Hey guys, thanks for keeping the dream alive
Anyways, im currently talking to someone(a respectable vendor) who is really interested in running the set very soon but a bit weary of the timing and thee novelties are far from perfect.
From what I've read, GMK can't do doubleshots if the designs are too "fine". I think the lines have to be of a certain thickness, so unfortunately it would seem that most of the novelties are a no-go, unless they were done with pad printing. IIRC, this is what GMK Hydro did with the Windows 95 style winkey.
Yeah they are a bit too fine for doubleshot, GMK has already provided me with the specs of the tooling which i can work with.
I would like to suggest R4 1u novelties.
For suggestions, have you thought about the butterfly? I believe that it is very iconic to Hime or her butterfly wings for that matter. Would be excellent to have.
Example: http://www.rightstufanime.com/images/productImages/699858500741_merchandise-Accel-World-Pin-Set-Kuroyukihime-and-Butterfly.jpg?resizeid=3&resizeh=600&resizew=600
Another is the actual EXE brain burst file called 'BB2039", I think that would be ideal for R4 as 1.5u, 1.25u or 1u. Though it's not exactly linking to her itself but I think it is good to include
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Yes, the butterfly novelty is in the pipeline
The mana novelties are there right above the lotuses - white, blue, black, red and green respectively, albeit modified in order to avoid copyright infringement and all that.
Yeah I got that, I meant the mana cost numbers. I initially thought of the 0 since it's so iconic for the lotus, but thinking on it you could do 0-9. Not sure if the mana symbols are copy righted though too.
Yeah I got that, I meant the mana cost numbers. I initially thought of the 0 since it's so iconic for the lotus, but thinking on it you could do 0-9. Not sure if the mana symbols are copy righted though too.
OH right, my bad, yea I thought that might've been what you meant. When I spoke with Potato about the novelties some months ago I mentioned the mana cost as it is iconic for the Lotus as you said - I figure it may be hard to incorporate but it might be cool to have a stripe kit for example with where the 0-9 number row is done MTG style. Then again it might not tip MOQ wise as it is hard to gauge how many people buying into this set are fans hardcore enough to purchase that.
Another idea I threw around was having an enter key novelty where instead of the regular icon mods arrow it'd be the tap icon - not sure how feasible that one would be either but still, so many cool things one could do related to MTG if copyright infringement wasn't a thing and the GMK MOQ wasn't as high.
I should get the renders done soon so we can vote which novelties will be in the final list. Having so many novelties will make it more expensive and could cost us not reaching MOQ.
Any chance having a spacebar kit (2.25u, 2.75u, etc) like the Yuri set?
+1
it would be nice if this set support "split-spacebar" (1.75u, 2.25u, 2.75u)
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about the novelties, I'm no designer ,
I think we should focus on the "lotus" and Black Lotus avatar,
hmm... what about the icon for Brain Burst program? though I presume it's copyright-ed?
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EDIT: the lotus is from potatobot's novelties
If it doesn't affect the price of the base kit that much, we could try to have them. But im guessing additional kits would be a better option.
Ive been working on that brainburst logo for awhile and i came up with something for the enter key
http://i.imgur.com/zEi2r6u.jpgThat's a good point, while not ideal pad printing is probably worth the sacrifice to keep the look. People have already resorted to pad printing for stuff like the Windows 95 keys (like in Hydro) so it's not unheard of. Could always design a couple more novelties that are doubleshot and then run a poll to see what people would rather have (or maybe just have both if not too cost-prohibitive?).
I wouldnt want to risk pad printed novelties. Will post the renders as soon as i can. prolly 2 weeks from now.