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PAX AUS 2019 Challenge Coin -All done!
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Last year's thread (this OP will be frequently updated with the latest info on design/ordering/etc).
ORDER HERE!:
http://bit.ly/PAXAUS2019Order (orders now closed)
Good news everyone, they're sending over a limited number of extra challenge coins so if you still want to grab some without paying for shipping send me a DM and I'll reopen the form (purchases must still be made via the order form, I don't personally collect any money for these).
This offer will be open until the end of PAX or until they're all sold out, so let anyone that you think might be interested know that the earlier the better.
Also I remembered to turn on confirmation emails this year so once you order you should get an email with your order details for reference.
EDIT: oh no
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Oops. Sorry to anyone that doesn't get an order notification!
Let me know if you want me to double check your order deets!
Final Production Artwork:
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I don't have any ideas for either side this year, so if you have a photo you'd like to submit or a suggestion let's hear them!
We need something gaming related for the face side, and an image representing Melbourne for the back.
We need something gaming related for the face side, and an image representing Melbourne for the back.
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The other option would be a game that was created here in Australia:
Publishers
Maybe LA Noir? Apparently it was created here.
For something distinct to Melbourne, two suggestions. The first is one I've raised before, the Royal Exhibition Building:
It was Australia's first Federal Parliament Building for a while
The other would be the museum next door:
Melbourne Museum
The skipping girl would look pretty awesome on a coin I think.
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Hollow Knight sounds very cool, especially if Team Cherry are interested.
I have been playing around with a 30th-anniversary tribute to the Gameboy using sprites from Tetris, Pokemon and Mario.
We have had a digital gaming icon and a board game icon on the last 2 – how about an RPG icon this time? Maybe a d4 balanced upside-down (ie the cornertip is touching the ground rather than pointing up.
Other suggestions could Eureka tower or Melbourne Shot Tower could be a location image if needed.
I like the Shrine of Remembrance with ANZAC parade leading to it.
A cartoon drawing of a Platypus icon or even a Blue-ring octopus (given the recent news of tourists putting that darn thing on their arm and living!) - Platypus in glasses, carrying a boardgame box under arm… etc
Or (following the earlier posts) the Skipping girl on one side, or maybe the Yarra river with MCEC beside for location (or the polly woodside in view)
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Shrine of Remembrance Act 1978
PART 3—MISCELLANEOUS
5 Prohibition against and penalty for unauthorized publications etc.
May be a birds eye view of the MCG then place the text in an oval instead of using the outer edge, circular format. This may or may not work, just floating the idea.
You do realise that animals have genders too?
This is an iconic sign, of a child skipping.
We need to be careful not to sexualise everything, so if you feel it will offend people, please put forward a proper suggestion in the form of an image that you feel is more suitable.
Maybe we should be celebrating the 57th fastest internet broadband in the world:- Australia, doing more with less. Speedtest Global-Index
My vote is still for the skipping girl though, I get the tram in to PAX from that tram stop every year.
Do you think we could use a symbol like a fallout vault door (like the 9 sided cog) - we could do one in the shape of the Australian 50c piece - rolled to the side with an animal peeking out (the dropbear would be good, although used).. maybe a huntsman spider coming out. (or if cuties a Penguin (fairy) or even a Tassie Devil).
The door could be somewhat fitting to the torture of Country Roads last year. Or even potentially the use of the Sweet Roll symbol which was fairly unique for PAXAUS.
I really liked the purple border rim style that unplugged used - something like that in yellow might look good.
Fitting for the area could even be the flame towers along the water front of Crown.. It potentially could be make to look like the Eye of Sauron.
Piffle...
(nice work branbles)
Though I do like the idea of the Westgate in a sort of iconic Golden Gate Bridge style
Yeah Bolte Bridge would look pretty good too.
No... the Westgate Bridge. It goes to the western suburbs.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adonline/478226275
Just checking, I'm used to people confusing the two
I reached out to a few of the suggested game companies on twitter but didn't hear back from any.
If you can mock a design up I'm sure we'd all like to take a look.
We haven't done a PC centric design yet, and apparently it appeared in Kung Fury a lot so it's also newly relevant :P.
What about something like this?:
I've mocked up a few different skipping girl designs below. My personal preference is either 1 or 2. Keep in mind the glowy neon effect probably won't look as good/be reproducible on a coin without more expensive screen-printing techniques. Also the sky in the background tends to be flattened to a solid colour.
Skipping 1:
Skipping 2:
Skipping 3:
Let me know which you think looks better (1, 2 or 3).
While you guys have a think about those I'll be contacting the manufacturer to see what our time frame is looking like.
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Failing that, 1 is nice and contained
Manufacture got back to me and we want to have the design sorted by the end of this month at the latest, so that's our time-frame.
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Hopefully images now work for me. Nope.. darn it.. so I have made it my forum icon - click to expand (or take away the space right after the HTTPS (or if someone else could repaste the link so it shows)
A suggestion on the fact its the 50th year from the moon landing... Australia played a big part in this with Parks and Honeysuckle Creek getting the important images of man on the moon.
Maybe we can do a pax flag on the moon, with earth/australia in the background on one side, and the parks telescope on the other side, in a field with sheep around it.
Some witty text on the border about gamers leading the frontier etc. date etc.
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I like the use of the first and third images of the Skipping Girl sign. I prefer the third image as there is less of the support structure visible. The first image would be more acceptable if the support structure was brushed out. The reason I dislike the second image is the word Vinegar is incomplete and does not add anything positive to the image. Either have the full word of Vinegar or delete it altogether. If you delete the word Vinegar there could be one of the following:
01A:
03A:
I can take out some of the cables from the top one, but I think you need to leave some of the support structure there to help show what it is.
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They sent a production draft on Friday. Other than a few changes they’re looking pretty good. I really like what they’ve done with skipping girl. Just hope we can get them done in time.
Question: would you be happy if we only did one coin this year with the gaming side in 3D/no colour and the girl in colour (but flat)?
I know the community likes a coin of each, but this years designs on each side will probably look best if left as listed above. Also at this point time may force our hand anyway (or there could be an extra die fee for producing two different versions of the same side as was almost an issue last year).
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But if you only do one coin, I would like it to not be colour.
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