Monday, November 23, 2015

Our Universal System Can Do All the Genres, Look!

THESIS: An "Our Universal System Can Do All the Genres, Look!" cover is invariably lame.

PROOF:

Let's illustrate that our game can handle ANYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE by showing the most generic tropes floating around in space in...bubbles.


Or maybe quadrants? 


Hey that genres-in-quadrants thing that GURPS did above seems like a good idea! Right? Right?


Okay, what if we scrap the quadrants and just mash it all together? Oh, no, that's just a god-damn mess:


Okay, okay, let's simplify then. Less is more, right? Right?


Maybe simple will look better if we do a color gradient? Maybe?


Okay, that didn't work. Maybe if we make the cover look like the label of a body-building supplement?


Hmm, da Vinci is cool, right? Gamers love da Vinci!


This is what is looks like when you lose all hope: