Help me find high-quality image files of Xbox360 achievement icons.
December 22, 2011 11:29 AM Subscribe
Help me find high-quality image files of Xbox360 achievement icons.
Brief background for anyone unfamiliar: The player gains recognition for performing certain tasks in Xbox360 games in the form of achievements. These achievements generate a kind of metascore across all games that is attached to the player's user profile.
Within the 360 interface, there is a menu where you can view all of these achievements, and each has a square icon to represent it. Now, for a lot of games these are pretty lame, and sometimes they just use the same image for all achievements (usually between 30 and 50).
But some of them are actually very cool and intricate, and I've been weirdly fascinated by these for a while now. I'm thinking about starting a personal project to examine them and try to recognize the great examples, maybe talk to some of the people behind the design, if I can find them.
The problem: I'd love to see some files of these images that are actually extracted in their original form (instead of just low-quality screencaps) but I have no idea how to acquire these. If anyone has any tips, or can point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Brief background for anyone unfamiliar: The player gains recognition for performing certain tasks in Xbox360 games in the form of achievements. These achievements generate a kind of metascore across all games that is attached to the player's user profile.
Within the 360 interface, there is a menu where you can view all of these achievements, and each has a square icon to represent it. Now, for a lot of games these are pretty lame, and sometimes they just use the same image for all achievements (usually between 30 and 50).
But some of them are actually very cool and intricate, and I've been weirdly fascinated by these for a while now. I'm thinking about starting a personal project to examine them and try to recognize the great examples, maybe talk to some of the people behind the design, if I can find them.
The problem: I'd love to see some files of these images that are actually extracted in their original form (instead of just low-quality screencaps) but I have no idea how to acquire these. If anyone has any tips, or can point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Both Gortuk's linked site and True Achievements have them as clean 64x64 icons. Somewhere on xbox.com or live.com would be the canonical source, see this example, but the site is kind of broken at the moment and awkward to delve.
The icons are undoubtedly copyrighted and I have no idea what license terms would apply to them. Xbox.com has an API and developer program to access achievement data, you could start there if you care about getting licensing details correct.
posted by Nelson at 3:45 PM on December 22, 2011
The icons are undoubtedly copyrighted and I have no idea what license terms would apply to them. Xbox.com has an API and developer program to access achievement data, you could start there if you care about getting licensing details correct.
posted by Nelson at 3:45 PM on December 22, 2011
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posted by Gortuk at 11:41 AM on December 22, 2011