Remember, nothing copyrighted. No commercial logos. No Cheers, no Dunkin Donuts, no PAX logo even; the PA folks have been very clear that forum stuff has to avoid using PA intellectual property, so as to avoid the appearance that they approved it. Personally, I definitely support the bridge over the convention center, as convention centers always look very bland to me. If we must do it, then Flatline's suggestion of the 5th anniversary seems like a good suggestion (although come to think of it, maybe we should wait 2 years, for the 5th anniversary of the BCEC hosing it, as it was in the other convention center the first year).
Networked handhelds are an excellent idea, I think, or even controllers. Remember, the gaming side can be a little stylized, maybe three controllers all hooked to a single console, each from a different era. For example, an Atari joystick, an NES controller, and a Playstation controller all connected to a Sega Genesis. Something similar could work for handhelds too, I think, but there's just not as much variety in handhelds (we're pretty much talking different generations of Gameboys).
I like the Settlers/Meeple ideas too, but I think that's something that's very dependent on the details of the design. I think if you want to convince us, you're probably going to have to do a mock-up...
I sympathize with people wanting concerts / lines / pranks / cookies / whatever represented, but the long-time consensus has been that PAX is, at its core, a gaming convention. The various other things that occur are all part of the central premise of gaming (gaming-themed bands, lines for games or panels about games, pranks which reference games, cookies which support a gaming charity, etc.). So the coin really needs to be about gaming, in my opinion. And the basic themes for the two sides (host city / gaming) have been working pretty well for us for a few years now.
Oh, man... I love the idea of having the BCEC as the logo on the 5th anniversary PAX coin! I like the Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge (that's the official name) on 2013s coin, however. As for the gaming side, what about a combination of what others have suggested? I was thinking maybe the atari joystiq, an outline two cards, and a simplistic styled picture of a board game? Or maybe a four way with a picture of a computer as well? I know the images can't be too detailed, so I was thinking of doing something along the lines of what video game magazines do, using simplistic logo to denote what system the game is for.
And I'm definitely jumping the gun here, but now I'm thinking of PAX East 5 as well!!!!
What about a coat of arms w/ the shield divided into 4 parts - one with a dice, one with a handheld, one for a console and one for board games? or something similar... thoughts?
What about a coat of arms w/ the shield divided into 4 parts - one with a dice, one with a handheld, one for a console and one for board games? or something similar... thoughts?
As stated earlier, we were told in previous years that a coat of arms is too detailed to be captured accurately on a coin. Maybe Phoenix can tell us differently this year, but that's what I remember from the first few years of coins.
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What about a coat of arms w/ the shield divided into 4 parts - one with a dice, one with a handheld, one for a console and one for board games? or something similar... thoughts?
As stated earlier, we were told in previous years that a coat of arms is too detailed to be captured accurately on a coin. Maybe Phoenix can tell us differently this year, but that's what I remember from the first few years of coins.
it also seems to be a fairly well-established tradition to focus on one type of gaming for each coin, rather than trying to cram everything onto one. there have been many coins in our past and will be many more in our future, there's really no need for one coin to represent everything.
love something to do with the handhelds versus just an awesome looking joystick of sorts.
and I like the idea of holding off on the BCEC until its hosting anniversary
-A phone with the image of a controller (I'm thinking a NES controller might work best, but whatever seems right) inside of it.
-A 3DS, DS, or Game Boy hooked to a PSP or Vita via some kind of cable. Not sure how that might work best though...
-Four separate controller types in each corner of the coin. So, if looking at the Welcome Home as the bottom, in the upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right. I'm thinking PS3, 360, NES (or Wii U controller, something to represent Nintendo), and either a keyboard or sega/dreamcast controller. The keyboard could possibly be replaced with a mouse. Each could be big enough to either touch the ones to the side, or allow for some overlapping. All while the cords from each meet in the center to form an X.
The phone idea is kind of interesting. I personally don't play games on my phone, and I don't know how many other PAX attendees do, but given the recent rise in popularity of the cell/smart phone as a gaming platform, it may be an appropriate choice.
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So i could go for the Atari joystick or some handheld idea but i'm thinking that i like the board game idea as well. I think that the hexagons of Catan could make an interesting design. Plus it would be recognizable.
As for the Boston side, i have to say the bridge. I don't know anything about it, but the pictures look cool lol.
I hadn't known about the coins until now! If I had, I would have been buying them all along. I like the idea of the BCEC on one side and the linked Gameboys on the other.
I'm also a pretty big fan of the linked game boys, but I really like the board game ideas too. I'm in agreement that we should wait till 2015 to use the BCEC (the 5th PAX in the BCEC).
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The linked game boys is a great idea imho. As for the flip side, any of the given ones are great, but I agree that we should wait till the 5th anniversary of PAX in the BCEC to use it on the coin...just makes it that much more special for the 5th year.
