So does anyone use or make CUSTOM covers for their games?

So I was wondering how many of you guys actually like to make or even use custom covers for your games. I just finished working on my first one and I like it quite a bit. It's for one of my favorite games, Alice Madness Returns. I know I could have gone all minimalistic and and kept all the logos and text off, but I wanted it to look as much like a legit cover as possible. All the text and information is also correct if anyone was wondering.

So if you guys do use or make custom covers, what are some of your favorites? Post em up!

Not enough hours in the day.

I probably should start doing this, I take such awful care of my games, this would encourage me to keep them displayed and safe instead of thrown all over my place. And I like photoshooping rather a lot.

Nice work though!

@Imsorrymsjackson said:

Not enough hours in the day.

This and over time I've lost all ability to use Photoshop in any way. Cool idea though.

This one time I couldn't find the case for Shadow of the Colossus so I just stole an empty 360 case, took out the cover (I think it was for a burger king game) and put a piece of paper that said the game name on it.

that's as far as I get, honestly

Great work. The only thing I would expect in box art is for the characters to have the same face on the front and back and be somewhat of the same art style, but I do like it. I don't really know much about box art since I buy almost everything in digital form.

At a glance -- you misspelled "separately" a couple of times and it should say "photosensitive seizures" instead of "seizured". Those are the only 2 that stuck out, but I didn't read the whole thing.

I'd do it if I had nice paper that looked like a game cover. I bought Yakuza 3 used and it didn't have a cover so I printed it off the internet, and the paper in the game case made it look like it was stolen.

Box art? what is this?

Nice work man! although it really bugs me that the text on the backside is not aligned.

That is pretty amazing, do you print them onto snazzy glossy paper too?
 
Also, you should make a second version and just COVER it in box quotes from reviews around the internet!

I should probably do that for Silent Hill 2. It's the only game on my shelf that has generic used game box art. (FF13 and 13-2 only look like they do.)

I used one for Yakuza 3. That was a terrible cover.

I printed off a case for Gears of War. Never made a custom image. I do like that Alice Madness Returns cover. My favorite level and custom in the game.

I've made fake boxart (just the front) using photo editing software but I've never made an actual cover that I could use.

Pretty cool idea, I might make some fake ones for my digital games so I can have the best of both worlds.

Really nice art also, good job man.

I make custom art for music for my iPod (usually for video game soundtracks). I usually don't go to much effort for it other than finding the one perfect image (that invites me to want to listen to it - as well as being unmistakabely that game). I can see how enjoyable it would be to do it for games as well but I haven't gone that far. Seems like an interesting thing to do one time as I have interest into going into video game design - and box art is a part of marketing for it (so trying out different versions of current games would be a useful activity).

I've only really been tempted to use them on games without cases and just use generic cases.

I used to but it just end up costing me way to much then what I willing to invest on it.

I wouldn't know where to start. I would love some custom box-art for my games, but I don't even know what paper, dimensions, or anything else I would need to print it.

If I had time and talent I definitely would. Your cover looks great though, much better than the original.

I'm still working on my custom covers for the GB ERs....

@TyCobb said:

Great work. The only thing I would expect in box art is for the characters to have the same face on the front and back and be somewhat of the same art style, but I do like it. I don't really know much about box art since I buy almost everything in digital form.

At a glance -- you misspelled "separately" a couple of times and it should say "photosensitive seizures" instead of "seizured". Those are the only 2 that stuck out, but I didn't read the whole thing.

The text blurb at the bottom is all taken from the 360 template so I didn't write most of that. Also I don't have the helvetica font so I can't really update it. I already had to edit out some of the text through some tricky means because it was taken from the Halo 3 box. But thanks for the kind words!

@MrCaptain said:

Box art? what is this?

Nice work man! although it really bugs me that the text on the backside is not aligned.

Which backside text?

@mwng said:

That is pretty amazing, do you print them onto snazzy glossy paper too? Also, you should make a second version and just COVER it in box quotes from reviews around the internet!

This is the first one I've made, but I'm definitely going to print it on awesome glossy paper.

Sort of.

This is the rabbit hole I've gone down lately:

Once you make one, it's really hard to stop. I'm going through most of my installed games and making replacements for the icons I don't like. Some I'm leaving as is though, like Binary Domain.

I'm no good at photoshop or any of that, but if I could I don't think I would.

My sister lost the box to my copy of Nier, and I'm pretty glad she did, because I ended up making a pretty sweet replacement

My next project will be replacing my missing Valkyria Chronicles box.

I don't have the time or talent, great work though.

I printed a buckload of them from the Neogaf thread. Some of them are true piece of art. You should check it out.

I'd hate how normal paper would look in the case, which is a same, because a lot of the more obscure games I've played have truly godawful art.  
 
*cough cough Yakuza 3 cough

@LiquidPrince: that looks pretty sweet. Nice job!

I didn't realize this was a thing. Still, nice work!

@AuthenticM said:

I printed a buckload of them from the Neogaf thread. Some of them are true piece of art. You should check it out.

I also got a bunch of mine from there. A lot of them are REALLY good.

Not a game, but I made a custom case for my ST:TNG boxed set. The original is CRAPPY.

Then they put the whole thing on Netflix and started releasing seasons on Bluray...

@mandude: Wow that is some mighty impressive work duder!!!! How many hours of work did you put into that?!

I would never have the time to do custom covers, as sweet as the ones posted here look though.

I did this around the time of the GI reveal.

Nah I barely look at the box art anyway, it's usually just the 5 seconds between taking it off the shelf and putting it back.

@realph: Really? I did the same thing!

I don't have the skills to do this.

Also, what kind of paper do you guys use for these?

nope, i never made one. i do know how to use photoshop, illustrator i could if i wanted.

Was working on another cover because I recently got a brand new copy of Bayonetta, but the cover was all damaged. However I'm having some problems with this one. Can't figure out what to do on the back cover with regards to the text or screen captures or what. Does anyone know of good screen shots for the back cover that work with that color scheme and preferably have no hud?

If normal paper wouldn't look so cheap in the case, I would definetly replace the crappy "Sold Out Software" covers of the first American McGee's Alice. Though now that I'm looking at it very closely, even that above "Nier" example would probably look better in the end...

Yeah I used to. Would get some nice glossy photo paper, print it out, cut it, and then fold it into the case. There was this one nice Super Mario Galaxy custom cover that I just HAD to use it was so awesome.

@mandude said:

My sister lost the box to my copy of Nier, and I'm pretty glad she did, because I ended up making a pretty sweet replacement

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My next project will be replacing my missing Valkyria Chronicles box.

This made me lol

No, not for games. I rarely replay games when completed. I have printed some custom slip covers for DVD/BD movies, which are notorious for hideous slip cover art - most often showcasing floating celebrity heads. My justification is frequently replaying the movies I own and seeing those cases in the process.

Looking though that NeoGAF thread makes me want to replace my current covers to more minimalism ones. I would do it but there really isn't a good place for me to print them out at in this deadbeat town of mine.