Screensaver Ideas
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- autonoma
Hello.
I'm currently working on a new site to display all of the screensavers I've made over the years and make them all available for download. In celebration, I'd like to create a new series of savers, and I want to get some ideas from all of you.
About a year ago I created Autonoma Screens, a site where I featured a handful of savers I'd made for my band, Palaxy Tracks, and the label we used to be on. The screensavers started getting downloaded way more often than I ever expected them to be (on average, each saver was download 600+ times in the last 6 months, a few exceeding the 1000 mark) so I started making a lot more.
Anyway, I decided it was about time I created a domain specifically for this purpose. Enter AMillionThingsToDo.com, the future home of what used to be Autonoma Screens. I expect to be finished with the site by August, and I'd like to be able to debut the new series along with it.
This is where you come in. I want to get some ideas from all of you, and if I end up using some of them, the person that came up with the idea will be credited in the screensaver.
Unfortunately, there no screensavers currently online to view due to a massive server failure (which is kind of what brought this whole thing on).
So let's hear your ideas! You can post them here or email them to .
- Jnr_Madison0
How about a screensaver about making sreensavers.
- spclarke0
I alway thought that a screensaver that looked like an Etch-a-Sketch would be cool. You could have some preset images for it to randomly draw. You just have to watch out for morons who think you have to shake the monitor to turn it off.
- Stanton0
spclarke, that's a nice idea. i'd like to see a such a screensaver.
- sexypixel0
a screensaver that does all your photoshop work while you have a smoke in the park across the road.
- autonoma0
That etch-a-sketch idea sounds pretty cool. Probably a pretty time-consuming build, but worth it as long as the imagery is worth it as well.
- corin0
I'd like a creensaver that shows a landscape that changes to suit the time of day... so if my clock is says it is PM it is night time and vice versa
- sexypixel0
Corin, the lemon jelly ssaver has the night and day thing, but its not timed. It chages every few minutes. very nice tho
- spclarke0
Landscape idea sounds pretty cool. You could even make it season-specific.
How about one that looks like the glass door to one of those laundromat washing machines? You could have options like dark wash, light wash, delicates, etc, etc.
Hell, if you want to get disgusting, you could even have a skidmarks option.
- sexypixel0
how about a ssaver that shows grass growing, or paint drying, or a kettle boiling
- spclarke0
... or a file rendering
- lnu0
I love time lapse stuff, things decaying, mushrooms growing like in that.... I think it was a Peter Gabriel video.
Then you have the classic stuff with a bunch of random quotes on pretty landscape bg's.
I have enjoyed several of your screensavers already and I'm looking forward to new stuff.
- autonoma0
Thanks, lnu. I've got some pretty cool ideas now. We'll see what comes of them.