Or best of all worlds, a drawing that is a 3/4 top down view of a queue line that wraps snake style back and forth either from bottom to top or left to right, and in the line are all of the various aspects of PAX - person playing hand-held, people getting pranked, cookie brigade, cards, enforcers.. almost a where's waldo. I know there's not a lot of space, and this would require an artist's touch to do, but it could be all things.. and therefore epic
Are you going to carry around a coin the size of a manhole cover?
Otherwise, I definitely like the Zakim bridge idea.
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I will be organizing a coin lunch, again, at legal sea food. It will be up to whomever is organizing sales/deliveries if they want to make this a distribution channel- I'll gladly do deliveries at it, but I'm making one thing clear: If you buy a coin and opt to pick it up at lunch, and don't show up at the lunch, your coin is being donated directly to the cookie brigade- either because I sell it to someone else, or hand it to them to sell to someone else.
Or, whoever organizes sales opts not to bother with that level of madness, in which case it'll just be a scheduled lunch to get away, know you have a place to have lunch reserved for one day, and get to meet other active forum community members. It was wicked fun last year, so I suggest you come
Due to the rabid memes of the year, I'd like to see a horse with a wii-mote in its mouth being ridden by a knight (Ala dominion dark ages) on one side of the coin, and a Bobcat on the other. Because this is the year of the Bobcat, yo.
Due to the rabid memes of the year, I'd like to see a horse with a wii-mote in its mouth being ridden by a knight (Ala dominion dark ages) on one side of the coin, and a Bobcat on the other. Because this is the year of the Bobcat, yo.
I'm in can't wait to see the design. My gaming group loved my coin from earlier this year so you may see an order of 15-30 coins from team9000gaming.
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I got the Prime 2012 coin and loved it, so I'm looking forward to seeing what the East 2013 coin looks like. PC gaming being represented last year was great, so it would be cool to see something else, including the board game and card ideas.
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For some strange reason I always thought these coins were way more expensive and never got in on them , I think this year that will change, all the ideas sounds awesome and can't wait to see what the final product will look like.
Zakim Bridge is definitely iconic enough to use on the coin. As for the other side, I think hexagons should be included in some way - you don't have to make them the hexes from a specific game, but they're ubiquitous enough in gaming that they would be recognizable even as a background.
Can't wait to get this year's coin worked out and pick one up Loved last year's coin, got it sitting on my desk here.
I like the anniversary idea of the BCEC as well. For this year I prefer the linked Gameboys to the phone idea. To me its more universal for gamers and the imagery of togetherness I think really symbolizes the spirit of PAX.
Or perhaps have like an evolution kind of image for mobile gaming. Start with a Gameboy or something and then sort of work your way to modern times and have the last one be a phone. Sort of a roots to where we are now kind of image.
Hexagons may look distinctive, but they can look distinctively like a beehive. Like I said, the boardgame ideas are going to be much more dependent on specific designs. We know what a pair of linked gameboys look like, but "something with hexagons and meeple" could look like almost anything. So far, it looks like those are the two basic categories of suggestion that have support for the gaming side (either German boardgaming, or linked handhelds).
It sounds like we're really solidifying around the Zakim Bridge for the Boston landmark. No rush to cut things off just yet, but any new ideas are going to need a lot of momentum to overcome the 9-ish people who have already expressed support for that. BCEC will clearly get used, either next year or the year after.
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What about doing the linked Game Boys over a field of hexes? Run the cable to look like a road in Catan maybe?
i think this particular image is actually perfect for the coin. the biggest thing the linked handheld concept has over the board game one (and don't get me wrong, i love me some catan) is that it's very symbolic of community and gaming TOGETHER, which is such a big part of the spirit of pax. i really think it's perfect.
Or perhaps have like an evolution kind of image for mobile gaming. Start with a Gameboy or something and then sort of work your way to modern times and have the last one be a phone. Sort of a roots to where we are now kind of image.
I had a similar thought and I completely agree. Not exactly sure how it should manifest though. For what it's worth, I tried to mocked up a potential idea. Please pardon the crudeness of my .ppt skills. I'm sure someone with artistic ability could take this and make it awesome.
The idea is that the Gameboy represents our beginnings, the "zig-zag" represents the passing of time, the cord represents the paths gaming took moving forward, the tablet represents one manifestation of present-day portable gaming, and the other two connectors represent various other current portable gaming platforms. Feel free to make fun of it if you think it sucks.
If you do linked Gameboys, it would only make sense to have a mini representation of Tetris on screen
I was totally thinking this too! Or at least, when someone mentioned Catan hexes as a background, my mind immediately jumped to Tetris background for linked Gameboys.
