iGame Radio

iGame Radio launched its new redesigned website today and invites one and all to visit and participate. The site includes the new logo by Thomas Filipiak that won first place in the iGame Radio Logo Contest in June.

The redesigned site includes social networking links to the iGame Radio Facebook page, twitter feed, and Flickr accounts, where gamers can keep up with the latest minute by minute updates of Mac gaming news and see game screenshots and trailers. Users can also sign up for the iGame Radio newsletter, read the latest blog posts and tweets, and listen to the latest podcasts that have posted.

“I’m really happy about the final redesign,” said iGame Radio host Omaha Sternberg. “We spent a lot of time creating it and integrating the new logo into it. My thanks go out to Thomas Filipiak and his team for the logo design, and Elf M. Sternberg for the design of the website theme.”

Omaha also hinted at more features to come for the site, including a location for screenshots and trailers of Mac games, and a page for supporting the porting of games popular on other OSes to the Mac.

For more ideas, join the rest of us at the new redesigned iGame Radio. There you can read Omaha’s blog posts and comment on them, listen to the episodes, and subscribe to the RSS feed for iGame Radio.

The iGame Radio Logo Contest is over! I want to thank everyone who participated: from the contestants, to the sponsors, to everyone who voted. All of you made this contest possible and successful.

And so, without further ado, I’d like to present the winner of the 2009 iGame Radio Logo Contest and the new iGame Radio logo…

Entry #15 by Thomas Filipiak!

Thanks to all of the contestants: Thomas “Flip” Filipiak, Jack Shiels, Jean-Francois Blais, Paul Spooner, Fabio Chavez, Neeraj Sarna, Jason Moss, Arthur Palsenberg, Anna Olejniczak, Lincoln Green, Steven Lai.

Thanks to all of our sponsors: MusicSkins, PopCap Games, Howling Moon Software, Creaceed, Griffin Technology, Codeweavers, and Omni Group

But this is not the end. Because now I get to integrate the new logo into the redesign. In the next week (possibly two) I will unveil the new redesigned site. And in the coming weeks (and months) I’ll be adding even more cool content to the site that will hopefully give you a chance to make a difference in what Mac games are available to play.

Notes on the voting process…

The voting plugin I used, Democracy Poll, regulates voting via IP address (so it logs IP addresses for comparison). However, that doesn’t stop voters with dynamic IP addresses from voting more than once. That, of course, would require logging out of their ISP completely (shutting down the modem, etc to be completely logged out).

The vote was scheduled to end at 11:59 pm (Pacific Time) May 30. Unfortunately, I did not deactivate the poll before the morning of the 31st (hey, I was tired…I fell asleep before midnight). So, the voting continued beyond the scheduled time. But, because I had a log of exactly when votes were made and which choices those votes were attributed to, I was able to remove all votes cast from after 11:59 pm on May 30.

If you would like to see a spreadsheet of how I did this, email me and I will send it to you. I also welcome any comments or questions regarding the voting procedure, either in the comments here, or email to me. Don’t hesitate to make your thoughts known!

And again, thanks to everyone. You all made this a success!

BURIEN, Washington – May 23, 2009 – Voting for the iGame Radio Logo Contest has begun and you can participate. Everyone may vote for their favorite choice of logo for the iGame Radio podcast…the original Mac gaming podcast. The vote lasts one week.

Started in February, the logo contest includes seven sponsors, eleven logo submissions, and a prize package worth $770. At midnight, May 23, voting commenced for all submissions by the public and will continue for one week, ending 11:59 pm of May 30. The vote takes place on the iGame Radio site, where all submission images can be seen.

Contest information, including rules for format and submission, are located at the iGame Radio Logo Contest page. The prize package currently valued at $770 will be offered to the grand prize winner, but all entrants will gain a free t-shirt of their choice from the iGame Radio Café Press store. The prize package features donations from sponsors MusicSkins, PopCap Games, Howling Moon Software, Creaceed, Griffin Technology, Codeweavers, and Omni Group.

