PAX AUS 2016 Challenge Coin. All done!

RILMS · September 2016

For those who have not seen it.

The PAX West coin:

Aside from just having colour on one side, the Pac people were also enlarged, moved, and given eyes. This was done by the artist and not by the community, but there were no objections to it.

fishfishmonkeyhat · September 2016

So, a non-gaming centric sided coin has been done before!

Thanks for the pics.

zerzhul · September 2016

I would argue that Robert Khoo is very gaming-centric. Also I would say this was a special occasion

fishfishmonkeyhat · September 2016

DON'T YOU RUIN THIS FOR ME!

But PA art is also gaming centric.. >_>

fishfishmonkeyhat · September 2016

I'm still cleaning up the source pic, but what does everyone think about using Flinders Street Station for the location side?

vonhist · October 2016

Iconic melbourne building, i approve.

ndwhitey · October 2016

I vote yes

jaydarko · October 2016

: i would have thought Jeff's Shed would be more relevant?

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

It certainly was last year.

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Cleaned up.

Now we just need to work out if we need to "gamify" the dropbear, and how. I could stick a power glove on him I guess?

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Actually I hear VR is going to have a big showing this year. I might see what the dropbear looks like with some goggles on, and if they do nothing.

Devereaux · October 2016

VR was heavily seen at Pax West this year! Large gaming companies are getting on the bandwagon. I saw a few in the indie section too! I'm sure there will be a presence at Pax Aus.

zerzhul · October 2016

I think VR + Powerglove is your best bet

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

2 options:

04:

05:

This one might only work if we do colour.

Should I put "VR" on the goggles, or is that clear? I was considering trying to do it like the VB beer logo but it was too messy of a design/litigious.

vonhist · October 2016

No need, think its pretty obvious.

The Sam · October 2016

Maybe, looks a bit like a sleep mask.

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Updated with more details. Def looks better:

If we can only have colour on one side if should be this one.

zerzhul · October 2016

that looks great with that added detail

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

A quick count of the votes for the Latin phrase has NULLUS ANXIETAS and TERRA PRETIOSA LUDOS tied at 4 each. But @Happyburger said

Happyburger wrote: »

I love 'Land of Expensive Games' and 'No Worries Mate' as mottoes but the Latin is way off.

Terra Pretiosa Ludos should be Terra Pretiosorum Ludorum. The original has Pretosia agreeing with Terra, meaning the land is expensive, not the games (true but off-topic). Also Ludos is in the accusative case when it needs to be genetive.

So TERRA PRETIOSA LUDOS should actually be TERRA PRETIOSORUM LUDORUM, for what it's worth (google seems to confirm this).

So I'll need to make a voting form I think. I'll also add in the following since the votes have been so low so far:

NUMQUAM MENTULA ES (don't be a dick, used on all US coins)
NOLI ESSE DRONGO (don't be a drongo, my original suggestion for a localised version of the above phrase)
NULLUS ANXIETAS (no worries, Disc World reference and used on last years AUS coin)
TERRA PRETIOSORUM LUDORUM (land of expensive games)

Feel free to discuss, but the actual voting will be via the form I'm about to make.

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Here we go:

https://goo.gl/forms/21XTEYQ8irog08SB3

I've added a section for entering your email if you'd like to be notified about coin updates in the future.

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Ok we have until Friday to decide if we want to do a coloured coin this year so vote here!

https://goo.gl/forms/bNy1OEV53SlbNjxY2

Skit · October 2016

Submitted. Loving the latest design, dropbear with VR!

Looking forward to these being available for order.

Uncle Kaka · October 2016

Looks good gang, I'm getting damned excited.

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Well the polls are pretty much conclusive so I'll probably release the results and submit the design tonight. Get voting now if you were planning to!

TinBane · October 2016

Voted. Thanks for organising this!
With the Flinders Street side (great idea BTW), I was wondering if you were planning to do it 'full colour' or do it the same way they did for the South coin (enamel to show off the 'depth'.
I'd vote for that, and suggest that at the most the colour on the flinders st side should be a green roof enamelled on?

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

That's really up to @akidderz at this point honestly.

If we go a full colour coin on both sides I'd imagine it would just be a photo sealed in with clear enamel, assuming that's how they do it.

Devereaux · October 2016

WOW! Full color coin....that would be.....AWESOME! and a first full color coin. Either side would look great in color, however, I'm partial to dropbear

SoylentDaveage · October 2016

So when are we ordering these coins that I didn't know about last year because PAX was a late decision?

(Yes, yes I did sign up to the forums I've been casually browsing for the past few months just for this... I'm slack and a bit antisocial)

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

I'll probably have the order form up early next week, if not this weekend.

vonhist · October 2016

thanks for doing this mate

ndwhitey · October 2016

Great idea choosing flinders Street station as the landmark fish !

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

And I did it all on my own!

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Here are the poll results:

Latin Phrase: Winner: NULLUS ANXIETAS ("no worries")

So keeping the current one.

Breakdown:

NUMQUAM MENTULA ES ("don't be a dick") -2 votes
NOLI ESSE DRONGO ("don't be a drongo") -7 votes
NULLUS ANXIETAS ("no worries") -16 votes
TERRA PRETIOSORUM LUDORUM ("land of expensive games") -7 votes

Colour Coin: Winner: Yes

Standard and colour coins this year.

Breakdown:

Yes -18 votes
No -13 votes

I'll keep the polls open until I get the order form together in case anyone wants to add their email to the notification list or just if they like to vote on stuff, but otherwise that's everything we had to work out decided!

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

So this is the final artwork:

FRONT:

BACK:

Please everyone double check that for typo's/correct dates and let me know if you find any.

We're going with reeded edges and antique gold like this year's south coin so they should look something like this.

Senno · October 2016

Nice work Fish.

Devereaux · October 2016

fishfishmonkeyhat wrote: »

Please everyone double check that for typo's/correct dates and let me know if you find any.

Are the Front and Back images of the coin reversed? I thought Flinders was the front image and dropbear was the back image

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Dude, just turn it around. :P

But seriously I just had a small heart attack thinking I might have gotten the text paired with the wrong image, but no that's correct.

I had just never really considered what the "front" of the coin was and listed the first image I uploaded as it.

Skit · October 2016

I'd be quite happy with just the Dropbear in colour

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Production artwork is here!

Still sorting out prices/shipping at the moment, but I'll let everyone know when we can start ordering.

fishfishmonkeyhat · October 2016

Yo you like colour that isn't a photo transfer check this shit out peeps:

Groovy.

Order update: Ok so now all coins in the first batch (100 standard/100 colour) will be distributed at PAX AUS by myself (getting them shipped straight there from the factory). So once I get the prices the form will be a tad more straightforward than last years (less postage options).

SOON.

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