(IC) GMK Washbuckle

[ebomb2]

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Description:

The GMK Washbuckle is a homage to the Skylanders Swap-force Washbuckler, yes I'm not kidding. This keycap set is built to survive the toughest seas from your daily typing test to the most intense gaming.

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To Do:
Get first concept out
Add different layouts
Add special Keycaps
Cabels?
Mousepads?
Stonks

[ebomb2]

I really do apologize for how bad this is

[ebomb2]

God this is scuffed

[Lufenia]

I got this

I appreciate the hustle and desire to capitalize on zeitgeist while you can.

That being said, early ICs are simply not the way to go about publishing a set concept. A bad early IC is way worse than a late, fleshed out IC. ICs are all about impressions and the impression this IC leaves upon me is very poor. You're looking for positive reception as confirmation for renders? You're not going to find it with this low quality of an IC.

It's clear that you're fairly new to the community. You made a GH account to post this thread. This is a 104 key base kit. That's something you majorly flesh out before you even have colors in a lot of cases. Your colors are web colors, meaning you're oblivious to the IC process and GMK production as a whole, things you can easily find out more about by visitng the trove of old GB and IC threads, or even uniqey's website. This comes off as a cash grab from an inexperienced community member, which, to be honest, I'm not ragging on, but I'm definitely not about it. Take some time in the hobby to be part of the community. Be a little more active. Find out what works, what's good, why it works, why it's good, and talk with more types of folks to engage in that exchange. That's what it's really about. While the "i see guy make thing, i can make thing too!" mentality certainly has driven a lot of cool stuff, this is not one of those cases.

Renders went from being a nice to have in ICs to nearly a need to have. It shows you have some level of personal commitment to the set that you would even pay for mockups our of your own pocket before anything is official. To not have renders and to just show off a set of KLEs, is definitely not a good look, and the KLEs do a very poor job of showing the colors that you want to show, or maybe they do a really good job, but to me they look like blanks. I'm not trying to bog you down or take shots at an easy target, rarely anything ever deserves that. If you're truly invested in making this set happen beyond a text-post and a barely visible KLE render, you need to make a very good impression, so that vendors who see your IC will want to work with ya.

Many people will not buy into the concept if the IC is not good from the get-go. You can sell any concept to anyone as long as the beginning impressions are good enough.

If you're intent on making this happen (and this would have to be very soon, before more eyes can see this and get their first impressions, which, in their current state would result in the set being written off extremely quickly) then you can:

1. Flesh out those layouts.
2. Get some renders.
3. Pick colors that aren't web colors, it's 2020. We have resources to help design GMK sets. GMK has resources to help design GMK sets. Use google, guy.
4. Goals, MOQs, prior contact to GMK show vendors that you're willing to do work beyond "hur dur look at color now shoulder it all for me," which, even if a vendor wouldn't take you up on, they would like to see.
5. Give more of a ****. Going into a project half-assed (you could be fully on board, but this post does certainly not show that) only makes me believe in the project less. If you don't believe in your project enough to give a detailed, commited sales pitch, why should any vendor, or even why should the community believe in it? Dipping your toes into the pool is simply not an option when everyone else who's making successful sets is hopping in headfirst.


cmon guy.

[ebomb2]

I got this

I appreciate the hustle and desire to capitalize on zeitgeist while you can.

That being said, early ICs are simply not the way to go about publishing a set concept. A bad early IC is way worse than a late, fleshed out IC. ICs are all about impressions and the impression this IC leaves upon me is very poor. You're looking for positive reception as confirmation for renders? You're not going to find it with this low quality of an IC.

It's clear that you're fairly new to the community. You made a GH account to post this thread. This is a 104 key base kit. That's something you majorly flesh out before you even have colors in a lot of cases. Your colors are web colors, meaning you're oblivious to the IC process and GMK production as a whole, things you can easily find out more about by visitng the trove of old GB and IC threads, or even uniqey's website. This comes off as a cash grab from an inexperienced community member, which, to be honest, I'm not ragging on, but I'm definitely not about it. Take some time in the hobby to be part of the community. Be a little more active. Find out what works, what's good, why it works, why it's good, and talk with more types of folks to engage in that exchange. That's what it's really about. While the "i see guy make thing, i can make thing too!" mentality certainly has driven a lot of cool stuff, this is not one of those cases.

