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| − | <div class="WPC-editableContent" id="WPC-area?cellId=Krome+Studios&version=26&savePath=%2Fpage%2FKrome%2BStudios&saveType=page"><font><font><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo</font></i><i><font color="#ffa500"> descriptions by </font>EnormousRat</i></font></font><div><font><font size="3"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo captures by </font><font color="#333333">Muzzarino</font></i></font></font></div><div><font size="3"><font><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo editions by </font><font color="#333333">Muzzarino</font><br/></i><br/><font color="#333333"><u>Background</u>: Krome Studios is an Australian video game company with offices in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Robert Walsh and Gee Whiz! Entertainment. The additional office in Adelaide was created to adopt people from closed </font>[[Ratbag Pty, Ltd. (Australia)|Ratbag]]<font color="#333333"> (Midway Australia) and in 2006 </font>[[Melbourne House]]</font><font color="#333333"> was acquired from Atari. On 18 August 2010, it was reported that Krome had closed down their Adelaide studios and made significant staff cuts to their Melbourne and Brisbane offices - with as many as 100 staff let go. On 18th October 2010, the company let go all of the remaining staff, marking the end of the company, almost. On 1st November of that same year, the company was declared not dead and 2 years later, the company announced a reboot of </font><font color="#333333"><i>Ty the Tasmanian Tiger</i></font><font color="#333333"> for mobile and PC. It has since made games for mobile and consoles since, and have released a remastered version of </font><font color="#333333"><i>TY The Tasmanian Tiger</i></font><font color="#333333"> for PC on March 22nd 2016. It's new headquarters are in </font><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial">Fortitude Valley, Queensland.<br/></font><br/>1st Logo<br/>(1999-2004)</font></font></div><div><font size="3"><font color="#333333"><br/><div align="center"> | + | <div class="WPC-editableContent" id="WPC-area?cellId=Krome+Studios&version=26&savePath=%2Fpage%2FKrome%2BStudios&saveType=page"><font><font><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo</font></i><i><font color="#ffa500"> descriptions by </font>EnormousRat</i></font></font><div><font><font size="3"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo captures by </font><font color="#333333">Muzzarino</font></i></font></font></div><div><font size="3"><font><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo editions by </font><font color="#333333">Muzzarino</font><br/></i><br/><font color="#333333"><u>Background</u>: Krome Studios is an Australian video game company with offices in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Robert Walsh and Gee Whiz! Entertainment. The additional office in Adelaide was created to adopt people from closed </font>[[Ratbag Pty, Ltd. (Australia)|Ratbag]]<font color="#333333"> (Midway Australia) and in 2006 </font>[[Melbourne House]]</font><font color="#333333"> was acquired from Atari. On 18 August 2010, it was reported that Krome had closed down their Adelaide studios and made significant staff cuts to their Melbourne and Brisbane offices - with as many as 100 staff let go. On 18th October 2010, the company let go all of the remaining staff, marking the end of the company, almost. On 1st November of that same year, the company was declared not dead and 2 years later, the company announced a reboot of </font><font color="#333333"><i>Ty the Tasmanian Tiger</i></font><font color="#333333"> for mobile and PC. It has since made games for mobile and consoles since, and have released a remastered version of </font><font color="#333333"><i>TY The Tasmanian Tiger</i></font><font color="#333333"> for PC on March 22nd 2016. It's new headquarters are in </font><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial">Fortitude Valley, Queensland.<br/></font><br/>1st Logo<br/>(1999-2004)</font></font></div><div><font size="3"><font color="#333333"><br/><div align="center">[[File:XH9c1vDbxe SMJHJMUrVw95145.jpeg|274px|Krome Studios (1999)]][[File:Fc3e405398545d3c5efd056244c9947e.png|263px|Krome Studios, EA Games, Raichert Media and Animal Logic (TY the Tasmanian Tiger in-credit logos)]][[File:85a0b77b57cab918bf5cef9d28267780.jpeg|469px|Krome Studios (TY 2, in-credit)]]</div><div align="center"></div></font><font color="#333333"><u>Nickname</u>: "The Laser"<br/><br/><u>Logo</u>: There is a stone wall with the word "KROME" in fancy font, also made of stone. A blue laser line passes through the screen and clears the word, making it shiny blue and sending a lot of sparks. "STUDIOS" then zooms in. <br/><br/><u>Variant</u>: On a pair of<i> </i><i>Barbie</i> games, the logo was still.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: Laser moving and sparks flying.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: The sound of laser carving and the echoing lock.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on early games like <i>Championship Surfer</i>. It also appears on <i>Barbie: Beach Vacation</i>,<i> </i><i>Barbie: Sparkling Ice Show</i>and in-credit on the<i>TY the Tasmanian Tiger</i><i> </i>trilogy with the Trademark symbol.</font><font><br/><br/><br/><br/><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">2nd Logo</font><br/><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">(October 8, 2002-October 11, 2005)</font><br/><br/></font></font></div><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div><font size="3"><font><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><iframe frameborder="0" height="227" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/unknown/e06a4b7df1ab73ea7bfa2a4649f6134cb2dce2d8" width="404"></iframe></font></font></font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><font size="3"><font><br/><u>Nicknames</u><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">: "Ty the Tasmanian Tiger", "The Outback", "Didgeridoo"</font><br/><br/><u>Logo</u><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">: TBA</font><br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">: All in good CGI.