MGSA T-Shirt Run

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Around rAge time last year I had a couple of people asking me about MGSA tshirts and such. And I realized that since the intial T-Shirt run in 2012 we haven't made any T-Shirts outside of events like rAge.

The intention here is to do a run of MGSA t-shirt. They will be plain white and simply have the MGSA logo (below) on the chest. I'll be using the same printer that I did for rAge, but seeing as the t-shirts aren't being printed in a day they will be of better quality.

We are going with white T-shirts as they are a standard representation of MGSA and are useful for members to wear at things like GDC, A Maze, Super Friendship Arcade, the monthly meetups and other things. This is a priority since GDC is rather close and we want people giving presentations the ability to represent MGSA.

So if you want a WHITE T-shirt, please click on the link

If you want to check that everything submitted is correct please check this doc

If you have any concerns, or something is wrong: post in the thread or PM me.

If you are interested in a cool custom design T-shirt to be printed head on over to this thread!

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  • Yah-yeah-ah!
  • Always with the JHB and CT... :P
  • @vintar sorry :(

    I want to include everyone, but JHB and CT mean that I don't have to organize a courier / postage on the items. And this is the first trial run at this so it's best to keep the variables to a minimum. Hopefully on the next run we'll be sending these out to people that aren't in the main cities. But it's iterating on previous known working part, kinda like making a game ;)
  • I'm interested in a T-shirt and I'm pretty sure there will be more people. Is there somewhere we can list our interest, or are you just gauging numbers for now?
  • @francoisvn I'm using the thread to gauge interests right now, and I'll be using it again to gather numbers for the final ordering and such.

    I'm hoping to hit at least 25 T-shirts for the order run since it means a pretty good price for all involved. I'm pretty confident we'll hit that, but I do have a slight timing worry of having it all done (and people from CT having their T-shirts before GDC) so we can all go out pimpin' MGSA in style.
  • I'm tentatively putting myself down for (another) one. I think my ex may have been in possession of mine when we broke up, and I'd rather get a new one than to re-open that part of my life. :P
  • Karuji said:
    @vintar sorry :(

    I want to include everyone, but JHB and CT mean that I don't have to organize a courier / postage on the items. And this is the first trial run at this so it's best to keep the variables to a minimum. Hopefully on the next run we'll be sending these out to people that aren't in the main cities. But it's iterating on previous known working part, kinda like making a game ;)
    Funny you say that because when it comes to game dev, Durban really doesn't feel like a main city.
  • I'm down :) I love our logo :P
  • Not sure if this would affect the printing cost but would it be possible for the CT soccer team to get t-shirts that have our nicknames on the backs? Otherwise keen for a shirt in general that hopefully the rest of the team will also sign up for so we can have a 'uniform' of sorts :)
  • @vintar well it doesn't have a monthly meetup ;)

    @Tuism funny you liking the logo

    @Elyaradine, and @Fengol on the list!

    @Gibbo unfortunately printing on multiple sides will add a bit more to the cost, but if the soccer guys put a little note in their posts then I'll at worst just tell you what the price difference would be.
  • Me too. I love the plain logo design.
  • I want one please :)
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    I want a T-Shirt... I'm a large T-shirt... and I want my forum handle on the back in big red letters (the red of the icon).

    I'll pay whatever it takes.
  • I want a T-Shirt... I'm a large T-shirt... and I want my forum handle on the back in big red letters (the red of the icon).

    I'll pay whatever it takes.
    I'm sorry, but the printing process can only handle 15 characters...

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  • I'd like 2 shirts in Somerset West @gamelancer, or can pick up in CT...both Medium (to large depending on cut size) please.
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    dislekcia said:
    I'm sorry, but the printing process can only handle 15 characters...
    I also answer to "BlackShipsFillt" :P

  • I also answer to "BlackShipsFillt" :P
    I still remember when Sven and I picked you up at the airport and "BlackShipsFillt" was the sign we used :3

    Ok so if I can get names on the back they will be what is now referred to as MGSA red.

    @Boysano the T-shirts will probably be handed out at the monthly meet up. I've got LexAquillia to smuggle them down to CT.

    @Squidcor, @ProjectX, @Mexicanopiumdog added to the list :)

    Ok we're currently sitting at 10 (maybe 11) orders which is a quite a bit less then where I would like to be for ordering. Time to get people to pimp the thread out a bit ;)
  • @BlackShipsFilltheSky: apparently I like you joke so much I can heart it twice. Or maybe I just broke the forum a little?

    The names on the back would be pretty cool. Do they cost much more?
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  • I'd like one. Thanks.
  • Count me in for a shirt. :D
  • I would love to get one of these, I've missed every order so far.

