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MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« on: July 21, 2016, 06:39:27 AM »
The very talented designers at MeepleSource have offered to help us create a mascot for Carcassonne Central!

Meeple Source have already run 7 successful Kickstarter campaigns introducing hundreds of meeple designs to be used in Carcassonne and for many other desktop games.  You can see them here.  The new Kickstarter is currently active - go and check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meeplesource/character-meeples-20-upgrade-your-gaming-experienc?ref=carccentral

Our forum's very own Danisthirty was immortalized by Meeple Source in their first Campaign:


So now is Carcassonne Central's chance to join the ranks of brilliant designs!  Over the course of the Kickstarter campaign we will be running a series of polls to vote and determine how our mascot will look.  For now suggesting ideas, or even submitting pictures would be fantastic.  Ask yourself what should Carcassonne Central's mascot look like?  Perhaps a feudal knight, perhaps a wild dragon - We'd love to hear your thoughts!

If you can find a lot more information about Meeple source here www.meeplesource.com



The New campaign is launching on August 9th.


Poll #1
What theme should our Meeplesource Mascot take?
It should be a mixture of all 4 of the above. 6 (33.3%)

Poll #2
How should the knight be represented?

With a Shield  - 9 (75%)

Poll #3
How should a farmer be represented?

With a pitchfork!



Poll #4

How should the Monk be represented?

With a wooden cross! (58.3%)



Poll #5

How should a thief be represented?


Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2841.0
« Last Edit: August 10, 2016, 12:29:27 PM by Decar »

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2016, 06:52:41 AM »
Survey sent.

(Not wanting to downplay other users importance) I've to say that the "DanMeeple" would be a quite fair mascot of CarcCentral. Considering that Dan puts a lot of effort on the community.

With the bonus that if I add some hair on top, glasses and paint the tea (bear) yellow with would be a fair representation of the "ChooseMeeple".  ;D

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2016, 07:24:25 AM »
This is about the forum and its community so the meeple cannot represent one person.

A CC shaped meeple may be a good option and quite unique to this forum so it can be recognized worldwide.
  Or, if too costly a standard meeple with CC on it.

I've also completed the survey.
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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2016, 07:50:08 AM »
This is about the forum and its community so the meeple cannot represent one person.

I'm pretty sure this was just a joke! :P

A CC shaped meeple may be a good option and quite unique to this forum so it can be recognized worldwide.

As much as I like the idea of a custom shape for a CarcC mascot meeple, it would seem like a shame to me if we didn’t embrace the classic meeple shape as we represent Carcassonne which is the game that introduced this classic figure to the world of boardgames. Let’s at least try to stay true to our heritage! C:-)

Although I haven’t given it a lot of thought and am generally pretty rubbish at designy things, my idea of a CarcC mascot meeple is that it should be part knight, part thief, part monk and part farmer. It should also feature the classic "C" from the back of a Carcassonne tile somewhere. For example, the meeple could be holding a shield (knight), holding a pitchfork in the other hand (farmer), wearing a cross around his neck (monk) and be doing/ wearing something to represent the thief. Additionally, he could have the C symbol on his shield.

Or, we might somehow try to include things that are important/ unique to this community or that represent us. So, the CAR is a good example of this. Maybe it could be a meeple clutching a very thick book of instructions? I don’t know what else it may include, this is just another example. ;)

Looking forward to seeing what other ideas/ designs people have to offer! :(y)


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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2016, 01:06:14 PM »
I've been trying to come up with Carcassonne artifacts associated with game, things like all the different types of meeple, the flyers die, but perhaps someone could form a better list.

I'm also wondering if perhaps everyone could be included in a meeple.  Perhaps to represent me it could wear red scarf.  Dan a handsome beard, Paul would make it yellow, kettlefish a fairy meeple. Chooselife some glasses. Mr Numbers would be numbers of course, wolnic would have owly feathers.   But there are so many members here it would be incredibly hard to represent everyone in the smallest way.

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2016, 02:37:54 PM »
Perhaps the mascot should represent the game more than any current members.

I personally like the idea of using the meeple shape and a shield.

The shield could contain a logo that could, perhaps, represent farmer, monk and robber. Or a specific design that is the essence of Carcassonne central.

The meeple itself could be coloured equally in the 5 base colours black, red, blue, yellow and green.

Just my thoughts/ideas.
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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2016, 07:10:51 PM »
As the mascot the Meeple is quite iconic. Anyway just an idea, along the lines of the images below. (I've sited the sites where they were lifted from.)

It might not be the most original idea but could be fun and even more fun to try and get this character in the game ... saving some poor trapped meeple  ;D

Could the stylized Carc 'C' be used on a sticker as the 'Super' symbol?

It would also be cool to have a cape!


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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2016, 12:47:57 AM »
A flying cape might come in handy next time a meeple gets trapped!

Thanks for the ideas everyone, they'll all be put forward to help the polls.

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2016, 06:05:21 AM »
I have created the first poll:  What Theme should our MeepleSource Mascot take?

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2016, 11:46:58 AM »
On a separate, but related note it would be fantastic if Twitter Users would consider retweeting our currently Pinned post about the design:

https://twitter.com/Carcassonne/status/757217600627699716

Many Thanks!

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2016, 12:48:32 PM »
I would have liked to have seen a few more votes on the Theme Poll, but the results are in and the topic has been locked:

It should be a mixture of all 4 of the above. 6 (33.3%)
It should be a solely a Knight, Thief, Monk or Farmer 5 (27.8%)
It should look like a super hero - with a cape! 4 (22.2%)
It should not be a classical Meeple - eg: 'CC', a combination of colours. 3 (16.7%)

The consensus is to follow Danisthirty's suggestion:  The meeple will be of classical shape and be "part knight, part thief, part monk and part farmer".  Now we must decide how each of these followers will be represented.

Which takes us to our next poll:

How should the knight be represented?

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2016, 04:37:45 PM »
With an overwhelming majority the Shield will represent our MeepleSource Mascot!

With a Shield 9 (75%)
With a helmet/visor 2 (16.7%)
With a Sword 1 (8.3%)

The poll and been locked and we shall continue


I've started a little prototype meeple.

Obviously the design for the shield is the topic of another vote.  But not our next vote:

How should the Farmer be represented?

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2016, 07:30:24 AM »
The polls are in:

How should a farmer be represented?

With a pitchfork!



Which leaves us with the next question:

How should the monk be represented?

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Re: MeepleSource Kickstarter - Design our Mascot!
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2016, 01:37:42 AM »
Been very busy these last few days, I'll update the info-graphic later, but for now the new poll is open:

How should the thief be represented?

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