A7 logo contest

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i agree with you but i think this more likely is a splash screen contest and not a contest for creating the conitec corporate design.

since jcl mentioned photoshop: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/splashes/photoshop
and here a lot of others: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/splashes

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wie denn nun?

so???
banner 480x128 mit schriftzug a7 + lite-c und einer glühlampe? und einigen extras.
logo 200(250)x200(250) mit schriftzug a7 + lite-c und einer glühlampe?

gsfan

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I agree with Kihaku.

Plus about the contest being a splash or logo/banner contest.
Read JCL's post which started the thread again:

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The image also should be a different format than the A6 logo. It will be displayed not at the beginning of the game, but on the top of the engine startup window and on the WED and MED about boxes. Thus it should be long, like a banner.

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phemox's is my fave so far. i dont kno how it will look 8-bit, but it looks great!

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Thank you! I've just checked and you hardly notice any quality change at all.

Cheers

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hmmm, i've also noticed that not everyone's reading what jcl wrote on the "dimensions", just one question, isn't the winner decided by conitec alone?

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Good question but I suppose it will be like the previous A6 logo contest. Maybe first JCL will pick those pics which competend to the needs, and then the community may choose between them. And as JCL said, this time there might be more than one winner.

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i htink it should be no reference to C-lite in logos caus it's a language not
the engine :
Torque and BV engine or other don't put any reference to Torque Script or Angel script in their logo and it's useless (just my opinion )

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Yes, for once I agree with you. There wasn't a "Look we've got shaders" in the A6 splashscreen either, just because that was a new feature. This banner will be visible to people who play the published games, they most likely have no idea what lite-c is.

EDIT: damn, I had misread jcl's second post as stating the lightbulb was optional, but that was about the "lite-c" text. Well my banners are crap anyway

Also I think this isn't so much a logo contest, more a banner contest. The photoshop startup window doesn't contain a logo either (and JCL mentioned the photoshop startup window..).

So, here are my attempts. I hope the effects aren't overdone, but I don't like a totaly abstract banner for the engine window..
Version 1, black & white:



How it'll look with a window attached:


And a simpler one with less effects:


And another one..


The text in the last two can be changed or removed, and the 'A7' block can be placed right or left.


BTW, jcl, since the A6 splashscreen is baked into the homepage, the homepage will have to be redone aswell. Have you thought about that? And if it has to be updated anyway, please have those horrible compression artifacts removed from it..

so far i'm the only one with just black and white in the logo

if anyone didn't notice jcl's post:

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Wow, already remarkable entries with some nice ideas!

- Some info: we don't need more text in the image than "A7" and maybe "lite-C". The web address and "Gamestudio" will be visible in the engine startup message anyway, and thus is not needed in the image.

- Take care of the 'fade to white' and 'fade to black' requirement - unless a border is part of the image idea.

- The format should be either square, or like a banner with a width to height ratio of about 4:1 or 5:1.

- Avoid very small details, as the final horizontal size will be only 480 pixels for the banner, and about 200..250 pixels for a square image. When posting entries here, use that size.

- The image will be displayed in 8 bit, so too many smooth color or brightness ranges should also be avoided.

- Last but not least: There can be more than one winner! (when we can't decide between some entries)

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guys. LOGOS
Not render pics with 8234937482 Flare effects o_O

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If this was about my entry, then let me tell you this: My picture does not contain a single rendered image. It is made up of 2 pictures, one of a lightbulb and one of sparks. It was pretty complicated to combine these two pictures into the one u see above:


Not a single effect nor shader was used.
The intention behind the picture was to show, that the Lite-C Language is powerfull. So powerfull, that indeed it blows the bulb.

I am sorry if I missunderstood, but is this supposed to be a banner contest or what?!
My understanding was, that this image is to be shown above of the normal "Engine Loading" screen, that appears in Windows before the game switches to fullscreen mode. And this was the intention of usage behind my entry.

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its A7 not a7

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As far as I remember in the A6 Loading screen there was also a lowercase a used to sorta mirror the 6 written behind it. --> a6

My logo tries to combine the number and the letter again, but different and more like the macromedia flash logo. That was the thought behind the logo.

