DC Independant Software Graphics

[MetaFox]

This isn't a "change it or else" type of thing. We're not forcing people to not use copyrighted graphics. If they want to do that, we are not going to stop them (well, except for the contest of course. :P).

I just felt like there was a need for a change. We've been doing the same thing since 2000, and now that the community is getting larger, and more of the media's attention are on us (and it's only going to grow), we have to start the ball rolling for more a professional appearance.

[curt_grymala]

I was wondering the same thing. I just edited my post, because I thought I had gone crazy. I was responding to something MetaFox said, and then when I submitted my post, Meta's post was gone. :-/

[DCDayDreamer]

This isn't a "change it or else" type of thing. We're not forcing people to not use copyrighted graphics.

Really? - you mean those thugs that just battered down my door and demanded I use 'something else' weren't sent by you? ;D

WTF what happened to the last few posts?

It's those damn gremlins again! :P.

[Mental2k]

It'd be nice to have a sort of indie label though, that most use.

[MetaFox]

[quote author=curt_grymala link=board=art;num=1096803412;start=0#11 date=10/03/04 at 16:45:18]I was wondering the same thing. I just edited my post, because I thought I had gone crazy. I was responding to something MetaFox said, and then when I submitted my post, Meta's post was gone. :-/[/quote]Odd. I had the same thing happen when I replied to IM's post in my first topic about this. I submitted my post and Ian's post was gone.

Screwiness on the forums happened all the time with YaBB on Consolevision. The forum would mysteriously write over some of the posts. It was only a matter of time before the screwiness started over here. That's why I switched to phpBB on CV - YaBB forums can't be trusted for reliability.

[quzar]

[quote author=VampiricS link=board=art;num=1096803412;start=0#5 date=10/03/04 at 14:50:52]

Well doing that idea will still have the problem of using the dc swirl, even if it's for a dot on the 'i', and using the SEGA font is still like using their copyright probably. Not that i care about it that much, since everyone is using copyrighted material since the start anyway, beats of rage and mods are one of the best exemple of it, and not many are complaining about it.

Another thing is that personally, i could agree with the copyright stuff if it'sonly about 'homebrew' or 'Independant' software that are being sold, n that case yeah having all original stuff might be needed, but for freeware stuff we shouldn't care that much. i could talk about that matter even more but it will probably turn in the usual flame war, so i end it right here.[/quote]

that is why i said sega styled font and dreamcast like font, not the real ones, just things that look similar. and the swirl could be one like in the logo for this site, a binary string, to represent individual coding =P.

[MetaFox]

[quote author=Mental2k link=board=art;num=1096803412;start=0#7 date=10/03/04 at 16:40:39]yeah the reason i chose that font was cause it was reminiscent of the Sega font, while being nothin like it. I think we could use a similar font to the DC one, but I think one of the great things about the DIS is that we're sort of distancing ourselves from the official. So something reminiscent, without actually being the same. If you get what I mean.

Meta your idea sounds good![/quote]
We could probably get away with using the SEGA font, other companies do.



Though we probably shouldn't, as our products are directly related to Sega, unlike Sentinel's - who's logo I found on a box of cotton swabs.

[Mental2k]

Yeah somethin original like this meta

[Cereal]

[quote author=MetaFox link=board=art;num=1096803412;start=0#10 date=10/03/04 at 16:43:40]This isn't a "change it or else" type of thing. Â*We're not forcing people to not use copyrighted graphics. Â*If they want to do that, we are not going to stop them (well, except for the contest of course. :P).

I just felt like there was a need for a change. Â*We've been doing the same thing since 2000, and now that the community is getting larger, and more of the media's attention are on us (and it's only going to grow), we have to start the ball rolling for more a professional appearance.[/quote]Why can't we just write a leter to Sega asking for premision to use there Case template legally. I think the DC Japanese case is the best case template i've ever seen in my life.

[VampiricS]

Another thing that i don't understand is that even if you guys wants to start to sell 'independant' dc software,you could and 'should' get a publisher that has the right already to release stuff on Dreamcast using SEGAlogosand cd cover template. the best exemple is the game Alien Hominid on PS2, it's made by an independant team, and is getting published by O3, a publisher made of ex-capcom staff. So it still uses the PS2 cover template and logos. And in all honesty, from what i noticed, people don't really buy games or software that don't have the 'official case look' most of the time it makes them look like cheap bargain bins on release things. (And i am not telling that it makes the sold product suck, just that it doesn't reallyis a good marketing thing from my eye.)

Anyway, change of subject,Was there any other suggestions about covers andlogos or something? Ididn't noticed any in this thread at least.