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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 17:27 Edited at: 4th Feb 2007 21:19
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Hi there,

I run an online t-shirt shop and after finding these forums and seeing that there are plenty of talented artists around here, I thought it would be a good idea to start a competition to find the best retro games development inspired t-shirt design. Vector designs are what I’m looking for.

I will be accepting submissions for the next four weeks and the winning designer will receive $100 plus a free t-shirt with their design on it.

Before submitting this post, I spoke to one of the moderators, Richard Davey. He said that I should make it clear that I won’t be using any designs submitted to sell except for the winning one. I would like to make it absolutely clear that any designs I use I will pay for. The winning design will receive $100 prize money and if I want to use any other designs that are submitted I will get in touch with the designer and offer to pay them my standard rate.

Here are some guidelines for anyone that wishes to submit a design:

4 colours or less
Pantone Colours
No gradients
As high res as possible
Photoshop or Illustrator images preferred but if not, a vector based program.
Nothing offensive
Copyright free
Each color seperated onto its own layer
Please ensure that colors do not overlap

I use american apparel t-shirts. Here is a link to the colours they supply:

Male

Female

Here is how ownership of the designs will work:

If this is one of your original designs, you will retain ownership of the image and will give me permission to print it onto t-shirts and sell them. I would appreciate it if you didn’t sell the design to other t-shirt websites. At least while I was selling it from my site.

Please send designs to designs@bangbangt-shirts.com with the subject "TGC Design Competition".

Have fun and good luck!

http://www.bangbangt-shirts.com

Additional tipcs courtesy of Jeff Miller:

1. The four color limitation does not include the color of the blank. So e.g. four colors other than white printed on a white shirt permits use of white as an additional color within the design.

2. Please use spot colours

3. Designs preferably in CMYK.

Jeff has made an excellent post regarding these three tips on page 2. Thanks Jeff
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 21:29 Edited at: 28th Jan 2007 21:29
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How about an "I posted before this thread got locked" t-shirt?

Just kidding Good luck with your compo, I might work something out...


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Hey Saikoro,

Haha, I made sure with Richard that it was OK to start this competition and hopefully I'll get a big response as I know there is so much creative talent on these forums. It would be good to see what you come up with.

James
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Posted: 29th Jan 2007 14:16
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for nothing offensive do you mean blatant, is crude humor ok ala the following saying (c) by me just now



http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=73324&b=8
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@bang bang tshirts: Yea I know, its just an ongoing joke we have in the forums


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Posted: 29th Jan 2007 18:02
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What's the URL for your online shop? The web reference under your post does not work.

Incidentally, where are those so-called "American" t-shirts made? The country of origin should be on the label.

I take it the limitation of 4 colors does not include the underbase needed if you use a dark-colored blank.
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From the American Apparel FAQ:

"All our products are knit, cut, and sewn in our facility in Downtown LA. We also operate our own dyehouse nearby."

http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/faqs/faq.asp?faqId=213

Not related to this at all, just wanted to see if the info was on the t-shirt site.

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Thanks for that, Tinkergirl. The two main reasons that I use American Apparel are because they don't use sweatshops and they are excellent quality.

The URL for my site is http://www.bangbangt-shirts.com
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Just wanted to check out the competition. The company I work for screen prints and sells over 8 million t-shirts a year. Although we are in the US, I seldom see US-sewn shirts! Glad they are being sold somewhere. Good luck with your enterprise!
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Thanks Jeff! Hopefully it'll all work out and I'll get some great designs from this competition!
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Here's me first try.

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Great slogan! You've officially entered the competition to win $100 and a free t-shirt!

Feel free to enter any other game dev related slogans/designs.
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And my Second...

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That's great! LOLlerskates!

Sometimes the only way over a wall is to pile up enough bodies to climb over - Dave W.
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Yeah...that took a while, though I'm actually surprised at how well it turned out. Who knew notepad could be a valuable graphic design tool...

Oh yes! A question: How will the 100 dollars be payed?

You'd Forget you header if it wasn't compiled on!
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Here's my entry. I may update it, but just to get my idea out there before someone steals it

BTW, I will post it up in a layered format and all that later.

Sometimes the only way over a wall is to pile up enough bodies to climb over - Dave W.

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If you were to use the winning design... does the artist of that design get a percentage of the profit you make off his work?

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Heh, I don't totally care, 100$ is good money alone for the short time it took to make my design, of course, I'll probably lose, but

Sometimes the only way over a wall is to pile up enough bodies to climb over - Dave W.
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@BiggAdd,

NO...He said he's paying for the design... (that's what the prize money is for).

