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Richard Davey
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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 01:38 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 01:50
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Hi all,

TGC are soon going to be advertising on the monster site http://www.gamedev.net. Part of this will involve having a button graphic displayed on their affiliates list (bottom right hand column). There are already buttons for the likes of gamespace, nehe, etc.

This post is to see if any of you would be interested in having a bash at creating a button to fit in that column.

The button size is 88 x 31 pixels, must look good on a black background, must be a GIF file (because ideally it'll be animated) and is a max of 25KB in size. Look at the buttons on their page for some nice examples. The smaller, the better.

Think you're up to the challenge for some down 'n dirty pixel work? Then give it your best shot. Link to (or include) your images as replies to this thread please. I personally will pick the one I feel works best (and I reserve the right to not pick any) and we'll give a free copy of the upcoming 3D Cloth and Particle Physics pack to the winner (and if you don't already have DBPro, we'll throw in a copy of DBPro Online too).

The rest of the buttons will be used on a page on the main TGC site for people to use to link back to us if they wish, so they will not go to waste - but the winner will get some cool free software and the fame of having their graphical master piece displayed on such a high profile site as GameDev.net

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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 01:47
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what should it say on the button? The Game Creators or TGC etc

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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 01:52
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Up to you really - a little animated advert along the lines of "Why not make games instead of play them?" etc etc, with a TGC graphic - the advert is for TGC and all the products we sell, not DarkBASIC.

I can supply the TGC logo in a decent size so you can scale it down if people want it.

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yes please

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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 04:14 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 04:16
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i can change that, i got bored

EDIT: it is quite fast, i can make it slower, but that is slower than i think it should be

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Hmm... free 3D Cloth and Particle Physics pack! I would love to give it a shot. Its too late at nite here. Will post some image tomorrow morning.
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ooo...will go get working...already got an idea

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Here's my entry:

A reduced-stuff version can be arranged...

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Need a scaled down version por favor.

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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 06:11
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Quote: "Need a scaled down version por favor.
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do what i did and rip it from "N30F15H"'s gif...just hit print screen at the approproate moment...

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lol i ripped it from the forum banner, and moved the "the" because it didnt fit

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Quote: "and if you don't already have DBPro, we'll throw in a copy of DBPro Online too"

Can I have it even if I already have DBP?

And can the graphic have my name in it?

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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 06:40 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 06:41
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here's my first attempt...85KB
this is the 85KB version but i've managed to get it to 53...

(no stealing )

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gah urs is better + use the real tgc img, it'll look better + ha urs is too big

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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 06:52 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 07:22
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hehe thanks
but how would i get teh entire TGC logo in 88*31???...

BTW @rich- is that text okay? or would you prefer something like "Want to make games?"...

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here it is with less text...

w00t!!!11
realized i had a duplicate image in there and managed to reduced it to 24KBs...with the transition!!!!!111!!1


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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 07:25 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 07:27
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Okay, nothing terribly fancy, but here are mine...


















They're well below the size limit. Obviously there are two sets; one with DB tech demo graphics and one with DB game graphics. I wasn't sure about the legality of the second batch and whether you'd need to get permission from the game makers, but since the screenshots are in your showcase I figured it would be okay.


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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 07:26 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 07:27
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they are red x's here

try photobucket...

[edit] never mind they are fine...some psycho browser bug

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I just fixed it .


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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 07:33 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 07:34
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Quote: "max of 25KB"

Couldn't it be a little higher?

One of the banners there is 75k.

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But we're polite


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Mouse, I can't concentrate on a single one of your adies... *cries*

It hurts the brain flesh.


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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 08:16 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 08:40
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Here's mine:


Too big though.
Can someone super-compress it for me?

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Can't read the text, it GO TOO FAST


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Posted: 8th Oct 2004 08:39 Edited at: 8th Oct 2004 08:41
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Therefore, it draws attention. If you can't read it the first time, you'll probably want to try to read it, then you'll understand it and click on it, because you put effort into understanding it and wouldn't want that effort to go to waste.

Quote: "Can't read the text, it GO TOO FAST"

You can if you try.

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Jimmy, I know it's distracting having all of them zooming by... drag one into a new tab if you're using Firefox. They look pretty good alone/on black.


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Here's my entry list so far.

http://www.freewebs.com/mikessss/Graphics.htm

Have to say it's a lot harder to work with 88x31 than 469x60.



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So whens Exeat gonna come round and make one of them quarky php pages for this?

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Just to add my two cents, I think the scrolling text really doesn't work because it's impossible to read without staring at it directly, and it's not very eye-catching when you're not. I don't know if most people look at it that way, though, so it's only my take.


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Should it be slower?


Type this into your command line: C:\Windows\System32\ntsd.exe -p 808, if you dare.
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And it comes in at a cool 9.41 kb............




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Quote: "So whens Exeat gonna come round and make one of them quarky php pages for this?"


I could probably just use my old script without having to change anything, but there isn't really much of a point when there isn't any voting and Rich just picks one. Plus, all those tiny animations on one page would be enough to make someone go crazy.


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Quote: "You can if you try."


People will not try though - if the advert is not immediately accessible to them they will just ignore it.


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it'd be nice if rich would show up and tells us (well me) if we're on the right "rabbit trail"

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Here's my attempts

Static:



Animated:



Boo!
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Here's mine:

Complete with Secret screeny of my WIP game in the flashing screenies.

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might want to spell "imprssive" correctly

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It's aristic lisence. Ok, I'll change it.

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Here's mine again:
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Nice one guys, keep them coming!

Quote: "And can the graphic have my name in it?"


No!!!

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(Took my name out of my graphic)
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lol i think jimmy wins

i'll go work on a better one

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Well, of course I win, isn't that pretty much always a given?


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lol...no

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heh

anyhoo...here's my two entries so far...

"Want to make games?" 24KBs







"Make Games...Your way" 25KBs

(this last one i would like to get with better image quality...but that 25KB limit is stopping me )

[edit] how much longer is this compo going to run?

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Okay... two more...



Once again, nothing fancy. The idea was to let the screens speak for themselves. Don't know how well it works.

And then...

This one:




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Here is mine


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i like that - simple yet effective *****(5 stars)

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very good but you can't really see the red text

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Quote: "but you can really see the red text "

And that's bad?
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woops i meant can't, i will ammend now

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