The bad boxart gallery

[JP]

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.

I think one of us must be colour blind, it's a lovely cover and everything but when I open it all I see is this:

[egparadigm]

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

That first one's really professional looking!

If you could maybe put that image behind the orange cover... That was what I was sorta thinking of when I referred to transparencies.

I guess the only problem (with mine, too) is that it's not obvious that it includes Portal and TF2.

[Dogg Thang]

I think one of us must be colour blind, it's a lovely cover and everything but when I open it all I see is this:

No, I don't think you're colour blind. What you posted looks spot-on to me.

[Ady]

I like monomanicpat's Orange Box the best. Stylish and to the point (and exactly what I would've done!).

The only additions I'd make to his design would be an orange case (as opposed to green), and a limited edition with a cardboard sleeve and embossed logo.

[Spatial]

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.

Funny story, but on a well known US gaming forum a gag about `Gabe Newell loving the choc*` got someone banned.

It really did.

And people say we're uptight

*not the actual joke used, all they did was photoshop him on to a picture the Italian event where they made PS3 out of chocolates.

[dogen]

Nice and clean. The description on the bottom however needs one slight adjustment, like so.

'Featuring: Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal and delicious cake'

[JP]

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

Over a year doesn't sound too bad Lyris, it seems that your templates take 12 months each so I'm not surprised it takes over a year for the actual covers!

At a curiously systematic rate of one-per-year, I've been churning out these cover art templates.

Surely we are all due a follow up to your Jet Grind Radio by now?

EDIT:
If it's been agreed by the mods that we can we have one can these be moved to a Custom Cover thread as it seems to have got a life all of it's own now...not my fault, honestly!

[dogen]

EDIT:
If it's been agreed by the mods that we can we have one can these be moved to a Custom Cover thread as it seems to have got a life all of it's own now...not my fault, honestly!

Sounds like a good idea, providing people post hi-res covers suitable for print.

[Spatial]

Now that's sorted here's a bad 'un

[Kieran76]

Is JinJin a Billy Connelly simulator?

[bingowings]

??

(the font doesn't match, but i refuse to use Impact)

[JP]

Is JinJin a Billy Connelly simulator?

[JP]

We have a NTSC-UK Custom Covers thread now so post your covers up there if you want!

Make sure you read the rules for that thread first though.

[Spatial]

Shovelware comes up with the good again





I'm sure she does.

[ChrisF]

I'm sure she does.

Pole Dancing ftw?!