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Gaidan
Join Date: 2006-10-31 Member: 58132Members
Join Date: 2006-10-31 Member: 58132Members
I'd like to ask the community to come up with an agreed upon a poster which allows us to plaster your local city with NS advertisement. I personally have no talent for art, so I’m looking for anyone that does have something going for them. This is a great oppertunity to get your name out there, i plan on displaying at least 300. A few rules:
* Posters must be 1 foot by 10 inch (Seattle size limitation), AND 8" x 11" If you have to choose, go with average paper please.
* Posters should feature your own art, give UWE credit where it's due.
* Posters must have UWE website URL on the poster, above 15 font.
* Sign your name (or just write it out) on the bottom right hand.
* Poster must say "Natural selection II" and leave room for a catch phrase the community will vote on later.
* If you poster is deemed as copyright i may ask for it to be taken down or I’ll place the reference for you. You have been warned on this one I will modify your work to keep UWE from being sued.
I personally think gritty is better, but that's just me. Also try to stay away from NS1 art if you can, though you don't have to. I will be posting signs around Seattle, probably Pike Place and Capital Hill. If you don't want me to place your art around the city, don't post here.
Also, for the less talented in the visual arts - we need a slogan / catch phrase. Go nuts, if it sounds cool and stupid... or stupid cool just post it. I'll count up saying that has the most votes and ask for the artists to please include them in their poster. I'll edit the post every time someone comes up with a new phrase.
You may now kick much ass.
*Edit*
short story concept a possibility.
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Phrases, inside jokes are loved but not accepted unless they're easy for the NS illiterate to understand. If you say fade they'll think Lord of The Rings.
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"Are you doing you're part? The TSA need you!" 1 vote
"What side will you join"
* Posters must be 1 foot by 10 inch (Seattle size limitation), AND 8" x 11" If you have to choose, go with average paper please.
* Posters should feature your own art, give UWE credit where it's due.
* Posters must have UWE website URL on the poster, above 15 font.
* Sign your name (or just write it out) on the bottom right hand.
* Poster must say "Natural selection II" and leave room for a catch phrase the community will vote on later.
* If you poster is deemed as copyright i may ask for it to be taken down or I’ll place the reference for you. You have been warned on this one I will modify your work to keep UWE from being sued.
I personally think gritty is better, but that's just me. Also try to stay away from NS1 art if you can, though you don't have to. I will be posting signs around Seattle, probably Pike Place and Capital Hill. If you don't want me to place your art around the city, don't post here.
Also, for the less talented in the visual arts - we need a slogan / catch phrase. Go nuts, if it sounds cool and stupid... or stupid cool just post it. I'll count up saying that has the most votes and ask for the artists to please include them in their poster. I'll edit the post every time someone comes up with a new phrase.
You may now kick much ass.
*Edit*
short story concept a possibility.
_______________________________________________
Phrases, inside jokes are loved but not accepted unless they're easy for the NS illiterate to understand. If you say fade they'll think Lord of The Rings.
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"Are you doing you're part? The TSA need you!" 1 vote
"What side will you join"
Comments
Good but i have a feeling that NS2 will have its own marketing team either through steam or their lovely sponsors. but you never know.
We should come up with something now, but I think i'd be a good idea to leave the posting of thy holy posters until about a month or so before release for the most impact.
Otherwise people won't know wtf we are talking about, and most likely forget by the time NS2 is ready.
what about like ns1 "insider jokes" obviously they would need relevant illustrations to get the point across.
<i>"TSA Light Machine Gun, 40 bullets in 5 seconds, unusable scope"
"9 out of 10 experts recommend ladders to trap fades"
"Scorpions that Hovar?, not on my space ship"
"Don't you wish you could eject your boss?"
"Evoling into a Gorge, 10 res, wall of lame, 60 res, loosing the game because the onos can't fit past your WoL, priceless"</i>
the eject your boss one is amazing.
I'm thinking of something like this:
<some rediculous statement>
Yeah, right.
For example:
A skulk is just an overgrown ant.
...
Yeah, right.
or
We aren't being watched by aliens.
Yeah, right.
...or...
<following spoken like a true marine <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />>
There ain't no place I'd rather be!
Yeah, right.
Here's a good insider joke:
Forget about the bridge, let's set up base in the cargo hold!
I'm pretty sure there are many arty types around. Come on guys!
For posters though you have to think what it is you're trying to achieve. Are you attempting to go viral here or instead actually pull people in with more direct marketing?
So what I suggest is just putting some kind of logo maybe the TSA one and then a simple slogan. I’ll knock some up as soon as I get Photoshop installed on this PC again. If only the Kharaa had a logo, I suppose you could just use the outline of the hive. You could also make out that the war was in that city; by placing the posters over one another. And have posters with slogans like: “what side will you join?” and “The TSA needs you” or just the “the TSA needs you” with a claw mark all the way through it.
