It must be an allegator. Period.

Hmm ... maybe I should try designing one. Better still, make it the next Pixelate contest. Design the Allegro mascot!

great idea .
Allegroid sound kinda mechanic to me so something mechanical/cyberisch.
Maybe something like a dragon(ie big allegator )but definatelly not organic.
Shade

We've already got Alex...

Alex is an Allegator.

Allegro web page
[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: peter ]

Johan I admire your work, which you already know because I've emailed you asking questions when you directed me to this site. Heh guess you could say that you are my mentor . Anyways I like the mascot now, but I think we should make a new mascot for the Allegro.CC site. The allegro homepage at talula.demon.co.uk can keep alex, but I say we create a mascot for this site and make it the next competition after the digger competion. Has anyone emailed the one that does the pixelate magazine to give him this idea? If not I'll do it. Not like I have anything else to do right now . But even I'd get in on that competition because I'm a fairly good comic book style and anime style artist. I like the idea for a mascot competition in Pixelate issue #8.

Johan I do believe you got the better idea. I agree just post our images here and let people vote. That is of course if Matthew will actually put it up on the site though.

Secondly, I like the image you did of Alex. Unfortunately I'm using Geocities so I'll have to make, scan, and color with art software and then post the link because of Geocities not wanting to work appropriately with Allegro.CC . Oh well I'll get to work on my idea .

Oh and Johan I just got into my destined_ent@hotmail.com account, it had been down for some reason, and I'm downloading the beta version of Hell Carrier and will have a report back to you soon .

Heh, ok. Just so you know. I didn't draw that creature on your book. It's from Ari Feldman's SpriteLib.

Johan what book is he referring to ?

why not some take-off on pong?

maybe a little pong "table" with legs and arms.

the paddles could be the eyes, the ball the nose.

Jay

yea i'd say pong is a no-no.

i kinda like the allegator idea.

perhaps if i may take some time to see if i can draw one...

Instead you might just announce a mascot competition @ http://www.devart.com there's a lot of good artists there, and you'll get a lot of quality responses. Plus designs from artists rather than programmers usually turns up better.

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Instead you might just announce a mascot competition @ http://www.devart.com there's a lot of good artists there, and you'll get a lot of quality responses. Plus designs from artists rather than programmers usually turns up better.

Well Idealius I have the best of both worlds. I'm a writer (I wrote novels for students throughout school; adult, child, romance, science fiction; you name it I wrote it), I'm an artist (I draw both modern comic book style referred to as the western style and manga style; again I do anything if the idea catches me right); I have been drawing for well over 11 years (I started in 3rd grade as a way to cope with my father's murder and I just stuck with it after that). I've been designing games for 3 years at most using things included on games (ie. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2's Park Editor, RPG Maker, etc.). Finally, I've been doing programming for the past year now and I'm understanding the concepts perfectly, but I just seem to have trouble figuring out how to code it right (that's why I'm relying on trial and error until I get some experience under my belt ). The point in telling you this is to point out that not all "programmers" are just programmers, we call ourselves programmers, but we are actually a lot more. Take Johan Pietz for example he does the programming, graphics, music, and several other things that go into his games. So saying what you did was too stereotypical.