[The Icehouse 5 years Anniversary] First Event! Forums banner

[RogerCAKT]

First topic message reminder :

The Icehouse 5 years Anniversary (2014 - 2019)

As you know the Icehouse is now 5 years old!
Thanks to all of you for all of your efforts and continuing support!
This year we are going to launch a series of small events that, we hope, will reveal our past and present works, please our fans and followers, and give you the opportunity to express yourself furthermore, etc.

Our First Event is:

A contest to create a new banner for the forums
People are invited to create something new to possibly replace the old one, and the winner will receive a prize.

The current banner and, if you are not already registered – the opportunity to register, can be found at https://theicehouse.forumactif.org/ or at the top of this page



New banner - rules:
• Size:  816 x 110 px
• Primary Colours: white background or white borders to be included with the rest of the forums background (which will remain white). Use also the greens and grey from the logo as main colours (but of course there can be more)
• Quality: The best quality that you can attain (Please)
• Specific content : Icy (Icy is The Icehouse mascot (as is his phrase – “Breathe Relax Create” – you can check out the smileys on the forums if you want to see more of him) although there is not an obligation to show him), Logo: http://www.theicehouse.fr/press.html - which has  to appear, and Text (the text "The Icehouse – Indie Artists Collective - Forums" should appear)
• Number of entries: 1 per entrant
• Dates: 31 May to June 9
• Submission: Must be via the forums (post to this topic) – Format .jpg or .png. As a consequence, you may have to use an external website (see this thread)  for posting images, and then use the resulting link on our forums with the [img] code to display it in the thread.

The Prize
The winning entrant will be given a key to Myha : Return to the Lost Island https://store.steampowered.com/app/890280/Myha_Return_to_the_Lost_Island/, and  the Administrators will then decide whether the  banner appears on the forums, or not, if in the end they consider that it doesn't fully represent The Icehouse and its principles.

If anyone has any questions, please either ask within this topic or PM Roger (RogerCAKT), Simon (Simon_Icehouse), or Juanjo(Juanjo_LS).

[Ormusto]

And finally a nice place for Icy!

Great design Juanjo.

[Simon_Icehouse]

Ahah I like it a lot Juanjo! Very creative and artistic (with the painting effects), and really a pleasure to see Icy is still here Thanks!

[Josiah1221]

Awesome Juanjo! Icy looks happy

[Juanjo_LS]

Thank you so much guys!!

Icy is very happy

[Josiah1221]

Here's an update with the quote added.

[Juanjo_LS]

Great, the new version looks really cool Josiah!

[Simon_Icehouse]

Thanks Josh, and it's cool to know that it's based on a real place

[Simon_Icehouse]

Today is the last day for the banner contest! Just wanted to remind you

[jacarvajal]

Here's my entry, sorry for the late submission!

[Juanjo_LS]

John, really cool design! I love the different scenes representing different artistic areas of the collective!

[Ormusto]

This is cool!

[Simon_Icehouse]

Wow John this is absolutely more cool than what the others said before!

Icy is really fun ahah

Many thanks to all participants and to everyone who posted comments in this thread!

There are still a few hours left, and tomorrow the contest will end (late submissions will not be accepted, but we will be happy to see them if any)

It will be very difficult to choose a winner! I wonder if we could vote together with a poll? Rather than letting this difficult task to the poor 3 admins only

[Josiah1221]

I think a poll is a great idea and I also think you and Juanjo's submissions should be included as well. If one of you win then there could be a runner up (2nd place) for someone to win the Myha key.

[RogerCAKT]

I agree - a poll is more in line with what we stand for as a community

[Simon_Icehouse]

Josh, good idea. If one of the admins winned, we would give the key to the 2nd place.

Roger, then it's decided, I will open a poll at the top of this thread!

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Everyone, the contest is over! Thanks a LOT for your participation!

You are all invited to vote for your favorite banners (choose your top 3).

The banner with the most votes will be the winner, and will be displayed at the top of the forums for the next months/years. You have until Wednesday 12 in the evening (French time).

I want to add that you all did beautiful works, and for me it is impossible to choose, I like them all. All the banners are nice, they all have interesting ideas and personality. That's terrible to think that we will keep only one!!! but I hope we will all agree on the "best" one to choose!


Edit:
I have added the URLs of the banners in the poll if you want to see them again without going through the 2 pages of this thread (unfortunately I can't create dynamic links in a poll, so you'll have to copy/paste the URLs in your browser)
When there were several submissions (like Yaz) I chose only one, but we can discuss later of which version we prefer.

[Rehvaro]

Wow beautiful banners here, congratulations everyone

Annnd I voted !

[Juanjo_LS]

Yeah, as Simon said, thank you very much everyone for participating, there are great designs!

The idea of the vote seems great to me, I have already voted!

Good luck to all!

[Simon_Icehouse]

Yeah! (sorry Juanjo, I jsut realized that I didn't ask you about the vote. I became enthusiastic and, since Roger agreed, I thought it was ok to open the poll)

Thanks for your votes!

John is taking the lead What's going to happen?

[RogerCAKT]

For me the truly great fact is that every contibutor has received a vote!

I think this also shows what a great community we are - we involve everybody - where we can. Many thanks to everyone who contributed

[Prom361]

it's so difficult, all banner is very beautiful !
but i have choice 3 then !

congratulation for all maker !
bye =)

[jacarvajal]

Yeah, thanks for having this fun event! It's been great seeing everyones different styles show through with this. Look forward to seeing who we all vote for!

[Simon_Icehouse]

I loved all 6 banners, the choice was too difficult. If it was only me, I would have been unable to choose 1.

The best would be to have a way to automatically change the banner with a different one everytime we load the forums! But I don't know how to do that haha

[Rehvaro]

I loved all 6 banners, the choice was too difficult. If it was only me, I would have been unable to choose 1.

The best would be to have a way to automatically change the banner with a different one everytime we load the forums! But I don't know how to do that haha

One solution  would be to write a little php file who choose a random banner and return it as image data (by changing Content-Type to image/png). So the php url would return directly a random banner (not a page with the banner in it).
But for using this you need a host with php with the possibility to upload files, and the possibility to give an URL as a banner and not only a local image.

But I not sure it would be a good idea to do this, for security and design consistency  

[Simon_Icehouse]

Ok, Rehvaro starts to speak Chinese
(I'm kidding, I understand the main idea but I don't know how to do it)
Thanks!

[RogerCAKT]

I think Rehvaro's idea is brilliant, but I can also understand all the issues around it.
We have 6 Banners - there are 12 months in a year - so rotate each 2 months?

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