[IC] SA Semiconductor (PLEASE TAKE THE POLL AND SHARE YOUR OPINION)

[CharismaIllya]

Everyone has a voice in Cloudbank

Your input is needed to expedite relief in a decisive time!

There are three possible options on the poll, and you can vote for more than one if you want. Just select all of the options you like and submit! Here are the possible choices:

The Transistor


The Camerata


Cloudbank


Please vote and feel free to comment if you have any concerns.

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Okay, I'm back with some more stuff, including some novelties and my own terrible renders .



Seriously though, I didn't set myself up for greatness here. At least not initially. Now the keys are more aligned with one another, but I'm aware that's it's not the best render.

While I haven't finished a mockup for the electrical engineering novelty keys, I have made a bunch of novelties from functions in the game:


and a few featuring vectors of the function images:


and finally, here's a new and better organized image for the colors I used:


I'll probably clean up the renders soon and replace them (EDIT: Cleaned up renders as of 8/8/16), but for now, tell me what you like and what you don't like. Thanks!

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So cyan/blue officially won't work . C'est la vie. In lieu of that, I've come up with new versions of the two colorways I made.

This is the one for Red:


This is the one for the Camerata:


And this is one for the Camerata that uses the grey/gold mods from Red's version:


For better or for worse, we're making progress. Novelties are on the way.

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Came up with a very different keyset for the Camerata that looks like this:

Very different and pretty classy.

As for the original set, I think the gray keys with yellow legends and the red modifiers are good, but I can see where some of you are coming from with the alpha legends. I'm finding it hard to retain the feel of the set by using a darker, more blue color for the keys, but you have to do what is necessary, I guess. I'll think of something good in time and update again.

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This is a basic mockup.


And this is mockup with colored modifiers.


If this gains enough traction, I'll make some modifiers that have little circuit themed vectors like these (http://imgur.com/zEAgnnv) on them. Maybe I'll even try my hand a 3D render. In any case, what do you think?

[evangs]

Damn, this is kinda cool!


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[mind_funeral]

I like it but fear that the production alpha legends will be hard to read.

[Diokhan]

Too bad I don't like dsa/sa

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[DALExSNAIL]

Mockup one, with red esc and red arrows would be sweet i think.

I prefer cherry profile personally, but this color would be cool in SA

[CharismaIllya]

Damn, this is kinda cool!


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Thanks! It's cool to have the blessing of an actual designer. Although now I have to put together a mod kit for Minivan, don't I?

[evangs]

I can send you the kit for 40% layouts it covers pretty much everything


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[CharismaIllya]

Mockup one, with red esc and red arrows would be sweet i think.

I prefer cherry profile personally, but this color would be cool in SA

See I originally wanted to have it done by GMK, but they didn't have the colors I wanted, and I'd have to get a lot of orders to have custom colors with them, so I settled with Signature Plastics. I suppose that if I had a lot of support and a lot of people wanted Cherry, I could try GMK.

[CharismaIllya]

I can send you the kit for 40% layouts it covers pretty much everything


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Like I said, I'll take all the help I can get! 

[CharismaIllya]

I like it but fear that the production alpha legends will be hard to read.

Thanks for the feedback. I see what you mean, and I've experimented with darker blues, but it's hard to keep the feel of the set intact using only SP's default blues (http://keycapsdirect.com/images/colors/absblue.JPG). What would you recommend out of those colors?

[Pinecone]

I'm liking the idea on this one. Personally, I suggest you slim down to VBV, BDG, RAC and YCF as the primary keycap colors with the blacks/greys as the font. Don't mind me, I just really like bright sets 

[WOMBO]

i think the accents should be red/blue and the main set black/gold following the character's own theme (check what she's wearing)

[CharismaIllya]

I'm liking the idea on this one. Personally, I suggest you slim down to VBV, BDG, RAC and YCF as the primary keycap colors with the blacks/greys as the font. Don't mind me, I just really like bright sets 

Well then you're gonna love this!


