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Alissara

By Alissara,
Posted on: 2008-07-01 18:46 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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We'd love to have some great options to put in front of the dev team (from Community) for use in optional in-game advertisements. If anyone else out there reading has some ideas or images they would like to share, we'd love to hear and see them!

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I don't know what you guys would think of this Lighthouse, but an idea that occurs to me is to use the IGA to billboard upcoming game features. Once we get some hints as to what's coming in I13, for example, you could put up the occasional image on one of the IGA boards that covers it.

Just my 2 inf worth ...

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Okay, I would not normally submit (hence this being my first post ever) , but I figured I'd give this a try for you guys. Here was an ad I came up with for The City Scoop. I would never submit this to the devs without your rubber stamp. If you want to use it, you have permission to do so. It is the 256 x 256 size.

http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/m...ityScoopAd.jpg

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Anyone else mind if I nominate this right up with UniqueDragon for best first post ever?

... for the exact opposite reason, but still!

 

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I like #9. Imo the perfect balance of readability and getting the point across.

And I like Eochinis' ad, but not for a billboard. Tho I think it would be perfect for the updater.

Snow: my bad. I guess when I sw you saying "we don't get paid for this" I somehow also got the impression you guys were paying for the ad. My bad.

Zombra: No hard feelings. I agree a url would be less immersion breaking, but unfortunately like snow said there no one url they could use to refer people to the Scoop. :/

 

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We don't. We exist solely on these forums. Sorry if that breaks immersion for people but the fact remains that we are here, and ONLY here.

I think it is a bit prejudicial (and more than a bit hypocritical) that people want to reject the ads just because they exist in a place that is tied to the game when they'd accept anyone else ads (and urls) in game.

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And the shortest actual forum url I can do is:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/postlist.php?Board=info

Which drops into the announcement section.

The goal is to drive people to the forums. Without being able to mention the forums the purpose for these ads is LOST. So for those that are put off about the fact that the scoop is on the forums, and that the ads mention the forums, all I can say is that everyone can't always be satisfied.

Seeing that the forums and the Scoop are tied together, I am not going to completely drop all references to the forums.

This wasn't directed at Kheprera, but all those saying that it will break immersion.

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No offense at all, Snow. I was really just make suggestions, but I fully understand.

I still think a url will help show people that 1) there are forums and 2) where to find them easily.

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I guess you guys have inspired me to really put an effort into this one. I love the idea of Statesman and Lord Recluse doing the /e newspaper, so I decided to do something similar in art. This is still just the sketch... and not even complete at that. I'll continue to work on it to ink it and bring it into full color. Just no deadlines Scoops.

http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/m...oopDrawing.jpg

 

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I guess you guys have inspired me to really put an effort into this one. I love the idea of Statesman and Lord Recluse doing the /e newspaper, so I decided to do something similar in art. This is still just the sketch... and not even complete at that. I'll continue to work on it to ink it and bring it into full color. Just no deadlines Scoops.

http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/m...oopDrawing.jpg

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Progress continues. Just need to draw spider legs and fill out newspaper. Then it will will be on to the digital work.

http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/m...opDrawing2.jpg

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"My horoscope says what?!"

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I was scratching my head until I looked at the picture and read your post. Very funny

 

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Here's a quick one I tossed together...I'll work on it more tomorrow or later this evening. (The image can be reduced, I worked in a larger format)

City Scoop Ad

(I don't like all the white space but if anyone has any suggestions I'll read them when I get home)



 

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I'll test out the image at the required sizes for readabilitiy.



 

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Okay I changed the layout and used the ad sizes required. I tried to keep things simple and easy to read. The images of the newspapers are stock photos.

Ad Size 512x256

Ad Size 256x256

The Paragon City Logo can be swapped out for a character image or something else more eye catching. It's really just a placeholder



 

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I got the primary color fill done. Still a lot of finishing work to do with shading and highlights, but it's coming along pretty quickly. From what I'm hearing, you probably wouldn't be able to read "The City Scoop" headline of the newspaper due to resolution. Well, here it is so far...

http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/m...opAdColor1.jpg

 

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I wont tell you what happens to them with the world textures down.



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Please show it, maybe I can adjust mine (if its acceptable) to work in low and high world textures.



 

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If anyone else has any input on this, please send it to me at Lighthouse@ncsoft.com

Thanks!

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I agree that versions 3 and 4 were too wordy, but version 5 isn't wordy enough (just to drive you extra insane!)

I think you need to get in there somewhere as to what the City Scoop is, or at least to go to the boards.

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Agreed.