    Also, I don't mind volunteering to do the co-ordination for a cape town based print run if necessary.
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    I'd be keen if this... if it weren't for a white shirt. White shirts are where style goes to die *pirouettes away*.

    Seeing as this isn't necessarily an MGSA official thing, could we think about doing a non-white option rather? :)
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  • @SUGBOERIE, @Ramperkash added to the list.

    @damousey, thanks for the offer mouse! But the reason I want to do it like this is because the more we order from a single printer the longer the per T-shirt price is. So splitting between JHB and CT will just mean that we all end up paying more.

    @Bensonance, I can always ask the game lawyer, or space pope, to come by the thread and give us his blessings ;)

    The reason for white T-shirts is that I wanted to do a rerun of the original T-shirts that we did. I was already planning on doing another T-shirt run in a couple of months for black T-shirt with a red logo and white text ^_^
  • As much as I'd prefer not to "black heart" the logo, I don't feel the pedantry to say no to the black option :)
  • I'm sure we can solve the black shirt without a black heart thing. I was contemplating making my own off brand version for that already, not a fan of white shirts for myself
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  • Count me in for a shirt as well. Good stuff.
  • I'd also prefer a non-white shirt.
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    How about a red tee? I only have two of those. ... ... Yes two (went over my wardrobe in my head).
  • I'd be in for a black ... or perhaps a red, depending, because I don't want to end up looking like a valentines day advert.

  • A red T-Shirt would receive more usage by me than a white one. Pirouetting aside.
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    I'd also prefer non-white. With all my fat, white makes me look like a beached whale
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    So I'm going to upload the logo in Black, Red, and White.

    Fav (heart) your favorite so I know which is the most popular.

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    Or Red

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  • And white again in case the silent masses want white.

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  • The text on the red looks pretty bad, is that black?

    I'd prefer a white shirt myself. Also, put me down for one :)
  • @dislekcia the text was me mucking about in PS quick. I'm sure I'll get @Tuism to do a nice version of the logo before there is printing.

    But I'll go and see if I can fix it in PS.
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    So wouldn't you know the MGSA.com on the white is actually #231f20 and not #00000

    Also needed another post to upload the replacement red logo.
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  • Hi, I am from Pretoria, but would also be interested in a MGSA shirt. Would I be able to pick up the shirt from a JHB monthly meetup?
  • @KleinM monthly meetups is the easiest time for people to get their T-shirts ;)
  • Karuji said:
    @KleinM monthly meetups is the easiest time for people to get their T-shirts ;)
    Awesome :)

    I'll go for a white t-shirt when its available
  • @KleinM well you can vote for (heart "<3" in the top right) the t-shirt colour you want. But I'll be doing runs for the remaining colours later on.
  • I'll take either black or white
  • Karuji said:
    @KleinM well you can vote for (heart "<3" in the top right) the t-shirt colour you want. But I'll be doing runs for the remaining colours later on.
    You mean you'll do white now for sure then do "remaining colours" later, or are you doing a run for the most voted colour now?
  • I have hearted on both the 'on red' and the 'on white' versions, because while I prefer a black shirt generally, I still feel we need to solve the design problem of the black heart first.
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  • @Tuism most voted colour now and others later.

    I would have preferred to do a white run first, but with everyone saying they wanted different colours I thought it would be the most fair to leave the decision of which colour to do to up to a popular vote. Hence my using the hearts as a vote system since vanilla doesn't have polls like vbulletin forum.

    @damousey could you elaborate on what you feel the problem of the black shirt is? And perhaps use those leet art skills to show us some possible solutions ;)?
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    It's not a "problem" per se, it's just that the makegames logo having a "black heart" is not "on CI". The original intention of the logo was to keep white and red as primary colours, preferably white background.

    If there's heavy resistance to a white background, red could do too.

    If we *desperately* all want black, sure why not let's have black. But if people are fine with white tees or red tees, I'd prefer that it doesn't go on black.

    It's a matter of brand integrity. If anyone cares about that around here.

    I'm not gonna fight anyone hard about it, like I said if everyone wants black *desperately* and wouldn't have it any other way, then sure let's go black. But if that's not the case, an alternative would be better for the brand.

    Welcome to marketing and branding snobbery 101 :/
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  • How about: All white print on a black shirt, but make the heart area red?
  • farsicon said:
    How about: All white print on a black shirt, but make the heart area red?
    Sorry, that looks terrible (the heart basically disappears). So no, sorry, can't do that.

    If anything it could be white. But that again totally fucks with the integrity of the logo, so I'd rather have it pure red on black than adding a white heart.

    Just as an example, you'd never see the Coke logo as a black logo on red background. It's always white on red. Or you'd never see the mtn logo without the square on black. In fact probably never on black.

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