I just can't find a subtle way to use all of the bright colors as bases rather than legends without throwing away most of the colors. I'm sure there's a better way to execute it that's beyond my skill, but I just can't bring myself to like anything that I make. And while I don't want to be stubborn, I'll fight for my cyan/blue alphas! I'd give them up if it was for the best, but I'd have a hard time parting ways with them.

[finalarcadia]

Here's my suggestion since I like more color Basically inverted modifiers with stealthy legends. Trying to match the sword.

[Pinecone]

I'm liking the idea on this one. Personally, I suggest you slim down to VBV, BDG, RAC and YCF as the primary keycap colors with the blacks/greys as the font. Don't mind me, I just really like bright sets 

Well then you're gonna love this!
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I just can't find a subtle way to use all of the bright colors as bases rather than legends without throwing away most of the colors. I'm sure there's a better way to execute it that's beyond my skill, but I just can't bring myself to like anything that I make. And while I don't want to be stubborn, I'll fight for my cyan/blue alphas! I'd give them up if it was for the best, but I'd have a hard time parting ways with them.

I like this ahaha Did you make this mockup or did you use a website? :O

[Dr_Alphabet]

I like the grey modifiers more than the yellow. It keeps it subtle. The yellow starts to make it look alot like the Scooby-Doo themed IC that's happening right now. That's just my pocket lint though

[Jmeferlater]

I really really enjoyed Transistor, so I thought I'd share my suggestion as well.

[CharismaIllya]

I'm liking the idea on this one. Personally, I suggest you slim down to VBV, BDG, RAC and YCF as the primary keycap colors with the blacks/greys as the font. Don't mind me, I just really like bright sets 

Well then you're gonna love this!
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I just can't find a subtle way to use all of the bright colors as bases rather than legends without throwing away most of the colors. I'm sure there's a better way to execute it that's beyond my skill, but I just can't bring myself to like anything that I make. And while I don't want to be stubborn, I'll fight for my cyan/blue alphas! I'd give them up if it was for the best, but I'd have a hard time parting ways with them.

I like this ahaha Did you make this mockup or did you use a website? :O

Between you and the other people asking for lighter options, I might try to make two sets of modifiers, one light and one dark, to account for everyone.  Personally I'm a fan of darker sets, and I think a darker set would reflect the game better, being that Cloudbank, the setting, is a rather dark place, but compromise must happen somewhere! And no, I didn't make the mockups myself. I'm using Keyboard Layout Editor atm. I was planning on making my own mockup later in Inkscape if this got people's attention, so that I could make novelties.

[TheMissingPiece]

HELL. YES.

Transistor is probably my favorite game, so I'd love a themed keyset. SA is just icing on the cake. I'd like to see some more variations on the colorway though. Maybe I'll try cooking something up this week. Maybe add some more emphasis on the Camerata, with their red, black, and white color scheme?

The novelties for this set would be amazing.

[Shados]

Suggestions:
1) Consider using stylized versions of electrical engineering symbols instead of/in addition to the circuit vectors you linked. Hell, Apple's "Option" key symbol is pretty obviously taken from the EE symbol for an SPDT toggle switch.

2) Offer red versions of the 'R', 'E', and 'D' keys, maybe as part of a secondary kit. They're even in a cluster .

[CharismaIllya]

HELL. YES.

Transistor is probably my favorite game, so I'd love a themed keyset. SA is just icing on the cake. I'd like to see some more variations on the colorway though. Maybe I'll try cooking something up this week. Maybe add some more emphasis on the Camerata, with their red, black, and white color scheme?

The novelties for this set would be amazing.

Damn I'm sleeping on the job! I had never thought to make a colorway based on the Camerata. I spun up something really quick, and dare I say it looks better and entirely different than the original.


A set for the Transistor and a set for the Camerata sounds cool, but it's basically two different sets. Is that even feasible?

