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(March 13, 1992)
Logo: The 3D letters DIGITAL ILLUSIONS are lying on mirror, seen from isometry. There is a triangle which lies from L to U. Everything is light blue, but letter fronts are gray.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen in Pinball Dreams.
Editor's Note: None.
2nd Logo
(1992)
Logo: There is a drakkar, a vikings ship with dragon head and shields onboard, it crosses the sea waves. The sky has weird green structure. DIGITAL ILLUSIONS are in green italics above the ship.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen in the earliest (non-AGA) version of Pinball Fantasies.
Editor's Note: None.
3rd Logo
(1992-July 1994)
Logo: This logo is a compound of several circular entries. it has central yellow circle, red transparent circle part on upper left (where DIGITAL is written), metallic pieces and other red rectangle at right, where illusions is in italics. There is also green insertion below which reads Computer Entertainment.
Variants: The background in black on Benefactor and white on Amiganoid.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen in Pinball Fantasies (AGA version), Benefactor and Amiganoid.
Editor's Note: None.
4th Logo
(1995)
Logo: Same structure as before, lying on the brown surface, seen in better rendering. There is no green bar this time.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Used in Pinball Illusions.
Editor's Note: None.
5th Logo
(March 1996)
Logo: The camera moves through poorly-lit landscape towards the enormous pillar structure. It moves to the top view. The pillars are letters of circular DIGITAL ILLUSIONS (with two dots between them) surrounding the connected DI structure. A splash of light appears above I, moves up the pillars and finally the logo falls into light.
FX/SFX: Animation of the logo.
Music/Sounds: It is silent.
Availability: Seen in True Pinball.
Editor's Note: None.
6th Logo
(September 30, 1998)
Logo: First, there is a blue ball lying on the gray surface. It zooms out and white skewed ellipse grows around, followed with yellow lines - one embraces the edge of ellipse, another appears under black DIGITAL ILLUSIONS words coming round the inner part of ellipse. The blue ball converts to plain oval with new structure (permanent since this logo) - connected DI letters with thick yellow dot.
FX/SFX: Animation of the logo.
Music/Sounds: Several dramatic synth notes.
Availability: Was spotted on Motorhead.
Editor's Note: None.
7th Logo
(2000)
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds: TBA.
Availability: This logo was shown at the beginning on the Rally Masters installation. It's not clear if it was present in the game.
Editor's Note: None.
8th Logo
(2000-2002)
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Logo: A white dot appears in the center of the screen. The background changes from black to red and the dot releases 5 white concentric circles. The circles and dot rotate as the first circle around the dot morphs into a stylized "DI". The design turns solid as the background rotates to reveal the circles are now in a rectangle against a white or black background, with the stylized text "diCe" at the bottom of it, while the circles morph into an abstract spiral design.
FX/SFX: Solid 2D animation.
Music/Sounds: Starts with a low synth hum that segues into a Thievery Corporation-esque down tempo theme.
Availability: Seen on most games by the company, such as the Xbox version of RalliSport Challenge,JumpStart Wildlife Safari: Field Trip, Shrek, Swedish Touring Car Championship 2, Shrek Extra Large, V8 Challenge, Riding Champion: Legacy of Rosemond Hill and Pryzm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn.
Editor's Note: None.
10th Logo
(September 10, 2002-February 2, 2003)
Logo: In darkness, glowing pink parts of the logo fly from nowhere and take their places. Then the logo glows and slowly zooms out.
FX/SFX: The flying parts and glowing.
Music/Sounds: Electrical sound.
Availability: Used on Battlefield 1942.
Editor's Note: None.
11th Logo
(March 14, 2004-March 8, 2007)
Logo: Two bright blue-toned splashes appear sidescreen, meet and create glowing DICE logo in the center. A kind of interlacing can be seen. The logo continues to flash and flicker for two seconds until it renders stable. Then it collapses into the red line, as in old TV's, and clears out.
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds: A windy synth entry and a sound of keypunch.
Availability: Seen on Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2 and all their expansions made to 2007.
Editor's Note: None.
12th Logo
(June 23, 2008- )
Logo: A new logo comes into the screen as a square with a cross inside (it is exactly what to be if all letters of DICE are placed together). The square expands to the full name, which is angular and stylized. Then E moves 90 degrees and slides to the left, wiping the logo.
