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Geek Culture / Christmas Card Competition 2009

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RickV
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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 15:29 Edited at: 21st Nov 2009 15:32
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Hi all,

*** Update: Deadline is Sunday 12pm GMT. Sorry for the confusion.

Want to design the TGC Christmas card?

Then why not enter this online competition?

Just design a Christmas card with some kind of connection to The Game Creators.

The only restriction is that it must be family friendly 3+

The winner will receive 10 TGC products and a copy of their Xmas card signed by the team.

The deadline is short. All entries must be posted into this thread no later than 12pm GMT Sunday 22nd November.

It should be 6 x 4" (inches) in size. In pixel terms, at 300 dpi that is 1800 x 1200 pixels. We'd accept 150 dpi too though (half the values). You can design it in either portrait or landscape, up to you.

We ran a comp like this three years ago see here.

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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 16:02
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Will give it a try

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Gotta give it a try.

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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 16:42 Edited at: 9th Nov 2009 16:43
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Well here is my 2 minute attempt as I cannot do art work lol



Yours
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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 16:46
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By the way,once I attach the picture to my post,can I repost an improved one?

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Haha, newton, that was great.
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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 22:16 Edited at: 9th Nov 2009 22:33
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Here is my attempt.

Lalala

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Quote: "Haha, newton, that was great. "


Actually, I find that pretty insulting, being a Christian.
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I'll think you'll find that the picture i have used is di vincis interpretation of the last super, thus it is not insulting christianity, it is insulting di vincis art work.

lets be honest jesus wasnt white.

but anyways, its only a joke, its not like i did anything other the top, all a bit of fun

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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 23:33 Edited at: 10th Nov 2009 00:28
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@Lemonade
Seriously... Don't be so serious! You can be religious and still have a sense of humour about it.

Who was it who just said this?
Quote: "Grow up please! It was a JOKE. If you can't take jokes\sarcasm, then you have no right to be on this forum..."


You are taking offense when none was intended. If no offense was intended, and you know this, then can the image really be offensive?


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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 23:56 Edited at: 9th Nov 2009 23:57
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That was entirely different. In that situation, the guy couldn't even take criticism on his project. On a *programming* forum.

You can joke about anything you want, just not my religion. Even the AUP agrees with me...
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Posted: 9th Nov 2009 23:59
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I think youll find you started the religious debate, so your breaching the AUP

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Wow take a chill pill guys

Quote: "I think youll find you started the religious debate, so your breaching the AUP"


Actually you started the religious debate, by posting your picture in the first place.


Quote: "You can joke about anything you want, just not my religion. Even the AUP agrees with me"


Yes, its true. I agree with you, it is insulting (I'm a christian too) but if you don't like it, you don't have to post about it.

Lets keep this thread on topic

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Posted: 10th Nov 2009 00:19 Edited at: 10th Nov 2009 00:20
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Quote: " You can joke about anything you want, just not my religion. Even the AUP agrees with me..."


Come on, he took a famous piece of art and did something funny with it. It wasn't (from what I can see) meant to bash your religion.

This is getting intense. I'm going to pull out before I get slapped again
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Lemonade
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Quote: "This is getting intense. I'm going to pull out before I get slapped again "


Actually, I think we have all calmed down...

@Zack, Newton, and Diggsey

Sry, I guess I got a bit carried away. I mean, its still insulting to me, but I shouldn't have posted. So let's forget about this and move on!
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Posted: 10th Nov 2009 02:02 Edited at: 10th Nov 2009 02:03
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This.



A mod accidentally your signature

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OK heres mine.Its not final.Might add a thing or two.

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Nice one Lukas

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this is my CARD HOPE I WIN :p

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hm, what about a programming competition? The second design-compo in such a short timeperiod already and we are in a game programming forum.


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Quote: "we are in a game programming forum."

No we aren't. We're in a game design forum.

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Posted: 14th Nov 2009 05:29 Edited at: 14th Nov 2009 05:35
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Merry Christmas, (in 2 months)

Heres a Present, A DarkBasic Christmas Animated Desktop, (See Attached).
Its much better than a card which you just through away, Run the EXE, Then look at your Desktop.

Source is Included, Save it as a .SCR, and it would make a good ScreenSaver

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Here's an entry that I whipped up. Just for some fun.

