What's the best way to post this? (logotype archive for fictional companies)
Hi everyone!
I'm June Ravenmoon, an artist for the open-source racing simulation Speed Dreams.
We've been in the process of reworking many assets to be in proper compliance with Free Art License (FAL) and/or CC-BY 4.0 licensing terms, and I have a fairly large batch (a few dozen and growing) of FAL-compliant ficional brand logotypes that other game developers may find useful for populating their worlds (like sponsor logos on vehicle skins/liveries, billboards in urban or racetrack environments, etc).
What would be the best way to post these? I'm certain these classify as 2D Art, but would it be "too spammy" to post each "brand" individually? I'd be including full-color and monochrome flat PNGs and source PSD files but most of these "brands" only weigh ~5 MB put all together.
personally i think zipping it all up in one pack is the best way to go, and put it in the 2D art category. it is generally easier on the user to find like works that are from the same set, if they are all together in one submission.
so long as these fictional brand logos are not derivative of non-free original works, it sounds like it would be a good addition to OGA
Multiple files can be uploaded into one submission, though a zipped folder like Ragnar was saying might make it quicker for users to download all at once. I look forward to seeing it!
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I've hit a bit of a snag while auditing some of my older work that I originally wanted to include - many fonts I've found often allow for freely licensed usage in commercial works (ie. posters, logotypes, etc...), but DON'T allow for the raw fonts themselves to be distributed for commercial use. I don't plan on distributing the fonts themselves within these logo packs. Would it be a violation of OGA submission guidelines if the logos themselves were distributed, with the fonts rendered either as rasters or vector shapes rather than font/type layers? Not knowing a solid answer to this has been a blocker for me and I'd like OGA's stance on this matter.
As long as the raw fonts of themselves aren't included or modifyable as fonts, that should be fine. Thanks for asking for clarification, though, because most people don't and Medicine Storm (the active site moderator) has to drop the hammer on them.
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No mind to think;
No will to break;
No voice to cry suffering.