[game_preservation] SIG Icon and theme

[Andrew Armstrong]

Okay, here we go, my pixel-art creative skill pushed to it's limits. 
I've put up some concepts for 2 of them (since I can't be bothered to do 
more just now) the Diskette (3.5" floppy) and Pixel Man + Belljar.

http://aarmstrong.org/gallery/v/projects/preslogos/

There's all my iterations of the idea - the "better" belljar is better 
because the other one didn't scale down well (the sides of the jar 
disappear!), but I think the better one needs the "top" sorted. The 
disks were pretty simple and do stand out well. The variation of IGDA 
swirl and a possible "P" for "Preservation" is there, but can be altered 
- we could put our entire name there if the lettering looked good enough 
at smaller resolutions.

I also made a mistake on the diskette I just realised, the label is one 
pixel too small on the right side, oops! Pixel art does work well 
though, it's nice and distinct and retro-y.

I'm game for doing more - anyone have more specific examples? I did want 
to do a joystick, but I don't know exactly what Devin means by "Generic 
Joystick" (I can give it a shot of course). As for Vectrex stuff etc., 
I've no idea what any of the good stuff looks like. Source pictures welcome!

If anyone is better at pixel art and so can do better then me, or has 
any feedback, it's welcome - I think "P" works well for "Preservation". 
I'm also only looking at the icon at the moment, I suggest that we have 
an icon then put next to it "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" in a suitable 
font (possibly using the IGDA font to keep it simple).

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> It's possible that some product icons might be available for our use. 

> I'm thinking, for example, of the old Epyx "thinker". Also, I believe 

> that anything connected to Vectrex is in public domain, and there 

> might be some cool images there. But it's probably also true that 

> something generic, not tied to a product or company, would be a better 

> expression of the SIG's goals anyway.

> Another thought, something that ties the idea of an archive to games, 

> like (copyrights aside), dropping Pac-Man into a storage box -- hmm, 

> that's horrible, but you get what I mean.

>

> Like Andrew, don't count on me for graphics ...

>

> Henry

>

>

>

> Devin Monnens wrote:

>> You know, I photoshopped a bunch of videogame icons in bell jars for 

>> business cards a few years back when I did a presentation on game 

>> preservation. I can dig some of those up when I get off work. The 

>> thing to keep in mind though is that the Space Invader is copyrighted 

>> by Taito... So a joystick or even a generic pixel man might be better.

>>

>> I'm thinking though that our icon should be similar to others used by 

>> IGDA SIGs. I'll forward this to my brother as well as he's in graphic 

>> design; maybe he's got some ideas :)

>>

>> -Devin

>>

>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

>> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>>

>> I'm not too good on visual ideas or I wouldn't ask, I'd suggest ;)

>>

>> Bell jar, awesome, I remember those, hehe. Atari Joysticks are

>> pretty classic too as an icon, as is a space invader.

>>

>> The featherduster/dust, perhaps not, since I really don't think

>> this is a dusty group of old people doing this ;-)

>>

>> I'll try and think of some ideas. We do kinda need an artist for

>> this, but I can try my leet GIMP skills at editing some

>> photographs or pixel art to try these ideas. Full photographs

>> wouldn't be a great idea I think, if we really want a true icon.

>>

>> Could put the icon on the right of the classic IGDA swirl or have

>> the swirl as the background or incorporated somehow if anyone has

>> any ideas on that angle.

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>>

>> ommail at cox.net <mailto:ommail at cox.net> wrote:

>>> Hi All.

>>>

>>> I know I'm the new guy, but I just wanted to throw out some 

>>> ideas...get the creative juices flowing...

>>>

>>> Andrew is right--text with the IGDA logo is boring. A graphic would 

>>> be preferrable. I think that having a theme focusing on the words 

>>> 'game' and 'preservation' should be followed:

>>> a space invader inside a bell jar?

>>> a 5.25 disk with a cobweb, and a featherduster?

>>> An open vault door, with atari joysticks spilling out?

>>>

>>> Do any of these have any merit?

>>> (sorry--just musing...)

>>>

>>> Joe

>>>

>>> ---- Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> 

>>> <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

>>>> Hey all,

>>>>

>>>> My last newsletter got me thinking - if we're publicising anything 

>>>> (and the IGDA is being updated eventually, we hope to a better 

>>>> setup) we really need something to easily display who we are. Most 

>>>> of the other SIG's have a good icon, perhaps we need one too.

>>>>

>>>> Anyone here have any ideas what it should be? Anyone here able to 

>>>> put a design forward?

>>>>

>>>> Here are the other SIG's that I could find, all of them are varied 

>>>> in their design.

>>>>

>>>> http://igda.org/education/img/Topc.jpg

>>>> http://www.igda.org/wiki/images/9/9a/SIG_Logo1_small_text.jpg

>>>> http://www.igda.org/mobile/images/header.gif

>>>> http://www.igda.org/qa/images/QASIG.jpg

>>>> http://www.igda.org/women/images/header_new01.jpg

>>>> http://gwsig.quantumcontent.com/images/personalheader.jpg

>>>>

>>>> If we're going to be boring, doing it as the mobile guys have (some 

>>>> text next to the standard IGDA header) would probably work. I'd be 

>>>> also interested if anyone has any theme ideas for colour schemes or 

>>>> site layouts - I'm beta testing the new IGDA site and will 

>>>> investigate what we can change (and complain a lot if we can't, 

>>>> since I want to make a site at least as good as the QA site! 

>>>> <http://www.igda.org/qa/>)

>>>>

>>>> If no one comes forwards, I'll put forward my own ideas, although 

>>>> since I'm no graphic artist, it'll be of limited imagination and 

>>>> competence :)

>>>>

>>>> Thanks all,

>>>>

>>>> Andrew

>>

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