• US$420

• 41 designs

• 7 designers

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Web Design Brief

PLEASE NOTE: We need just a simple web site. We are at least a year away from launching our first product, so the site only needs a small amount of information on it. The only people who will be visiting the web site are prospective employees, prospective investors who want a little information on the company, journalists who want a little more information, and people in the games industry who will visit to read blog posts about the development of our first game.

Outpost Games is a new gaming company that wants to change how people think about video games. We are making games that we think can be so interesting to watch that people might want to tune into them instead of the TV.

The games we make are sophisticated, they are not for children, and we want to project an image of being serious about our craft and the brand we're trying to create. Our games are heavily focused on players interacting with each other in sophisticated ways: to negotiate, to compete, to fight, to come to each other's rescue, to cheer each other on, or to simply watch each other in awe.

We do not want a site that features lots of video game cliches like joysticks, 8 bit graphics, science fiction themes, or military themes. We are focused on craftsmanship, so we'd like to project a sense of precision, pride and deep purpose.

The purpose of this website is to create an image of our company that can help us recruit like-minded craftspeople and help find business partners. There will be no e-commerce, account creation, or forums for some time. The site should have:
-A front page that describes our business
-A section that describes our first game (we have only one for now)
-A section for employees to write blog posts. There should be something on the home page that shows links to the latest 3 blog posts.
-A section about founders that shows information about them.
-Contact information, lets people send us email

Our first game is one that looks very realistic. It takes place on a tropical island. We can't say a lot more about it in public yet, but I will say these things: it is not a game that children will play, it is not very violent, it would look more like a film than a typical video game.

And the site should be easily extendable when we have more content and more categories of content.

I've attached our official company logo with a color scheme we've been using, plus an alternate version of the logo. Please use this as a starting point for the web site's visual design. Also, I do not think it is necessary to use the dark background in the logo as the background throughout the site. I wouldn't rule it out, but I'd like to see some proposals with lighter backgrounds.

We need to be able to get code from you so that we can drop it on our server and get it running without extra effort. We need to be able to add content for Blog posts easily as well, so please indicate how that would work.

Target Market(s)

Investors, prospective employees, press, blog post readers.

Industry/Entity Type

Business

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Font styles to use

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Look and feel

Each slider illustrates characteristics of the customer's brand and the style your logo design should communicate.

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Requirements

Must have

• Simplicity first. Please use a color palette and fonts that match our logo.

Should not have

• Video game cliches. Flash animations or menus.
  No children.
  No photographs of people playing games.
  
  (I realize this is very limiting, but we're keeping the sits as simple as possible for now)

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