**2008 BYOAC Token FRONT SIDE Design Thread**

[JONTHEBOMB]

Slogan ideas for any token:

- Work hard, Play harder

- Preventing arcade extinction

- Fun to build, Fun to play

- Creating authentic arcade experiences

- Till death we play

- Reclaiming our former glories

- Restoring our former glories

- Reliving our past fame

- Living dreams for just a quarter

- Recreating lost memories

- Play On

- Lose yourself

[vorghagen]

Well, I got distracted with other projects, but here's a revamped "Hall of Arcades"

LOVE this design! Absolutely fantastic! I think it would be awesome with Chad's suggested slogan of

Welcome To Paradise
It Fits In Your Basement

 or something similar.

[dstone]

A slogan that I particularly like:

For Love of the Game

[Pixelhugger]

AAAARRRRRRGH.

Out of time. Please understand this is rough. I would still need to add tools to the tool belt, redraw the measuring tape, add byoac to the swimsuit etc. And of course vectorize the whole thing since this is still a pencil sketch compiled from a bunch of different drafts in an attempt to save precious time.

Ran out of time doing the matching (and appropriately designed "tails") side.

Guess there's no pleading for an extension....

[missioncontrol]

awesome

[pointdablame]

awesome Pixel -- someone give this man an extension!

And just ignore that it's pixel and the coin may take as long as his cab to finish 

[Ed_McCarron]

YIKES! Don't know how I missed this thread for the last month. 

Too busy working on your cabinet?

[xbakesx]

Pixel, if you let me know where to send it, I can send you my psd file, to give you a starting point, at least with your background (seems similar enough).

I can't attach it here cause it's a little too big.

[ChadTower]

I love that design... probably will get me booed out of the building but I'd suggest toning the sexuality of the woman down a bit.  Peoples' kids and wives are going to be using these tokens too.

[missioncontrol]

wow Chad, do you not let your kids watch TV, read magazines, and blindfold them so they can't see billboards while you go out for a drive?

[saint]

I love that design... probably will get me booed out of the building but I'd suggest toning the sexuality of the woman down a bit.  Peoples' kids and wives are going to be using these tokens too.

I'm with Chad on both points. I love the design (I loved this design http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=6164.0 if anyone remembers it) but it may limit the potential market. Something almost exactly the same but with Lara Croft style shorts might be in order?

[ChadTower]

wow Chad, do you not let your kids watch TV, read magazines, and blindfold them so they can't see billboards while you go out for a drive?

There is a difference, as a parent, between preventing exposure and actively supplying such things.  They see them outside and that's life.  This does not mean their father should be handing the same level of materials to them in the home.  It is not about restriction.

[TheShanMan]

I wholeheartedly agree. Love the token design, and it would be fine if just for me. But my 6 year old is at least as much of an arcade addict as I am, and he has entered the phase of being fascinated by women (especially when scantily clad), kissing, etc. I'm certainly not going to do anything to prod that along in him at such an early age!

[Pixelhugger]

I really like the Lara Croft shorts idea. May also help add to the tool belt concept. The swimsuit was feeling a bit out of place in the arcade anyway. That'd be a nice solution. Santoro.... is it worth putting something together like that or has time run out?

I also sympathize on the wife and kids comment. I was trying to keep the design no sexier than Dragon's Lair or Space Ace while maintaining a sort of "calendar" feel (without which it felt strange to have a girl on the token   ) So I agree putting some shorts on her would certainly help and I don't think it would necessarily detract from the... uhhh... playfulness of it.

That said, my six year old daughter picked up the sketch I was making for the front and her eyes popped out and she gasped: Whooooooooah. Is that me? Is that Wonder Woman?? WOW Daddy. Who IS that? Of course I should have said it's mommy.

[Pixelhugger]

OK so I'll take the cleavage out too. 

[Pixelhugger]

And the "drop shadows" 

[ChadTower]

You don't have to take the cleavage out but maybe make it so that it is actually physically possible without enhancements.     Limit her to a C-D cup rather than an F, I guess.

[missioncontrol]

See, I saw the Dragon's Lair or Space Ace connection with the chick. Guess you'll have to make her more pixilated and blocky as to not offend someone...

[saint]

OK so I'll take the cleavage out too. 

nonononononononononononono

[fatfingers]

I love that design...

 

[Santoro]

Alright, here's the deal.  I am busy as all hell with my job and working on a few new business pursuits. As such I won't be able to manage the polls in the next week or so anyway. 

I know I said I won't extend the deadline, but at this point there is no harm, so what the heck.  Let's go two more weeks. I will also send PMs to all the previous winners to be sure they see the threads. 

(That is a courtesy I probably should have thought of at the beginning.  Sorry Pixel.)

[Santoro]

Also - my 2 cents on the curvy woman.   I like curvy women.   

That said, I think that there are going to be a significant number of households where the design is racy enough to put off potential buyers.  Every year so far we just eke out enough demand for a full run of tokens and I don't think we can afford to alienate even 10% of the potential buyers or their wives.

I do think a tasteful but sexy woman is possible, and if anyone can do it - Pixelhugger can. 

[Pixelhugger]

WOOT!

[Havok]

ok, Pixel wins!

Santoro - when can we get these into production?

 

[Pixelhugger]

Here is the t shirt and shorts version. Still rough. Added tshirt, carpenter shorts and reduced certain "proportions"

[saint]

Looks awesome! (Bring back the proportions   )

[TheShanMan]

Lol! Ditto (in my book nothing wrong with a hot lady as long as it's not too revealing). Of course, ultimately Santoro needs to feel confident that it won't limit his potential sales.

[ChadTower]

Works for me.     What's in her hand?  Is that a power cord?  Love the spade bit and drill rather than a gun.   

[Pixelhugger]

Well, it's a measuring tape... which would look more like one in  a final version. 

[sez]

It's an arcade token fer sh!ts sake and a damn good one at that.

I find it staggering that some women would take offence to a freaking coin.

Cheese and rice!!

[Havok]

Looks awesome! Just needs a little work on the hips and legs.

[boogieman]

darn i wish it was cold in that arcade...   

I really like that coin, enough to buy for sure!

[fatfingers]

*tick, tock, tick tock*

[Santoro]

Been busy, sorry about that....

I think we've got all the design concepts we are going to get, so no new entries will be accepted.   I would ask everyone that submitted something to spend the next week getting your 'final' design ready and post it here.  If the last one you posted IS the final one, please say so.

[dstone]

My final is at the bottom of page 2.

[missioncontrol]

Been busy, sorry about that....

I think we've got all the design concepts we are going to get, so no new entries will be accepted.   I would ask everyone that submitted something to spend the next week getting your 'final' design ready and post it here.  If the last one you posted IS the final one, please say so.

my final:

[xbakesx]

My final is at the bottom of page two, as well, but that seems like it can change so I'll repost the same images.

[fatfingers]

This is my final:

[Pixelhugger]

Ouch this was painful to vectorize and keep the details big enough.

Background (carpet and "sky") would be stippled to give the image lots of depth.

[saint]

That's awesome!