Screenshot Of The Month Competition Jan 2016 - Mar 2020

[Emperor Jake]

temporal8 has come up with a theme for September:

"Gated Communities"

Let's build those fences and lock those gates! Get screenshotting!

[Fredinho]

Thanks, temporal8. And same to you! A worthy winner. Congratulations.

Looking forward to seeing the entries for this month's theme!

[Chrill]

Exciting. I may have to dive back into some OpenTTD for this.

[acs121]

Damn, 20 of the month and still nothing ? Gotta have some more participants... guess I'll post an entry tomorrow.

[GarryG]

Here my entry .. farming on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales Australia.
Crops are Corn, Cronulla and Wheat. North-West Mail Train can be seen crossing the bridge.

(One thing I do like about the variety of subjects for screenshots, gives us some ideas for future projects to make. Also while making this scenario found a few fences needing repairs. New AuzFencesObjects and AuzRoadObjects will be added to by object forum .. just hope you don't object.

[temporal8]

My entry, a Gated Community with a lake, golf course and some sport facilities, a nice place to live inside the walls surrounded by nature, birds and tranquility.

Security, healthy life, sports, social life and tranquility as opposed to living in the busy city.

[wallyweb]

Gated communities have been around ever since man has felt a need to defend the community from whoever or whatever. We have seen fortresses and castles and walls. Today we see fences and gates.
SCENE 1: A modern gated community with a nice stone wall and a security entrance, it is inhabited by the elite who seek to defend from the deplorables.
SCENE 2: The deplorables are relentless. The nice stone wall is no match and it is replaced by a fence of proven design and a very secure gate.
SCENE 3: The deplorables win. The wall is breached to the North. The elite have scrambled to their helicopters and taken everything with them.
The community is still gated. Only the characters have changed. The elite have moved elsewhere, perhaps to some remote islands in a remote sea. Who knows? Who cares?

[Emperor Jake]

Not a lot of entries yet, so I'll leave it for a day or 2 more and throw in my own entry:

Welcome to Spurenwijk! This gated community boasts quiet cobbled streets, swimming pool, tennis courts and a fountain. And most importantly, brick walls and security guards to keep the riff-raff out. While still being conveniently close to infrastructure such as the trans-state highway and the railway. Homes are selling fast - call 1300 655 506 and book an inspection today!

[Emperor Jake]

I guess we'll have to leave it at that

Here are our 4 entries:


Emperor Jake

Welcome to Spurenwijk! This gated community boasts quiet cobbled streets, swimming pool, tennis courts and a fountain. And most importantly, brick walls and security guards to keep the riff-raff out. While still being conveniently close to infrastructure such as the trans-state highway and the railway. Homes are selling fast - call 1300 655 506 and book an inspection today!

GarryG

Here my entry .. farming on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales Australia.
Crops are Corn, Cronulla and Wheat. North-West Mail Train can be seen crossing the bridge.

temporal8

My entry, a Gated Community with a lake, golf course and some sport facilities, a nice place to live inside the walls surrounded by nature, birds and tranquility.

Security, healthy life, sports, social life and tranquility as opposed to living in the busy city.

wallyweb

Gated communities have been around ever since man has felt a need to defend the community from whoever or whatever. We have seen fortresses and castles and walls. Today we see fences and gates.
SCENE 1: A modern gated community with a nice stone wall and a security entrance, it is inhabited by the elite who seek to defend from the deplorables.
SCENE 2: The deplorables are relentless. The nice stone wall is no match and it is replaced by a fence of proven design and a very secure gate.
SCENE 3: The deplorables win. The wall is breached to the North. The elite have scrambled to their helicopters and taken everything with them.
The community is still gated. Only the characters have changed. The elite have moved elsewhere, perhaps to some remote islands in a remote sea. Who knows? Who cares?

[GarryG]

Congratulations Emperor Jack .. be interesting to see what your theme will be for this month.

Cheers

[wallyweb]

I think he sent himself a PM asking for the new theme and he is waiting for a reply.

[Emperor Jake]

Congratulations to Emperor Jake for winning the September competition! Here are the final voting results:

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Emperor Jake	10
GarryG		 6
Temporal8	 5
Wallyweb	 4
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Total		25

Emperor Jake has finally replied to the PM I sent requesting a new theme, and in the spirit of Halloween the theme for October will be...

Ghost Train!

Entries are open, let's get spooky!

[Fairyfloss]

Interesting~!

Is editing images allowed for this month? Might make creating spookiness easier.

[temporal8]

Congratz Jake! nice theme!

[Emperor Jake]

Interesting~!

Is editing images allowed for this month? Might make creating spookiness easier.

Sure, go ahead

[andythenorth]

Yo.

So for some time there have been no new OpenTTD website screenshots https://www.openttd.org/screenshots.html

So how about we add all the contest winners there? Any objections?

I have website access so I can add them. Anyone want to help curate?

[Emperor Jake]

Sounds like a great idea to me, I'd be happy to help

Should we add all of them retroactively or just from now on?

[wallyweb]

Yo.
So how about we add all the contest winners there? Any objections?

Brilliant!
Give it it's own section with prominent pointer to here in exchange for prominent pointer to there.

[prominent pointer]
Screenshot Of The Month Winners
Join the fun
Place your submissions, votes, comments here
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[prominent pointer2]
OpenTTD Rogues Gallery
See the winners there
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Should we add all of them retroactively or just from now on?

2019 retro should suffice.

[andythenorth]

Should we add all of them retroactively or just from now on?

Awesome. Start with a selection, see how we go?

Either attach a zip here, or preferably attach to a Github issue if you have a GH account. https://github.com/openTTD/website/issues

Short captions would be helpful.

[wallyweb]

Trick or treat? Is nobody home? I can't see any ghosts! But I do see my entry ...

The Ghost Train Of Riverton Ravine

It was close to midnight, October 31, 1900 and the gold mine at the Town of Riverton had played out and the Riverton Railroad train was about to make its final run across the Riverton Ravine Trestle with a roster of officials going to Riverton Woods Station to officially close the town before returning across the trestle the following morning on its way back to the city. The platform was crowded with the last of the town's residents. They heard the train's mournful whistle and saw as it approached the far end of the trestle when it happened. A flash of light brighter than the night's full moon, the sound of wood snapping and metal tearing, followed by the moans and groans and sobs of survivors in agony and the train and trestle were no more. The witnesses on the platform rushed to the scene and found ... nothing ... no trestle, no train, no passengers, no rubble. It was as if it never was. The station master was on the platform in front of his office when at precisely midnight he heard the tap tap of his telegragh tapping "sos sos please oh please help us please sos".

The station and the rails are long gone, but close to midnight of every October 31 the scene repeats itself ... the flash of light, the moans and groans and sobs of passengers who are not there, the mournful whistle and the funnel's smoke and steam from a train that is not there, crossing a trestle that is not there and if precisely at midnight one should stand on the long abandoned platform just in front of where the station master's office used to be, one might hear the tap tap of a telegraph tapping "sos sos please oh please help us please sos" ...