</font><br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">: A soothing low melody using traditional aboriginal instruments.</font><br/><br/><u>Availability</u><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">: Seen on all three of the <i>TY the Tasmanian Tiger</i> games on the XBOX, PlayStation 2, GameCube and PC (only view-able in the extras because the 5th logo is used as a startup logo).</font><br/></font><br/><br/><br/><font>3rd Logo</font><br/><font>(2005-2010)</font><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[[File:2d502a84c8e627f7811b56039671d76e.png|401px|Krome Studios - CLG Wiki]]</font><br/><br/><font color="#333333"><u>Logo</u>: The logo zooms in with a trail effect, mostly in white and red colors, centered on the red sphere inside "O" letter. The trail absorbs into the logo and it becomes completely sharp black with white outline, and the word "STUDIOS" is white.</font><br/><font><br/><u>Variants</u>: <br/></font> </font><ul> <li> <font size="3">Later, the logo appeared in a shine, made as a sped-up version of the described action, and it was altered to gain volume effect. The red button is clearly 3D. </font></li><li> <font size="3">On <i>Legend of Spyro</i>, a monster walked to the right, then a bunch of screaming monsters ran to the left, chased by Spyro, and the orange logo appeared through background mist, then turning into usual colors.</font></li></ul><font size="3"><font> <br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The light trails.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: The </font><font>sound of a whoosh.</font><font><br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on <i>Hellboy: The Science of Evil</i><i>,</i><i> </i><i>Star Wars: The Force Unleashed</i><i>, </i>The first two<i> </i><i>Legend of Spyro</i>installments and other games.</font><br/></font><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3">4th Logo</font></div><div><font size="3">(March 24, 2010)</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>Logo</u>: On a pixelated (and animated) space background, many parts of the word "KROME" (in its corporate font and also pixelated and in the form of little white spaceships) come together to form the logo. Once they do, the background flashes, turning the logo into the same one as the previous logo and turning the background into a black one. "STUDIOS" fades in below.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>FX/SFX</u>: The spaceships forming the logo, along with the animated background, the flash, and "STUDIOS" fading in.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>Music/Sounds</u>: Retro 8-bit noises are heard as the <i>Game Room </i>theme plays for a bit, followed by a clang when the logo forms.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>Availability</u>: Rare. Only seen on <i>Game Room</i>.</font></div><div></div><font size="3"><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><br/></font><div><font size="3">5th Logo</font></div><div><font size="3">(2016?-)</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div align="center"><font size="3">[[File:Ddadc30341a10eb6c5466461424bb4b6.png|277px|Krome Studios (2016)]]</font></div><div align="center"><font size="3"><iframe frameborder="0" height="167" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/f307e16fb173163cb8f43737885cbe2fadf9cc84" width="295"></iframe></font></div><div align="center"></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>Logo</u>: We zoom from the grey, red and white bokeh dots rotating, then a red phong shaded sphere zooms in to the "O" and then the dots merge to form the logo and flashes.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>FX/SFX</u>: The bokeh dots rotating in the background.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>Music/Sounds:</u>A synth tune comes in before the reverse cymbal.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><u>Availability</u>: Brand new, appears on the first three remastered <i>TY the Tasmanian Tiger</i> games.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div></div><div></div><div><font size="3"><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.</font></div></div><br/></div> |
Latest revision as of 16:27, 3 November 2020
Logo descriptions by EnormousRat
Nickname: "The Laser"
Logo: There is a stone wall with the word "KROME" in fancy font, also made of stone. A blue laser line passes through the screen and clears the word, making it shiny blue and sending a lot of sparks. "STUDIOS" then zooms in.
Variant: On a pair of Barbie games, the logo was still.
FX/SFX: Laser moving and sparks flying.
Music/Sounds: The sound of laser carving and the echoing lock.
Availability: Seen on early games like Championship Surfer. It also appears on Barbie: Beach Vacation, Barbie: Sparkling Ice Showand in-credit on theTY the Tasmanian Tiger trilogy with the Trademark symbol.
2nd Logo
(October 8, 2002-October 11, 2005)
Nicknames: "Ty the Tasmanian Tiger", "The Outback", "Didgeridoo"
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX: All in good CGI.
Music/Sounds: A soothing low melody using traditional aboriginal instruments.
Availability: Seen on all three of the TY the Tasmanian Tiger games on the XBOX, PlayStation 2, GameCube and PC (only view-able in the extras because the 5th logo is used as a startup logo).
