I think new namespace icons are waaaaaay down on the priority list for the next big site update.
Either way, I'm not too fond of those suggestions. Not only am I not a big fan of using an existing franchise as a media icon, I don't think Ace Attorney and Danganronpa ar really iconic representatives of the visual novel genre, despite their undeniable popularity. They're more "hyrbid" visual novels than pure visual novels. I feel Katawa Shoujo would work far better in that regard, even though I'd rather go with a franchise-neutral icon, like a silhouette with a textbox under it or something like that.
edited 4th Oct '17 12:38:17 AM by Yugnat
Namespace icons are tiny, and a silhouette with a text box is probably too large. I don't think we can get out of this with a franchise neutral icon.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)I don't know, something in the vein of this◊ would seem fine enough to me.
If we cut the background, it's size will be 19X22. I think the limit was 16X16.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)That seems good, if we can downsize it to 16x16.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.That was just a quick mockup, so obviously not perfectly to size. Just to show how I envisioned the icon, and that it could probably work at icon-size.
I'm gonna go ahead and lock this; if/when we get around to discussing new icons, we can re-open it.
Don't know if this is the right place to ask in, but namespace icons did go here once. And I know that the article I'm linking to doesn't exist.
Anyway, the VisualNovel namespace doesn't have an icon, and I have two suggestions:
The lawyer badge from Ace Attorney:
And Monokuma's head from Danganronpa:
Since those are the two most popular visual novels. What do you think of them? Do you have a suggestion of your own? When's the soonest a namespace icon can be applied?
edited 1st Oct '17 12:36:27 PM by Piterpicher
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)