Calling all Ladies, Gentlemen, and unshaven creatures otherwise known as Game Developers!
Clear your diaries on the evening of the 23rd of August! Catch the award winning documentary Indie Game: The Movie in a once off special screening event, brought to you by MakeGames SA and the Labia Theatre.
When: Thursday 23 August
Time: 20:30
Where: The Labia Theatre on Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town
Damage: A mere R40 of your hard earned monies
Update: Official facebook event is up: Let's go! go! go!
http://on.fb.me/OK83fL
Clear your diaries on the evening of the 23rd of August! Catch the award winning documentary Indie Game: The Movie in a once off special screening event, brought to you by MakeGames SA and the Labia Theatre.
When: Thursday 23 August
Time: 20:30
Where: The Labia Theatre on Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town
Damage: A mere R40 of your hard earned monies
Update: Official facebook event is up: Let's go! go! go!
http://on.fb.me/OK83fL
Comments
Guess now is as good a time as any to get the identity finalised... heading to the other thread about it.
It's only two weeks till the screening night of IGTM. I've added the facebook event to the original post. If we could start spreading the word far and wide. (Know some people don't like facebook, but the event details are publicly visible so I figure it's good enough)
This will be the weekend before Ludum Dare, and the perfect way to warm up the game design juices leading into that weekend!
Still need to get poster materials from the film makers. Maybe we can look at posting them around various campuses.
Booking are available through the Labia Theatre via 021 424 5927. No online bookings are available unfortunately.
@Tuism Have you managed to do anything for the Business Cards?
We now have permission to use the high res still here:
http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/press/
I will spend some time this evening making a poster. Then if we can maybe devise a plan as to where to to put these up.
@LexAquilla is it too late to still get in on that UCT action? Otherwise I'm sure there are some other guys that could put it up.
Who else has access to rad Education institutions and wants to put a poster up for us?
I have a digital copy, but my computer sometimes struggles with HD playback...
What is mgsa? It's about spreading the love of making games, right? And as much as we'd like to define and undefine what a 'game' is, we're all aiming to create digital games.
The heart is a bit of a white hot thing, burning to spread the love of digital throughout SA. I think it works well enough for an associaltional type thing, clear and simple enough to iconise, and distinguishable enough to stand out from other "associations".
OK... feel free to give your input, tell me what you think, rip it to shreds, etc :)
Good work, keep the ideas flowing :D
like the idea of the thing itself being a game - I wonder whether it's more important to have a clear "hi, we make games" or if the name makegamessa.com alone would be enough of a call for someone to interact. If the latter, then the game idea would be perfect. If former, then I wouldn't add much more to it. Also, I don't want to embellish the design too much - the identity needs to be clear at this early age of the brand. People need to see the logo by itself as solidly as possible and not be potentially distracted by other stuff. Again, at this early life of the brand, simple is best.
Let me collect more inputs then decide on a course of action :) (also, I can't believe I'm subjecting myself to design by committee :P)
Pixel country + heart. Gorgeous.
As far as linkability goes, I'd just put www.twitter.com/#makegames and www.MakeGamesSA.com right at the bottom.
Putting game instructions, or maybe even local game screenshot before/after pics would be cool. But simple is always best, you don't want a complex thing on an awareness raiser - that's what the forum is for ;)
Hi res version can be found here, if anyone wants to go ahead and get some printed.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/348869/IGTM/Poster.zip
I plan to get some printed myself... but at this late hour my foggy brain prevents me from saying where or when. Will post update tomorrow.
Good job dude!
That logo rocks! I was thinking that if the orange were instead the same red as the logo, or black, the white text would read better, and the colours would be more consistent/appealing? Just thoughts. :)
Going to send some along to AFDA. Couple of places around town I can put them up. How many to you guys want for UCT? who can I drop them off with? @raxter ?
Who else is willing to put up a posters? @dislekcia do we have an in at friends of design? Where else is game design being studied?
Any body else want a poster to put up some where. Should probably save one for the night of the screening, and see if I can put one in the Labia beforehand.
If Facebook numbers are anything to go by (which they're probably not) we're still 50 odd people short of our break even point. So any kind of team effort here will be much appreciated.
@LexAquillia here, I think this is pretty final. Colours unified, url url-ified. Twitter thing dropped cos I think it dilutes the call-to-action - also cos it doesn't work (thanks Twitter)
Let me know where I can mail the pdf to so you can get the business cards printed up. I think a week's lead time is enough for Jetline - but just check ahead with them.
@Tuism: Only thing I would change would be "in SA" to "in South Africa". Provided there's room.
Well I hope it gets printed up in time, using business cards as a take-away is a great, cost-effective idea :)
I'm in town if anyone wants to grab. I can also make plans to get drop one off if you can provide a venue. And if I don't get volunteers, I will start nominating ;)
@Merrik Weekend Mission to that side of the world may not be out the question, but lets see how it goes. Otherwise will have to drop off at UCT on monday
Otherwise regrettably we shall be watching a DVD blown up way bigger than it ever should've been...
EDIT:
Scratch that, my laptops HD just died, and it won't be ready by Thursday :(
My laptop can do HD but starts spluttering sometimes for no apparent reason. Pretty good way to piss off a room full of people.
The digital projector has HDMI and VGA. I'm actually going to try see if I can play it from my ps3. Figure if anything can handle HD, it should be that. Otherwise I'm just going to go with the safest option and burn it to dvd. According to the projectionist the quality is pretty good. In fact now that I've said it out loud, that definitely seems like that way to go. Apologies ot anyone who has a thing about HD
Also check out the cards I got printed curtsey of @Tuism
Good luck for the event! Hope we get a lot of involvement and crash the server or something :P
Get pictures, talk to people, get quotes, let's write something up, and spam some sites/blogs. I know I'll be glad to :)
Also, was just wondering if we could do some sort of slide or image that could introduce people to Make Games SA, point them at the website and maybe even highlight the local indies that have games that are buyable right now? Stuff like DD and A Day in the Woods, anyone else have buy-right-the-fuck-now links?
Can we even do a splash image thing?
Yes, I got a game ready on iTunes, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bush-pilot/id540889285?l=it&ls=1&mt=8
Flyers posters etc are all potential ways to get your name involved. I'm relying to people to be self organised in this respect though.
PS @dislekcia wouldn't like you to give the introduction for MakeGames. You've been around a lot longer than I have, so feel it would be more appropriate. I'll take care of introducing the movie...
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pure-fun-soccer/id519500080?mt=8
@TheFuntastic: Did you mean you'd like me to do a MakeGames intro? Typo there mebbe? ;) Also working on getting the Mweb GameZone guys to come shoot at the event, have put them in contact with you via twitter.
@dislekcia doh! typo ahoy. Awesome stuff on the getting the coverage together. Things are looking good! Just realised 176 ppl is going to real hard to address without some kind of PA. Ergh! Remind me to never organise anything again.
Anyone here have a simple mobile PA of some kind?