2021 Minnesota Game Poster No. 4: Bowling Green

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Previous game posters:

Ohio State

Miami (OH)

Colorado

The inspiration for this week's poster is the classic arcade game Space Invaders. In place of the player's ship is Goldy's head, which is firing lasers at a horde of pixelized Bowling Green logos. With nine games to go entering this week, Goldy has nine lives. To imitate what a game looks like in a cabinet — where a layer of plexiglass sits above the screen — I added a faint glow around every sprite.

There isn't much to say about this one, as it was rather straightforward. As with Miami, there aren't a ton of interesting potential video game tie-ins with BGSU's mascot. As a result, I chose a game that can be used generically enough to fit for any opponent. Goldy's head doesn't quite match the proportions of the original ship because there was no way to make his two teeth look good in a sprite that's an odd number of pixels wide. The laser he shot is therefore off-center from his head, though it's far enough away that that should be imperceptible at a glance. I came around on the glow effect after a few weeks of looking at it; the version of the poster without the glow felt flat. Overall, I like the way the poster turned out.

Next week, Chandler will unveil his poster for the Purdue game.