Another idea might be a short story and then the website. Like Jack Daniels do, but instead of talking about how your drink was made do something like
“THEY ARE ALL AROUND ME! SURROUNDED! I CAN HEAR THEM! BUT WE NEVER SAW THEM! NEVER SAW THEM UNTIL... IT WAS TOO LATE! TOO LATE! THE REST ARE DEAD! THE REST WERE DEAD! THEY ARE ALL DEAD! HOW WAS I TO SURVIVE? ALONE?! I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR THIS! I WASN’T WARNED ABOUT THIS! THEY NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT IT! NO ONE TOLD ME! I’M NEXT! I KNOW IT...”
Just that on a black background. And then smaller letters on the bottom put “the story continues here: **web page**”
Something like that, play with words, fonts and simple images, not much point at this stage to do anything more than that. Don’t give the game away and make people want to know more. The less you tell them the more they want to know, but you have to do this kind of advertising really well and really in peoples faces, with bold statements that just make people remember it till they get to a computer.
As I said I’ll install Photoshop ASAP and put some on here.
<i>"Lork on the clorf? Drop shirtguns."</i>
ns2 street team lol. I like the joke ones, an inside joke someone doesn't immediately get might make them curious and prompt them to investigate the website.
<i>"Lork on the clorf? Drop shirtguns."</i>
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Street teams rock, sign me up. Or better yet *goes digging into my NS archives* got the materials... now let's see? Posters? Fliers? Stickers? Guerilla marketing FTW!
*note i didnt just recomend graffeti *blink *blink,,, *blink
Get it up high not like the other tagger's, and if you have NAV goggles you more than likely wont get court at night,
Guerrilla, hit them where they least expect it and disappear into the night, making use of locals without alot of training or cost. (Example: Fans handing out flyers to their favourite concert for just a ticket to the show or even for nothing at all in payment for the services)
Viral, often meant for short attention spans, an idea that gets stuck in their head, and spreads fast over a vast audience. (Example: The "jingle" tv commercials, where their tune gets stuck in your head)
Though, considering the use of the internet as a means of spreading the idea of the posters, this is probably both viral and guerrilla.
May I suggest a size for the posters that is printed off on peoples' and offices' basic printers, like 8" x 11", as well as in black and white & color versions of the posters. This way nearly anyone with the minimal resources can print off a few and place them around their towns.
"You're going to need more than Chaps for this Frontier" with a picture of the marine, or
"And you thought lassoing a bull was tough" with a picture of the Onos.
We should come up with something now, but I think i'd be a good idea to leave the posting of thy holy posters until about a month or so before release for the most impact.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
UWE said that it was up to us to advertise, as they have no funding for advertising at all.
So yeah <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
But nice quotes so far, and could a mod move it to E-Team fourm plz <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
Any progress, do we have poster that I can print off yet? I might just make my own silly one soon if I don't hear something.
Here you go, don't know if they will traslate well to B+W or print outs, just did them in about 5mins just now...
<a href="http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=theyarebackvj9.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2995/theyarebackvj9.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
<a href="http://img390.imageshack.us/my.php?image=somewhereouttheresl8.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/2803/somewhereouttheresl8.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
Tell me what you think...
EDIT: Hmmm... Just had a look at them on Imageshack and I think they might need some work, knew I should have looked close up at them... Well if you print them out as A5 they should be all good! But tell me what you think...
Thank you Inked. My honest opinion, two things come to mind, 1) if I were to mass produce these to staple on boards and telephone polls or whatever, the amount of ink my printer would go through would be prohibitive, and 2) Spelling of continues is wrong at the end of the first poster.
2nd thing is easily corrected, and the first is harder. The first means making a poster that has white (or whatever the color of the paper) as the main thing, the words and pictures all work around that. Then any of us, pretty much anywhere in the world could mass produce these on basic 8" by 11" paper - I imagine posters work best when you see them everywhere and people can't help but see them and go "What is that?" I've seen it work with stickers that surf shop gave out before, its meant to draw traffic to the site, yes?
Other than that, I think the wording and the imagery are excellent. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
2nd thing is easily corrected, and the first is harder. The first means making a poster that has white (or whatever the color of the paper) as the main thing, the words and pictures all work around that. Then any of us, pretty much anywhere in the world could mass produce these on basic 8" by 11" paper - I imagine posters work best when you see them everywhere and people can't help but see them and go "What is that?" I've seen it work with stickers that surf shop gave out before, its meant to draw traffic to the site, yes?
Other than that, I think the wording and the imagery are excellent. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah I didn’t notice that silly little typo. Changed it now on the post above.
Well I’ll leave those last 2 posters up just in case anyone wants to print them off...
I changed the second one to these 2:
<a href="http://img390.imageshack.us/my.php?image=somewhereoutthere2rt4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/3460/somewhereoutthere2rt4.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
<a href="http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=somewhereoutthere3jk9.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/6659/somewhereoutthere3jk9.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
I think they work quite well. But I’ll do some proper ones later.
Is 8" by 11" A4?<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" /> Cause those ones I have done so far are all A4. This means you should also be able to print off 2 onto one sheet of A4 if you really want a make a lot more per paper used.
EDIT: Heres another one. Works quite well in B+W too, just set your printer to B+W or what ever. Think it might be too wordy tho!
<a href="http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whenwillidiebz0.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8229/whenwillidiebz0.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
I think they work quite well. But I’ll do some proper ones later.
