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The Diablo 2010 Anniversary Mosaic was an initiative by several fansites started by Diablo3-esp.com with the help of Diablo: IncGamers (former Diii.net), and meant to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Diablo II, 9th anniversary of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and the two-year anniversary for Diablo III.

Details

The official banner.

This initiative started by Lytus of Diablo3-esp.com, and was assisted by Leord of Diablo: IncGamers. Start date was 20 May 2010, and end date is 26 June 2010, just in time for the 29 June anniversary.

The initiative is still open to join by other fansites or blogs. See below for more information.

Participant Sites

The following sites are part of the initiative. Listed chronologically from when they were added to the project:

• Diablo3-esp.com - Website - News item - (main organiser)
• Diablo: IncGamers - Website - News item - (assistant organiser)
• Blizzplanet.com - Website - News item
• Diablofans.com - Website - News item
• D2mantix.com - Website - News item
• Diablo-3.net - Website - News item
• Diablo3.cz - Website - News item
• Diablo-Source.com - Website - News item

Background

The Diablo Archive cover art.

Lytus of Diablo3-esp.com contacted many fansites including Leord of Diii.net in April 2010 with the idea of making a mosaic of Diablo pictures, similar to that of the "I <3 SC2" initiative taken by Blizzard Entertainment the previous year.

Community Manager Bashiok was also contacted, but did originally not reply, so the initiative was taken by Lytus and Leord to go ahead anyway.

Several different pictures were discussed as the "goal" picture for the resulting mosaic, and the sort of pictures of photos to be used was also discussed. The two agreed on the full picture of the Diablo Archive cover art. The main issue they found was that, naturally, all pictures of Diablo primarily consisted of black and red gradients, which would be hard to make into a good mosaic made by photos of fans, unless they were themselves standing in the Burning Hells.

Lytus changed some of the gradient colours a little, to make it more "mosaic friendly", and the pair decided on a start and end date date: 20 May to 26 June 2010. Final results to be added before 17:00 GMT (18:00 CET). For this, Lytus created a little banner (seen below), and Leord wrote the official press release that then was translated and sometimes rewritten to fit individual fansites.

Open to Fansites

The initiative is currently active. If you have a fansite or blog of any size and would wish to join this initiative, simply e-mail Lytus or Leord and ask to be added to the below list and the resulting Mosaic.

• Lytus - princevegetassj [at] hotmail [dot] com
• Leord - leord [at] incgamers [dot] com

When that is set up all you need to do is post (possibly translate first) the below press release on your site/blog, and collect images of the prescribed size before the given date.

Don't forget to list all participating fansites when you do!

Official Press Release

This is the official Mosaic press release:

29 June 2010 is a big day for the Diablo franchise and all its fans. Three major anniversaries come up on the same day, the biggest of which is of course the ten-year anniversary of Diablo II. Incidentally, 29 June is also the nine-year anniversary of Lord of Destruction as well as the two-year anniversary for the Diablo III announcement.

In order to give due respect to this big date in the Diablo community, the most recognised Diablo fansites have joined up together to create a big mosaic compiled of photos of the fans, similar to the Blizzard-run "I <3 SC" event from last year.

Each site will collect images from their visitors, which will be merged together into one massive image of Big Red himself. It's now up to YOU to show the world just how much all of us in the community loves Diablo by sending in your Diablo-inspired photos.

The photos should be themed with Diablo or his birthday and can be as simple as a shot of yourself posing with your Diablo I or Diablo II game box, holding a print saying "I <3 Diablo", someone with a Diablo shirt, a creatively decorated birthday cake, writing a massive "Diablo" in the sand on a beach or perhaps a shot of yourself summoning demons in your weekly Cultist rituals (joke! Please, it's definitely a joke!).

Each of these images will help build up a very small part of the mosaic, showing our combined appreciation for the dark Action RPG franchise and each participating member will forever be part of the final picture.

Two rules to enter:

- Submitted images needs to be 800x600 pixels (4:3 aspect ratio).

- Images needs to be submitted before 26 June 2010 17:00 GMT (18:00 CET).

Each site deals with the collection individually. Insert needed instructions here.

We encourage each individual fan to upload as many funny/interesting/thoughtful/cool photos they can before the time runs out. The more pictures available when the mosaic is made, the better it will render the pictures into a cohesive whole.

Participating fansites:

Additional sites are added sporadically, so to see the full list and all current updates, please see the Diablo wiki entry for this project: http://diablowiki.net/Diablo_2010_Anniversary_Mosaic

- Diablo3-esp.com (main organiser)

- Diablo: IncGamers (formerly: Diii.net) (assistant organiser)

- Blizzplanet.com

- Diablofans.com

- D2mantix.com

- Diablo-3.net

- Diablo3.cz

- Diablo-Source.com

Fan Interactions

This section is open to any fansite already added, to link whatever threads, news, pictures or other media or events relating to this project.

• Diablo3-esp.com
  • News Item
• Diablo: IncGamers
  • News Item
  • Picture Gallery
  • Forum thread
• Blizzplanet.com
  • News Item
• Diablofans.com
  • News Item
  • Picture Gallery
• D2mantix.com
• Diablo-3.net
• Diablo3.cz
• Diablo-Source.com
  • News Item