Games

[ronan]

This thread contains the headers and logos I make for this site, in order for Alex to find them more easily, and for you to give comments and suggestions.

[ronan]

HEADERS WITH LOGO

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2


CYBORG JUSTICE


KAGE NO DENSETSU -THE LEGEND OF KAGE 2-
added logo


CONTRA: THE HARD CORPS
current

proposal


TEAM FORTRESS 2


SOUKOU KIHEI VOTOMS
current

rejected


KETSUI: DEATH LABEL
added logo


HALF-LIFE


DEUS EX


METAL SLUG


RASTAN SAGA
rejected because of suckage =D


HERZOG ZWEI


FFXII
added logo


NEW SUPER MARIO BROS


MAX PAYNE

added logo

[ronan]

HEADERS WITHOUT LOGO

DEUS EX


PLANESCAPE: TORMENT


FAR CRY


DEAD RISING


MASTER OF MAGIC


MAX PAYNE
rejected?


R-TYPE

rejected


GEARS OF WAR


GEKKA NO KENSHI 2


KILLER 7


STREET FIGHTER III: THIRD STRIKE



MONKEY ISLAND


ACCENT CORE



STARCRAFT


DDP: DOJ BL


IBARA


SHIN SAMURAI SPIRITS


CIVILIZATION


GRAND THEFT AUTO 3


SPACEWAR!

[ronan]

OTHER HEADERS

PC GAME PIRACY


TSUNEKI IKEDA INTERVIEW IN N-PRO DDP: DOJ BL DVD BOOKLET (2007)


HFD INTERVIEW IN N-PRO DDP: DOJ BL DVD BOOKLET (2007)

[ronan]

THUMBNAILS

rejected

[ronan]

INSOMNIA LOGOS

[ronan]

SYSTEM LOGOS

To be put on the left of the Insomnia logo. The system logos and the Insomnia logos all have the same height of 60 pixels, with 10-pixel black margin at the top and at the bottom. The system logos should be as big as possible within limits of 40 pixels in height and 80 pixels in width. There is no right nor left margin.


ARCADE


CUSTOM


WEB-BASED


NINTENDO



SEGA


SNK


NEC


SONY


MICROSOFT


AMIGA (old logo)


SHARP


PC

[icycalm]

The Deus Ex header is awesome, I added it to the frontpage folder. If you can throw a logo on it I'll use that for the review page.

I see we also already have a PC Engine logo, so we can use that for Recap's Ys review if making a CD-ROM2 logo proves too difficult.

Awesome work overall. I've no idea what I would have done without all this stuff. Thanks, man.

[icycalm]

Updated these two:

http://insomnia.ac/reviews/pc/half-life/
http://insomnia.ac/reviews/pc/deusex/

They look great now, but there's one minor thing about the Half-Life banner. That little white thingy at the top... Maybe you could airbrush it out? It's not very important, but it just stands out a little bit since the background is black.

Another thing, Ronan: it would be a good idea to simply make new posts with the new stuff, instead of just updating the original posts. This way I can easily see when you've got something new ready, instead of having to constantly check in case you updated the original posts. I mean you can still update the original posts if you want, but I'd rather you also replied to me... Great stuff anyway!

[ronan]

Right, I will do like this. You can delete my last two posts if you want.

Little white thingy at the top removed.

[icycalm]

Done and done.

[ronan]

Edited banner for The Legend of Kage 2 (nicer shades).

[icycalm]

Much better, but can you also remove the white strand of hair on the top right? You know, the little one...

[ronan]

Done. You hate little white things at the top of a banner, don't you? By the way, the banner has the same color scheme as Insomnia.

[ronan]

And a Metal Slug banner.

[JoshF]

That's awesome.

[icycalm]

Why is the Kage header 1500x350? I hope you don't do this to all the headers -- if you blow up the image and then shrink it you it degrades in quality...

The Metal Slug one is also nice, but where did you get the artwork from? Is it from Metal Slug 1?

At any rate I placed it on a rotating folder with the old header (which I also liked), so if you refresh the page a couple of times you should see both. But make sure to confirm if the art is from Metal Slug 1...

[JoshF]

It is. It's in the art gallery on the CD versions of Metal Slug. Probably also appeared during the credits of Metal Slug X.

[ronan]

Sorry for the Kage header. I had somehow unintentionally doubled the resolution, probably because of a shortcut. Anyway, it is back to normal.

I also corrected the Half-Life and Metal Slug headers: there were some ugly pixels at the border (respectively below the face and on the left).

The Metal Slug original image is from here: http://images.mslugdb.com/ms/special/index1.html. It is said to be from the first Metal Slug. I always pay attention to that, don't worry.

By the way, I am quite surprised that you like the old Metal Slug header: not only does it feature screenshots, but the art seems to come from Metal Slug X.

[ronan]

I was thinking about a new header for Rastan Saga. What about something like this? If you like it, I will clean it.

[ronan]

I also added the old Amiga logo, and the Famicom logo.

I was not sure about the Famicom logo, but it appears on some consoles:
http://www.obsolete-tears.com/photos/Nintendo-Famicom.jpg

I could of course make a logo that says: "FAMILY COMPUTER", but I try to avoid text in the logos. That is why I prefer to use a picture of a Game Boy Advance than its official logo (just text).

I still have to find a solution for consoles such as the Playstation 3 and the Sega Mark III. The problem is that if we want all the system logos to be 40 pixels high, so that they match the Insomnia logo, they may become extremely long. Sure, I could reduce them and put them in a 40-pixel-high frame, but I don't like this solution.

But I think it would be possible to reduce the size of such logos if we use another Insomnia logo. For example, in the attempt of an Insomnia logo that I made with an eye, the height of the logo is still 40 pixels, but the height of the text is smaller. Then it would be fine, I think, to reduce the height of the logo, so that the texts "Playstation 3" or "Mark III" and "Insomnia" match.

[ronan]

PC logos and Herzog Zwei header added.

By the way, if you intend to use the new review template for all the low-res games, maybe I shouldn't spend too much time on such headers...

[icycalm]

Exactly, it's a waste of time, and I've been meaning to tell you. You are even wasting time on banners that are perfectly good (Rastan Saga) and that I never asked you to update. Anyway, I want to post many more comments in this thread and also update the site with your newer works, but am too busy trying to post the first issue of Postback EX right now (should be up within the next couple of hours, hopefully), so I'll get back to you as soon as I find a spare moment. Thanks for all the work though, I deeply appreciate it...

[ronan]

Fine, from now on, I will wait for your requests. It's just that I disliked the old headers for Metal Slug and Rastan Saga, and since these were Videogame Art, I thought it was worth a try to improve them. I also thought that the Herzog Zwei header without logo could go on the frontpage. (Unfortunately I didn't manage to make something nicer).

Anyway, I am looking forward to the first issue of Postback EX!

[icycalm]

The Metal Slug and Herzog Zwei you made are awesome -- the Rastan one sucks though :)

I'll use those two then, and when I get around to updating the reviews to the 2D template we'll find a use for the old ones, I think. One idea is to use them for the forum threads, if I can hack the forum to accept different headers for different threads. But yeah, the best thing would be for me to make a nice long list of priorities, and then you tackle them as you see fit. I'll get back to you on this soon. Good work on the logos too. I'll give you some ideas about what to do with the ones that are giving you trouble.