Update:  A few changes have been made!  Spreadshirt decided to drop $1.50 off the cost of the shirts for some reason so they now cost less.

• Voting has been reset after the close of the last contest.  You can re-vote for what you think should be the next design.
• Create a Barkley: Gaiden T-Shirt as part of this contest!
  
• Orson Welles T-Shirt not too far away!  Read more on page 3!

For all your attention thanks.

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In the time the Shop has existed (since August 2007), it has sold 13 t-shirts and has brought in US $28.90 for Gaming World.
If you are with SNK, $4.09 has been made from from the shirts bearing your copyrighted design.  Please PM me for an official sales statement.

Hello.  I am pleased to bring you, after what amounts to probably months of waiting, the Whahay T-Shirt Shop!  The shop was brought back initially after a failure to deliver the initial batch, to give prizes in the Catch Captain Goodluck contest.  The people who won the shirts acted as testers of the shirt quality as well as to guarantee that each shirt got out.

T-Shirts are $17.99 $16.99 each, and ringers are $20.99 $19.99 each plus shipping and handling.  All major credit cards (VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, and DISCOVER), as well as check and money order are accepted.


Charity info:  All profit from shirt sales goes directly to Bart's Paypal account every quarter.  I touch none of this money.  The profits presumably go to making GW a better place for everyone.

T-Shirts are $17.99 $16.99 each, and ringers are $20.99 $19.99 each plus shipping and handling.  All major credit cards (VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, and DISCOVER), as well as check and money order are accepted.

Here's how it breaks down:



Here are some (positive and negative) testimonials.


On New Designs:  Certainly, the designs I suggested up in the poll are not the only ones possible, just ones that come to mind right now.  I certainly will take other designs (for instance, if someone from PerfectRun or other guys want to put up a shirt based on one of their games, etc) and will work with the design submitter on getting these proofed and ready to press. 

Here's the thing, though.  Spreadshirt has absurdly stringent vector design criteria.  I have not yet submitted a design that has passed their vector criteria, even though it seems like 9 times out of 10 I make a design that seems to fit the design criteria and they reject it anyway.  Here is the most frequent rejection I get:

Hello Johnathan W,

Thank you for submitting a new design to your Spreadshop. Unfortunately the image "" (design ID: ########) that you have uploaded cannot be used. The reason we could not approve your design is:

Some elements in your design do not meet our size requirements. Please make sure that:
•   All components of your design are at least 0.059 inches (1.5 mm).
•   The space between elements should be no less than 0.04 inches (1 mm).
•   The entire design cannot exceed 11.7 x 11.7 inches (297.18 mm). We actually recommend a size of 8.86 x 8.86 inches (225 mm) so that your design can be successfully printed on most of our products.
Please refer to the link below for more information:
http://www.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Service/FAQs-1328/categoryId/46/articleId/35

So, here's what I'll do.  We can propose designs in this topic, and get them proofed.  The first person to crack the "vector code" and give me a vector design they will accept will get a sample shirt of their design, AND another T-Shirt of their choosing, both shipping paid.  Please submit your design in either .ai (Adobe Illustrator Format) or .eps (encapsulated postscript format).  Anyone that submits a design that goes on a shirt, regardless of whether or not it is accepted as a vector, automatically gets a sample T-Shirt for testing purposes and as a reward for submitting the design.  I want you to know before you consider this that you will get no monetary return for your designs.  I don't see any profit from this operation at all!  This is something that you can do to help out GW and maybe get a little recognition for your art in the process.  This is the chance for Graphic Art people to step up to the plate and get a design out there!

Anyway, a little musing on my part.  The rationale behind not just buying a whole bunch of white shirts and writing ARE YOU RESISTINS ME on them is (a) these would have to be done in batches.  The first time I attempted this, I was given a link to a place that had some absurdly low prices for base T-Shirts.  It looked too good to be true, and it was, because I would have had to do a batch of some pretty high number (I don't remember if it was like 20 or 30, but it was a significant amount.)  I don't want to do that.  I want people to be able to go in and order a shirt whenever they want without the fear of not being able to find someone else to partner up with because everyone has the shirt they wanted.  The other reason is that (b) Spreadshirt actually uses pretty nice material and methods and I really appreciate their support (when I'm not grappling with them over design issues.)  They don't do a shop commission, and I'm able to set the commissions to go the the GW Paypal account and upload new designs and offer new products with ease.  In the end, I want shirts that people can actually wear proudly in public, and this is my reasoning!

That's all I got.  Questions and feedback always welcome!

Nice job on setting this up. I'll get one soon (i've been planning on buying some new clothes lately anyway). I don't know which one I'm going to get though. I always thought the Q's looked the best, but VB didn't like it apparently, so I dunno.

Also, a "left me feeling smashing" shirt would only be funny if it had the whole poem on there.

The shop's working right again?  Oh dang yes, time to order my pinecones shirt and actually get it this time.  Also, I'd LOVE a Barkley shirt, but "left me feeling smashing" would be fucking amazing too.

I think I'll wait until after this thread before ordering though, because if another great shirt comes out of this I would rather order them both at the same time.

I still really want an Orson Welles Reads My Audiotapes shirt.............

I still really want an Orson Welles Reads My Audiotapes shirt.............

This would be my favorite, actually.  100%

I'm just curious, is there a reason why the pinecone shirt isn't avaliable in black too?  I would totally buy that.

Regardless though, I am glad to see that this is up and ready to go.  I hope to be purchasing something from here soon.  Great job man!

I'm just curious, is there a reason why the pinecone shirt isn't avaliable in black too?  I would totally buy that.

Regardless though, I am glad to see that this is up and ready to go.  I hope to be purchasing something from here soon.  Great job man!

The reason is that forest green blends the best.  If you take a look at the designs, the only one that has any kind of color tint is pinecone.  I'm sure a neutral color like black would probably work too, but I'd need to test that out.  I'll probably end up changing the font color to reflect the color of the shirt (if it's black, the font would probably be pure white, etc)

The reason is that forest green blends the best.  If you take a look at the designs, the only one that has any kind of color tint is pinecone.  I'm sure a neutral color like black would probably work too, but I'd need to test that out.  I'll probably end up changing the font color to reflect the color of the shirt (if it's black, the font would probably be pure white, etc)

I was asking because I thought I remembered seeing a black version of the shirt back in one of the original topics

i'll see what i can do about the vectoring if I'm not a terrible faggit (read: never)

I survived the Chaos Dunk and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

*inspirational space jam music can be heard from within a dark office*
boss: *knocks on door* what are you doing in there?!?!!
meta salv.dali: hehehe just workin on some new nikes everyone likes nikes *draws a b-ball*

i will make one probably by tonight.

When I get some cash I think I'll be getting me a pinecone one. If it's good quality material, then it'd be worth it as adding in postage and handling it's about 35 Australian, which is by no means ridiculous (I've paid much more than that for a couple of good shirts down here at boutique stores).