{"id":3714,"date":"2015-10-12T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2015-10-12T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:56:32","slug":"logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2015\/10\/12\/logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About eighteen months ago, I created a logo for MMORPG Tycoon 2.\u00a0 I was tired of using generic icons for the game, and so used a little tool to make what I felt at the time was a somewhat elegant logo.\u00a0 But now we have a real one.\u00a0 This has been a <em>long<\/em> time coming.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Logo2k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Logo2k-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"Logo2k\" width=\"700\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Logo2k-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Logo2k-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Logo2k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that whenever a company makes a blog post about their exciting new branding, they spend several paragraphs breathlessly explaining the deep meaning and symbology of every element of their exciting new logo.\u00a0 And I just roll my eyes at the pretensions.\u00a0 But now that I have one myself, I can totally understand why they do it;\u00a0 so much thought and attention goes into the creation of something like this that I just want to point out all the little touches, so that everyone else can love the logo in the same way that I do.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe I&#8217;ll restrain myself, and just say that it&#8217;s a marriage of classic MMORPG logo tropes with classic Tycoon game logo tropes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m <em>very<\/em> pleased with how it came out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also mention that receiving the final form of this logo was the first of my &#8220;this is really happening&#8221; moments of panic.\u00a0 (#2 was staring at a blank Greenlight page, and needing to begin filling that out.\u00a0 #3 was talking to a musician to get music composed.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you all know about #4 when it happens.)<\/p>\n<p>There really is a <em>lot<\/em> of other stuff I should be showing you all, too, but part of me wants to hide it for the trailer reveal.\u00a0 We&#8217;re probably 3-4 weeks out from having that trailer be ready to go (mostly waiting on music, but I&#8217;m using the time to get more final-quality art in).\u00a0 The Greenlight campaign will go live at the same time that the trailer goes live.\u00a0 So we&#8217;re not too far away from the real marketing push!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About eighteen months ago, I created a logo for MMORPG Tycoon 2.\u00a0 I was tired of using generic icons for the game, and so used a little tool to make what I felt at the time was a somewhat elegant logo.\u00a0 But now we have a real one.\u00a0 This has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/m2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/so9WK-logo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}