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FairlyPhat

How it started

The exact origin of this logo is hard to pin-point because it kinda came to be due to multiple triggers.

Holy Moses' PETSCII pic Missing Something... got me thinking about how to fool around with the C64's default appearance: light blue border, dark blue background. Very basic and hard to mix up except when adding a border to the screen. Holy Moses had an outline for his puzzle pieces, allowing the border to bleed into the screen and I was intrigued.

For a not yet released project, I followed up on this idea, giving the screen a border and stray from the usual rectangle form and, well, that's where the shrunken down screen came from for this logo; I did keep it rectangular though.

With the background screen and it's newly established size in place, I had to somehow break out of it. Well, nothing easier than having a logo pop up than making it 3D and that's really all that's happening here: I painted the biggest PXP possible and added some 45° chars for the 3D effect, going from 2 chars to 1 char to no extra char on the X.

Adding the 3D wasn't that hard either but it required a couple of iterations to keep it smooth where the Ps and the X touch.

There's only onen workstage saved in my .pe file, and it's more or less the finished pic but slightly bigger:

Next up, tweaks. In this case, it was just a matter of changing the height to give it some more punch and that's it.

At this point, I had to decide if the logo's gonna be a part of the not yet released project or if I just throw it out there as an entry for the currerntly running C64GFX.com CharSet Logo Compo 2025 and, well, after letting it sit for a week or two, it got released as a logo.

With the compo being run by Raistlin and him being a member of Genesis Project, the idea of turning it from PXP into G*P came about, I mean, it's almost there already and the X should work as a * perfectly too

Here's the G*P variant and I like it, especially the big * in the middle but the G just looks plain boring, so let's scrap it.

Conclusio

It's simple, very simple, but slick due to it's high-res nature. Pretty sure, I'm gonna revisit it someday and add some color effects/pattern/cycling or something, maybe a scroller underneath and thus turning it into a little intro. When? Well, once I've learned some more ASM :D

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