Different Icon

[Lunick]

Can we have different icons for Duke Nukem 1 and Manhattan Project? It wouldn't be that hard to cook up 2 different icons now would it?

[Lunick]

I regret making this topic, Dave.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

http://akiranyo.deviantart.com/art/PSD-Duke-Nukem-logo-with-statue-475260659

I made a shape from the freedom statue logo and added some Outer Glow with yellow and green. However it seems to be still too simple compared the nuke logo, so I made it transparent and bent it in order to view it better trough the traingle holes.

My personal recommendation would be though to leave the statue out, go with the classic nuke like by all games here on Steam and simply to add the letters DNMP into the 4 rows arround the nuke. They would have the same color and rust texture. Simple, yet effective. If enough ppl agree with this idea, I do it.

[El Oshcuro]

So can someone do it for me then pls? :-p

[Astraea Kisaragi]

I try to make the version with the letters and see how it looks as a icon. Obviously will need some font where all letters have the same fixed lenght, otherwise it will look "off".
Seems like some here are forgetting that we are talking about a logo which is really tiny, much smaller as a regular games desktop icon. Means it will lose the most details by downsizing, so cannot be too fancy anyways.
I have 7 years experience with Photoshop, vectoring and vexeling, however my speciality is anime and usually I work in 4k resolutions not in 50x50 icons.
If somebody has better ideas (or submissions) free to raise hands.

[haha nerds...]

引用自 akiranyo：

I try to make the version with the letters and see how it looks as a icon. Obviously will need some font where all letters have the same fixed lenght, otherwise it will look "off".
Seems like some here are forgetting that we are talking about a logo which is really tiny, much smaller as a regular games desktop icon. Means it will lose the most details by downsizing, so cannot be too fancy anyways.
I have 7 years experience with Photoshop, vectoring and vexeling, however my speciality is anime and usually I work in 4k resolutions not in 50x50 icons.
If somebody has better ideas (or submissions) free to raise hands.

Your icon looks good, but the statue is probably too detailed for low resolution as you say. What about just having a green "backglow" like the nukes you pick up in the game?

[Astraea Kisaragi]

I'm pretty sure I offered that a few comments ago, but from the replies I got a "Its so meh" feeling.
Solution: I make 4-5 different ones, I downsize it to this icon size and we decide which one looks better.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Sorry, at once it got very busy, a new anime project uncluding 5 complex characters, plus my power supply died (damn Corsair CX series) but don't worry, I didn't forgot about this.

http://i.imgur.com/6Wig6rJ.jpg

With, without statue, with glow, with black, with letters. Last is with advanced glow, which can be applied to any other as well.I'm not even sure how the target resolution of the icon is, cause 50x50 is big like game icon, so 25x25?
If you say is still too simple, I can try to make a entirely new logo.

[haha nerds...]

I think both the statue and letters are too detailed for 32x32

[Astraea Kisaragi]

So 32x32, thats what I wanted know. Anyways, the effects can be simplified or removed. Its done in Photoshop after all, not in MS Paint :P

I also would say the 2nd is the best bet. I can add the glow to it and make the nuke contours a little more darker.