Nintendo Penguin Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 Okay, due to popular demand, VintageGamer.net is holding a logo contest for our future home at VintageGamer.com. Everyone is welcome to enter, here are the rules and requirements: 1. Image size must be no greater than 500 x 100 pixels in gif or jpeg format 2. Your entry must be posted here: http://www.vintagegamer.net/boards/phpBB2/...topic.php?t=262 3. 1 entry per person. 4. Image should have a tranparent background, so it will be easy to put in other places with no modifications. 5. Somewhere, the Image should read as follows: "VintageGamer.com" & "The Official Website of the Nintendo Generation" 6. Should blend nicely with current color scheme on the VG message boards. The contest winner will recieve a free VintageGamer.com T-Shirt featuring their logo. T-Shirts will be available in-time for the Classic Gaming Expo in August. Those are the rules.... if you have any questions, please PM here or at VG. Contest Ends on May 15, 2003 Mark Magana - VintageGamer.com Webmaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhindle The Red Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 Sorry. I'm morally opposed to identifying the vintage gaming generation with just Nintendo. Now, "The Atari Generation", I could see..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 4. Image should have a tranparent background, so it will be easy to put in other places with no modifications. Initially that sounds like a good idea, but to do transparancies you have to use a .gif image which limits the total colors to 256. Unless there is some other graphic format that web browsers can read that will do more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisjohn Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 PNG supports an alpha channel, but most browsers choke on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisjohn Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 Well, the dimensions lead to more of a banner than a logo as such, but I've submitted my entry: That should keep me going until the next label compo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendo Penguin Posted April 24, 2003 Author Share Posted April 24, 2003 #4 seems to be a bit of a problem..... toss it out if you wish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisjohn Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 #4 seems to be a bit of a problem..... toss it out if you wish I think it's just that most people don't know how to get rid of that black, white or whatever fringe 'round the edges of a transparent GIF. There's a bit of an art to it and you have to be willing to zoom in all the way. I usually work with a bright pink background if I'm doing a transparent image, so that any fringe is very obvious. Just so that no-one can complain too loudly about the software you need for this, I did my entry using Photoshop 3.0.5, not 7 or 8. Chances are it's been given away on a cover disc by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Sorry. I'm morally opposed to identifying the vintage gaming generation with just Nintendo. Now, "The Atari Generation", I could see..... Although I am a huge Nintendo fan, I must agree, Nintendo doesnt represent all vintage gaming to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Although I am a huge Nintendo fan, I must agree, Nintendo doesnt represent all vintage gaming to me Just because we love Nintendo doesn't mean we're biased against other consoles. Just like Modern Gaming and Classic Gaming on AtariAge, you can freely discuss other systems on our boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirdbird Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 had a bit of time, hope you like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 i like the neon sign look of that logo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirdbird Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 thanks! I was trying to match the background to their existing blue/grey header at the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirdbird Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 dorry to break your 1 entry rule, but hoped you could bend the rule just this once, as I kept playing around and came up with this one. Probably more descriptive of your site. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 dorry to break your 1 entry rule, but hoped you could bend the rule just this once, as I kept playing around and came up with this one. Probably more descriptive of your site. Thanks! I know the final decision is Mark's alone, but if I had to vote for one right now it would be yours HANDS DOWN. That's killer sweet. I want to put that on a bumper sticker and slap it on my car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Initially that sounds like a good idea, but to do transparancies you have to use a .gif image which limits the total colors to 256. Unless there is some other graphic format that web browsers can read that will do more? the NES seemed to do just fine with a limited color pallette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorlaxnut Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Contest is over. Felt like taking my entry off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maibock Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Someone help me out here please.. Why does Vintagegamer come to AA to get people to design things for his site? I'm honestly not trying to start anything, but just curious, since most sites don't appreciate people trying to drum up traffic for someone elses site.. If there a mutual agreement, well that's cool and all, but these constant pleas for support from the vintage gamer people seems a bit out of place.. like I said, it could be that I just don't understand the relationship here.. Thanks in advance for the enlightnement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Although I am a huge Nintendo fan, I must agree, Nintendo doesnt represent all vintage gaming to me Just because we love Nintendo doesn't mean we're biased against other consoles. Just like Modern Gaming and Classic Gaming on AtariAge, you can freely discuss other systems on our boards. Whoa there! I love Nintendo a whole bunch, Im a rabid Nintendo in fact, specially if you see me defend the Cube and the Modern gaming boards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendo Penguin Posted May 8, 2003 Author Share Posted May 8, 2003 About posting the contest here..... It is posted at VG as well. I posted it here for two reasons: 1. Many VG users also post a AA, so the traffic thing shouldn't really be an issue. 2. VG deals with Nintendo, not Atari. So I didn't really think anyone would be offened. Besides, I figured since AA has so many more members, it would be a much better chance of getting some awesome entires! Hope this clears things up, and again, it wasn't VG's intention to "steal" traffic or offend anyone. I just thought some creative souls would be interested. (Besides, the winner gets a free t-shirt!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy_Dude Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 I love thirdbird's color scheme and those elipses I tried to borrow them but the elipses didn't work out... how did you do that? Anyway, I'm changing my official entry, I think this one stands up on its own a lot better than the ones I posted at VG. And I threw some other concepts in here just for fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 like I said, it could be that I just don't understand the relationship here.. Why shouldn't two sites with a mutual love of classic consoles and retro gaming help each other out? I'm proud to be a member of both, and I think having the logo design contest on both sites promotes the idea that it's a contest for EVERYONE, so even if you're not a regular member of the boards you can still win. Of course if you want to join, nobody's going to tell you not to either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirdbird Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 I love thirdbird's color scheme and those elipses I tried to borrow them but the elipses didn't work out... how did you do that? Anyway, I'm changing my official entry, I think this one stands up on its own a lot better than the ones I posted at VG. And I threw some other concepts in here just for fun hmm, those look vaguely familiar... Is this a joke? You just changed the font. I'm not a VG poster but figured someone could grab my entries and post them for me somehow, not take them and call them their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerGnome Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 yeah.. I gotta agree with thirdbird on this.. there should bedifining individual entiries, not reworking of others entiries. if that were the case there wouldve been an official template to be refined by the participants. and the contest would be based around that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 Someone help me out here please.. Why does Vintagegamer come to AA to get people to design things for his site? I'm honestly not trying to start anything, but just curious, since most sites don't appreciate people trying to drum up traffic for someone elses site.. If there a mutual agreement, well that's cool and all, but these constant pleas for support from the vintage gamer people seems a bit out of place.. like I said, it could be that I just don't understand the relationship here.. Thanks in advance for the enlightnement Look at it this way: Vintagegamer offers a place for people to talk about Nintendo. It's less work for the moderators here because that's less posts about Nintendo that they have to scan in the Classic Gaming General and Modern Gaming forums. Less work for the Als, CPU and every other moderator! Vintagegamer is still new so give it some time. It will not steal traffic from Atariage because a lot of people tend to post at more than one forum(I post a 3 different forums, AA, Vintagegamer and PlanetPS2) and it will actually help people from across forums to discover new places to post. Vintagegamer also has unique topics that possibly aren't discussed here at Atariage, like some really neat off-topic forums and forums dedicated to all of Nintendos consoles and handhelds. In my opinion, it's a win-win situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 I like Thirdbird's logo the best..and I'm not saying this just to kiss ass. It actually looks really to the point. I'm also partial to the one with the Sega-style font..but it would look out of place in a Nintendo related forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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