# Backgrounds

**URL:** https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/backgrounds/239
**Category:** Graphics
**Created:** [August 28, 2016, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/backgrounds/239 "2016-08-28T05:57:35Z")
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### Author: ![NickTheNick](https://thrivedevforum-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/nickthenick/32/17_2.png) [@NickTheNick](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/NickTheNick)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2016, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/backgrounds/239/1 "2016-08-28T05:57:36Z")

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Here is the thread for posting your submissions to be used as backgrounds in the Microbe Stage. The page for this can be found [on the wiki](http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/backgrounds). We have several important guidelines:

1. Backgrounds should be seamless and tileable.
2. A background must be sized so that its tiling isn’t clear, even when a player has zoomed out to the maximum extent.
3. If possible also make a grayscaled version so that it can be recoloured.

Also if you can make some bubble layers that can be added on top of your background so that we can produce a parallax effect like with the current background: