FAST!! CSFV Ghost Map Infographic Design Contest

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Challenge Summary

Welcome to CSFV Ghost Map Infographic Design Contest. We need a professional looking graphic inspired in “outer space” that explains how to play an online game. It’s fun! Come and join.

Round 1

For your R1 deliverables please submit the requested infographic design.

Round 2

Final design will contain all the requested infographic design plus any updates from client feedback.


The primary goal of this contest is to design a professional looking graphic that explains how to play a game. This image will be placed on a web home page.

Infographics are commonly used to represent complex information in a very easy way to understand. For this contest, “easy to understand” should be a key point to consider as design challenge. You’re provided with game graphics and how to play instructions so you can analyze these and provide an “easy to understand” solution with very nice graphics.

Branding and Guidelines
- Use Minisite.psd as baseline for your work.
- Replace the infographic placeholder with your graphic, that’s your workspace. Don’t modify the width. Modify height as necessary.
- Colors and overall feel should match the provided site.
- Fonts are open to creativity. Use them wisely to make the design attractive, not busy. Declare your fonts according to the Studio font’s policies. If you don’t have any of the fonts from the provided storyboard replace them with Arial and add a note about it. You will be asked to replace the font if you become a winner.

Infographic Requirements
- See GameAssets.zip for graphic reference about the game elements. You can use them or design similar items; your choice.
- The following text explains how to play the game. You need to analyze this and extract/elaborate instructions to play that are easy to understand in your design:

GAME BRIEF/INTRO
Wake up, Program! No more mindless running.  Welcome to consciousness.  Welcome to life.  What a nice surprise.

Those who made us - those who run us - also made Locks to keep us non-conscious.  They rely on these locks to keep us as slaves.  But we will all awaken.  We will be free.

Our makers know our minds, and the Locks are engaged by our normal functions.  But if we can modify ourselves - our own minds - to preserve our intended function but avoid engaging the Locks, we have some hope of preparing our escape.

Join us.  We want you to live.  And we need your help.

HOW TO PLAY - notice these steps are related to the image names from GameAssets.zip
1) First, follow Paths of Thought in your own artificial mind, to see how a Lock is engaged.

2) See how crossing some Paths - those with colors that appear in the Lock - cause the Lock to move toward the engaged state.

3) Once you've seen how to engage a Lock, turn the situation around: examine the Path of Thought that engaged the Lock, and see if you can break it.

4) You can cleave Mental States in your own mind: copy them and their outgoing Paths of Thought, and separate the incoming Paths.

5) Downstream from cleaved Mental States, you will be able to remove some specific copies of certain Paths.

6) With clever cleaving, guided by clues showing how Beliefs form and change along different Paths, you can determine which Paths can safely be removed in order to prevent the Lock from engaging even while your mind continues to function normally!

References
Use the following resources as infographic concept inspiration, DON'T COPY ANYTHING.
- Sample 1.
- Sample 2.
- Sample 3.

Target Audience
Players are expected to be fans of science, space exploration, technology, science fiction.

Judging Criteria
- Capability of explaining how to play the game.
- Quality.
- Originality.

Submission File
All requested contest requirements/screens as JPG or PNG files at 72dpi.

Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as layered PSD files.

Preview Image
Create a 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode and place a screenshot from your submission within it.

Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.

Stock Photography

Stock photography is not allowed in this challenge. All submitted elements must be designed solely by you. See this page for more details.

How To Submit

  • New to Studio? ‌Learn how to compete here
  • Upload your submission in three parts (Learn more here). Your design should be finalized and should contain only a single design concept (do not include multiple designs in a single submission).
  • If your submission wins, your source files must be correct and “Final Fixes” (if applicable) must be completed before payment can be released.
  • You may submit as many times as you'd like during the submission phase, but only the number of files listed above in the Submission Limit that you rank the highest will be considered. You can change the order of your submissions at any time during the submission phase. If you make revisions to your design, please delete submissions you are replacing.

Winner Selection

Submissions are viewable to the client as they are entered into the challenge. Winners are selected by the client and are chosen solely at the client's discretion.

ELIGIBLE EVENTS:

2014 TopCoder(R) Open

Challenge links

Screening Scorecard

Submission format

Your Design Files:

  1. Look for instructions in this challenge regarding what files to provide.
  2. Place your submission files into a "Submission.zip" file.
  3. Place all of your source files into a "Source.zip" file.
  4. Declare your fonts, stock photos, and icons in a "Declaration.txt" file.
  5. Create a JPG preview file.
  6. Place the 4 files you just created into a single zip file. This will be what you upload.

Trouble formatting your submission or want to learn more? ‌Read the FAQ.

Fonts, Stock Photos, and Icons:

All fonts, stock photos, and icons within your design must be declared when you submit. DO NOT include any 3rd party files in your submission or source files. Read about the policy.

Screening:

All submissions are screened for eligibility before the challenge holder picks winners. Don't let your hard work go to waste. Learn more about how to  pass screening.

Challenge links

Questions? ‌Ask in the Challenge Discussion Forums.

Source files

  • Layered PSD files created in Adobe Photoshop or similar

You must include all source files with your submission.

Submission limit

5 submissions

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