GOAT Store Banner Contest

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GOAT Store Banner Contest

Make a banner for the GOAT Store, LLC Web site. The banner can either be for one Dreamcast game, all Dreamcast games, the site in general or any system that we carry (such as NES or DC specific... or even Sega specific). The size for the ads can be just about anything -- of special importance is standard banner ads and smaller buttons.

Submitting any banner means that you agree that we can use it and / or tweak it for our use, of course. Other basic things to think about if entering:

GOAT is always capitialized. It is never Goat.
Copper (the GOAT Logo that we use on the site and my avatar) is our GOAT. Please do not use any other pictures of goats.

At the end, Gary and I will be judging the entries based on our favorites. There won't be anything more to it than that

Now for the cool part -- winners will get the chance to playtest the GOAT Games Comp. before it comes out. We will be having three people join us for playtesting. How this will work is that we will send you the game in a beta format and ask you to try out the games and the interaction with our web site for high scores. The beta game that you will receive will be the game that we believe will be the final version. Based on your comments, we will tweak the game / menu system before release and add your name to the credits of the game.

Here is how the prizes will be given out:

Our favorite overall GOAT Store banner
Our favorite overall Dreamcast publishing banner
Every entry that we use will be put into a random drawing, and a third and fourth winner will be picked that way. If you submit to us 20 banners that are usable, we will enter you 20 times.

Just to note: Banners we will use are just about anything, as long as they look clean and attractive. We get to determine this at will, of course.

At no time do we want anyone to use any pornographic or lewd stuff on these. There should be no "Inhabitants kicks ASS!" with a picture of a GOAT kicking a Donkey or something (as funny as that might be).

If you do an animated GIF, please keep the size under 20kb at the absolute largest. Shoot for under 10kb if possible.

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i had a we go, first one

second one,


any comments?


note: the picture upload is broken, i had to upload to the server my self

I know I replied to this topic yesterday. Where did my reply go?

I said that I thought your idea was really good, but the 3-D effect around the text is a little much. If you were to cut that effect in half, it might look a little better.

Like I said, though, your idea is really solid. I haven't been able to come up with any decent design ideas for this yet.

Yeah, i read you repley yesterday.... and i noticed there was not that many posts in the forum this morning.... there must be something funny with the forum again

Here's my go at it. Oh and i recomend http://xs.to to upload your pics too, as a temp replacement for the upload function on the forum.

http://xs13.xs.to/pics/05046/goatadd.png

Third time lucky.

Any views on that, oh and does this count as competition entry.

Topic Stickied. ;D

Mental - it's a nice design. The text is a little obscure (not certain if I understand the reference, but, whatever). I like the idea behind it, I like the look of the banner and the text, but maybe you should use a slightly more universal reference in the joke.

As far as official competition entries - I'll have to check with Dan to see if they ever visit or check this board. If so, then it probably counts. If not, then I'll let you know.

Mental2k, i don't think goat dan would like that

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At no time do we want anyone to use any pornographic or lewd stuff on these. There should be no "Inhabitants kicks ASS!" with a picture of a GOAT kicking a Donkey or something (as funny as that might be).

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its funny and i like the colour and layout, but some people would take offence (who, you say i don't know.... the WELSH!! ;D ) also there is no refference to what goatstore do... so nicely done, but its not realy suitable..

Curtiss Grymala, the add implys that welsh farmers have sex with goats, and that we could have more fun with the goat store than the formenction farmer would have the goat.... could be true but.....

also i email Goatdan a few days about about this topic, aslo thanks for the feedback

Here's my first attempt. Nothing really special, just testing my chops.

http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp/misc/GOAT_Banner_1.jpg

I'll probably put something else together later.

Here are two more I threw together.

http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp/misc/GOAT_Banner_2.jpg

http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp/misc/GOAT_Banner_3.jpg

I'd really like to see someone work up some buttons to enter into the contest. I'd love to see some 100 x 100 or 120 x 120 pixel buttons made up for people to place on web sites (maybe for GOAT to use as a rotating logo, and definitely for me to place on DC Evo and DCHelp).

tehe the reaction I was after, perhaps I'll come up with somethin a little more suitable.

Just wanted to let any interested parties know:

I PM'd goatdan a week or so ago over at DCEmulation, with this:

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Dan - I don't know if you ever visit the DCEmu UK boards, or if you're even a member over there, but there have been two entries for the banner competition over there.

Mental2K posted an entry, and was curious to know if that counts as an official entry, or if he will need to submit it some other way. The entries are here

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He PM'd me back with this response today:

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Did I PM you back about this? I'm trying to get caught up with everything and it is sorta working...

We'll have a page up very soon on the GOAT Store about the contest. I probably am a member at dcemu.co.uk, but honestly I'm on so many message boards I forget which ones I actually am members of. Anyways, I'll get back to you again ASAP as soon as I can get that page up.

