IF Cover Art Drive

The IF Cover Art Drive is organized by Emily Short to encourage the creation of cover art for existing IF games, in the hope of making the IFDB and the IFWiki more attractive and less pure-text, and making it easier to showcase IF on independent game blogs and websites, magazines, and other venues that are starting to show an interest in IF.

Artists will send their cover art images to the organizer, who will collect them on Flickr. The authors of the games will then decide if they want to use them or not.

To avoid the creation of too many rejected images, authors can explicitly state that they want or don't want cover art for their games.

This is not a competition, and there are no prizes other than the approval of the game authors about submitted artworks.

Dates

• February 3, 2008: The idea is first suggested by Emily Short in a comment on her blog.
• February 25, 2008: The IF Cover Art Drive is officially announced.
• April 30, 2008: Deadline for sending the cover art to the organizer.

Rules summary

A more complete version of the rules is there.

Rules for game authors

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Rules for artists/designers/illustrators

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Links

• Cover Art Drive - details, guidelines, and caveats.
• The cover art that's already been submitted.
• IF Cover Art drive - R*IF thread (began February 25, 2008).
• Comment by Emily Short in her own blog, in which she mentions the idea of the IF Cover Art Drive for the first time. She later developed the idea in her article Okay, here goes nothing.