[CharismaIllya]

Suggestions:
1) Consider using stylized versions of electrical engineering symbols instead of/in addition to the circuit vectors you linked. Hell, Apple's "Option" key symbol is pretty obviously taken from the EE symbol for an SPDT toggle switch.

2) Offer red versions of the 'R', 'E', and 'D' keys, maybe as part of a secondary kit. They're even in a cluster .

The RED idea is pretty cute . Another option would be to have a small "E" and "D" in the top and bottom right corners of the "R" key, respectively.

As for the novelties, there's a lot of options. I'd feel compelled to use the symbol for a transistor, for obvious reasons, as well as the symbols for ground and diode because they look nice. Aside from that, though, I wanted to make a set of novelties for some of the commands in the game(http://static1.squarespace.com/static/51f265f9e4b08fce1a8bb278/t/55828570e4b0d9be39c2980c/1434617204376/). Any number of things would look good, and I suppose we could make them all. I know that Carbon had a ton of novelties, but I don't think this'll be as popular as carbon. Nevertheless we can try!

[shower_king]

i realy like the VBV green but the green legend on blue alpha is less detectable for me.
i prefer green legend on darker alpha or something like that
The mod is rather good and keep it , the yellow is so comfortable.

[JaccoW]

For a color/legibility reference:






If the colors are too close together they just sort of disappear. (Check the high-res version of the BoB)

[user 18]

Huge fan of the game, and I like the idea, but neither set is doing anything for me.

[Aricil]

I REALLY like the bottom-est one. Where it's white and red and black. There hasn't been a really good red/black set that I can think of. At least not one that's been popular.

[eksuen]

Huge fan of the game, and I like the idea, but neither set is doing anything for me.

I'm in the same boat. If I had seen these sets on their own, I wouldn't have thought they were referencing or inspired by Transistor. I think it might be the lack of novelties right now that would make the theme more apparent.

But who knows? Perhaps they'll grow on me. I am rooting for this project to succeed either way.

[CharismaIllya]

For a color/legibility reference:

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If the colors are too close together they just sort of disappear. (Check the high-res version of the BoB)

Thanks for these. I also emailed SP for some info, and apparently VBV doesn't work very well as a legend unless the cap itself is a very dark color. So the cyan/blue legends won't be happening no matter what. I was thinking of doing some combination of cyan, grey, gold, and cream, but I haven't ironed it out yet.

[CharismaIllya]

Huge fan of the game, and I like the idea, but neither set is doing anything for me.

I'm in the same boat. If I had seen these sets on their own, I wouldn't have thought they were referencing or inspired by Transistor. I think it might be the lack of novelties right now that would make the theme more apparent.

But who knows? Perhaps they'll grow on me. I am rooting for this project to succeed either way.

I can see where you're coming from. I'm pouring over pictures of Cloudbank at the moment and I'm finding it challenging to visualize any clear theme that I can translate into a keyset. In future designs I'll try to add more cream colored accents like the floors and the lights of the city.

Like a said a little earlier, cyan on blue won't work, so I'll have to come up with something else. I don't know if gray on cyan will work any better (just took a good look at it after posting, and I think not), but I came up with this in the meantime:

Tell me if you think it's any better. And I'm sorry that I can't do any novelties yet. I'm stuck in Keyboard Layout Editor until I make a template of my own. For now, though, I put a little flare on the esc key. It's not much, but it's something.

[DALExSNAIL]

I still think the very first mockup in the thread is my fav. Love it.

[eksuen]

Huge fan of the game, and I like the idea, but neither set is doing anything for me.

I'm in the same boat. If I had seen these sets on their own, I wouldn't have thought they were referencing or inspired by Transistor. I think it might be the lack of novelties right now that would make the theme more apparent.

But who knows? Perhaps they'll grow on me. I am rooting for this project to succeed either way.

