As Ace gets closer and closer to finishing, I am knee deep in the process of moving to a new apartment here in San Francisco. I'm moving into the Japan Town area with my room mate (who is making the music for ace pilot). It's exciting and nerve racking at times. Moving and finishing Ace that is.

If you are curious to follow the last steps of finishing ace pilot. You can follow 'brigadesoftware' on Twitter. That account is lead by Justin Pruitt who is co directing the project with me. On that note, you can also follow me on twitter (user name: HaVaHa). I will be updating that myself occasionally with big and juicy ace details. I suggest you follow if you are interested in some of the planned future contests I have in mind to hold once Ace is released.

For now, here's the first contest!

THE ALIEN DESIGN CONTEST:
In the first scene following the intro credits, Ace will be in a space, biker-type dive bar. Your goal is to design a crazy, punk, criminal style mean looking biker alien that will be sitting at the bar facing right. basically profile. you can have him smoking a cig, cigar, or something and holding a mug if you want, the point is have him sitting on a bar stool facing right. don't worry about the stool just draw the alien. Make it in flash, photoshop will not be acceptable. we need this to be vectored so we can scale it in place correctly.

EXAMPLE/ WHAT TO DO:
By clicking here you can see some of the existing alien species in ace pilot. In this image you can also see the coloring approach and style. Ideally it'd be cool if you could kinda match it just so it blends a little better. but to be honest, don't feel too limited. as long as it isn't Rembrandt over Picasso. We encourage you create a back story and name for your species to add to the lore of the Ace Pilot universe. We had fun doing that with our species. But if you don't feel like doing that. it's not too important.

WHEN YOU ARE DONE:
Once you're done. you can upload it to the art portal, but in the description that it's for the "Ace Pilot Alien Design Contest" and then PM me the link to your art portal submission. Once we've chosen the winner we will pm that person and ask them to give us the .FLA for it. We ask for CS3 or CS5 those are the versions we are working with for this game.

DUE DATE:
July 15th, 2011

The winner will be fully credited in the end credits.

I'm sorry to disappoint those money hungry ones but this has no cash prize. the prize is to have your creation as a cameo in this game. it's mainly just for fun.

post your submissions below!