Be sure to check out Niklas' game:
http://www.purposegames.com/game/great-lakes-of-africa-quiz/info
There's a background that took a lot of work.
Those of you who've not made games with original backgrounds may not realize how much effort a novel background can take. Even seemingly simple backgrounds can be difficult with getting cropping and scaling right, removing the existing labels, adding images or paint dots, etc.
But the background to this game isn't ambiguous or seemingly simple: it's very nicely done, and there's no question about the fact it took a lot of work.
Oh, good topic, too.