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http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/blackboard/tutorials.htm
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They say thrird try's the charm!

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Niiiiice

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Answers to a couple of questions from the thread, I can pay using PayPal but I could also send a cheque if that would be more appropriate.

As for Bigadd's question, I can only pay the prize money and not any additionaly profit percentage for this competition.

Thanks for all of your entries, I love them all! Keep 'em coming!
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My first try (i also have it in an alot bigger size 2500x2700 or somehting around that)


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Alrighty,

Here is mine.

Quit planning to make a game and make a game.

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Here's another with a slight religious overtone



Quit planning to make a game and make a game.
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el numero tres:



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Some more cool designs there guys. You're all very creative. Keep it up!
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Cool competition, I run a printing and embroidery company aswell.

Here's my entry, PNG format here but it's designed in CorelDraw 11 so I have as a vector also; just say if you need it.

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Another one.

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Combined images of my two entries for clarity.

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OOOOOhhh nice, Bongadoo.

After nearly one week out of four there have been some very good entries and by the end of it all I think I'm going to have a tough decision to make! Keep 'em coming everyone!
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When does the compo end?

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Three weeks from tomorrow.
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I'll join if you can post the cheque to the uk

Edit: I hope this ok lol

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This one's pretty basic, but since I had a minute to spare, I thought I'd make it, haha.


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yes we are 1337, lol


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Chris Franklin_, I can indeed send a cheque to the UK as that's where I'm from.

Everyone, remember the design has to be copyright free so unfortunately we can't have characters taken out of games (like the space invaders characters).

Tell your friends about the compo!

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Here's mine .

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That's awesome i'll get those space invaders thing taken out of that entry now

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Nice, dark coder. The pixel effect looks great.
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How's this?

Still a wip but just need to check it's ok..

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You're competition is going well! You may wish to give them a few more tips, if the following is true.

1. The four color limitation does not include the color of the blank. So e.g. four colors other than white printed on a white shirt permits use of white as an additional color within the design. I know this sounds obvious, but I deal with reviewing maybe 800 to 1000 of these every year, and believe me there are a few who might not get it.

2. You may wish to specify whether you are using spot colors or process colors if you want the right color seps. (My company uses both). I think you are using spot colors, which is home turf to all DBP programmers, in which case to get an additional color that merely results from nothing other than diluting one of the other colors against the color of the blank, or against another of the selected colors, dithering is OK, such as the second submission of Alquerian. You may wish to specify your mesh density, since some take that into account when generating the color seps.

3. Depending on the press and/or frame sizes and/or pallet sizes you are using, you may want to mention any limitation on the relative rectangular size of the print vs. the size of the blank. On some setups, Dark Coder's submission might have to be slightly reduced since the top of the print-depiction of the designs over-runs the bottom of the collar on the shirt depiction.

4. DBP users are deep into RBG. I presume you want the seps in CMYK.

Best of luck in this venture!
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Hey Jeff. Those tips all apply to this competition. I'm not from a design background myself so all of the info I can get on that front is appreciated. I'll update the first post.

Thanks Jeff

Also, good work Chris
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Hope the color seps you are receiving by email do justice to the views shown on the forum! In the event that some of the members do not understand the difference between screen printing on a dark blank as opposed to a light colored blank -

On Chris's design, for example, the white background for the Atari logo should be submitted in a color sep that INCLUDES the space occupied by the red letters that appear on the white field, so that you can sequence the screens so that the white is used not only as it's own color but also as the underbase for the red Atari letters, then flashed-dried before seperately printing the red letters over the underbase, because printing the red letters directly on a black blank without the underbase would present a quality problem.

Printing on white blanks has always been easy, but I can remember the days when there was only one company in the entire US that could quality print on black blanks before the rest of the industry learned about underbasing and flash curing before subsequent printing and final drying.

So - submissions for printing on black blanks are OK, and believe me that designs printed on black t-shirts sell quite well. But the color seps have to take the concept of an underbase into consideration.
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Thanks again, Jeff.

Let's have some more designs, people!
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Quote: "good work Chris "


Thanks Here's another one

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I'm impressed by your enthusiasm, Chris!
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A very quick one from me (cut down for screen viewing).

I have mailed an Adobe Illustrator version to you - hope you got it.

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ok
ive never posted here before
heres my try


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LOL!
That's actually very funny

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