[game_preservation] SIG Icon and theme

[Devin Monnens]

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>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 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> <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.jpghttp://www.igda.org/wiki/images/9/9a/SIG_Logo1_small_text.jpghttp://www.igda.org/mobile/images/header.gifhttp://www.igda.org/qa/images/QASIG.jpghttp://www.igda.org/women/images/header_new01.jpghttp://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/> <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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