Winner receives: £40.00 sterling via PayPal. (Approx $75.00-80.00 US)
Credit & Link on Visionarygaming site.

Any details below are subject to change.
Contest ends: 26th January 2007 5th February
Accepted formats: Photoshop (.psd) with intact layers or .esp(f) for Vector images.
Company:
Visionary Gaming (New Startup)
Visionary Gaming aims to become a fore-runner in community lead freelance gaming development. This will entail reviewing & promotion of up & coming games from free-lance or community lead games developers & Modding communities as well as being a Hub for those with a love of gaming.
To this end I am opening up the floor to develop a logo that best shows enthusiasm for gaming, a highly difficult task I understand! I envisage the logo to incorporate a "simple" character of some sort, however the design & Colour scheme is upto you! Please aim for a Web2.0 feel though, this will not be a website dominated by screen-shots of BF2 or Call of Duty used to make banners!

I reserver the right to not declare a winner if I feel the designs are not upto the quality required, however judging by the work I see here daily, that shouldn't be a problem!

I am in

Count me in.

I will get a design done tonight

Same here. But do you think you could allow .eps formats aswell, for vector logo's? Because I don't use Photoshop to make my logo's.

Ben.

Im in!

Is there a limit on contest entries?

.Eps is fine, and you can make as many entries as you feel you can muster! I have updated the first post to reflect this.

Oh ok, I just thought since you wanted the layers.. ah nevermind

Anyway, here is my first try:
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Ben.

Very nice, I do enjoy striking colours, and the green is definitely suits that, however I would like the logo to be something very much conclusive of the site. I want people to look at the image and to think of Visionary Gaming, but this is a step in the right direction!

Thankyou for the feedback, much appreciated, but I'm having trouble thinking of something other than colsole related. I realise it's a game reviewing site (well, basically), but I honestly cannot think of anything that could represent that. Though I will continue drawing concepts

Would there be a site design anywhere that we can look at? Just so we can figure out which way to go about the logo.

@d4rkst0n3
Mnyeah.. Not really a game review site, more of a assistance to freelance, 3rd party or open-source gaming communities working on Mods or New Games based on the free PC engines such as Source & the Quake derivatives. What I really want is something linking Vision for games & Visions for the future of gaming. Where as the modern main stream gaming media is stuck in a bit of a rut (Gears of war, Battlefield 2142, BF2, Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare are all based on the same premise) 3rd party & groups who give there time freely to the developing of games & game mods are pushing the boundaries of what we expect from free/open source games. Think Gary's Mod or Day Of Defeat, which where designed on the freely available source engine, not retro console.

@Bug There is currently no design, but I am envisaging a light site, however if there is a logo I like that for me captures the essence of Vision into gaming I will be using it as a corner stone to the site.

Ok thankyou for the response, this helped me


EDIT: Ok here's another logo. From your response though I still don't think I've covered completely what you want. Anyway, here it is:
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EDIT: Sorrynow it says visionary, not visual

Again, very good, but you are correct, you are skirting around the edges, but in a graphically excellent way!
I like the way you have moved towards integrating text & the logo, which is appealing to me

Discussing this with colleagues I think a good euphemism for what we are looking for is not to think "Xbox -> Xbox 360" but more towards "Gamecube -> Wii". The continual evolution & morphing of games. Morphing is perhaps a keyword in this as it ties in nicely with modification & Evolution apparent in community environments. If you are looking for inspiration looking at these sites:

Gary's Mod is perhaps the most well known Source Mod, now commercially succesful.
Danger From the deep is a beautifully made submarine Simulator and a real set-piece for what Open Source gaming can achieve. (When is the last time you saw Alpha games that look THAT good!).
Sauerbraten 2 is an excellent benchmark for open source FPS's built on the Cube Engine.

But remember we are looking for clean & smart!
As you can see these games are amazing quality for what are essentially amateur teams, who do this purely for the love of gaming. If these games got even more notability so more and more people got into this area of gaming, then the quality could easily surpass that of the corporations. Look at Firefox to see what open-source can do to challenge companies as large as Microsoft!

Although your responsonses are very detailed, which I thank you for, I'm still not actually getting any ideas for a logo that could incorporate something like evolution in such a small logo. I will keep trying though

As I mentioned in my first post, I would like this logo to perhaps be a simple character, constructed from simple forms, which would convey how gaming is moving from a 2d flat image, to an increasingly interactive medium. I would use Marvin, from the movie Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a good example of this.
Perhaps a character/robot constructed from an obvious Computer peripheral?

Trying to make it look like gamecube's logo:
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Wow, I'm really liking that concept of yours, Darkstone - Very nice - that 3D 'V' is very effective!

As usual, great logos dark!

I have only opened illustrator once or twice since I "bought" the Adobe Suite.

I just need some decent tutorials for it which I can't find.. lol.

