Custom video game covers with a story behind them
These are not official covers, but covers made by someone for the purpose of submitting them to IGDB.
Read the note attached to each cover for more details
Read the note attached to each cover for more details
13 Games
10 Comments
I'm only now noticing that the Stones icon looks like the guy's left arm is horrifically broken just below the wrist
Thanks for sharing the story on the Black Out cover! I never thought I'd see it referenced anywhere
Hi! Wanted to share a few that I had throughout the years of contributing :)
- The Haruhi Suzumiya Project, consisting of Gekidou, Chokuretsu, Tomadoi and Heiretsu [Chou SOS Dandanin Collection], was a personal project that I randomly started with my friend Peipara a couple of years ago, of which we re-created the covers from scratch (pícking stuff from art books and magazines ads, extracting logos from flash site files, upscaling them and trying to make them look almost identical from the ones present in the box art) and filled the pages as much of information as we could. Two covers, in particular, have some mistakes that can be unnoticeable: The actual box art of Gekidou has a silicon cover case on Haruhi's controller, while the one we made doesn't and Mikuru's hand in Heiretsu was stretched a bit so it didn't look too weird. [...]
- The Haruhi Suzumiya Project, consisting of Gekidou, Chokuretsu, Tomadoi and Heiretsu [Chou SOS Dandanin Collection], was a personal project that I randomly started with my friend Peipara a couple of years ago, of which we re-created the covers from scratch (pícking stuff from art books and magazines ads, extracting logos from flash site files, upscaling them and trying to make them look almost identical from the ones present in the box art) and filled the pages as much of information as we could. Two covers, in particular, have some mistakes that can be unnoticeable: The actual box art of Gekidou has a silicon cover case on Haruhi's controller, while the one we made doesn't and Mikuru's hand in Heiretsu was stretched a bit so it didn't look too weird. [...]
We also made assets and transparent versions of the logos for Steam and uploaded them on SteamGridDB!
- I made two covers for serial experiments lain BOOTLEG since I didn't know which I should base upon the box or the flyer that was included. Eventually, I used the one based on the box to be the main one but uploaded the one based on the flyer on the Artwork section (which should be viewable at the end of the Screenshots section at IGDB.
- I made two covers for serial experiments lain BOOTLEG since I didn't know which I should base upon the box or the flyer that was included. Eventually, I used the one based on the box to be the main one but uploaded the one based on the flyer on the Artwork section (which should be viewable at the end of the Screenshots section at IGDB.
Nice list! I've been wanting to do this too for certain games that I've reviewed/added to IGDB that lack a cover at the moment.
the "national computer museum thingy" was Datassette: https://datassette.org/
Vaudevillain
3 months ago