I like Ryan's version better. Dennis' has a bit too shading much going on.

Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby propose a logo:

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The SVG version is available here. I hand modified it to change the gradients and remove a lot of cruft from the generated file.

It looks great anywhere!

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Credits: I think these are right, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Johan Peitz created Alex the Alligator, Allegro's mascot
Matthew Leverton combined Alex with the stylized A
Dennis Busch vectorized the image
Mark Oates, Ryan Patterson made final touches

I personally think this is the best logo we've had proposed, but of course there may never be an "official" logo. In any case, if no one has any changes they want made, I'd like to get this put into the logos section of the website.

I think the best way to get the logo accepted is if some high-profile Allegro games start including it somewhere (in a splash screen or exit screen for example).

To set the example, I'm going to update all my games to use the allegator logo. (Not that I consider them high-profile...)

Why the bad quality Anyway, I really like this logo! Makes me want to start programming with Allegro again.

Nice, the only comment I have is that anyone viewing it has no idea wtf it represents. So why not put the url to allegro at source forge at the bottom or something?

I've been using the ugly allegro image that comes with the allegro package (and is used in the demos) as a splash screen for all my allegro projects. As soon as the final, no-changes logo is agreed upon, I'd be more than glad to update all my projects to include this instead. In fact, I call for a movement for everyone to do it in their allegro products as well!

Am I the only one who liked Sevalecan's first one? Very cool retro look.

In some places, it would be nice to have a url or words (eg: on a game's splash page game), but that's trivial to add. I'd rather let people use their own discretion on what to include than to have some phrase that people are obliged to use.

I like the logos here. They look nice and yet still have an amateur look that fits with most Allegro games. I prefer that to some corporate logo or an ALLEGRO brand that makes it look like we think it's the greatest thing in the world.

If there is no major opposition, I'd like to see it replace the FLIC animation in the Allegro demo. (I think that still says 4.0...) But I agree with the opinion that we don't need to shove it down people's throats as the official (whatever that means with Allegro...) logo.

No, The tiny dark outline around the white outline. I can't see it in your bigger image at all.

I'll just paste the log snippet:

[08 Jul 07 20:45] * trentg * DB^, that logo is awesome!
[08 Jul 07 20:45] * DB^ * trentg: the one thing that makes me sad about it is that it wasn't supposed to be finished already
[08 Jul 07 20:45] * DB^ * lots of ugly jaggies on it still
[08 Jul 07 20:46] * DB^ * and lacking SHINIES!
[08 Jul 07 20:47] * DB^ * also, the Alex isn't properly vectorized. upon close examination of the original pixel version, I noticed that I misinterpreted some pixels on the first run
[08 Jul 07 20:47] * DB^ * the nose for example is wrong, the feet are unfinished and the tail isn't round enough
[08 Jul 07 20:48] * trentg * Minor details :)
[08 Jul 07 20:49] * DB^ * nah, those things are really bugging me, so I think I'll rework it again someday next week
[08 Jul 07 20:49] * DB^ * maybe thursday as that's the day when my first two weeks vacation is going to start
[08 Jul 07 20:51] * trentg * I like CGamesPlay colors a little better though
[08 Jul 07 20:51] * DB^ * actually, me too

So, Dennis, if you don't post anything by Friday we'll take the version I uploaded and run

Awesome! Has my vote.