I can see where you're coming from. I'm pouring over pictures of Cloudbank at the moment and I'm finding it challenging to visualize any clear theme that I can translate into a keyset. In future designs I'll try to add more cream colored accents like the floors and the lights of the city.

Like a said a little earlier, cyan on blue won't work, so I'll have to come up with something else. I don't know if gray on cyan will work any better (just took a good look at it after posting, and I think not), but I came up with this in the meantime:
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Tell me if you think it's any better. And I'm sorry that I can't do any novelties yet. I'm stuck in Keyboard Layout Editor until I make a template of my own. For now, though, I put a little flare on the esc key. It's not much, but it's something.

I don't know. I don't dislike it, but it doesn't make me giddy with excitement either.

I like the idea for the escape key, though. Personally, I think it'd be cool if you integrated the abilities and/or functions from the game into the keyset a la Danger Zone's Wingman pack.

[CharismaIllya]

Huge fan of the game, and I like the idea, but neither set is doing anything for me.

I'm in the same boat. If I had seen these sets on their own, I wouldn't have thought they were referencing or inspired by Transistor. I think it might be the lack of novelties right now that would make the theme more apparent.

But who knows? Perhaps they'll grow on me. I am rooting for this project to succeed either way.

I can see where you're coming from. I'm pouring over pictures of Cloudbank at the moment and I'm finding it challenging to visualize any clear theme that I can translate into a keyset. In future designs I'll try to add more cream colored accents like the floors and the lights of the city.

Like a said a little earlier, cyan on blue won't work, so I'll have to come up with something else. I don't know if gray on cyan will work any better (just took a good look at it after posting, and I think not), but I came up with this in the meantime:
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Tell me if you think it's any better. And I'm sorry that I can't do any novelties yet. I'm stuck in Keyboard Layout Editor until I make a template of my own. For now, though, I put a little flare on the esc key. It's not much, but it's something.

I don't know. I don't dislike it, but it doesn't make me giddy with excitement either.

I like the idea for the escape key, though. Personally, I think it'd be cool if you integrated the abilities and/or functions from the game into the keyset a la Danger Zone's Wingman pack.

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That was the master plan. The ones I'm already pretty sure of are esc as Turn() and tab as Jaunt(). I was also thinking of making a Breach() key for backspace and Void() and Tap() keys for ctrl and alt respectively. On top of that, there would be a novelty set that had electrical engineering graphics on it like /u/shados suggested. The symbols for transistor and ground would look good on a keycap.

As for the colorway, do you have any suggestions? Do you think I should ditch the idea of grey/gold keys for cream/gold and see where it goes? This one's definitely going to be hard to pin down, but I'm confident that It'll be something special when we do.

[CharismaIllya]

I still think the very first mockup in the thread is my fav. Love it.

Thanks! As much as I like that one too, I think the people saying VBV on BDG will be hard to read are right. But as much as I hate to give them up, I'm confident that we'll come up with something even better to replace it. That aside, best wishes to you on your NGNL set. It's coming along nicely!

[DALExSNAIL]

I still think the very first mockup in the thread is my fav. Love it.

Thanks! As much as I like that one too, I think the people saying VBV on BDG will be hard to read are right. But as much as I hate to give them up, I'm confident that we'll come up with something even better to replace it. That aside, best wishes to you on your NGNL set. It's coming along nicely!

Thanks!

Try the first layout with all yellow lettering and a red ESC key. Please please please, sholdnt take long right? haha

[kenmai9]

im liking the bottom two a lot!

[DALExSNAIL]

Nvm fam, I gotchu

[CharismaIllya]

Nvm fam, I gotchu

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Just when I had finished this, too:


It doesn't look half bad like this.

[DALExSNAIL]

Nvm fam, I gotchu

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Just when I had finished this, too:
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It doesn't look half bad like this.

Lovin it, but maybe a diff color on the red?

[CharismaIllya]

im liking the bottom two a lot!