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EDIT: An 8-bit version is also possible without complications:

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Was sollen wir eigentlich machen ein Logo oder ein Splash

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@ Michael:
Nice concept but isn't it A7 instead of 7A

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these are the only other entries i like, i really like these, however they have to be a small image, if they are square make them either 200x200 or 250x250 , i've been beaten

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It's a nice 3D logo but I think it has got the look of the existing A5 logo

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The box on the left reminds me a little of a toybox. Maybe you can expand that idea - that many game related stuff spreads out of the box in simple symbols or something like that ((...), cute big breasted girls(...)

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Very nice idea, I should call my all female friends if they like to inspirate me "why should I pose naked here?" "you are cute.. and stuff; well, its for a logo design." "logo design? are you kidding me?" "c'mon, keep quite, do me a favor and we are all fine. Relax." "okay, honey" - you made my day!

Well, your comment was really helpful, thank you. Uhm, I wrote it as "gameengine".. I will do another one with seperated words.

The box: I didnt wanted to continue on the primary cube design, so this should be a small sidelement. I will see: I planned to submit one or two more entries before the contest ends, maybe I hook on this for a try. Thanks for your support!

Cheers
Christian

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@DaBro0zar:

No offense: This font makes it worser as it could be! the shape of the bulb-head is very sloping, so, if you put another sloping element inside it, it should be at least parallel or orthogonal to the picture axis. If you pose it with other slope angles, it looks very disturbing. Remove/replace the fade of the bulb somehow. This looks very photoshopped and very obvious. The material design looks very good, looks appl'ish. Good.

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find nich, find den neuen besser. die farbgebung ist auch schön modern und doch solide, gefällt mir. allerdings hat die ja schonmal jemand benutzt (guck jetzt nicht nach), es scheint als passe die einfach zu a7

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*räusper*, *Anwalt anruf*

... das ist jetzt ja schon zuu offensichtlich ^^

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Shinobi, I like your last ones...

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Got to agree they look very good

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I read more from the beginning of the contest now and just want to say all my works can be converted to any size , width , alpha and fading better to black or white. I just show some of the ideas and the rest like exact format or banner size or fewer effects or whatever , can be adapted to the needs later on.

@frazzle saw your replay before i submited my replay , sorry i read the beginnig stuff just now , and as mentioned above all can be changed if needed , just wanted to show my ideas and styles the rest can be adapted.

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Oke np, your creativity as can be seen in your logos is as usual top of
the art !!

Cheers

Frazzle

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Oke np, your creativity as can be seen in your logos is as usual top of
the art !!

Cheers

Frazzle

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Thanks

Your Orange little Logos looking nice as well Frazzle

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could someone post the a4 and a5 splash screens? i can't remember them...

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could someone post the a4 and a5 splash screens? i can't remember them...

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Don't have light/dark logos of A4 anymore, but they're basically the same as A5, only showing a 4.

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Lol..

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en"gine"... did you mean to make the "gine" bold?

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C-Lite is so hot that it melts the north and south pools...

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well im not quite sure what you mean by that but thx for your comment!

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Why are there icecubes?

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Agree with heelX, what have icecubes to do with 3DGS? And secondly, we make a splashscreen for an game engine, not a 3D render engine. It doesnt matter if the image of SFMAT looks good or not if it doesnt fit. Look at the photopaint splashscreens. They are never 3D renders.

They are usually done with the software itself to show the possibilities of the software at startup.

For blender the screen is done with blender for photopaint its done with photopaint. That of course means that you can make an image in photoshop and render it in the engine because thats the common way to work with the engine. But showing an image rendered in a 3D render software which has nothing to do with the game engine is not the big deal...

And illustration is also okay because that´s common too. But using a super good 3D render is bad because users of other engines feel jackassed, because it´s like faking the power of the 3D engine. It´s what they did for PS3. Showing prerendered super beautyful 3D movies and telling the user that will be the realtime graphics when the game comes out. Well in the end the games didn´t looked like the prerender. They looked like games in all points.

Look, if every game engine would make a super beautyful prerender of a "game scene" users would think, hey that´s a powerful gameengine I have to buy. But that is a fake, and as soon as you find out that it hasn´t the power you are very pissed of. Even if it is more or less obviously that it isn´t rendered ingame, people will feel jackassed, because they think, the creators of the engine tried to fake the powers but where bad at faking it.

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Look at the photopaint splashscreens. They are never 3D renders.

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well, same logo, different background, does it still look like mac? no. i'm waiting for the first one who says "looks like my linux desktop".

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not really, but like the standart KDE background

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yeah and mac os x has the same backgroubd

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LOL!
Pwned

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- Some info: we don't need more text in the image than "A7" and maybe "lite-C". The web address and "Gamestudio" will be visible in the engine startup message anyway, and thus is not needed in the image.