Thanks, let's hope I can finally win one

As for decent tutorials for beginners, try here:
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/tu...ls/0403-15.html

Thankyou D4rk, this is much more what we where looking for, however I would very much like to see some more interest in this competition! I understand if people feel they have a week left and that will be plenty of time, but I urge people not to wait until the end of the Comp! The prize of this isn't just the £40/$80USD but also accreditation on the site! Although that last point is usual rather mute for new start-ups it is probably good to consider I already have large input & am well recognised within this field and this website is being awaited with hungry eyes! So come on lads & Ladies, I would like to see some more attempts, and as you can see I am not adversed to people submitting 5-6 designs and I will attempt to give feedback to everyone I receive without being negative!

You know I am quite surprised I am the only one who has entered so far. Usually competitions like these get a lot of entries.

Well hopefully this weekend I will have the 1st design of the website up, and this may inspire some people to participate. I am hoping this weekend is fruitful in regards to entries.

Sounds good, I should get some nice idea's from the design

Here's another logo:
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Decided to move away from the green, and use another striking colour.

Wow, man - that's almost hitting the spot!! You're getting there Darkstone! I wish I could do stuff like that as good as you lol. Do you just mess with programs to see what you come up with or do you picture it in your mind straight away?

Well usually I picture something in my head first, that is if the logo is supposed to represent something. I do mess around if it's just going to be a random shape, or I don't have any ideas. Oh and I only use 1 program, which is Flash

@darkstone: You are using Macromedia Flash for designs? Or am I just confused?

I guess I ll sit my Ass down and try a little design too, lets see if i can get near something good.

Edit:

Come on people, enter!

Where are you guys NothingMan, routethreefive, S0LIDER, d2Squared... etc? I wan't this to actually be a competition


EDIT:

Bout time


No I am

Hmm maybe i should look into my Flash a lil more then too, normally i only use it for some fun programming without much graphic relavance.

Just a quick couple of entries

@Babyface
Very nice, definately on the right track, although I think it needs some cleaning up and a little tweaking to make it stand out from the crowd.

@Matt L
Thankyou for entering, but I think these ideas, while good, are a little rough. Perhaps if you where to build on this you could become a real contender

Thanks for the feedback, I ll look into this logo again and I ll try to put the proportions on the G right, maybe make a bright (white bg) version of it aswell. Lets see maybe another Idea will strike me.

Matt your first entry looks great. Best so far in my opinion.

Lol! I forgot about this competition! Man, I can't Belive it, hehe. Ok will do something is weekend, I swear

Here is the reworked version of the same Idea:

Sorry mate, ok design... but those colours together have made my monitor weep! hehe

Hehe ok fair enough , I ll see if something else strikes my mind.

Here's another attempt. Trying to make it look like the evolution of gaming; from pixel to 3D in one (it may look a little confusing because of there being so many logos):
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[mind you I'm not using any 3D modeling programs..]

A little bit out of proportion but they are still nice, Darkstone! What would be even cooler was if they had shadows

I'll make them have that table gloss thing at the bottom.

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A very nice effort Brown Cow, Thankyou very much, it's nice to see more entrants! With this I feel it would be enhanced if the V for the pupil was more distinguishable.

I think My favourite of your entries, D4rk is your 3D V in green however these VG's are also affective
The beginnings of the website are now viewable at visionarygaming.com though I'm not sure much inspiration can be bought from a couple of CSS call-ups!

Please note there is now about 4 days left, and I will be announcing a winner on Friday 26th at about 18:00GMT.

Thanks man, here's a variation with a more pronounced V in the eye.

That's very nice! Strangley enough my company is called M'eye studios and I would be infact interested in taking this logo as a logo for that as apposed to using it for the VG project, could you have a go at inserting an M into the eye without killing the affect?

Ok, so now I know not to make it too technical

By the way, brown_cow that logo is great. Though if you dont mine me saying the eye is a little blurry, or is that just the anti-alias? Anyway, great job on the logo.


EDIT: eh, dunno why I'm entering this...
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EDIT 2: Here's another one to make up for such a bad last entry
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The bottom one looks like an 80's iTV logo!

I think I prefered your earlier versions

Well I have been trying loads of lame designs, but none convinced me. This is the only one that looked alright to me, I think it is a little more professional.

Yeah so did I, but I don't really have any more idea's for the whole 3D look...

Yeah, It might be possible, but as you say it may not look as effective as a V. I'll give it a go.

d4rkst0n3 Wrote:
By the way, brown_cow that logo is great. Though if you dont mine me saying the eye is a little blurry, or is that just the anti-alias? Anyway, great job on the logo.

Yeah thanks man, that chunky pixellated look was on purpose, to give the idea of graphics being involved. I might to a variation without the pixellation.

Oh no what I meant was the edge of the pixels look a little blurry, though I really don't see any problem with it

Here's another logo:
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(Man this is my 9th logo for this competition)

Here's the variation for M' eye Studios.