After much deliberation (and coming to a conclusion that a 5-day judging deadline that intersects with our holiday season wasn’t a wise idea), BABD is proud to present winners of the Break the Bingo design contest!.
But first, let’s give shout-out to those of fans who started working on their designs, but didn’t end up officially submitting them, particularly the artists who tagged us in their WIP posts. Those drawings, even when unfinished, were pretty great!
We’re amazed by the ultimate turn-out. A lot of contestants put extra effort into their entries, by doing things things like:
- putting them into a form of a comic/concept art pitch/fake advertisement
- using eschergirls poses
- referencing the rhetoric bingo
- kicking up the art quality a notch
It’s a bit scary just how close to the industry standards lots of you guys came! Some of the designs look like lifted straight-up from a video game or comic book studio!
Each and every submission is appreciated and we’re sorry we could reward only a select few of them, ones that we found to be the most creative in their use of the Female Armor Bingo tropes. And those are…
First prize:
The plexi-boobplate is very clever! Nice way to score “Covers only nipples and genitals” while technically giving her a chest piece 😀
Also best luck to Tom in his never-ending quest of finding the sexy male armor suitable for his empowered body. ~Ozzie
Legitimate depiction of how heavy armor works in video games. – wincenworks
Second prize:
Armor Bingo by noelle-chan / noelle-chan [x]
Her main “covering” is mostly mesh/chain mail thing. It’s sorta lingerie stocking AND boob sock armor. What I think is most innovative about this design is the boob holes in her boobplate. The girls can swing free and unencumbered while in action. Great for badass empowered female warriors.
Accurate representation of shoulder plates and fantasy high heels! – wincenworks
Chainmail boobsocks encased in what seems like a boobplate frame… possibly the most painful-looking chest piece in the contest. That + super impossible heels + pointy bits that will stab her whenever she moves = another winner! ~Ozzie
Third prize:
Break the Bingo – Contest Entry by zokwani / naindzardin [x]
Extra points for showing accurate understanding of how bikini armor artists think how physics work. – wincenworks
Personally I think the original version of this chest piece fitted the definition of “boobplate” a bit better, but both versions are very well designed and look as uncomfortable as expected from a bingo winner! ~Ozzie
Bonus prize:
Thanks to lokificent’s generous prize donation, we were able to choose the fourth winner! And that artist is…
Break the Bingo Contest – Foxtrot by Edasypogon / edasypogon
Designing ‘armour’ that would score all 25 squares and the bonus points was equal parts interesting challenge and vicarious thrill. I had to constantly resist the urge to make things less ridiculous. The pinnacle (or nadir, depending on how you look at it) of this exercise was the Echo variant ‘breastplate’; it’s practically a bingo in its own right
Particularly accurate with sci-fi’s tendency to put bits of metal and lights in random places. – wincenworks
I’m getting an impression that more thought was put in designing those modular nipple pieces alone than in many complete outfits we bingo’d before. ~Ozzie
The prizes:
As established above, there are four rewards to choose from:
- A Steam copy of Life Goes On offered by wincenworks
- 1 full-color commission of a chosen character either as a chibi or a portrait, or a full-body detailed sketch offered by ozziescribbler
- Picking a topic for the next How Do I Armor comic post with the winner’s original character portrayed in-comic by wincenworks
- AND a Steam copy of VVVVVV offered by lokificent
To collect their prizes, the winners should contact us at bikiniarmorbattledamage via askbox/fanmail or at BikiniArmorBeDamned via private message and the first three of them should specify what is their preferred reward.
First prize winner gets whatever they choose, then the second and then the third one pick from the remaining poll. Bonus winner gets whatever is left for them.
All the other contest entries + further commentary under the cut:
I’m getting an impression that this female armor model was designed for an eccentric rock star rather than a warrior ;D ~Ozzie
The power of fashion with protect you… unless you’re a dude, then you need a plate armor! – wincenworks
Break the Bingo contest entry by MeMyMine / yanavaseva [x]
This one makes me afraid that we will see a “not quite stealing” version of in the next MMORPG comes out. – wincenworks
I like how the male equivalent is that Sauron-like figure in a pointy armor that is huge, intimidating and completely covering, while the woman’s armor is just pointy and that’s it. ~Ozzie
Female Armor Bingo Helena by Jinksa
This is how I kind of imagine dwarven strip bars… now anyway. – wincenworks
Random piece of metal that should weight her panties down… seems legit ~Ozzie
Break the Bingo by chackludwig / sevcanz
Go slay a billion fucking demons and monsters in that thing, I dare you.
