[game_preservation] SIG Icon and theme

[Henry Lowood]

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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