku-shop-contest-next+gen-cereal-system-edition)