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@ mson
It just loads a black window? havn't looked at the source tho, plus this thread is about xmas cards, not random programs lol.

Tho i do believe our time would be better spent doing a christmas game, not card, but ohwel.

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Here is my entry.

[url=http://steamcard.com/]

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Quote: "@ mson
It just loads a black window? havn't looked at the source tho, plus this thread is about xmas cards, not random programs lol."


It wasn't the DB Window to look at, but an animated desktop Christmas Message with Falling Snow and a Plane towing a Message, I would of used a Santa's Slay instead, but i made it in about 5 minutes, and couldn't be bothered downloading a Slay Sprite
(See Attached Pic)

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here is my attemt, its very simpleXD




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Here is what I have so far, I might make some changes.
EDIT: Now its smaller(file size) and I toned down the sharpen tool.
C&C would be awesome btw.

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*Double Post*
Here's a better one.
This is my final entry, good luck all.

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Is the deadline Sunday or the 20th?
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Here is my 10 minute attempt definitely a WIP, probably won't have time to finish, but here you go.(if anybody wants to take my idea, they are welcome)
I had planned to have awesome presents under the tree like fps creator, dark basic pro, ect.


Download Failed...

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o, lol, good catch cjb. What is the real time this comp ends?

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This is my 15 Min. entry



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I felt like giving this thing a shot, so here's my entry(full size is attached):


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I am going to have a go at this if I can find some of the TGC logos and art works, is there somewhere I can download the game creators logo, also the other artworks for TGC and their products.

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CLOSING DATE QUERY ???
Whats the real closing date?
A) Friday 20th November
or
B) Sunday 22nd November

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Quote: "12pm GMT Sunday 20th November."

Grand master time, as in, the time in dear old blighty.
Now someone point me at The Game Creators font logo, so I can do my completely and utterly splendid design.

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Fallen one, here may be what you are looking for: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_pic.php?i=1029770

Thanks
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Thanks, its got transparency as well, that will do perfect, TGC should have a repository of their logos for their products, it makes it handy for things like this, or if people want to use them to make banners for links and such like.

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Quote: "Grand master time, as in, the time in dear old blighty.
Now someone point me at The Game Creators font logo, so I can do my completely and utterly splendid design.
"


Greenwich mean time, and the 20th is friday.

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Is the card allowed to feature the gamecreators logo?

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Here is my attempt at the competition

I might make another one today.

This image is just a preview - Click view for full 300dpi resolution.



Mnemonix

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Hi guys!I just found out about this contest and find it quite cool to try it out

here's my entry

hope you like

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One day left, I picked it late to start, so here we go with mine.



The logo isn't as nice as Id like, I had to use one from TGC site, and it wasn't that big, so I had to run a jpg repair and add lots of grain, so would be nice to have a higher rez version to perfect it if this design is chosen.

Here is a second



Here is the third one



Forth, this one was done with the help of a PS tutorial, the second part allows me to turn it into an animated screensaver.



Number 5 and and the final one from me.



Do I get my Crackerjack pen and a Blue Peter badge?

Ive posted smaller versions into the thread as otherwise it would dominate all the thread space. zip file to full size psd for all cards is is here 16mb file
[href]http://www.avantivitastudios.com/images/TGC contest card designs.zip[/href]

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Hi, here is my entry:

I started with drawing a picture by pencil (not copied) and scanned it to my computer, painted and edited it with Jasc PSP9. Only The Game Creators logo and those programgifts were taken there. I wanted something older with Santa Claus (It may be too large picture)

Thanks,
Turtle Productions

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Here's an entry by me. It's rather simple, but it works

Also, i figure we should be allowed to nominate an image to be the post card. I nominate these two images:

In commemoration of Ravey's service during the war of electricity eaters.


And also this



...just 'cuz.

Also, just a quick question; can bonanza packs be picked as one of the ten items? I would imagine not, but just clarifying.

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blarg! edited and it posted another one!

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Looks like i'm just in the nick of time to show off my final entry. Got up at 7am but in the end I just run out of time. Hope you guys like it



Mnemonix

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One more for the sack.

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err, my picture didnt show up unless you "VIEW" it.
How do you get your pics to show directly in the thread?

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