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The new TVTropes app (in beta testing) has resurrected The Badge Shop and moderators can now give out award badges via the app and anyone who uses the app can add any other badge to their account for free! Badges are viewable in all sections of the site on the app (Forums, Queries, Discussions, TLP and Reviews)

The new app should be available to the general public within the next couple of weeks!

NEW BADGE SUBMISSIONS:

  • Users can submit designs for new badges for review via this thread. If approved by the moderators and the admins any moderator can then add that new badge to the badge shop via the Badge Shop Manager.
    • New badges should be of higher quality and not appear pixelated like current older badges, we can now upload higher quality images for them.
    • New badges should have a transparent background so they don't show a different color background when on night vision.

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(Started this thread based on this thread/post.)

For those that are unaware, one of the ideas for bringing in some money from the forum-side of the wiki is to sell "badges" (sort-of like the Herald one) that you can buy and put up as part of your "gingerbread" .

The shop can be found by clicking on the "basket" at the top of any post. There is a 1 USD -> 1Þ exchange rate.

Each person who buys a badge will also be able to customize the hover text that people see for their particular badges. (Note: Only plain text is usable for a caption. Potholes and other wiki formatting will not work)

There are three slots under the avatar and above the "title" space to display them. You will be able to get to your gallery (where you can chose which ones you want to show and their order) by clicking on these slots.

If you wish to participate in making the badges, they need to be a max of 24x24 pix.

The only things we are completely keeping out of the store are symbols that are generally associated with any religion (the Yin-Yang and such are more known for other reasons), gender/sex/sexual orientation badges, and ones that infringe on copyrights. If you see things that you think do infringe, you probably don't have to worry about it. Those are images that don't match their originals (the heart container), are free-to-use, or the original copyright owner has lost their privilege to go after the "offending" images by not going after them in the past.

Please use this thread for everything badge-related.

The rest of this post is taken up by badge ideas, links to badges people have made, and default text ideas. NOTE: The list has not been updated in quite a while (and will probably never be) now that badge ideas/submissions appear naturally in the thread and go strait into the shop.


Mod-given

Purchased for own use

Other ideas

Edited by kory on Feb 10th 2025 at 11:26:30 AM

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#1301: May 19th 2012 at 4:23:04 PM

[up][up][up] Your touch-ups just make the badges look blurry and completely miss the point of pixel art.

edited 19th May '12 4:24:40 PM by shimaspawn

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BoundByTheMoon Kvltvre Vvltvre from The Spanish Sahara Since: Jun, 2010
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#1302: May 19th 2012 at 4:36:11 PM

Since there would probably be a high demand for it, I could work on a katana badge. I've got some time off right now.

There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!
shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#1303: May 19th 2012 at 4:40:14 PM

I'm still accepting new badges and working on them myself. Please, go ahead.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Lemurian from Touhou fanboy attic Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#1304: May 19th 2012 at 5:35:07 PM

Any feedback on the warning-symbols, BTW?

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DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#1305: May 19th 2012 at 5:40:25 PM

Hmm.

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LukefonFabre Since: May, 2012
#1306: May 19th 2012 at 6:21:11 PM

Wait a minute, aren't the chainsword and blue police box (TARDIS) copyrighted? I thought we're not supposed to use copyrighted images for the badges.

DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#1307: May 19th 2012 at 6:22:51 PM

I find it difficult to believe that a chainsword is copyrightable.

As for TARDIS, it's just a Police Box. That's a public imagery.

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#1308: May 19th 2012 at 6:23:02 PM

No, they are not copyrighted.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#1309: May 19th 2012 at 6:24:38 PM

A TARDIS is copywrited, a blue police box is not. They're actual objects that exist in the real world. Chainswords are also not copywrited in the same way swords are not. 40k doesn't actually own the weapon and certainly not by that design. They've been used in a fair number of works.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#1310: May 19th 2012 at 6:37:36 PM

What badges still need captions?

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#1311: May 19th 2012 at 6:55:12 PM

Malaysian flag is the only thing that's been uploaded, but I could use some for those warning badges.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Autumncomet from the hive Since: Jan, 2011
#1312: May 19th 2012 at 7:01:45 PM

Just noticed the "cultural" section. Isn't that a wedjat/Horus eye, not an eye of Ra? The eye of Ra is something else that looks like a sun disk.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#1313: May 19th 2012 at 7:11:07 PM

That it is. Whoops. Should have caught that.

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#1314: May 19th 2012 at 7:23:48 PM

Clicking on a person's badge takes you to their collection.

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DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#1316: May 19th 2012 at 7:26:13 PM

For clarification, am I supposed to get an Herald's badge for being one in Writer's Block?

BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#1317: May 19th 2012 at 7:28:57 PM

Sent.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#1318: May 19th 2012 at 7:52:06 PM

Award badges for the badge shop are live. I think I got one for everyone whose art I've used for the shop.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#1319: May 19th 2012 at 7:57:36 PM

I couldn't resist...

EDIT: Hmmm...I thought I put that to position 3.

edited 19th May '12 7:58:20 PM by Willbyr

DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#1320: May 19th 2012 at 7:58:08 PM

Mushroom Mushroom?

I couldn't resist responding. :P

EDIT response: Did you make sure you didn't already have something in position three?

edited 19th May '12 7:58:54 PM by DarkConfidant

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#1321: May 19th 2012 at 7:59:57 PM

EDIT: I un- and then re-pinned the badges and that seems to have taken.

edited 19th May '12 8:02:44 PM by Willbyr

chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#1322: May 19th 2012 at 8:09:38 PM

Thanks for the badge, Best Of!

Hmm...I'll tweak the hover text.

edited 19th May '12 8:10:01 PM by chihuahua0

Belian In honor of my 50lb pup from 42 Since: Jan, 2001
In honor of my 50lb pup
#1323: May 19th 2012 at 8:13:47 PM

Thanks for the badge!

...you know, I think this is the only one I won't be changing the hover text for. What can I say? I'm a glutton for thanks and bragging about the things I help with. *sheepish grin + shrug*

Though I do like Willbyr's hover text.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#1324: May 19th 2012 at 8:14:43 PM

You did the brunt of the organizational work. You honestly earned that as much as the people who made badges did.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#1325: May 19th 2012 at 8:16:16 PM

Then I hope that Tropers/{{32Footsteps}} will also get one for all his/her work with badge descriptions. If not, I'll donate mine.

I don't think that the markup likes that name for some reason... :/

edited 19th May '12 8:16:48 PM by DarkConfidant


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