Graphics Contest Winners Posted At Solecismic.com

[Ben E Lou]

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Design Contest

Did you ever wish you could change the design of your favorite game? We challenged the Front Office Football community to submit their designs to replace several graphics within Front Office Football Seven. And they responded with several excellent designs.



We're pleased to congratulate George Ciervo, Cyril Chong and Seiji Nokamura for their winning entries. They will split the $400 in prize money and their work will be featured in the first update for Front Office Football Seven, which should be released in the next week.

[Antmeister]

Woooooooot......next week? That also means patching goodness.

[Julio Riddols]

Nice work guys!

[Sharkn20]

This release is free, right??

Just to know

[Kodos]

[MizzouRah]

Congrats to the winners!

[A-Husker-4-Life]

Originally Posted by Sharkn20

This release is free, right??

Just to know

I think it's going to be a DLC, just turn on your xbox and... ah forget it.. ITS FREE, it's always free..

[AgustusM]

screenshots?

[bastins]

Congrats to all three of you! Can't wait to use the winning work

[Sharkn20]

Originally Posted by A-Husker-4-Life

I think it's going to be a DLC, just turn on your xbox and... ah forget it.. ITS FREE, it's always free..

hahaha nice Nebraska´s freak!

[cyril]

thanks folks. Hope you will like the new main screen.

[weboes]

Congrats Cyril. I always liked your stuff in ffl.

[w24olfpack]

Originally Posted by cyril

thanks folks. Hope you will like the new main screen.

Atta boy Cyril

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Can't wait to see it guys!

[zbuckley]

Originally Posted by cyril

thanks folks. Hope you will like the new main screen.

Congrats Cyril!

[Solecismic]

I am really excited to implement these graphics. I do want to apologize for the delay in getting these into the product. Everything's done. We've had some difficulties with the demo in that the code which is supposed to only run when someone is trying to hack the demo into a full version is being hit under ordinary conditions. We've also had some reports of the game not running at all, and this not being easily fixed with an obvious adjustment to an anti-virus tool.

Since these problems greatly affect the perception of the game to those who run into them, I want until they are addressed to make the big graphics update.

Now, for the vast majority of you, this isn't a big deal. In terms of bug-fixing, this is the smallest "patch" I've ever made. All the extra work paid off here. And the beta test group was very effective.

But for those of you in multi-player leagues carrying over from FOF2007 who are in the End Season phase and want to convert, this is an unexpected delay. I had hoped to have the conversions done right at the turn of the year. The converter is ready. It works. But it requires one of the fixes in the patch to load the converted saved game.

I don't want to back out the new graphics from the code base (implementing them required some programming as well as simply adding the graphics to the executable). That's a lot of extra work that carries some risk. So, I apologize for the delay.

If commissioners who are familiar with hex editing want to contact me, I would be willing to run the converter for them and give them the instructions needed to bypass that fix in the patch. But this would require them to also perform minor hex editing for all their team owners. It would be a way to get them moving because honestly, I have no idea when the licensing issues will be resolved. It could be tomorrow. It could be another week. I'm not happy about this at all.

[Alf]

Thanks a lot for the update Jim.

[ueauvan]

Appreciate the info and dont worry we can wait until you are happy to release.