The rules:
1) Logo needs to fit in an area approximately 170x80 in size, but that's just the main logo part itself. This is so it will fit on the main site. Feel free to also submit a logo for the forum in combined form, just take the size currently used as a template. Important thing is the part that goes on the main site needs to be 170x80.
2) Submissions must be in some lossless format (png, gif). We use a transparent background, but as long as you fill background areas in a solid block of 'this is obviously wrong' colour, we'll know what to trim out ourselves.
3) Anyone may enter, even staff.
4) The prizes could be anything, even just some Paypal $, we don't know yet - myself and Malc between us have an unbelievable amount of 'stuff' so we'll try to find something more interesting first
5) Entries can be submitted in the following ways:
* email to '[email protected]'.
* PM to admin or moderator with embedded image, or link.
6) Logo must be your own work! No ripping sprites, but I'm sure nobody will mind if you simply re-draw something seen in games.
7) Don't even like having to say this, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth having to ask. If you send in a submission, then you're OK with us keeping it on the site as long as we like, no telling us to remove it at a later date.
Closing date for competition is the end of March.If you could avoid posting entries directly to this thread, it would be appreciated, I'll maintain a post after this one, with the current entries and who submitted them. We haven't decided yet if the decision will be made purely by the admin team, maybe I'll set up some kind of voting arrangement (anonymous but 1 vote per user) - extra consideration will be given to logos that really fit in with the site. Take a quick look at the http://www.shmups.com front page to get a feel for that, I expect some forum users haven't been there for a long time.
Now, where's my copy of Deluxe Paint? :/
