Hi everyone I was doing some spring cleaning this weekend and I found some decades old Shane Hollander magazine covers (+ Shane's 2016 Sexiest Hockey Player page in People Magazine you will always be famous!!!!) so thought I'd scan some through in case anyone was interested! Enjoy!
vague early concepts for a nonexistent web-based Smosh rhythm game that I’ve been thinking of when I’m supposed to be thinking of other things. made in the freeform app on my phone because I need low-stakes environment to come up with ideas lol
Elaborating a lot more ahead:
Originally I actually was going to have it be more cardboard box-themed (I even made a little box with a gradient in Illustrator that I thought looked so cute!!) but I couldn’t figure out how to make it easy to read. So for the actual game screen, I imagined a more 3D type of effect using some signature old(er) Smosh colors. But idk if that’s much better.
Maybe in a later concept the note bar would be transparent and have a neon glow outline (look at the channel banners for Pit and Games for reference) and the actual notes would be the pink blocks. In which case this still works because it just demonstrates those on top of each other. Does that make any sense? I want kind of a mix of old and new Smosh aesthetics if possible.
Not shown here but I was thinking of a bouncy thing for hold note switches. I think it’s pretty obvious I play project sekai lol, and I want to keep the wacky hold notes in a keyboard-friendly way. Basically there would be some kind of light to follow that would bounce from one space to the next, and to show that the note is continuing (just for aesthetic purposes) the ends that are meant to be connected would be triangular, as if shards snapped apart or something, instead of the usual abrupt end rectangle note. Just an idea. Don’t know if that makes any sense.
The song select screen would definitely have some kind of detail to the wall, okay? Idk. Maybe some little stickers or something. I was just brainstorming here lol. Also maybe make the Song Select text not on tape and make it more interesting. I think stickers are a good idea. I’m not gonna do all that in freeform though.
