Idea for a contest? Design a "Gaming Community" flag

[Noctosphere]

So, I made this post earlier today and I though about it the whole day.
How about having a contest where people would design a flag that would represent the whole gaming community.
By "the whole gaming community", I mean that it would be a flag that would exclude nobody from the gaming community.
For example, it would not represent Nintendo more than it would represent PC or Playstation. It would not represent FPS players more than RPG players. It would not represent modern gamers more than retro gamers.

If this idea sounds good to you, maybe a staff member more fluid in english could make a thread that would sound better
Something like "Oh no! The apocalyps has come and all nations will burn to the ground. Only one nation still stands, the Gaming Nation, named after its important population of gamers. The only problem is that nobody agrees on what the flag should be. Playstation gamers complain about the lack of blue, while the Nintendo gamers complain about the lack of portability of the flag, while XBox gamers complain about the flag having too many exclusivities, and let's not talk about PC gamers who complains about the huge FPS drops . You have been tasked with designing a flag that would unite all the gamers under it. Fail, and lose a life (whatever it means here)"

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

Such a flag would look like this:

In actuality a good idea would be to use RGB as the main colors for the flag.

 

[Noctosphere]

Such a flag would look like this:
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In actuality a good idea would be to use RGB as the main colors for the flag.

To unite all gamers, it HAS to be very minimalist. Or at least, that's my opinion.

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

To unite all gamers, it HAS to be very minimalist. Or at least, that's my opinion.

That's like flag design 101. Is three colors that complicated?

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It would also have the colors for every console:

nintendo: red
xbox: green
playstation: blue

 

[Noctosphere]

That's like flag design 101. Is three colors that complicated?

I don't know? Maybe?

Also, prizes for the contest can also be something "priceless". Like 1st place, 6 months patron subscription. 2nd & 3rd places, 3 months patron subscription each. It wouldn't cost anything to the staff

 

[JuanMena]

Non designers talking about design?
How cute⁠ (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.)

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

Non designers talking about design?
How cute⁠ (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.)

To me I don't think there is a good way to design a flag in this style.

 

[Noctosphere]

To me I don't think there is a good way to design a flag in this style.

And yet, this one I found online would fit perfectly IMO

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

And yet, this one I found online would fit perfectly IMO
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PC users amiright? (Xbox users amirigh? Playstation users amiright?)
pretty much every console maker except nintendo uses different dpads

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Also that is fn ugly

 

[Noctosphere]

PC users amiright

I knew someone would come with that, and I though that maybe just adding WASD on the arrows would fix that
But you get what I mean, right?

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

I knew someone would come with that, and I though that maybe just adding WASD on the arrows would fix that
But you get what I mean, right?

I edited my post

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What I'm saying is that it's impossible to make something that appeals to every gamer.

 

[Noctosphere]

I edited my post

they all used a dpad like that at one point. Again :

But you get what I mean, right?

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

they all used a dpad like that at one point. Again :

I love the PS1 with it's connected dpad /s

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they all used a dpad like that at one point. Again :

Answer:

What I'm saying is that it's impossible to make something that appeals to every gamer.

 

[Noctosphere]

I love the PS1 with it's connected dpad /s

you get what I mean, right?

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

Scroll up 5 pixels

 

[CeeDee]

Spoiler

 

[tmnr1992]

Here you go, this one has a dpad in it:

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

Spoiler

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Me IRL

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Here you go, this one has a dpad in it:

It even represents a medkit!

 

[Noctosphere]

Here i though it could be an idea, i guess it's going straigth to EoF because of you guys...

 

[CMDreamer]

And yet, this one I found online would fit perfectly IMO
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This "flag" would represent Nintendo above everything.

As said before, the less the better. Seeking to represent all/everyone is a very complicated task, as it must include something from everything, which in itself is a very convoluted concept.

First and foremost the "universality" of being a gamer should be described and defined, no matter the game genre, style, or playing device of choice. As in: "What is a gamer?", and the huge diferent answers this would yield to the idea will make having second options a must.