The Stupid Gamer

#3. Hand Down.

#1 please!!

Gabe from Penny Arcade will kill you if you use Pac Man in your logo. :)

1b

1B for sure.

I couldn’t open 3, but I liked 1 and 1b. So whichever one needs more votes in the end throw mine that way.

#3 by far

How does #3 even qualify? The details of the contest said the image had to be 670×200, and when I bring it up it takes up my whole screen?

#3 is vector based and will scale to whatever size you want, thus if you make your browser window smaller it will also make the size of #3 smaller… because you are opening the file directly rather than embedding it inside an html page where you define the size you want it to be.

Count my vote for 1b!

Entry 29. Beeyatches!

I know people who do graphic design, and never did I hear of a Flash or Swish file being vector-based.. I go with 1B. It meets the actual contest criteria……

1I vote for 1 or 1b both of those are great. I was unable to open #3 without saving the swf to my hd first.

Hi farley, that’s great that you know graphic designers and all but im a Flash/Flex developer and I have never heard of a swish file.

One was trying to teach me some Flash, and recommended Swish as a starter. Here’s the link:

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php

#3 is far superior…..its just downright good.

I vote #3, anyone who mistakenly voted 1 or 1b by mistake is stupid and a homo. I vote #3.

#3 all the way

How can anything with a broken PAC MAN qualify as anything other than “ass”?

Please not only was #3 the only one that didn’t look like ass, but it’s also interactive.

#1 is great!

no matter what you use to create a flash file (even though i have never heard of swish and recomend staying away as it’s just a third party trying to sell generic canned apps) the end result is a file with an extension of “swf”. Most flash developers and designers pronounce it as swif.

That said….#3 is a joke. the color is BAAAAAD and the pac man just sucks. since when can pac man move diagonally? Also who the hell is gonna play with a broken pacman in a banner no less. The banner typically(but not always) links to the home page of a site when clicked thus making the pac man control feature useless and inaccessible. plus unless you use swfobject or something like it to embed the swf the user will have to actually click the banner at least once just to activate the control.

#1 is funny; love the 1b variation LOL

#1B was the shiot!!!!!!

Finalist #1 gets my vote~!!!!!

Forrest Gump and Mario—two legends in their own time!! Funny as can be!

#3/Entry 29 is for sure the best!! I like original work much better than some stupid photoshop cut and paste job done by a total beginner.

#1B blows them all away, its badazz!!! #1b gets my vote for sure

#1 gets my vote… funny as heck!

#1

Finalist #1

#1 is da bomb!!

I vote for #1 hands down. It is the only one anyone over 5 years old would like

#1 is the best

#1 for shore, Run Forest RUN!!

i really like Entry 18, its got a very cool color scheme and is more professional looking than the others.

also, i like the idea of Entry 1 (and b1), but the fonts and image quality are not up to bat.

1 or 1b gets my vote.

#3 is broken, and the interactive pacman thing is not a good idea for a banner. Besides that, it is broken. Somehow the pacman slipped out of the banner and I could go anywhere…except for back into the banner.

#1 for sure. Ties right in and everyone can relate.

….and when you consider that when the flash animation banner is reduced to the size needed the broken Pac Man will be the size of a period…

#1… anyone who would vote for 2 or 3 over 1 obviously has a reason for being at this site. Hint: That reason is the first part of the site name.

1B for sure.

#3 blows.

1B without a doubt

#2 for sure. The others are cute, but don’t exactly scream professionalism.

#1b

#1 !!!

#1

1B hands down! The others are seriously cheesy… No offense, but not 1/10th as creative as the ONE-B

Gotta go with #1

1B FTW!!!

#1 or #1b, either one works for me

#1

#1 for sure wins !

#3 is a little gimmicky but it’s still the best. #1 and #2 are amusing for about 30 seconds. #3 is simple and unintrusive.

Finalist 1…. stupid is.. GREAT ROFL

Gotta go with #1 (or 1b).

#1 All the way!!!!!

# 1 with a side of fries please.

#1

Jeff,

Don’t seriously consider to use these just because they might have been the best of the pool of entries. Two of these are really terrible, and the other is at best so so.

The first entry…uses the idea of stupid, but that is about all it does as a brand, which is what your banner should be about. It poorly uses the space, with a flat blue fill in the lower left and upper right sides. The text is hard to read over the image, but that is the least of the concerns with this “Gump” version.

Version 2 at least has some merit…but in terms of long term brandability…I am not sure it really works. The colors mesh with your current theme whether you stick with it or not, but I feel like the image of Mario is a little too harsh…taking stupid a little too hard, and do you want your site to be associated with that image of a re-interpreted brand? Mario as a drooling tool?

The third version…well, completely unoriginal. Put a Pac-man and use the Pac font letters…but your site has nothing to do with Pac-man, the space is poorly utilized, and it conveys nothing of your purpose.

I feel like a $60 prize is decently generous for something…I would hold out for better work…or just say that none of these really fit the goals. You might not have emphasized brand in your original criteria as much, and maybe you really only plan on using these for a week…but I don’t think these are even good enough to warrant that. Maybe version 2 is, with some adaptability.

Jeff,

Being you’re the graphical wizard, why no entry from you?

Actually…I don’t know how I missed the call to entry. I had to look back at the contests category to find the original post…I guess I hadn’t put this site in my feeds just yet.

Even if I had, I would have approached the design in relation to best brand that jives best with this theme. If this is not a long term choice for the theme, then the banner would have been for naught…

Hopefully Jeff and I can just work together on the whole design of the site first. But, I have to finish Atari Football artwork this weekend before I tackle anything else.

i vote for finalist #1 or variation 1b

1b (and I made entry 18. Though I wish 1b weren’t as ugly lookin’,)