Challenge Summary
Welcome to CSFV Site Theme and Logo Concept Design. We need you to use your thoughts to develop graphic concepts for a site, two themes and two logos based on defined ideas we’ll supply. It will be fun to think out of the box for this contest, join now!
IMPORTANT! We literally need a bunch of submissions here; we’ll be purchasing extra submissions for sure!
Round 1
For your R1 deliverables please submit all screens you consider necessary to show your solution.
Feel free to add some notes (jpg or text file) to comment your design features for the client.
Number your screens (01, 02, 03 etc.) – it’s easier to review.
Round 2
Final design will contain all screens you consider necessary to show your solution plus any updates from client feedback.
Feel free to add some notes (jpg or text file) to comment your design features for the client.
Number your screens (01, 02, 03 etc.) – it’s easier to review.
The primary goal of this contest is to come up with graphic designs for the site theme and logo. We are providing two idea threads; they contain information about how the site looks and feel what it is about and how the logo could be. We need your designer magic to bring these ideas to life!
What is CSFV?
The Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) program seeks to make formal program verification more cost-effective by reducing the skill set required for verification. The approach is to transform verification into a more accessible task by creating a game that reflects the code model, is intuitively understandable, and is fun to play. Completion of the game effectively helps the program verification tool complete the corresponding formal program verification proof. We are looking to use the tool to verify open source software.
See Project Conceptualization document attached if you want to go through the project details.
Overall site concept
We envision this site as a global community with sub-sites focused on games, a nice mix of social features and heavy information delivery (Social network + gaming website). The website concept is about breaking it down into global website and sub-sites, we will have 5 unique games, and each game will have a dedicated sub-site with content specific to that game, the main/global website will work as an aggregator of the sub-sites and as a Social network community, that means the sub-sites will have the same layout and navigation of the global website with different theme/colors/styles but delivering content specific to the game.
Global website will have the global items like activity stream, member profiles, registration, etc, more details below. The sub-site will be specific to that sub-site, for example, news, leader board, game content, contests, tournaments, forums/discussions, blogging, tutorials, how-to play guides, shared solutions, etc. Global website will have the same specific items as in sub-site but will be more like an aggregator for the 5 sub-sites, which means there could be some differences in how content in page are displayed, for example, a sub-site may have a leader board page with a single leader board that is filtered according to tournament/contest, member, date, while in global site it will have more filtering options, i.e. filter based game type.
This description is meant to guide you on how the site works; you don’t need to create anything mentioned above. This contest only focus on designing the site theme and logo using two main ideas as input, therefore you’ll be designing two themes and two logos in total. It’s important to note that target audience of the website is the general population, and not hardcore programmers or gamers. In a way it has to inevitable be techie, but has to appeal to the POP crowd.
Contest Requirements
1) Gaming For Good Design - read “Gaming Good Guys - Idea Generation.doc”.
1.1) Site theme
- You need to show the “Home” page from the wireframes only, nothing else, just one page.
- The theme section of the document describes the site elemental features it needs to have. Bring them to life!
- How will you represent the good guys? The bad guys? How will you integrate these graphics to live together in the site? Think of small details.
- There’s nothing written on stone yet, we’re open to revamping these ideas.
1.2) Logo
- We don’t want to use “DARPA” in the logo for now.
2) Verify Games Design - read “VGames.doc”.
2.1) Site theme
- You need to show the “Home” page from the wireframes only, nothing else, just one page.
- The theme section of the document describes the site elemental features it needs to have. Bring them to life!
- There’s nothing written on stone yet, we’re open to revamping these ideas.
2.2) Logo
- We don’t want to use “DARPA” in the logo for now.
- We don’t want the "bug" feature, it should be, we are verifying against vulnerabilities so evildoers cannot succeed.
Key Concepts for Theme Development
- We want you to have fun by playing these games. But also, you are doing great software verification work!
- This is Government funded but the point is to not do work for the government, but to help the government make YOUR internet more secure.
- This is going to be YOUR social and gaming community!
- “Save the world, by proving/verifying that these programs are secure”.
- “Your effort will lead to a more secure internet for everyone”.
- “DARPA, the folks who invented the internet for you, wants to make it more secure. By playing these fun games, you are verifying key building blocks of the internet, and proving that they are secure”.
- “We are on a crusade against malicious people trying to break the internet and steal data”.
Target Audience
Casual gamers, everyone who likes games from children to adult persons.
Judging Criteria
You will be judged on your creativity of the idea and how well you addressed the outlined requirements.
Submission File
All requested contest requirements/screens as JPG or PNG files at 72dpi.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. For the site themes, files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as layered PSD. For the logos, files should be created in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
Preview Image
Create a 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode and place a screenshot from your submission within it.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.