Mood Boards (Illegal Inspiration)
qubodup, March 17th, 2010
I made a mood board (inspired by Durian) for DungeonHack. Mood boards are a place for quickly post images you think are cool. Videos too. Whether or not this one will be used needs to be discussed first.
A good mood board should follow following rules:
1. It is hosted by somebody else, who is reliable, so the images don’t get lost and you don’t have to take care of anything.
2. Multiple users can post.
3. It looks simple (dark background, little space between images).
4. The embedded image needs to be large enough to see it. The option to increase the size should be there, but one should also be able to see everything by simply moving on the page, without opening new links to full size images. This is important for the ‘quick’ aspect of mood boards. They are for creating a mood through multiple inspirational graphics, not the details matter most, but the resulting mood from looking at all images.
Forums are a bad place to put up ‘inspirational images threads’. They have a format that disturbs usually, often the layout doesn’t fit and browsing them is annoying. See this and this for example.
Tumblr has a 15 images per page limit, which might be annoying, but it is so easy and quick to set up, every project should have such a thing, if not every developer of a project. The different mood boards could then be combined in a Soup like mine or FreeGameDev’s. The 15 images/page limit could also be fixed using Soup.io.
