Layers make it easy. My usual MO is to:
create a new doc with the box
add a layer over the main image
paint bucket that layer black
hide that layer
Select the elements I want to reveal
Show and activate the black layer
Hit delete
Export and post
Save psd for next reveal
You can also use PowerPoint and add black boxes over the image, then delete the boxes as you see fit to reveal more of the image. I personally just use Paint.NET with layers.
This is what I do, in Paint.net. Except I usually keep the black-out layer visible and just transparent-ise it a bit, rather than hiding/unhiding.
(You can make a layer transparent by right clicking on it and selecting properties or something like that)
California Games.
Obvious.
Nope.
HA!
I say: The Hobbit, C64.
Some type of alternate cover for GTA?
Iâm starting to think it IS California games now!
Iâll say Track ânâ field?
Skate or Die?
Blue skies, palm trees, crowd, checkpoint(?)⌠OutRun?
It is Outrun! Specifically the Amiga version (which was atrocious, but when itâs the first game you play on upgrading from a SpectrumâŚ)
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I remember trying to play Turbo Outrun on the C64 - Zzap gave it 97%! - but on cassette, and it had a very unforgiving multiload system that drained any fun there was to be had from it. Anyway next up:
TurboTax 2005
Just be glad you didnât play it on the Spectrum, or worse, on the CPC - a very serious contestant contender to the title for worst game ever. But we lucky 8-bits guys had a monoral audio recording of the Arcade game music on an audio tape, to play alongside.
A very fruitful lesson I have never forgotten.
New box? check.
Pink? check.
No idea? check.
Whereas the Out Run rip off, etype, wasnât half bad on the acorn machines.
The new game is a Sierra one? Kings quest.
Neither Kingâs Quest nor TurboTax (from any year), Iâm afraid. A couple more details before bed:
Well, that would be The Stanley Parable.
(And itâs a bit of a cheat, since itâs an aftermarket âindieboxâ box, but I was still able to figure it out, so I guess itâs not too bad).