3rd Logo
(2005-2010)
Logo: The logo zooms in with a trail effect, mostly in white and red colors, centered on the red sphere inside "O" letter. The trail absorbs into the logo and it becomes completely sharp black with white outline, and the word "STUDIOS" is white.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The light trails.
Music/Sounds: The sound of a whoosh.
Availability: Seen on Hellboy: The Science of Evil, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The first two Legend of Spyroinstallments and other games.
Logo captures by Muzzarino
Logo editions by Muzzarino
Background: Krome Studios is an Australian video game company with offices in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Robert Walsh and Gee Whiz! Entertainment. The additional office in Adelaide was created to adopt people from closed Ratbag (Midway Australia) and in 2006 Melbourne House was acquired from Atari. On 18 August 2010, it was reported that Krome had closed down their Adelaide studios and made significant staff cuts to their Melbourne and Brisbane offices - with as many as 100 staff let go. On 18th October 2010, the company let go all of the remaining staff, marking the end of the company, almost. On 1st November of that same year, the company was declared not dead and 2 years later, the company announced a reboot of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger for mobile and PC. It has since made games for mobile and consoles since, and have released a remastered version of TY The Tasmanian Tiger for PC on March 22nd 2016. It's new headquarters are in Fortitude Valley, Queensland.
1st Logo
(1999-2004)
Background: Krome Studios is an Australian video game company with offices in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Robert Walsh and Gee Whiz! Entertainment. The additional office in Adelaide was created to adopt people from closed Ratbag (Midway Australia) and in 2006 Melbourne House was acquired from Atari. On 18 August 2010, it was reported that Krome had closed down their Adelaide studios and made significant staff cuts to their Melbourne and Brisbane offices - with as many as 100 staff let go. On 18th October 2010, the company let go all of the remaining staff, marking the end of the company, almost. On 1st November of that same year, the company was declared not dead and 2 years later, the company announced a reboot of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger for mobile and PC. It has since made games for mobile and consoles since, and have released a remastered version of TY The Tasmanian Tiger for PC on March 22nd 2016. It's new headquarters are in Fortitude Valley, Queensland.
1st Logo
(1999-2004)
Logo: There is a stone wall with the word "KROME" in fancy font, also made of stone. A blue laser line passes through the screen and clears the word, making it shiny blue and sending a lot of sparks. "STUDIOS" then zooms in.
Variant: On a pair of Barbie games, the logo was still.
FX/SFX: Laser moving and sparks flying.
Music/Sounds: The sound of laser carving and the echoing lock.
Availability: Seen on early games like Championship Surfer. It also appears on Barbie: Beach Vacation, Barbie: Sparkling Ice Showand in-credit on theTY the Tasmanian Tiger trilogy with the Trademark symbol.
2nd Logo
(October 8, 2002-October 11, 2005)
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Nicknames: "Ty the Tasmanian Tiger", "The Outback", "Didgeridoo"
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX: All in good CGI.
Music/Sounds: A soothing low melody using traditional aboriginal instruments.
Availability: Seen on all three of the TY the Tasmanian Tiger games on the XBOX, PlayStation 2, GameCube and PC (only view-able in the extras because the 5th logo is used as a startup logo).
3rd Logo
(2005-2010)
Logo: The logo zooms in with a trail effect, mostly in white and red colors, centered on the red sphere inside "O" letter. The trail absorbs into the logo and it becomes completely sharp black with white outline, and the word "STUDIOS" is white.
Variants:
- Later, the logo appeared in a shine, made as a sped-up version of the described action, and it was altered to gain volume effect. The red button is clearly 3D.
- On Legend of Spyro, a monster walked to the right, then a bunch of screaming monsters ran to the left, chased by Spyro, and the orange logo appeared through background mist, then turning into usual colors.
FX/SFX: The light trails.
Music/Sounds: The sound of a whoosh.
Availability: Seen on Hellboy: The Science of Evil, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The first two Legend of Spyroinstallments and other games.
4th Logo
(March 24, 2010)
Logo: On a pixelated (and animated) space background, many parts of the word "KROME" (in its corporate font and also pixelated and in the form of little white spaceships) come together to form the logo. Once they do, the background flashes, turning the logo into the same one as the previous logo and turning the background into a black one. "STUDIOS" fades in below.
FX/SFX: The spaceships forming the logo, along with the animated background, the flash, and "STUDIOS" fading in.
Music/Sounds: Retro 8-bit noises are heard as the Game Room theme plays for a bit, followed by a clang when the logo forms.
Availability: Rare. Only seen on Game Room.
5th Logo
(2016?-)
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Logo: We zoom from the grey, red and white bokeh dots rotating, then a red phong shaded sphere zooms in to the "O" and then the dots merge to form the logo and flashes.
FX/SFX: The bokeh dots rotating in the background.
Music/Sounds:A synth tune comes in before the reverse cymbal.
Availability: Brand new, appears on the first three remastered TY the Tasmanian Tiger games.
Editor's Note: None.