Renders went from being a nice to have in ICs to nearly a need to have. It shows you have some level of personal commitment to the set that you would even pay for mockups our of your own pocket before anything is official. To not have renders and to just show off a set of KLEs, is definitely not a good look, and the KLEs do a very poor job of showing the colors that you want to show, or maybe they do a really good job, but to me they look like blanks. I'm not trying to bog you down or take shots at an easy target, rarely anything ever deserves that. If you're truly invested in making this set happen beyond a text-post and a barely visible KLE render, you need to make a very good impression, so that vendors who see your IC will want to work with ya.

Many people will not buy into the concept if the IC is not good from the get-go. You can sell any concept to anyone as long as the beginning impressions are good enough.

If you're intent on making this happen (and this would have to be very soon, before more eyes can see this and get their first impressions, which, in their current state would result in the set being written off extremely quickly) then you can:

1. Flesh out those layouts.
2. Get some renders.
3. Pick colors that aren't web colors, it's 2020. We have resources to help design GMK sets. GMK has resources to help design GMK sets. Use google, guy.
4. Goals, MOQs, prior contact to GMK show vendors that you're willing to do work beyond "hur dur look at color now shoulder it all for me," which, even if a vendor wouldn't take you up on, they would like to see.
5. Give more of a ****. Going into a project half-assed (you could be fully on board, but this post does certainly not show that) only makes me believe in the project less. If you don't believe in your project enough to give a detailed, commited sales pitch, why should any vendor, or even why should the community believe in it? Dipping your toes into the pool is simply not an option when everyone else who's making successful sets is hopping in headfirst.


cmon guy.

Ight will do

[dandruff]

I really do apologize for how bad this is

I don't think the issue is that it is scuffed! The issue is that you posted it knowing it's scuffed and put yourself down prior to anything. So you should know that you weren't ready for IC if you don't even think you, yourself, were ready for IC.

[Shiba1337]

if you apologize for how bad it is, then why upload it?




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[FerPL]

Needs a lot of work, but I like the colors and great effort glwic

[Oddstag]

I like the colours. Probably needs a little more work before IC phase. Just a tip: don't put yourself down, GH will do that job for you.

[doggo1dance]

its a good start. dont give up and keep trying to refining your IC!

there's definitely gonna be some people going to throw shade at you so dont feel down about it but try to improve urself!

[P103]

You post 2 low quality IC on the same day and apologies for them?

[Zetina]

It definitly needs some work. But the colors look good, dont give up.

[MIGHTY CHICKEN]

O lord, lock the thread and do some real work

[Havattack]

Sets with almost these exact same colors (except the accent keys- you would have to buy those separately) all ready exist in a plethora on sites like eBay, etsy, aliexpress, etc, in every conceivable keycap form, but I guess if people just have to have that ABS, GMK, "quality", go for it. (and you of coarse do not need to "ask for permission" if you want to use similar colors to some random set online, this community is so absurd when it comes to crap like that- like being the first person to make a green and blue keyset has authority over all other green and blue sets..so dumb)

[NovaRMK]

God this is scuffed

I really do apologize for how bad this is

Then why post it

[Myrkwood]

as soon as I saw the word, "Washbuckle" I knew that you were talking about skylanders. Not my cup of tea, but nice set.

[Flazion]

I do reckon following the format of other ICs.  Just polish it up a bit more and you’re in good shape.

[atlanticise]

To Do:
Get first concept out
Add different layouts
Add special Keycaps
Cabels?
Mousepads?
Stonks

Maybe before all this you should be looking at those hex colours and converting that into real life colours  Please consider putting in a lot more thought and learning from other ICs before the stonks haha.