Famiclub Arena II - UltraPlay / HyperDisc

[Fruitality]

Famiclub Arena is a creative, non-competitive, video game logo design jam focused on a single fictional topic.


If you missed it, check out the first Famiclub Arena jam here!


The topic for Famiclub Arena II will be:

Fictional Consoles!

Here's how it works:

1. Registration for the Arena will be open until July 31.
2. Post in the thread below with your suggested fictional video game console name.
3. When registration closes, the console name will be chosen at random from the submitted suggestions.
4. Each entrant will be randomly assigned a specific platform manufacturer (Sony, Nintendo, SEGA, Atari, and so on!)
5. Jam!
6. Post your entry in this thread before the end of August. (or whenever you finish. it's all good!.)

It's up to you whether you want to design a logo, or a box or flyer artwork, or a game cover or case!

Also, if you'd prefer to create your own manufacturer instead of designing for an existing company, then that's cool too!

So: post in this thread with 'I'm in!' or something similar if you'd like to join in, and suggest a video game platform name if you'd like too! (I won't stop you from submitting more than one either)


PS: Please help our little community grow by telling your friends about Famiclub, and sharing the jam to encourage others to join!

[Fruitality]

My console name suggestion is: Hyperdisc

[malyzar]

I'm in! My (rough draft) console name submission is: UltraPlay.

[andrewelmore]

Let's go! My submission is: Seraph

[Fruitality]

I'm in! My (rough draft) console name submission is: UltraPlay.

Yeah, making up a console name felt a lot harder than a game title! Feel free to change it up until the jam starts.

[phearhead]

I'm in, as well! Loved the last Arena, so this should be fun.

My name to throw in the ring...

The 720! (Getting a little cheeky with it)

[Fruitality]

Here we go!

This time, the chosen game is...




UltraPlay

As suggested by @malyzar

So here's the designs for everyone!

@Fruitality : Sony
@malyzar : Commodore
@andrewelmore : Nintendo
@phearhead : SEGA


Bonus Round!

I feel bad about the other name suggestions going totally unused, so I'm going to additionally draw companies for the other suggestions. Feel free to design for one of these instead of the Ultraplay logo above, or also do them for fun!

Hyperdisc - Nintendo
Seraph - SEGA
The 720! - Commodore


Can't wait to see what we all come up with!

[andrewelmore]

Oh MAN these all turned out so much better than I expected, they're perfect! Let's goooooo

[andrewelmore]

In this exercise, I am presupposing a world where instead of the Wii, Nintendo followed up the GameCube with a high-end HD console targeted at the core games enthusiast audience, to compete with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. In this world, they worked with Sharp to develop a competitor to Sony's Hi-MD MiniDisc format, which was reaching end-of-life at the time. They created an approximation of the MD-Data Disc that may not have been enough to compete with Sony's Blu-Ray storage, but at a 16GB disc capacity, it far exceeded Toshiba's DVD storage technology at use in the Xbox 360, and at a much higher data transfer rate, drastically reducing load times.

I present to you:
The Nintendo Hyperdisc.
Beyond Boundaries. Beyond Belief.
Available November 19th, 2006.
Pre-Order now!

[andrewelmore]

I once again went for "plausibly realistic" as opposed to "cool" or "good" lol

[malyzar]

Looks really great! Plausibly realistic, indeed. And I love all the copy you wrote up.

[andrewelmore]

Oops I forgot to move the TM when I reformatted the layout

dang it

[Fruitality]

aaa Andrew that's so cool.

I also love the plausible realism of it. I can imagine that this exact art direction was pitched at some stage post-Gamecube - right down to the graffiti tagline.

Minidisc is absolutley a Nintendo format, too. Like they've thought "yeah our competitors have discs, but do they have HYPERDIISCS??" and they're another weird little disc format that rules.

I'd love to know what the 'innovative controller design' mentioned in the copy would possibly be, too. Seems that as it's targeted to the 'core gaming audience' that it would be more standard, but still have something funky to it. 6 buttons on the face? :O

[Fruitality]

I'd love to know what the 'innovative controller design' mentioned in the copy would possibly be, too. Seems that as it's targeted to the 'core gaming audience' that it would be more standard, but still have something funky to it. 6 buttons on the face? :O

Oh man I just thought about this for 10 minutes in the shower.

As a follow-up to the GBA/Gamecube integration, and a theoretical precursor to the Wii U era, this thing would absolutely be a wired controller with a DS bottom screen built in and a stylus.

In addition to having secondary screen capabilities for Hyperdisc games, each controller would have a DS cart port on it so players could play their DS games on the big screen at home. That would open up the opportunity to have linkable games between the Hyperdisc and the DS, where you could transfer progress from Animal Crossing HD to the portable equivalent. Also, Zelda: Four Swords Adventures style games made possible when four friends all plug their DS cards into each controller to bring their progress to the Hyperdisc game.

Then, in this world, we wouldn't have got the 3DS as a follow up to the DS, it would have been the HDS (Hyper Dual Screen) with advanced features that integrated more closely with the Hyperdisc.

Now I'm a bit sad that this didn't actually exist.

[phearhead]

Andrew that rocks. I love the plausibility of it, and I would have 100% freaked out for this console. Additionally, the thought experimentation on the controller is wonderful. Given the direction the Wii went and further generations, it's likely this is exactly the direction it would have taken, integrating more in with the DS and its wonderful library of games.