Thread: Re: TPG Banner Contest

Originally Posted by Warprosper

I would assume that the TPG part of the banner is the logo.. Everything else is just substance. Why not have the contest with a set banner size and incorporate the TPG part of the logo The Teamplayergaming.com and formerly texas teamplayers part should have no bearing on this contest as it's not the logo..

IMO this is the logo... This is the part that shouldn't be changed.. The rest imo is just substance..


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This is hopefully the goal, we are not there yet.

Originally Posted by FragRaptor

If it is pointless then why are we even arguing this in the first place it is clear you don't want it.

I'm not here to argue, you posted something that should have been posted here. Now I simply am trying to explain the simplicity of the contest. Create a background for our header. Just like people have different desktop backgrounds.

Originally Posted by FragRaptor

Simplicity is good when simply complex. Simplicity works when it is so amazing to look at the things that could have been there but were strategically left out. IE when you have to think about making something simpler it is good simplicity. Bad simplicity is when you quite literally do not do anything. This "Background" contest isn't doing anything, there is no way to fairly pick a winner, it is unfair to the artists and the voters.

Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder, your entitled to your own opinion. Undermining the contest is just bad pr.

Originally Posted by FragRaptor

Limits make things difficult when the limits ADD to the overall product. Take infinite sprint vs. limited sprint for example: Infinite sprint is unlimited and it is really boring(opinion) as it makes it so there is no speed boost, there is walking and moving normal speed. Limited sprint gives you the feeling that there are many more strategic ways to use sprint, there are right and wrong places to use it. In effect where the unlimited product you have 10 options you can do then with the limited product there are 30 options you can do. The contest as it is takes the unlimited product of 10 options and limits it down to 5 options instead of improving it up to 30 options. A nice limit would be: Put this logo somewhere in your picture but it doesn't have to encompass the entire picture. There you just gave the artist interesting ideas to work with, you made it so they you can put it in a corner, in the middle, put it in a star or w/e the fuck they want to do. There you imposed a limit saying "you have to use this somewhere somehow" but at the same time it provides 10-20 more options for the end product. NOW you made something worth putting out there.

We have a place for this also, it's called http://www.teamplayergaming.com/artw...ad-banner.html

Originally Posted by jakt

I'm not here to argue, you posted something that should have been posted here. Now I simply am trying to explain the simplicity of the contest. Create a background for our header. Just like people have different desktop backgrounds.

Where this was posted is irrelevant as it is here now. You are saying things but you have nothing behind them. This is an argument, that's what we do in this area, either we agree and just do it or we disagree and argue our positions so that the best idea can come out in a compromise. Stop telling me what it is and give some reasonings behind your position on this topic or let's work together to fix it and make it better.

Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder, your entitled to your own opinion. Undermining the contest is just bad pr.

yes, that is an adage, it isn't bad PR if the contest itself is bad PR.

We have a place for this also, it's called http://www.teamplayergaming.com/artw...ad-banner.html

how is that relevant at all to the topic of "THE TPG BANNER CONTEST" All this tells me is like you said earlier we shouldn't even be having this contest because it is "pointless" and the banner that is up there(that you made mind you) only needs more things to add to the rotation without changing the actual banner/logo/whatever we are going to call it.

Come on jak, I know we can do more on this.