The level design / world design of Dark Souls really is incredible. Combined with the atmosphere and challenge it made exploration so fresh and fun compared with other games.
As ZacD said, your design should be fine Sean. It's a pity it had to be so heavily altered to be submission ready in the first place. Loved the initial design of yours.
It's not just the chips, the whole design has to fit in the template. There's a lot of awful designed highly rated, my favorite is https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=972
Yeah that's true. Still I imagine a well designed shield with the Polycount logo cleverly designed into it could work well. :) By the way if any of you voted for my shield I appreciate it! Here it is again if you haven't :P https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=1351
I think your problem is the white particles on the edges of your shield. I believe I heard awhile back that any design which has what looks like damage to the shield's edges overall won't be accepted. Also, forgot to include an image for my design before, hope you guys like Aqua Fortis:
Yeaaaaah, I think the issue is too many people are thinking on how to make the shield be part of the game mechanic rather then do a cosmetic thing as asked. I mean the mirror thing has been done in all kinds of games, but if 2K came out and said "Design a shield for Bioshock Infinite", making a mirror shield would be a…
I thought I'd link to this: DARK SOULS 2 SHIELD DESIGN CONTEST They had one for the first game and I think the Effigy Shield and maybe the Blood Shield are the results of that comp. Here's the page for the new competition (Japanese): http://www.darksouls.jp/shield-design/ They may have a western comp as well, I don't know…