Thanks! I'm trying to consolidate the two designs so that I might be able to have them as a part of the same set (two sets of alphas and one set of mods ala Midnight/Twilight), but I'm not even sure if I should bother. Do have a preference for one mod color or the other?

[CharismaIllya]

Nvm fam, I gotchu

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Just when I had finished this, too:
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It doesn't look half bad like this.

Lovin it, but maybe a diff color on the red?

Definitely looks a little McDonalds-y. I tried the darkest red SP offers.

[DALExSNAIL]

Nvm fam, I gotchu

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Just when I had finished this, too:
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It doesn't look half bad like this.

Lovin it, but maybe a diff color on the red?

Definitely looks a little McDonalds-y. I tried the darkest red SP offers.
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Meant on the legends haha


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[Data]

This set almost looks like Jukebox took a dark turn down a sci-fi path. Like a 1950s sock hop that got crashed by a squad of time traveling alien bounty hunters.

[CharismaIllya]

Here's my own ****ty render of the set:

I threw in some more simple novelty ideas, but there are a lot more cool novelty prospects that I'm thinking of, like vector images of the various function icons, a Junction Jan's cap, and a Camerata/Cloudbank logo cap. As always, I'm open to suggestions.

And as a side note, I was messing around in KLE with color schemes for video games, and I figured there might be some interest for GMK Overwatch:

It's a little similar to carbon, but it really can't be helped, what with the orange/white color scheme. If enough people like it, I'll either switch gears or ask someone else to handle it. Either way, it's out there. Thoughts?

[effectiveduck]

I absolutely love Transistors art style, that game is so damn pretty!

I'm a big fan of the 'Red' render and while I'm pretty much exclusively cherry profile these days I'm very interested 

Also need some humming in here

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[Niomosy]

I'm liking the idea on this one. Personally, I suggest you slim down to VBV, BDG, RAC and YCF as the primary keycap colors with the blacks/greys as the font. Don't mind me, I just really like bright sets 

Well then you're gonna love this!
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I just can't find a subtle way to use all of the bright colors as bases rather than legends without throwing away most of the colors. I'm sure there's a better way to execute it that's beyond my skill, but I just can't bring myself to like anything that I make. And while I don't want to be stubborn, I'll fight for my cyan/blue alphas! I'd give them up if it was for the best, but I'd have a hard time parting ways with them.

Now what would might be interesting with the all-black-legends setup is DCS or DSA PBT dyesub if you can get the right colors.

[CharismaIllya]

I'm liking the idea on this one. Personally, I suggest you slim down to VBV, BDG, RAC and YCF as the primary keycap colors with the blacks/greys as the font. Don't mind me, I just really like bright sets 

Well then you're gonna love this!
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I just can't find a subtle way to use all of the bright colors as bases rather than legends without throwing away most of the colors. I'm sure there's a better way to execute it that's beyond my skill, but I just can't bring myself to like anything that I make. And while I don't want to be stubborn, I'll fight for my cyan/blue alphas! I'd give them up if it was for the best, but I'd have a hard time parting ways with them.

Now what would might be interesting with the all-black-legends setup is DCS or DSA PBT dyesub if you can get the right colors.

I'm not particularly interested in that sort of thing, but here's a mockup anyways:

The green is VCE, the yellow is YR, and the red is RBH.

I'm just not into bright sets like this, and it's not very Transistor-esque, but feel free to do whatever you want with the colors.

[CharismaIllya]

Here are the novelties I've come up with so far:




I'm aware that some of the vector images may be too thin for the molding process, so I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I'll have a set up soon that's based on electrical engineering symbols (http://imgur.com/3TKc52n - I'm sorry that the symbols are so small ).

[eksuen]

I like where this is headed.

Personally, I think the Camerata set with some VBV colored accent keys would look neat.

[shangrila500]

Snazzy, I like it quite a bit!

[WOMBO]

camerata one looks amazing