- Take care of the 'fade to white' and 'fade to black' requirement - unless a border is part of the image idea.

- The format should be either square, or like a banner with a width to height ratio of about 4:1 or 5:1.

- Avoid very small details, as the final horizontal size will be only 480 pixels for the banner, and about 200..250 pixels for a square image. When posting entries here, use that size.

- The image will be displayed in 8 bit, so too many smooth color or brightness ranges should also be avoided.

- Last but not least: There can be more than one winner! (when we can't decide between some entries)

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Er war mal denk ich mal stumpf....

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oho...

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Can you show a fade to white version

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you mean somthing like this?? for your shirts?


edit, ok, i adjusted the shadows

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Another try ....hope there is no limit of posting logos or splashscreens.

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these look oddly similar to mine...ah well, i lost my chance at this contest long ago, cheers, and nice ones, simple is a good approach " they look alot like mine"

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these look oddly similar to mine...ah well, i lost my chance at this contest long ago, cheers, and nice ones, simple is a good approach " they look alot like mine"

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@Manslayer101 thanks but after your last post i searched the whole topic to compare my logos with yours , the only semblance i saw is that you also made a black and white logo

Dont give up to early , i think everyone has a chance .

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well...I can still see the bulp

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sssshhhhh! Don't spoil it!

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I don't like the pow() 7...

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whats wrong with

acknex*acknex*acknex*acknex*acknex*acknex*acknex

?

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LOL

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I made a new bulb concept and this turned into two new logo designs. The ray design is a more playful pattern, though, I tried to keep it serious (I like especially the black versions of these new designs).

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realy nice designs heelX but i´m missing the "3D" part in your screens

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Thanks, but do you really miss it? I heared so many people saying that they dont like that 3D "part" of my designs. Uhm, maybe I'll do it tomorrow to suit your needs ... originally I thought that the problem for rejecting my other entries would be that they are "a bit" or totally 3D. So I even considered when preparing my final entry-portfolio, that I'll do as well all logos vector based in 2D for print media as well. MAN! you are confusing me.

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I made a new bulb concept and this turned into two new logo designs. The ray design is a more playful pattern, though, I tried to keep it serious (I like especially the black versions of these new designs).

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I hope you like, enjoy!

Cheers and a nice one,
Christian

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I dont know but exactly in this very second I'm missing Ulilillia. Where is he?

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@HeelX: Can you mix your Ray-background pattern with your 3d-style logos, please? I would like to see how it looks.

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When I just made the white ray pattern into 3D, I realized that it looks dumb. So I played with some materials and added a nice mac style - background pattern to it. I like especially the shiny surface of the red plate and the ray-frame which is brushed metal.



Should I convert the black version too? [EDIT] NO, I won't. In black it looks really really dumb.

Enjoy! and have a good one!
Cheers, Christian

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When I just made the white ray pattern into 3D, I realized that it looks dumb. So I played with some materials and added a nice mac style - background pattern to it. I like especially the shiny surface of the red plate and the ray-frame which is brushed metal.

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It looks good, but those details you mention are hardly visible, I also doubt if it will be when this will be converted to 8-bit as a start-up screen.

Some last entries of mine;

White one:

Black one:


Cheers

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It looks good, but those details you mention are hardly visible, I also doubt if it will be when this will be converted to 8-bit as a start-up screen.

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Thank you!

I dont see your problem: I use only greyscale colors and a bit red. In my graphics application I am used to I can use some tricky 8bit color conversion algorithms to make it as optimized as possible. Look, here is my last entry in 8bit. You were right, it was too bright, so I darkened it a bit and raised the contrast:


If you dont believe it: its a GIF with true an 8bit colortable! Download it and see yourself. So, in fact all of my entries are designed to have smooth color transitions for style reasons, but not so many colors, so that 8bit versions suck. OK, the image which would be used on the starter or in the tools will be smaller, but if the "8bit-quality" is on my big versions high enough I doubt that the quality will be bad on smaller sized versions.

Hm.. I like my shiny little red plate I will have a look if it looks good as well on my other entries

Cheers and a have a good one!
Christian

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I see some typical "GIF" color artifacts on the transitionsof the background. Well, no matter, I guess the 8bit version would'nt have the background instead of a tga splashscreen ingame or so.. whatever.

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This is hilarous! Here is a blue version with added bulb Just kiddin'..