Is 8" by 11" A4?<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" /> Cause those ones I have done so far are all A4. This means you should also be able to print off 2 onto one sheet of A4 if you really want a make a lot more per paper used.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This works very, very well. Once the image is saved, it can be made to fit nearly 4 to a piece of 8"x11" or allow the print to fit to size for 1 to a 8"x11", just be sure to turn off crop to match when you print, or you lose some of the image, the website info at the bottom or the top of the image.
I ran a test poster and this is great! Get this, as I went to print it she goes "Hey, how much of my ink is this going to use?" Hehe... Thanks Inked, IMHO, I think this should get you mad kudos and also be made a part of the press kit. We should move this image up to the first post somehow, or even start a new thread if we have to, get it stickied, and then ask people to start plastering their locales with it at the appropriate time.
Appropriate time to me to avoid Over Hype, would be when we have a hard release date that can not be moved, also given some sort of video of the gameplay of NS2 in action, something that will sink the hooks in a potential customer. Right now would be inappropriate because this stage appeals pretty much only to gamers who have an interest in knowing something of the nitty gritty of game development.
Since we're on the topic of spelling mistakes, the grammar in your sig is a bit off.
It should be "nature is" or "nature's" and not "natures".
Since we're on the topic of spelling mistakes, the grammar in your sig is a bit off.
It should be "nature is" or "nature's" and not "natures".<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Life of a dyslexic... I’ll change it just for you, not that I think it matters that much.
Ok, I redid all of those in 8" 11" size. Just took a bit off the top. They are all here\/
Also moved the line "somewhere out there..." more to the middle. Looks better.
<a href="http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=somewhereoutthere4br3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/2230/somewhereoutthere4br3.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
<a href="http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=somewhereoutthere5sr1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1286/somewhereoutthere5sr1.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
<a href="http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=somewhereoutthere6ox1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7203/somewhereoutthere6ox1.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
EDIT: Is it worth me doing A3 posters?
Sieges from a distance.
Is the Commander</blockquote>
Heavy Armour Marine: <blockquote>Attacks Scratch his paintwork.
March in groups destroying all in their path.
Has earned several commendations from the Commander</blockquote>
Jet Pack Marine: <blockquote>Dodges some attacks.
Chases down and kills lone aliens.
Seeks commendation from the Commander after every kill</blockquote>
TSA Marine: <blockquote>Attacks Piss him off!
Kicks ass and tells "yo momma jokes"
Is having an affair with the Commanders wife*</blockquote>
www.UnknownWorlds.com<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
READ THIS: I am also suggesting a picture of a Command Chair, HA, JP are put under the titles of these classes and then a CUSTOM 'tough guy' marine is placed under TSA marine title.
Hope you like it I would make a Photoshop of it but I dont have time... This is an idea I am putting forward.
IF YOU DO GO AND MAKE A IMAGE POSTER AS I HAVE SUGGESTED DO NOT CLAIM FULL CREDIT FOR THE IDEA!
Hope you like it I would make a Photoshop of it but I dont have time... This is an idea I am putting forward.
IF YOU DO GO AND MAKE A IMAGE POSTER AS I HAVE SUGGESTED DO NOT CLAIM FULL CREDIT FOR THE IDEA!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We don't have any images of these things, so this idea wont be made until we do...
...I haven't claimed any credit for any of the ideas I have done so far, I saw all the ideas that have been put up here (including my own) as being thrown into the cooking pot. If people want to make them they can, but they should post them up here when they do, so we can all have our say what we think, and any changes that need doing. Also, who is going to sign their poster? No one should be claiming any credit for the posters, it should be a group effort.
...Can people give me some ideas for things we can do. I was thinking along the likes of “Join the TSA†war posters, done in a way that looks like you might find it on Earth in the same time period that NS2 is set in. I had a look at old war posters on Google, but none of them have been very inspiring. If anyone can find any real adverts for joining the army, that they think can be adapted to look like a ‘futuristic’ “Join the TSA†war poster then that would be extremely helpful. Or even any good fonts that you think would work as a TSA font, I don’t think the NS2 font works that well as the TSAs font; or even looks like its been printed.
...I haven't claimed any credit for any of the ideas I have done so far, I saw all the ideas that have been put up here (including my own) as being thrown into the cooking pot. If people want to make them they can, but they should post them up here when they do, so we can all have our say what we think, and any changes that need doing. Also, who is going to sign their poster? No one should be claiming any credit for the posters, it should be a group effort.
...Can people give me some ideas for things we can do. I was thinking along the likes of “Join the TSA†war posters, done in a way that looks like you might find it on Earth in the same time period that NS2 is set in. I had a look at old war posters on Google, but none of them have been very inspiring. If anyone can find any real adverts for joining the army, that they think can be adapted to look like a ‘futuristic’ “Join the TSA†war poster then that would be extremely helpful. Or even any good fonts that you think would work as a TSA font, I don’t think the NS2 font works that well as the TSAs font; or even looks like its been printed.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
not even a "hahahah that was funny Jester"? :O
I waste my good humour...
I waste my good humour...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
To be honest, I didn't really find it that funny. Sorry...