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Remember, nothing copyrighted. No commercial logos. No Cheers, no Dunkin Donuts, no PAX logo even; the PA folks have been very clear that forum stuff has to avoid using PA intellectual property, so as to avoid the appearance that they approved it. Personally, I definitely support the bridge over the convention center, as convention centers always look very bland to me. If we must do it, then Flatline's suggestion of the 5th anniversary seems like a good suggestion (although come to think of it, maybe we should wait 2 years, for the 5th anniversary of the BCEC hosing it, as it was in the other convention center the first year).
Networked handhelds are an excellent idea, I think, or even controllers. Remember, the gaming side can be a little stylized, maybe three controllers all hooked to a single console, each from a different era. For example, an Atari joystick, an NES controller, and a Playstation controller all connected to a Sega Genesis. Something similar could work for handhelds too, I think, but there's just not as much variety in handhelds (we're pretty much talking different generations of Gameboys).
I like the Settlers/Meeple ideas too, but I think that's something that's very dependent on the details of the design. I think if you want to convince us, you're probably going to have to do a mock-up...
I sympathize with people wanting concerts / lines / pranks / cookies / whatever represented, but the long-time consensus has been that PAX is, at its core, a gaming convention. The various other things that occur are all part of the central premise of gaming (gaming-themed bands, lines for games or panels about games, pranks which reference games, cookies which support a gaming charity, etc.). So the coin really needs to be about gaming, in my opinion. And the basic themes for the two sides (host city / gaming) have been working pretty well for us for a few years now.
And I'm definitely jumping the gun here, but now I'm thinking of PAX East 5 as well!!!!
As stated earlier, we were told in previous years that a coat of arms is too detailed to be captured accurately on a coin. Maybe Phoenix can tell us differently this year, but that's what I remember from the first few years of coins.
it also seems to be a fairly well-established tradition to focus on one type of gaming for each coin, rather than trying to cram everything onto one. there have been many coins in our past and will be many more in our future, there's really no need for one coin to represent everything.
About $5. That's good basic info to have, I'll add it to the front page.
and I like the idea of holding off on the BCEC until its hosting anniversary
-A phone with the image of a controller (I'm thinking a NES controller might work best, but whatever seems right) inside of it.
-A 3DS, DS, or Game Boy hooked to a PSP or Vita via some kind of cable. Not sure how that might work best though...
-Four separate controller types in each corner of the coin. So, if looking at the Welcome Home as the bottom, in the upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right. I'm thinking PS3, 360, NES (or Wii U controller, something to represent Nintendo), and either a keyboard or sega/dreamcast controller. The keyboard could possibly be replaced with a mouse. Each could be big enough to either touch the ones to the side, or allow for some overlapping. All while the cords from each meet in the center to form an X.
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As for the Boston side, i have to say the bridge. I don't know anything about it, but the pictures look cool lol.
Otherwise, I definitely like the Zakim bridge idea.
but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
Or, whoever organizes sales opts not to bother with that level of madness, in which case it'll just be a scheduled lunch to get away, know you have a place to have lunch reserved for one day, and get to meet other active forum community members. It was wicked fun last year, so I suggest you come
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What is this "link cable" you guys are speaking of? xD
I like the anniversary idea of the BCEC as well. For this year I prefer the linked Gameboys to the phone idea. To me its more universal for gamers and the imagery of togetherness I think really symbolizes the spirit of PAX.
Or perhaps have like an evolution kind of image for mobile gaming. Start with a Gameboy or something and then sort of work your way to modern times and have the last one be a phone. Sort of a roots to where we are now kind of image.
It sounds like we're really solidifying around the Zakim Bridge for the Boston landmark. No rush to cut things off just yet, but any new ideas are going to need a lot of momentum to overcome the 9-ish people who have already expressed support for that. BCEC will clearly get used, either next year or the year after.
i think this particular image is actually perfect for the coin. the biggest thing the linked handheld concept has over the board game one (and don't get me wrong, i love me some catan) is that it's very symbolic of community and gaming TOGETHER, which is such a big part of the spirit of pax. i really think it's perfect.
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I had a similar thought and I completely agree. Not exactly sure how it should manifest though. For what it's worth, I tried to mocked up a potential idea. Please pardon the crudeness of my .ppt skills. I'm sure someone with artistic ability could take this and make it awesome.
The idea is that the Gameboy represents our beginnings, the "zig-zag" represents the passing of time, the cord represents the paths gaming took moving forward, the tablet represents one manifestation of present-day portable gaming, and the other two connectors represent various other current portable gaming platforms. Feel free to make fun of it if you think it sucks.
I was totally thinking this too! Or at least, when someone mentioned Catan hexes as a background, my mind immediately jumped to Tetris background for linked Gameboys.
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