"Fins to the left, fins to the right"
Cool theme, can't wait to see some more pics and artwork!
I like the work Quarters did.
I like the darkness around the sharks, a little more scary.
Maybe lose one of the Sharkade titles.
What size is the marquee? Hopefully it's not that long and thin.
BobbyG66
I understand why its not good design practice....for me its really an obsessive compulsive thing though, it will forever drive me crazy if its "unbalanced"
Im having the hardest time reconciling myself to the fact the control panel will either have to have 2 left handed and 2 right handed setups or be asymmetrical, but I will in the end fight my symmetry addiction and make it functional rather than symmetrical, keeping the marquee symmetrical is my compensation for this :)
Its no fun being normal, I have lots of fun :)
I think the shark marquee is great. How about if you centered the Sharkade text where it said "Wanna Play?" in your one example and left the ends blank?
Personally, I wouldn't want a lot of text stealing the attention from that picture.
I have symmetry issues as well. I'll come out of the closet and admit it.
The way I get over it with control panels is to picture an imaginary rectangle around each player's joystick and its buttons. In fact, I might make a control panel overlay with the rectangles printed on it.
+--------+ +--------+
| ooo | | ooo |
| O ooo | | O ooo |
| o | | o |
+------ -+ +------ -+
As long as the rectangles are symmetrical, I'm ok with it.
But, like you, I'm obsessively symmetrical everywhere else.
Played around in paintshop and came up with this for the marquee
(http://misfittoysracing.com/cabinet/marquee.jpg)
What the Hell you all talking about its AWESOME! Keep going! Something out of the norm finally!
What the Hell you all talking about its AWESOME! Keep going! Something out of the norm finally!
A HUGE ditto to that! Bigger, Better, More Outlandish, Awesome.
I know this is outlandish and considering that water and electronics dont mix.. but.. at some point you could build an aquarium in your cabinet ;D imagine having tropical fish swimming through your Mame marquee.. haha.. ok, thats about the craziest thing I've ever suggested what the heck I figured I'd throw it out there...
Hey, JThw8
Let me know the dimensions you need.. and maybe I can whip something up for you (what you described.. looking up at the sun through water)
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I know this is outlandish and considering that water and electronics dont mix.. but.. at some point you could build an aquarium in your cabinet
I know this is outlandish and considering that water and electronics dont mix.. but.. at some point you could build an aquarium in your cabinet ;D imagine having tropical fish swimming through your Mame marquee.. haha.. ok, thats about the craziest thing I've ever suggested what the heck I figured I'd throw it out there...
Actually if you look at the early part of this thread I think I had pondered that idea myself. I was going to use some tall thin tanks to either side of the monitor, plenty of room for it :) Sometime down the road I may still revisit the idea.
Hey there.
This thing took forever to build.. not because it was overly complicated but because your CP is sooooo dang huge. The actual uncompressed TIF (this is only 7% of the actual size) is massive.. if you want it, I'll probably have to CD it to you. 49x22 at 300dpi is a hog.
Anyhow.. is this what you had in mind? Complete with lens flair pr0n.
Let me know.
(http://members.rogers.com/dspritchett/shark-cp-test.jpg)
David
Alright, here's the MAIN site www.garf.org (http://www.garf.org)
And you thought all that space of the SIX player version wouldn't come in handy! ;)
HEY, I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to re-start your cabinet.
THIS is what it should look like:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=8611
What happened to Sharkade?
What happened to Sharkade? SHARKBAIT?!
Any updates?
Please tell me you're going to mount an actual pair of shark's jaws somwhere on this cab.