Rock on! Fight the power!

It's a bold move. We're not hiding it in the interiors. Not this time. POW!

Doesn't even look circumcised. Extra hardcore.

Dude has longballs. Longballs are all the rage in the scene.

I'm going to go ahead and denounce AND reject this cover, just in case it could effect my political career.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please, though I don't know how you can stand to criticize Cockzilla. His bloody face is staring you down, Morningstar. Do you dare stare into its magnificence and speak against Him?

It's a tattoo. Cockzilla is flaccid. When erect it reads. "Power is Owned by Weisscorp!"

(It is an Authority after all.)

Posted By: jenskotUsually the first thing I do is look for the list of playtesters. Nope. This time I'll be flipping through looking for erect cock.

Ooh, fun layout challenges! Find ways to secretly suggest phalli.

It does say to me "This is a game about amputated penises".

I imagine you have a stat for Penis Length, which reduces over the course of the game if you're unlucky.

What is Misspent Youth actually about? At the moment, to me, it's about amputated penises. I'm happy for games about amputated penises to exist, but I look at them and go "Wow, amputated penis game", rather than buying them.

Graham

After playing, Misspent Youth, it is about kids telling the establishment to fuck itself and trying there best not to grow up. The cover reminds me of drawings in a horrible bathroom at a punk rock show with all sorts of awful graffiti drawn on the wall next to band fliers and stickers.

Jason, when you wrote, "this strikes me as self consciously edgy, like you are trying to be bad. That doesn't read as cool to me, it reads as juvenile", I think that's pretty accurate to the kind of people you play in the game. You aren't cool. You are juvenile and rebellious!

In terms of retailers, I agree with you 100%. But I don't know if the game is intended to be sold outside of our community, direct sales and maybe eventually at rock venues. But I could be wrong.

It's just a joke, you guys.

Thank you!

Yeah sorry, folks. I didn't realize it might breed any weirdness. And Jason, I thank you for trying to help me and doing so so politely.

So here's the story: Jenn, Joshua, and I are emailing back and forth about the cover design. I mention Jenn showing us a sketch when she has the time and Joshua goes, "Well, of course you want a cock, right? That's why you picked Jenn?"

So Jenn shoots us an email. "This is a quick sketch I did."

I think, that's got to be a joke. Oh shit, what if it's not. I mean, I'm SURE it's a joke but if I say, "Is that a joke?" and it's not, I'm gonna feel like a huge dick. I fret. I call her. She laughs very long and very loud at me. I deserve it. I talk to Joshua. He does the same. I decide I should spread the pain.

So, yeah, no cock in the final game (although there's a surprising amount of cock in issues of Maximum Rocknroll, the 'zine I'm basing this on.

Voila.

(PS: Thanks Jenn for not letting this get out of hand.)

Before I did this, Bliss Stage was the best cover design I'd ever done.

Sorry, Ben. The robot-vagina-flower has been overcome by the Punkock.

I listened to you talking about kill puppies for satan with Vincent today... and then I thought... "oh noes..."

You would have gotten so much free publicity if you'd just let this keep going.

My next thing has plenty of room for cock.

Here's my entry in the cock wars.

Hrm...

Now I'm thinking that the Infected could use an alternate ultra-cock cover...

When I see that cover, I think Mouse Guard RPG.

Posted By: reaction

Posted By: Jason MorningstarAt least my cock is flaccid and sickly.

Rob: Definitely back cover quote material.

[Farnsworth]Oh my yes. . . .[/Farnsworth]

Two giggling minutes in Photoshop ultimately bring about the end of my career.

Realistic, yet horrific!

As cool as that is (in a kind of 300/homoerotic way), will you make a "safe to leave around the rest of the family" version?

Hey, so, I'm doing layout for an ashcan that is actually not a joke, and it has a mythic entity with a giant engorged penis right on the cover. Go big or go home, amateurs!

So since the OP was a massive dicktease (I think I probably intend that pun but I'm not sure) I figured I'd share some real art-related stuff from the game. Here is the back cover art spec I gave Jenn:

A gang of 3-5 kids, in silhouette (possibly pure black like something out of Sin City, possibly something with some surface to it that we can see, I don't know). These kids are in a tight knot together, maybe some are riding skateboards or (better yet) hoverboards. Anyway they're all clearly running from left to right away from something off-screen to the left. Maybe someone is shooting a slingshot backwards or something. I see an interesting tension between their bodies moving in one direction and their attention being in the other (even if they're not facing in that direction, something about the set of the shoulders). I imagine a street sign of some kind slightly ahead of them and a grubby street. I'm figuring it would run along the middle edge or bottom of the page and take up all or almost all of the width of the page and about a quarter of the height of the page.

Posted By: Jonathan Walton
I suspect that my girlfriend would be upset about any potential "prize." I appreciate the offer, though.

Whoa, there, tiger. I didn't mean it "that way."