21 Apr 2023
Journey into a Beatmap World Art Contest: Voting Open
by Ephemeral

Journey into a Beatmap World Art Contest: Voting Open

by Ephemeral

The stars have aligned — now behold a whole new fantastical world of beatmap background–themed art! Wield your 15 votes of prophecy and defeat the demon king of indecision, for you are the chosen one!

105 brave artists took the plunge into probably our most thematically challenging art contest yet! We've also made about that many isekai references throughout the promotion for this contest as it stands, so we'll try to stop now.

The results are stunning to say the least, and what better way to see what's up than with a trusty showcase video courtesy of pishifat, set to the tunes of one of the OG Featured Artists, dark cat:

Click here to go straight to the voting for the Journey into a Beatmap World Art Contest!

The vote will be up for only 7 days from the date of this post, so be sure to swoop in swiftly and make your choices known. Fantasy worlds wait for nobody, after all!

A selection from the top-voted entries will make it to the game's main menu as the Journey into a Beatmap World seasonal backgrounds, and their creators will score themselves 3 months of osu!supporter.

The top 3 voted entries will earn themselves a unique profile badge sampled from their own creation, so they can proudly point at their profiles and declare yes, they made this. Quite literally.

A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to participate! We acknowledge that really stringent themes like this can be super challenging at times, so the next art contest for the year will be something a bit more casual to help break things up. Hoping to see you then!

Now, if you'll excuse the rest of us, we have to set out to battle the final boss: picking only so many of these absurdly talented artworks.

—Ephemeral

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this is my favorite collection of backgrounds BY FAR. I cant believe someone drew an AiAe one, i didn't even have enough votes. There are so many great bgs and i'm overwhelmed.

As always amazing art. I loved going through them and guessing the bg they're based on.

The altros & starlights ones be bangin'

osu_1728 osu_1728

dont forget the enchanted love one too

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holy crap the amount of touhou is surprising even me...

i feel like jello rn

aiya they all look good

i wish i can vote 60 of them

It's souls as |0|

this contest submission is superb

what if i say for example thirty two : twenty five?

Theres so many good ones I feel like need double the votes lol

guys how can i vote

i already used all votes and there is like 10 more I would like to vote bruh

hello does anyone here play osu

i NEED more votes (please)

ChartreuxWestia Miku Hatsune

yes
15 is too few

Omg so many good ones, this voting is hellish bruh

Mine is exit this earth's atOmosphere in case you couldn't tell, the one made by Camellia, and it's mari's solo >:D

im sick of amogus

RedcXca Roro-san

Roro-san RedcXca

o nevermind u made fun of my art last time so im rlly sick of amogus LMAO

gl c:

I love this

give us 5 more votes, please... it's so hard to pick only 15 😭

everyone's art is so good it was hard to decide which ones to vote for 🥹 i'm so excited to see many of these in-game!!

i am so sorry for the altar one

theres so many good ones aaaa

I luv lama

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Good luck to those who participated! So many great backgrounds here!

PIPPI STARLIGHTS, IM IN LOVE!!!!

If hitorigoto pippi doesn’t win I riot

This one was awesome

so many bangers

no minecraft render entry😔

Haitai 😭

So much cool art out there! Good luck everyone!

Good luck to all participants!

I'm not joining this time which is crazy because I've been joining since Halloween 2019 and this is actually my first time not participating since then, but I figured I need to at least take a break because it's starting to feel like a pressure since everyone expects me to win. It just started making me anxious and it became less fun compared to when I initially started
Maybe I'll join next time, maybe I'll join next year, maybe never anymore. Who knows

Thanks to everyone who has supported me this whole time 🫶

TL;DR: quit w

PsychoSpaghetti KAITO thighs

<3

lilroc125 KAITO thighs

Okey

Roro-san KAITO thighs

UNDERSTOOD CHIEF! take care <3

RedcXca KAITO thighs

Plz stop joining we need a chance!!!

KAITO thighs RedcXca

OMG HAITAI THANK U SO MUCH

saoka Lanaxer

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Harumodoki

Loving these arts, GL everyone!

Good luck, guys!

CHURCH BELLS DONT RING

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