But… every fantasy RPG has at least 2 races… humans and humans with pointy ears and/or odd color skin. – wincenworks
Good idea with the female armor looking exactly like the male one, but only in the area from the neck to collar! ~Ozzie
by kittyrumcake
I like how they remembered that women’s armor uses odd magical glow things in place of actual armor. Men don’t need stuff like that. – wincenworks
Nice nod to the 90s comic book aesthetic with the hair, over-accessorizing and the boobs & butt pose. That little ‘Sup.’ from her male friend always crack me up, too. ~Ozzie
by albino-ottsel [x]
Iconic depiction of “how does it attach” trope – wincenworks
Also suiting that the lower level female armor would be quite nice, if nor for the boobplate. ~Ozzie
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This is way more creative than we normally see for Winter themed armors. – wincenworks
Wouldn’t be surprised if in a while every MMORPG starts passing a short fur cape for an “armor” ~Ozzie
Muscular build and black hair texture, two things that are massive under represented in modern media. – wincenworks
Setting aside this female character’s glorious warrior body type (and killer hairstyle), the g-string being attached directly to the nipple pieces is pretty darn amusing sight! ~Ozzie
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need to keep this away from Team Ninja so that it doesn’t find it’s way into the inevitable Hyrule Warriors sequel – wincenworks
Good idea with distributing the squares between different levels of the same armor. I also like the rose motif, adds both to prettiness and stabbiness in all of the designs. ~Ozzie
both by nami-098
This is my attempt to get everything- I figure if the boob plate is see through with only her nipples covered then it could potentially count for both???
Particularly impressed with the transparent boobplate. – wincenworks
Again, as with loloraturasopranerd, good idea with the translucent boobplate! Also nice touch with it not actually attaching in the back! ~Ozzie
My art skills aren’t the best, so mostly this is just to amuse. Enjoy.
I did manage to hit every single point on the bingo and that’s what I was going for.
I like the fire g-string. When you have so little space to work with, the little touches count for so much. – wincenworks
Love how careful the artist was about covering as little of torso as possible! Also neat detail: the level 1 female outfit is a long, spacious robe. ~Ozzie
Contest Entry – Alternative Batgirl
I like how her mask looks like it was designed to fit into her boob window. – wincenworks
Good use of pointyness of the bat-logo! And evil use of the bat-logo in the pubic area… ~Ozzie
Finals by SniffleCub / hinsuxjakun [x]
I had an oc whose story takes place in a video game so I decided to work with that. Male and Female version of the oc in the first picture (Selection Screen), and her next level-up armor shown in the right.
Another one that I think might get lifted by a MMORPG, probably by Aion. – wincenworks
At level 50, her eyes literally get better protection than any other body part, which reminds me of this Scartlet Blade letsplay quote:
You know, I think I wanna put some glasses on you, so you’re AT LEAST a little bit more covered up. I’m sorry I can’t help you, really…
~Ozzie
A Load of Carp – BABD Bingo Contest Entry by AnkeLive / kohlkopfus [x]
I wanted to recreate this video game experience, where you picked the least sexualized character, only to find that the next stage would turn out to be…this. That’s the reason i used the “new class introduction screen!” thing.
Another one that terrifies me because it looks like it could be concept art for an actual game. – wincenworks
1. props to all the amazing quality work that went into this 2. I’m also terrified how real this looks ~Ozzie
BABD – Ridiculous armor contest by Lucyann-san
I really like how it looks like she has the ridiculous “ab line armor” – wincenworks
And the high level version breaks the bingo by having literally the bare legal minimum of coverage! ~Ozzie
Why Protection Anyway? (Break The Bingo Contest) by HystericalMellotron
I feel like we need some sort of special mention or bonus for not just doing the Female Armor Bingo but also Rhetoric. – wincenworks
Definitely bonus points for including both a narrative and sexy male armor! ~Ozzie
Break The Bingo by FlavorSavior
in order to display elements on her front and back, I depicted her in a completely never-been-seen-before impossible pose where we see her front and rear simultaneously. And that’s definitely the only reason.
literal boob window ftw, as the cultural gap between the men and the female character. – wincenworks
The legs are my favorite part. Torn stockings + pretty legitimate greaves + impossible heels FTW! ~Ozzie
by kyoasakura
Bra-thong is very cute and creative. – wincenworks
Good use of “How does it attach?!” square! ~Ozzie
I believe I’m only missing a boobplate – going for the more uncovered option gave a lot more room.
Also, since I’m a big fan of EscherGirls, I’ve added a wink in their direction – dislocated hip, lack of internal organs, something weird going on with chest area.
If anyone ever takes this as serious and/or proper art design, I will end myself. Or them.
Awesomely absurd design + nice use of gratituous crotchleg! ~Ozzie
Collar bra is also awesome… though all these awesome creative ideas make me worry we will see them in commercial products soon… what have we done? – wincenworks
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Again, big thanks to all who contributed and congratulations to the winners!
~Ozzie
