L4D Blog - Lose the Thumb

[Blink]

Over at the L4D blog they've posted yet another update giving us an inside look at the box art process:

Then we simply hung out in the store for an afternoon, watching customers, and seeing which of the boxes grabbed people's eyes. Our instincts were on the money: The green hand art won hands-down.

Check out the full post.

[stoopdapoop]

anyone else see it?

[Phott]

What has been seen, cannot be unseen!

Mirror that last image and you definately have it.

[Psy]

Half those covers are effing horrible.

[stoopdapoop]

and half blended

[Phott]

Stoop.. How the hell did you find that anyway?

[no00dylan]

and half blended

I'm imagining Jack Black as Francis,

"AH! I got slimed!"

[Sathor]

Well, why should the art designer draw the face from scratch? Who finds the other faces?

[stoopdapoop]

Stoop.. How the hell did you find that anyway?

He's a famous underground rapper (famous underground?) by the name of Mos Def

[no00dylan]

Stoop.. How the hell did you find that anyway?

He's a famous underground rapper (famous underground?) by the name of Mos Def

He was also in Be Kind Rewind, dont think it got good reviews but I loved it.

[Zipfinator]

And he's in The Italian Job.

[stoopdapoop]

and he's in 17 blocks (or whatever it's called) and has made an appearance on real time with bill maher.

Probably done alot of other stuff too

I think valve should have known to not use the face of a famous person. and if they didn't then they should have known not to grab one of the first images off google

[vcool]

I heard of Mos Def even though I don't like rap.

Also, is that the cover art for realz or wtf is that? The characters look entirely different.

[dissonance]

Oh my god I want to play a Sweded version of L4D now.

[vcool]

I actually read the blog post and it turned out that was an old design. Thank god.

Also, can someone explain this to me? The meaning somehow eludes me.

But as it turned out, it still wasn't perfect—the final piece of the puzzle would actually arrive from a helpful fan. We had by this point shown off the new branding at E3, and it had only taken one fan about three seconds to point out that if we used a four-fingered left hand instead of a right hand, we could get a nice pun, with all three words of the game's title presented visually.