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by **icycalm** » 12 Mar 2010 23:39

They look great man, it's really growing on me: check the Arkham Asylum review:

http://insomnia.ac/reviews/xbox360/batmanarkhamasylum/

And the wireframe one will come in hand with ASCII games (like ADOM, from the review subforum, which I plan to post soon) and older wireframe games and such. Awesome stuff.

by **ronan** » 13 Mar 2010 00:35

I have put all the logos together on the first page of the thread, with more color variations just in case.

by **icycalm** » 13 Mar 2010 01:17

Awesome, thanks! I might try some of the new ones tomorrow.

by **icycalm** » 13 Mar 2010 01:26

I was really apprehensive about shouting at you in the other thread. I don't know what I'd do if you got pissed off and left!

by **icycalm** » 13 Mar 2010 13:53

You know, I have come to the conclusion that Famicom logo just does not work. It's just too damn ugly! No doubt that's why Nintendo also stopped using it.

So I think perhaps we should do the same, otherwise all Famicom reviews will end up looking ugly. Do you think you can try making a "Family Computer" logo similar to the "Nintendo Entertainment System" one?

by **ronan** » 13 Mar 2010 19:37

by **icycalm** » 13 Mar 2010 23:19

Used the white one for now, but this might change. I also updated the Choujin Sentai review with new logos. Good stuff.

by **ronan** » 14 Mar 2010 00:23

Now I realize that the logo is not well centered and is not very easy to read. Is this better?

I should pay more attention, it would save time for both of us...

by **icycalm** » 15 Mar 2010 00:39

Fixed. No worries about the edits. Sometimes they can't be avoided. I am still editing articles I wrote years back...

by **icycalm** » 15 Mar 2010 18:19

I've got a PS3 review coming up -- any chance you might take those borders off for me from the logos? I mean, I can do it again on my own with MS Paint, but it would be nice if you sat down and did all of them carefully -- also because I would like to upload all the logos to my servers in one go at some point. Currently I am just hotlinking whatever hosting service you are using, and those are not very reliable.

Another thing, I am making a Videogame Art section:

http://insomnia.ac/reviews/videogame_art/

What I'd like is if it would be possible to remove the "Dualshock 2" logo from the joypad in the header -- because this is a general gaming page and not a PS2- or Sony-specific one...

Let me know what you can do...

by **ronan** » 15 Mar 2010 19:31

I will let you know when I am finished with the logos. (Just hope that my son does not come to life too soon =P)

by **icycalm** » 15 Mar 2010 21:18

A kid, huh. Everyone's having kids these days. I, on the other, get depressed just hearing about it. So bon courage, man -- I am sure you'll need it. :)

Thanks for the quick turn-around. I'll be using the banner asap, but I am asking the dude with the PS3 review (Heavy Rain) to rewrite it, so we'll see how long that takes.

As for the other logos, take your time. I am not in a hurry at all.

by **ronan** » 19 Mar 2010 00:45

I attempted to make headers for Third Strike (best game in spite of better ones, according to the mother of your new essayist).

If you know better artworks, let me know...

Also, I sent you all the logos by email yesterday. I hope you got them.

by **icycalm** » 19 Mar 2010 02:32

Got the logos! But I'll upload them sometime after finishing the next article and getting some sleep.

Also uploaded the headers. They both look great, I think. It's nice to have some news now and then. I've grown quite tired of most of the old ones, regardless of how good they look.

by **icycalm** » 20 Mar 2010 14:42

I haven't looked at the zipped logos yet, but I am laying out the page for a DOS game review, and I used your IBM PC logo because you haven't given me a DOS one. Are there even any DOS logos around?

Here is the page:

http://insomnia.ac/reviews/pc/ancientdomainsofmystery/

The no-frame IBM PC logo you have in the first page of this thread is not well-centered, and is also a bit too large, so I took the framed one and removed the frame with MS Paint, which looks much better -- although I am still not sure if it's perfectly centered...

So basically I am doing just fine with what I have right now, but if you could fix the IBM logo at some point and also make a DOS one perhaps, that would be great. You could then modify the zipped file and re-send it to me, or just post them here and I'll add them myself.

by **icycalm** » 20 Mar 2010 15:05

Actually, the first version of the game was for Linux, so I used the little penguin instead -- which was really cool because I really like it and wanted to use it but I doubted whether any game was originally developed for this OS, let alone a masterpiece such as this.

As for the PC and DOS logos, keep them in mind for future updates, but there's no rush...

by **El Chaos** » 21 Mar 2010 20:23

icycalm wrote:Are there even any DOS logos around?

Maybe the pifmgr.dll file icon can be used to that end?

by **icycalm** » 21 Mar 2010 22:32

ChaosAngelZero wrote:Maybe the pifmgr.dll file icon can be used to that end?

I've no idea what this is. Is it the thing you linked? If so, are there any non-pixelated versions of it?

Another thing we could use is a logo for browser (web) games like Canabalt... These are not dependent on any particular hardware -- they will work on any device that can handle a browser...

by **ronan** » 22 Mar 2010 00:45

Here are some MS-DOS logos (I am not sure if the design of the first two is exactly official):

As for the world-wide web logo, here are: the historical logo, a globe and and a spider web...

And another PC logo:

by **icycalm** » 22 Mar 2010 01:09

The spider's web is inspired! Really awesome stuff.

As for the DOS ones, I'll figure out which I prefer whenever someone ends up reviewing the first DOS game.

Edit: Why does the PC logo have a black margin on the right? Looking at your other logos, it should either have no margins at all or on both the right and the left sides...

by **ronan** » 22 Mar 2010 01:14

Fixed:

by **ronan** » 24 Mar 2010 01:54

And an attempt for a Daimakaimura header. I find it a bit too "busy". Maybe I should remove some stuff from the right part, such as the first boss and the head at the bottom...

by **icycalm** » 24 Mar 2010 16:21

Yeah, it's not going to work unfortunately. It's mostly to do with the artwork though, not with your header.

Perhaps if you tried the cover of the Mega Drive port? It is an awesome cover, and the port itself was also awesome, so it would definitely be a good fit for the frontpage...

And have you thought about trying one for Strider too? There is this awesome scan on gamengai:

http://www.gamengai.com/bn_inf.php?id=2329&type=0

It is small, but perhaps it could work if rotated a bit and slightly enlarged...

And then there is again the cover of the Mega Drive port, which actually looks even better.

by **icycalm** » 27 Mar 2010 20:16

I am working on a KOFXII review with one of the guys from SRK, and we should have it ready in a day or two. Any chance you might do a Type X2 logo? If not we can always use the coins...

by **ronan** » 27 Mar 2010 21:18

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