Video: OpenGameArt 2012 Top Game Art Asset Favorites

To digitally celebrate the beginning of a new Georgian calendar year, we have compiled a short video to show of OpenGameArt's top favorited 2d, 3d, texture, music and sound effect contributions that were added in 2012.

From the LPC Blog:

I'm happy to say that the art competition has wrapped up beautifully. And that also means: the code phase of the competition has begun! Coders, start your engines.

Just making sure you know about our June game art contest.

Please read the full announcement and join us in the official forums.

I have zero 3d model-making skills but I do moderate content on OpenGameArt.org contributions and stalk Blendswap submissions, which allowed me to notice the following: Gradients are bad for previews. Just take a look:

Above is a png (lossless, 173K) render with gradient ("blend sky" in Blender terms) background.