Picture Wars: Spriting towards the Heavens

[Astrella]

Picture Wars is a spriting community that creates small-scaled sprites using primarily humble MS-paint for use in various turn-based forum games. It takes many forms, featuring ground-shaking battles, heroic quests, unimaginable acts of bravery and deep despair.

In a basic PW-game, the various players take turns, taking action with their characters, by editing the existing game picture. The most important thing to remember is that PW is in no means a competition. It's more of a sandbox format, a means of telling a story in pixelated ways.

It's also an ideal way to express ideas in spriting itself. Basically everything imaginable can be a PW-army, the possibilities are endless.

Some examples:
Made by Mirokan
http://filesmelt.com/dl/Skinks10.PNG
Warhammer Skinks

http://filesmelt.com/dl/TF2.PNG
Team Fortress 2

http://filesmelt.com/dl/Uruk_Hai15.PNG
Uruk-Hai

Made by Sirroelivan
http://filesmelt.com/dl/Aliens10.png
Bug Aliens

http://filesmelt.com/dl/Mario4.png
A Mario-styled army

Made by Squidbot (a.k.a. The_Squid)
http://filesmelt.com/downloader/Army_Showcase1.PNG
Infantry from different armies

Made by Lizzrd
http://filesmelt.com/dl/NileCroc_Pirates8.png
Nilecroc Pirates

http://filesmelt.com/dl/Mushkin5.png
Mushkins

Made by various
http://filesmelt.com/downloader/Vehicle_Showcase.PNG
Vehicles from different armies

http://filesmelt.com/downloader/Space_Showcase.PNG
Various Spaceships

If you want to have a glance of what PW now actually is, I suggest you have a look at this recently started match (http://picturewars.freeforums.org/wwi-the-siege-of-st-petersburg-t787.html).

The Picture Wars community forums can be found here (http://picturewars.freeforums.org/).

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to direct them to me.

[babeeroniea]

thats a fun looking game i should try doing it. But all of the images dont show up on the forum they all just say image other than a few that do show up.

[Astrella]

Yeah it's a known problem. You see, most of us use Filesmelt to upload their images, but Filesmelt has been having some problems and lots of downtime lately, so any reasonably old images won't show up properly most of the time.

[babeeroniea]

thanks much. What I saw was nice however.