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Allegro Logo Challenge
Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001

One of the Google links was this:
http://www.starekompy.pl/475.html

I still have that machine. Great machine. That page said: Jest to kolejny nabytek z Allegro. Wonder what that means.

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GameCreator
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July 2002
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It translates to "There is next acquisition with (from) Allegro." according to http://www.poltran.com/

Jonatan Hedborg
Member #4,886
July 2004
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It means "one more thing i bought from allegro" (according to my girlfriend. Allegro.pl is a polish ~ebay btw)

bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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spellcaster, Kibiz0r, and Derezo all have awesome candidates (minus the 8-ball one; that just doesn't seem right ;)). I can't really decide. spellcaster's looks slightly unpolished... Kibiz0rs looks very nice, but the star thing is kind of random... ::) The remaining Derezo candidates get my vote.

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All look very nice. I can't decide so I'm going to say 'all of them'. The powered by version obviously works well as a graphic to display at the beginning of our games. ;D

Kibiz0r
Member #6,203
September 2005
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spellcaster's looks slightly unpolished

Really? I thought it looked quite professional.

Jonatan Hedborg
Member #4,886
July 2004
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I think spellcasters is very nice, though a bit cliché (not that i can come up with anything better). I think I would go for the first Allegro-with-a-green-box. Clean usable anywhere.

Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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I like the one that says "Powered by".

bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Kibiz0r said:

Really? I thought it looked quite professional.

Towards the bottom of the logo you can see the color of the 'rays' I'll call them darkens and then suddenly lightens again. I relate the blue lines to light, which is illogical to suddenly darken and lighten again. The image gives the illusion of 'nothing' behind the logo so why is nothing absorbing light? :-/

http://allegro.cc/files/attachment/592426

Personally I think it's a nice logo, but that feature stood out to me right away. It doesn't look natural. In fact, the way the blue lines spread out from the center doesn't really look natural either. It's much better than I could do, but I would say it's unpolished.

Jonatan Hedborg said:

I think spellcasters is very nice, though a bit cliché (not that i can come up with anything better). I think I would go for the first Allegro-with-a-green-box. Clean usable anywhere.

The clean look is nice. And the powered-by version goes along with it perfectly.

Possumdude0 said:

I like the one that says "Powered by".

I agree. That's probably my favorite one, but it's not really a logo for Allegro. It works great for putting in our games, but for the actual library it doesn't work. If you put that on Allegro it would seem to imply that Allegro is powered by Allegro... :)

Mark Oates
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March 2001
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I would show you my "blue steel", but it's not ready yet.

[edit] heh, here's mine
http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/592427

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Kibiz0r
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September 2005
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heh, here's mine

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bamccaig
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July 2006
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Jonatan Hedborg
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July 2004
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Mark: Quite good, but it needs more sex stare.

Jakub Wasilewski
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June 2003
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Quite good, but it needs more sex stare.

Fixed.

http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/592428

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spellcaster
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September 2001
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Towards the bottom of the logo you can see the color of the 'rays' I'll call them darkens and then suddenly lightens again.

That's the shadow of the characters ;)
But I agree that it doesn't look that good in the small resolution.

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In fact, the way the blue lines spread out from the center doesn't really look natural either.

Hm.. I took the text, converted from rectangular to polar coordinates, applied a motion blur in both directions and converted back. So I guess the lines should be more or less correct.

But I agree it's a bit over the top for a logo ;)
I was just playing around with the fun stuff photoshop has to offer and got carried away.

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Kibiz0r
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September 2005
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But I agree it's a bit over the top for a logo ;)

Over-the-top is good. It's a strong, simple logo, and that's exactly what you want. I like it quite a bit.

bamccaig
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July 2006
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spellcaster said:

That's the shadow of the characters ;)
But I agree that it doesn't look that good in the small resolution.

The light appears to be coming from behind the characters... So the shadow looks like it should be on the lens of the camera. ;) I think it would be best without the shadow.

That's my personal opinion.

CGamesPlay
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July 2002
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Allegro isn't a physics library; why should the logo have to abide by the laws of light?

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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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If you can do better why don't you remake it?

bamccaig
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July 2006
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CGamesPlay said:

Allegro isn't a physics library; why should the logo have to abide by the laws of light?

bamccaig said:

That's my personal opinion.

Nobody said it has to. Personally, I think it would look better if it did.

BAF said:

If you can do better why don't you remake it?

bamccaig said:

It's much better than I could do, but I would say it's unpolished.

Jonatan Hedborg
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July 2004
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DING Round 1!

spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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Calm down - he has a point. The idea of a challenge is to get feedback. And "then do it better" is not a good argument ;)

But creating an allegro logo isn't easy, esp. not for me, since I'm a bit challenged when it comes to graphics. And it doesn't help that the lib is called "Allegro" and not "Awesome Space Monkey Ninja Game Coding Lib."

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Mark Oates
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March 2001
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Did you get After Effects with the bundle you got? You should make a video.

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spellcaster
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September 2001
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After Effects? That is only in the "you'll have to re-mortage your house in order to buy it" bundle ;)

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CGamesPlay
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July 2002
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Personally, I think it would look better if it did.

Me too; I was just being silly :P

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deps
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September 2003
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"Awesome Space Monkey Ninja Game Coding Lib."

Can we rename it to that when it reaches 5.0? Pretty please? :)

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