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Our luvly GDC shirt design! Only one item so far, more to come.
Our luvly GDC shirt design! Only one item so far, more to come.
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EDIT: yes, it ships from Seatlle.
Okay thanks! I may wait until I have more money as shipping to the UK could be costly.
We've consistently lost money every time we've offered shirts for sale. We're trying to be conservative as we can to try to avoid that this time. But we're also happy to be flexible enough so that you aren't spending money you don't have to.
Colors of the shirt and the inks are the same. We're going back to the same printer as well and ordering more of what we did before. That's what everyone has asked for that we talked to.
We'd also like to implement a Workshop style system in which we'll take submission from the community for some low run special edition shirts. The GDC event shirts are a good example of a special event shirt for us. We would also give a percentage back to the artist as well, just like the Workshop does. We haven't done more than talk about this at a high level. We don't have any details to share on that as we don't have any. The first thing to see how this all works out for us all with what we are offering at the moment.
by the way the shopify-card checkout show the shirts, name, color and the image
name and color is ok but but the image is always green one.
might stop people from buying.
best,
pascal
I want to find a source here for enamel pins... like the PAX pins... i should ask Kappa...
i want to do the flat style pins that mirror the in-game versions from Overwatch, Dues Ex and Team Fortress.
maybe some 3d printed versions of the greentooth.... i'm thought wandering now... but yes... my point is we want to do more merch, but we aren't going to rush it. we aren't gonna to ever to the sort of volumes that will make us money. 100 shirts has been a struggle for us to sell in the past. This is part of the reason that we make sure our merch is as high quality made as we can find. If we are only going to have 100 shirts out there, we're gonna make sure they are going to last more than a few wash cycles. We don't want to put our names on a piece of crap and sell it to you. I saw an example at Steam Dev Days of a shirt from 2007 that still looked pretty darn good. Made me happy to see that.
and yes i just called it the Greentooth Workshop. done. We'll probably open up a submission forum for design ideas in the near future too.
+1 for the submission forum for design ideas. I also prefer the design of the classic greentooth style t-shirt as seen on the 2015 GDC shirt over the 3D greentooth (personal preference)
Greentooth balls would also make pretty cool keychains.
but I'd also a like to do a set of Polycounter Merit Badges too. A "UV-ing" badge. A Box Modeling badge. A Sculpting badge. Like the Psychonauts badges, but for Polycount
copyright this days are everywhere ...
The ‘Greentooth’ Logo is Polycount’s unofficially official logo. That is, it is not ours but it is yours. It was created by our community and adopted by our community as the sole representation of the entire Polycount Community. As we see it, the Greentooth logo falls in to the ‘Creative Commons’ and is free for you to use in your artwork, projects, independent or “AAA” videogames. All that we ask is that you do not make money off of it directly – that is, selling items specifically branded with the Greentooth logo. (E.g. A micro-transaction item branded with the Greentooth logo isn’t allowed, but you’re more than welcome to use it elsewhere in your videogame as you see fit.) If you would like to see specific examples of how Greentooth has appeared in many of todays most famous videogames, check out the Reddit post about Greentooth and the Polycount Thread Greentooth Sightings in Videogames. If you have any further questions regarding the logo or its use please contact us.
Source: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Polycount:About
So if you want to make your own shirt, go ahead. Just don't go making money off of it.
Drew would probably be OK with someone making a copy for their own use, but I'm trying to make a larger point here.
Think about when someone posts a screenshot of their character that has a greentooth tattoo. If you copied that artist's work, you would be infringing on their copyright. Even though the tattoo is free to use, the rest of the character is probably not.
Reason is, we need a few more orders to make it economically viable.
If everyone that checked the price actually bought a shirt, then we could take the price down even lower. But as it stands, we're not seeing enough movement.
Any tips on what to change? Besides adding more items, we hear you loud and clear on that, and will be adding more things.
Is it possible to have an EU store and a US store?
Kinda missing the classic logo...
We had 10 orders for the shirts, all have been refunded. We needed 35 orders for the printer just to turn on the press and start making the shirts. We were hoping we'd clear that threshold easily, but it just didn't happen.
I have a bunch of greentooth stickers. There's one on the back of my car, it's awesome. If you want one, PM me your mailing address and I'll mail one. Green, pink, or gold, take your pick. Not as nice as a shirt, but it's something.