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theCoder:

--- Quote from: csa3d on October 22, 2007, 10:05:19 am ---I like the bottom one.  ... The Bobble one feels like two separate ideas coming together
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I agree.  Aliens, no Bobble.  What about having the buttons be the aliens fingertips.  Him reaching out, palm up, with green lit buttons/fingertips.... or not.

dmworking247:
I'm not convinced on the bubble bobble one either, although it is one of my favorite games. By the way, that image looks crap as its scaled by the forum... try THIS LINK instead.

I'm not sure about how far I'd go with the alien concept... I have a marquee, bezel, multiple control panels and possibly even side art to consider... the aliens were just because it looked cool in green and went with the 'space invader' on the back.

I actually like the idea of a screenshot from 'tapper' as the marquee but that leaves me short of ideas on all the other artwork to go with it. Hmm.....

Oh by the way I'm putting black buttons and black batton-top joystick on the six way... on the 4-way control panel I have a green balltop and more black buttons (I do have some green buttons but they're not the same hue). This is why I was going for bright green surrounds on the artwork for the buttons.

The other alternative to leave out the artwork, and paint the CP surface bright green, or black with green 'halos' around the buttons... and either put plexi over the top or try and source some kind of fluro green vinyl overlay.

NIVO:
personally i could see these pics better if your retaining the slime/goo theme

bfauska:

--- Quote from: theCoder on October 22, 2007, 09:36:12 pm ---What about having the buttons be the aliens fingertips.  Him reaching out, palm up, with green lit buttons/fingertips.... or not.

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Yeah right, like aliens have 6 fingers... duh. ;)

dmworking247:
Tomorrow I'm going to drill out the control panel holes.

Since I have a lot of space for a single player control panel (420mm), but not enough for two players on the one CP... I figured I'll put in a spinner on the right hand side of the '4-way 3 button' control panel as well as the '8-way 6 button' control panel.

The third is a dedicated trackball CP, with a mirrored button layout on either side for right or left hand side play.

4-way 3 button (Zippy ball top). Button 2 is 10mm higher than button 1, and Button 3 is 5mm lower than button 2 (arc layout).


8-way 6 button (Sanwa batton top).   Buttons are offset like the 3-button CP, but also the second row is 5mm to the right of the top row (so the buttons are angled the way the arm sits on the CP)


Trackball CP (with mirrored button 1 / button 2)


The second bartop is only going to have one initial control panel (although like the first, its made to be interchangeable so we can add more later). This will be the same as my 8-way layout above, except with a tiny ball-bearing trackball I picked up from an unused server-rack keyboard drawer. It was too cool not to use.






Any comments/ideas?

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