Everyone signed up should start by PMing me with a sentence. It shouldn't be incredibly long, but it can basically be as silly as you want it to be. Some good examples can be found in these chains, or these, but please don't copy those exactly.
When the game starts, each of these sentences will be sent out to a different player.
This player will have 72 hours
to portray that sentence in picture form and send me the result.
At the end of those 72 hours, the picture will be sent to a third person, who hasn't seen anything from that chain before. This person will have 48 hours to send in a sentence summarizing the picture.
Each chain will continue for 13 of these rounds: 7 sentences and 6 pictures. Chains will be posted on the wiki as they are completed.
The thread title and status will note the round number. Without some...really, really major lag, the game shouldn't continue past 13 rounds.
If you cannot meet a deadline, please notify me as soon as you've received the sentence (or picture)--or, better yet, tell me before you receive one. I will find somebody else and send it there. I will also do this automatically if you have not drawn it in 72 hours. In this way, it is possible for one player to have more than one sentence to draw (or more than one picture to summarize, or one of each) at once.
Somebody who consistently fails to meet deadlines will be kicked out of the game at my discretion. Especially somebody who doesn't announce V/LAs beforehand. So don't do that!
Picture/sentence standards:
Any drawing program--Photoshop, Flash, MS Paint--will do. Drawing pictures by hand and scanning them will also do. Making a diorama with paper cutouts and silly putty and sending a photograph of that will do. The sky is pretty much the limit here. In fact, if you can get your hands on one of those airplanes that draws pictures out of fake clouds, then the sky is literally the limit here. Hell, if you come up with a way to rearrange stars, then other planets' skies are the limit!
Having said that, please draw everything from scratch. You can use Google Images as a reference, but don't paste other people's pictures into your own.
Words are completely banned. English letters used to denote words, and codes (camel octopus dinosaur eagle snake), will also be sent back with a stern warning, although if it's relevant you can use them to portray the alphabet. Numbers and symbols and math are all fine.
Please don't intentionally mislead anybody--do the most accurate non-legalistic picture that you can. The chain will find a way to mutate anyway.
Pictures should be 800 by 600 pixels, although honestly I don't really enforce this rule very much. Photographs are best saved as JPGs; otherwise, if in doubt, you should probably save as a PNG. Do not save as a BMP under any circumstances or I'll have to ask you to reformat it before sending it onward, and nobody wants that.
Please be mindful of where you upload your pictures to. Tinypic deletes its pictures without warning, and anything uploaded to the wiki is accessible by other players. Photobucket's a good bet, if you have that, but imgur is very good as well.
When you upload, don't save it under a name that will hint at its origins. This is something else that you'll need to reformat over.
Okay, on to sentences. Keep it to one sentence and don't be too legalistic about what you are summarizing. If you don't think the picture is about the fourth wall, don't break the fourth wall.
Please don't break the site rules. Keep it reasonably safe for work.
I am one of those spirit-of-the-game type hippies. If I'm forgetting a rule, I'll let you know. You might be asked to resubmit in light of this.
Miscellaneous:
Please don't talk to other players about the sentences/pictures you got. If somebody tells you anything about a chain you haven't seen yet, please let me know.
I will note in-thread if somebody is behind.
If you haven't sent a link in within 48 hours (but not the full 72), I'll send you a prod. Other actions may be taken if you're inactive for the full round.
Have fun! If you aren't having fun, you should talk to me about it, and I'll do my best to find you a replacement. You can also talk to me when you are having fun, of course.
Last edited by Xalxe on Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:39 am, edited 1 time in total.
Are you keeping the 72 hours rule for sentence rounds that don't need any catchup art?
Probably shorten it to 48 actually, forgot to put that in.
"I, too, would prefer to know the Xalxe of my demise." - Felissan, 2022
- On this day in history: mundanity, and terror, and food, and love, and trees -
/in, but I won't be able to supply any pictures until I get internet back, which may not be until the 15th. If that's a problem, I'll /in for replacing instead
In post 9, Robotnick2 wrote:/in, but I won't be able to supply any pictures until I get internet back, which may not be until the 15th. If that's a problem, I'll /in for replacing instead
Considering that is within the first round, I'll put you on the replacement list.
In post 9, Robotnick2 wrote:/in, but I won't be able to supply any pictures until I get internet back, which may not be until the 15th. If that's a problem, I'll /in for replacing instead
Considering that is within the first round, I'll put you on the replacement list.
Actually, going out on a limb, put me as /in full time. Should be able to wiggle a picture or two in. Promise
I was going to do a simple one, but then changed my mind, where's the fun in sentences that make perfect sense?
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
Paraphrasing a role PM takes seconds, fabricating a good fakeclaim takes an eternity.
"Metadiving DGB is like playing Roblox" - T3
"She's sort of like a quantum computer, her reads exist in multiple states at once. u have to take into account the other dimensions." - Morning Tweet
Paint.NET appears to be terrible so far and Windows 7's Paint is confirmed to be so terrible that it's not even internally consistent in its terribleness. Why can I use the eraser trick to replace some colors but not others? What the hell?
As I move my vote
Towards your wagon, town is taking note
It fills my head up and gets louder and
I know what you mean Ether -_- Windows 7 screwed Paint up so bad, I actually switched to Photoshop. I hate Photoshop, complicated things to do uncomplicated stuff, it's ridiculous!