For more ideas, come to the iGame Radio site. There you can listen to the podcasts, read blog posts about the game industry, and subscribe to the newsletter and the rss feed for the iGame Radio podcast.

BURIEN, Washington – May 22, 2009 – The iGame Radio Logo Contest has less than one day left before the submission deadline, after which public voting on all submissions begins. The contest has already reached seven sponsors, eight logo submissions, and a prize package worth $770. Launched in February, the logo contest seeks everyone with an itch to draw, paint, or move those pixels to create the right design for a new logo for the iGame Radio podcast…the original Mac gaming podcast. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm, Pacific Time, May 22, 2009.

All logo submissions are currently located on the iGame Radio Flickr site, where everyone can view and comment on each one. Access to the Flickr site can be reached from the iGame Radio site. At midnight, May 23, voting will commence for all submissions by the public and continue for one week.

“We wanted a voting process that was simple and straightforward,” said Omaha Sternberg, host and producer for iGame Radio. “We’ll have a link from the front page of iGame Radio directly to the voting page, which will include images of each submission, so no one has to bounce back and forth from the voting page and the Flickr site.”

Contest information, including rules for format and submission, are located at the iGame Radio Logo Contest page. The prize package currently valued at $770 will be offered to the grand prize winner, but all entrants will gain a free t-shirt of their choice from the iGame Radio Café Press store. The prize package features donations from sponsors MusicSkins, PopCap Games, Howling Moon Software, Creaceed, Griffin Technology, Codeweavers, and Omni Group.

For more ideas, come to the iGame Radio site. There you can listen to the podcasts, read blog posts about the game industry, and subscribe to the newsletter and the rss feed for the iGame Radio podcast.

One more day before the deadline to get your submission in for the Logo Contest. Then we start voting. Yay!

I’m looking forward to the vote. I’m testing out polling software right now. You can see it on the right hand sidebar…it’s called Democracy 2. Nice plugin, actually…if it weren’t for the pain of having to add the old widget folder (because this apparently hasn’t been updated since WordPress 2.2 or such, after which the sidebar widget thing was part of WordPress and one didn’t need a separate folder. Because now WordPress is trying to foist off on me a whole bunch of other widgets that it apparently thinks I want…without my permission. I’ll probably just code the poll into the sidebar css, and ditch the stupid folder so I don’t have to deal with this in the future after the contest is over.

However, when I actually do the voting, I’ll have it on a separate page. That way I can embed the images of the submissions right next to each choice box…no back and forth between pages or such nonsense. Also, although my marketing brain is really angry at me for not doing this, I’m not requiring any email addresses or such for voting. I will include a link to sign up for the podcast feed and the newsletter mailing list, though. But that’s not required for voting.

I’ve added a new widget to the right sidebar. It’s a polling widget, and I’m testing it for the Logo Contest voting. Test it out and tell me what you think.

I’d like to give a big shout-out to my newest sponsors to the iGame Radio logo contest: Creaceed, Griffin Technologies, and Codeweavers. Thanks so much for your donations to the prize package. I know that the winner will enjoy everything you’ve donated!

I’ve received the fourth submission for the logo contest, and I’m really excited. Everyone who has submitted so far has really done a great job, and I think that we have some quality logos to review and vote on come May 23.

In the meantime, the redesign of the website is moving along very nicely, which I announced in the April newsletter that I would have done earlier than planned. It looks quite good, and I’m really happy with the work that has been done on it so far. If you want to see what it looks like before I relaunch it, sign up for the newsletter and you’ll be the first to know!

We have our first submission for the iGame Radio Logo Contest! I’ve created a Flickr account where you can view the submissions, become members of the group “iGame Radio”, and make comments on the submissions. I’ve decided to allow submitters to resubmit their originals (as long as they are not submitting something that is totally new) based on the feedback they receive, so feel free to comment away.

The Logo Contest is heating up! Our newest sponsor is Howling Moon Software, developers of ScribBall 2 and ScribBall for the iPhone. You can check out my interview with Andy Korth of Howling Moon regarding his uDevGames entry, too. Check his games out. :D