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tehe the reaction I was after, perhaps I'll come up with somethin a little more suitable.

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If you do some research, you'll find it's sheep that give the welsh farmers fun and not a goat, now if the GOAT store released Cool Herders, the ad would be funny to a welshman (even if they had seen it a million times before) ;).

well im a welsh farmer so i'd know

(actually im a northern irish geek but hey)

Here are a bunch more silly contributions from me.

http://www.dcevolution.net/DCHelp/mi...T_Banner_4.jpg


http://www.dcevolution.net/DCHelp/mi...T_Button_1.jpg http://www.dcevolution.net/DCHelp/mi...T_Button_2.jpg
http://www.dcevolution.net/DCHelp/mi...T_Button_3.jpg http://www.dcevolution.net/DCHelp/mi...T_Button_4.jpg

adriano_linux - the cover you posted was pretty nice, but it doesn't belong in this topic. If you'd like to share it with us, please do so by starting a new topic.

Here's another button I drew up. I had never used GIMP before, so I decided to play around with it a bit. It's pretty jagged-looking, but the idea may inspire someone.

http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp/misc/GOAT_Button_5.jpg

GOATDan extended the deadline.

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i would advise to keep the goat thing off any banners/logos

Look at what sites like Lik Sang and Divineo do and follow their type of banners

The goat on the banner makes it look a tad amateurish

I totally agree with you on that it just looks like we love them so dearly so why dont we just push it a little further type of deal. I dont think it would be bad having "GOAT" word or possibly a picture of the Goat but this is basically about gaming.

When it comes to stores selling games they try to sell games by putting on the banner either something that represents what they are selling and a image of there store it pushes sales. That way it gets people interested in what GOAT is all about and lets also think about what they are about Classical gaming or just bringing it back.
GOAT is all about reliving the past and so much more.

Eric

when is the dead line now?

[quote author=Darksaviour69 link=board=art;num=1106759413;start=15#21 date=03/01/05 at 13:10:14]when is the dead line now?[/quote]

This is what GoatDan wrote on Feb 18:

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Hey everyone -- I wanted to give an update on this. Read my other post that I'll make right after this to learn a little more Smile

I still am working to put up that page of info about this. That should happen soon.

I am extending the contest once again and will be working it into our site to help promote the affiliate program. Because of this, I will be extending the deadline once again to March 20th. This is the final extension, I promise. All of the above entries are awesome, and will be put up onto the "current submissions" pages.

Thanks again for the entries so far, and keep them coming!

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This is what he wrote today:

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Hey everyone,

The announcement is finally up on the GOAT Store Web site. I'll be taking all of the entries in this thread and adding them too it. Keep them coming!

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Dark - I don't think your entries are in the topic at DCEmulation, so you'll have to run over to GOAT store and see how to submit them.

yeah, email him my submission, thanks ;)

Nice, I'll give a try ;D

http://ijsr32.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~11298...tstoreadd3.png

http://ijsr32.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~11298...tstoreadd2.png

http://ijsr32.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~11298...tstoreadd1.png

2 new ones
http://ijsr32.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~11298...tstoreadd4.png

http://ijsr32.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~11298102/classic.png

DS, the last one is very nice!

Here's another by me, more sensible this time

Nice work guys. Make sure you submit these to the GOAT store properly. :)

first entry in, officially. Maybe i'll get inspired some more tomorrow.

i rushed the last 2 cause the closeing date was last sunday so it was my last chance to get them done (i was so hungover, it was st paddys day the day before) i not happy with the font in either of them

i liked te background in the last one

Everyone should have been contacted within the last three days about their status. If you submitted something and were not contacted, please contact me as soon as possible. Here is the announcement that went up today:

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Originally Posted by www.goatstore.com

GOAT Store Banner Contest Winners Announced

The results from the first ever GOAT Store Banner Contest are in, and there are great banners galore!

“When it came time to pick the best of the bunch, that task proved impossible,” stated Dan Loosen of the GOAT Store, LLC. “We just decided that instead of trying to judge, everyone was a winner in our books!”

All of the winning banner submissions should have already received notification via email of their winning status. If you have not received notification, please contact Dan Loosen at [email protected] for instructions on claiming your prize as a game tester.

All of the banner submissions can be viewed at http://www.goatstore.com/goatbanners.php. All of the button submissions can be viewed at http://www.goatstore.com/goatbuttons.php. . All of the banners and buttons may be used by GOAT Store Affiliates or anyone that wants to link to the GOAT Store site. For more information on the GOAT Store, LLC Affiliate Program, please go to http://www.goatstore.com/affiliate_info.php

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Congrats everyone!

should send him my address sometime soon.