The bad boxart gallery

[egparadigm]

This is my attempt at what I would have liked to have seen:



Could maybe add a few transparencies or lightened around the edges, and changed text size/location, but pretty much what I had hoped for. Might not be obvious enough on shop shelves, though.

[JP]

That's a lot better than theirs lol. A little flat though I think?

Do we have a cover art thread on here? I used to do loads for games, CDs and DVDs some time ago. Are we allowed to start a thread for stuff like that on NTSC?

[egparadigm]

That's a lot better than theirs lol. A little flat though I think?

Yeah, I would have added some nice effects if I was practiced at using GIMP. I find it so confusing, cos I'm used to photoshop.

[112]

Out of curiosity why is it called Orange box? Or am i missing a major plot here lol

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[vanpeebles]

Gabe Newell loves Terrys Chocolate Oranges so much that he often eats over 15 of them a day. He named the Orange Box in honour the chocolate.

[112]

Gabe Newell loves Terrys Chocolate Oranges so much that he often eats over 15 of them a day. He named the Orange Box in honour the chocolate.

Are you serious?!

In that case ima name my next building Jaffa cakes!

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[Strolls]

Out of curiosity why is it called Orange box? Or am i missing a major plot here lol

When they originally announced it they planned also release a "Black Box" at the same time - I think the Black Box was to be just the new games, the Orange Box to include the remakes.

Presumably the idea was to have the two versions distinguished by their packaging - maybe the cheap version in a regular DVD case and the special edition in an orange (gold?) case, or something? But I have Googled this myself & not found any confirmation.

Stroller.

[JP]

The original HL had an orange box and orange was the colour of the Lamda logo from what I remember?

HL has always just been orange...apart from Blue Shift which for obvious reasons wasn't orange!

[112]

Its a conspiracy is all i can say!

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[kingmonkey]

I actually made a couple of customs for the game as the artwork is so poor on the official release

I went with the first one

[Dogg Thang]

This is a lo-res render and just a mock-up but here's mine.

[JP]

I've been asking the mods about starting a custom artwork thread on here and although they are checking to make sure it looks like we'll be able to do it!

[Dogg Thang]

Cool. Well if anyone wants a hi-res version of my Orange Box cover just let me know and I'll see if I can get round to it at some stage.

[Malc]

Cool. Well if anyone wants a hi-res version of my Orange Box cover just let me know and I'll see if I can get round to it at some stage.

Dogg, I need one of those hi-res version of your cover ASAP!


Simply brilliant designing there.

[Lyris]

I've been asking the mods about starting a custom artwork thread on here and although they are checking to make sure it looks like we'll be able to do it!

Wooh Can't wait! I haven't done a custom cover in over a year.