The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next - so pop out your crayons, don your creativity hat, and join in!

More information, examples, and the latest entries can be found in the Colour me, stupid! thread in our forums!

Congratulations and virtual Jelly Tots go to Tam Toucan for winning the last round with his marvellous, er, Maimed Toucanguin with Prosthetic Feet:

London, 11th of May 2010

A BIT CLOSE TO THE BONE: Zombie Cow Studios and Channel 4 offer FIRST LOOK at new game ‘Privates’, which aims to poke a little light where the sun doesn’t shine.

BRITAIN. Land of Hope and Glory-holes. Where pregnant, waddling teenagers take up the full width of the pavement with their oversized triplet pushchairs, unaware that their rampant, perpetual humping has filled them to the brim with all manner of grotty infections.

Privates is a platform twin-stick shooter in which you lead a teeny-tiny gang of condom-hatted marines as they delve into peoples’ vaginas and bottoms and blast away at all manner of oozy, shouty monsters. It’s rude, funny, bitingly satirical and technically pretty accurate if you don’t count the tiny people or the germs with teeth.

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Code: Lemmy101, Art: CaptainBinky, Design: Dave Marshall

*note: no sexy times

So, what’s been happening? Well, there’s been literally some rounds of Colour me, stupid! since we last spoke and it’s only fair to do a sort of round up of the lot of them (apart from the ones I accidentally miss out).

Colour me, stupid! is a ‘just for fun’ pixel art contest where the aim is to take the outline provided and fill it in, making something funky, unique, humourous or just downright weird in the process. The winner of the previous round provides the outline for the next.

Winner: Bignobody

Winner: Ben

Winner: RobF

Winner: Seregrail7

Winner: MarkBilly

Winner: Bignobody

So well done everyone there! Have a round of applause (please provide your own applause). So, where does that leave us? Well, there’s another outline waiting to be filled! So Join in!

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next - so pop out your crayons, don your creativity hat, and join in!

More information, examples, and the latest entries can be found in the Colour me, stupid! thread in our forums!

Hearty congratulations this time go to Seregrail7 for winning the last round with his smashing Man with tubby tummy eats Hot-Dog:

It’s all made super-fabulous by the horrific gurning mugs of myself and Lemmy, though, which utterly ruin the aesthetics of page 80.

If nothing else, this experience has taught us to always make sure you have a photo where you look cool and sexy at hand… just in case.

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next - so pop out your crayons, don your creativity hat, and join in!

More information, examples, and the latest entries can be found in the Colour me, stupid! thread in our forums!

After an outrageously short round #3 (cheers Ben!), congratulations go to Bignobody for winning the last round with his fabulous Blue Bird of Unhappiness:

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next - so pop out your crayons, don your creativity hat, and join in!

More information, examples, and the latest entries can be found in the Colour me, stupid! thread in our forums!

Congratulations to Ben for winning the last round with his Indy and Sallah lifting the Ark of Covenant entry:

The Indie Stone has been going for about a month or so now, and we’re constantly (well, not constantly, but ‘more than once’ at least) adding new tutorials on various codey and arty things, some of which you can read about below!

Code:

Game Flow and State Machines in C# / XNA - A nice and easy method to create game-flow in your XNA game. Using the provided classes you will be able to easily connect sections of your game together, from title-screens, game modes, bonus levels, credits, menus, mission flow, game logic flow etc.

Simple C#/XNA Timer system - A simple XNA timer system that allows you to easy add timed events to your game, and also is incredibly useful in creating slick animated UI elements that slide about, or change size and colour over time.

C# / XNA Design Patterns Part 1 + Part 2 - First two parts of a series of tutorials detailing some clever coding systems called ‘Design Patterns’ that are handy for lots of coding problems, starting with a primer on interface based class design, and then exploring three ‘Creational Patterns’ designed to make handling creation of objects easier and more powerful: The Singleton, The Factory Method and the Abstract Factory.

Art:

Making XBox Button Icons in Photoshop - Need UI elements for a console game? This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to make funky pad icon buttons using Photoshop’s Layer Effects.

Using Gradient Maps - Gradient Maps are among Photoshop’s trendiest features. This tutorial shows how to use them, and some of the snazzy effects which can be achieved from their use.

Avoiding Pixel Pitfalls - Making a 2D sprite-based game? This simple guide highlights some of the things you should watch out for when creating pixel art.

Head over to our forums for more tutorials and general banter!

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next - so pop out your crayons, don your creativity hat, and join in!

More information, examples, and the latest entries can be found in the Colour me, stupid! thread in our forums!

Congratulations to Revelation for winning the last round with his aliens attacking spaceship entry:

 

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