Variants:
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds: TBA.
Availability: Seen on Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 1943 and their trailers, as well as on upcoming games from DICE.
Editor's Note: None.
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| − | <div class="WPC-editableContent" id="WPC-area?cellId=DICE&version=25&savePath=%2Fpage%2FDICE&saveType=page"><div><font size="3"><u>Background</u>: Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment (DICE) is a Swedish video game developer formed in 1992 (there was also a [[DICE Canada|Canadian unit]]). In 2004, [[Electronic Arts]] struggled to purchase the company, succeeding in October 2006, thus making the company a wholly-owned subsidiary of EA. The Canadian headquarters was shut down immediately after the EA acquisition, but in May 2013 the company opened a Los Angeles unit.<br/><br/><br/></font></div><font size="3">1st Logo<br/>(March 13, 1992)<br/> | + | <div class="WPC-editableContent" id="WPC-area?cellId=DICE&version=25&savePath=%2Fpage%2FDICE&saveType=page"><div><font size="3"><u>Background</u>: Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment (DICE) is a Swedish video game developer formed in 1992 (there was also a [[DICE Canada|Canadian unit]]). In 2004, [[Electronic Arts]] struggled to purchase the company, succeeding in October 2006, thus making the company a wholly-owned subsidiary of EA. The Canadian headquarters was shut down immediately after the EA acquisition, but in May 2013 the company opened a Los Angeles unit.<br/><br/><br/></font></div><font size="3">1st Logo<br/>(March 13, 1992)<br/>[[File:1wawGi0HAvnG3zb-CMVZoQ28145.jpeg|273px|Digital Illusions (1992)]]<br/><u>Logo</u>: The 3D letters DIGITAL ILLUSIONS are lying on mirror, seen from isometry. There is a triangle which lies from L to U. Everything is light blue, but letter fronts are gray.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen in <i>Pinball Dreams</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/><br/><br/></font><div><font size="3"><br/>2nd Logo<br/>(1992)<br/>[[File:UgifXaAkHNjIFc6NMbrgnw82432.png|212px|Digital Illusions (1992)]]<br/><u>Logo</u>: There is a drakkar, a vikings ship with dragon head and shields onboard, it crosses the sea waves. The sky has weird green structure. DIGITAL ILLUSIONS are in green italics above the ship.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen in the earliest (non-AGA) version of <i>Pinball Fantasies</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><br/><br/>3rd Logo<br/>(1992-July 1994)<br/></font><div align="center"><font size="3">[[File:DDqRuEedD3a1Z 9Blsqugg58451.png|278px|Digital Illusions (1992)]][[File:NVWMWxnNDik3a0nRSfHGyg48301.png|262px|Digital Illusions (1994)]]</font></div><font size="3"><br/><u>Logo</u>: This logo is a compound of several circular entries. it has central yellow circle, red transparent circle part on upper left (where DIGITAL is written), metallic pieces and other red rectangle at right, where illusions is in italics. There is also green insertion below which reads Computer Entertainment.<br/><br/></font><font size="3"><u>V</u><u>ariants</u>: The background in black on <i>Benefactor</i> and white on <i>Amiganoid</i>.</font><br/><font size="3"><u><br/>FX/SFX</u>: None.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen in <i>Pinball Fantasies</i> (AGA version), <i>Benefactor and Amiganoid</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><br/><br/>4th Logo<br/>(1995)<br/>[[File:KjP8L 3-G-5KU7YSgIHP7w175797.png|261px|Digital Illusions (1995)]]<br/><u>Logo</u>: Same structure as before, lying on the brown surface, seen in better rendering. There is no green bar this time.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: None.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Used in <i>Pinball Illusions</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><br/><br/>5th Logo<br/>(March 1996)<br/>[[File:ORrZFC2Yiakp5yEK0FSrFA36233.jpeg|235px|Digital Illusions (1996)]]<br/><u>Logo</u>: The camera moves through poorly-lit landscape towards the enormous pillar structure. It moves to the top view. The pillars are letters of circular DIGITAL ILLUSIONS (with two dots between them) surrounding the connected DI structure. A splash of light appears above I, moves up the pillars and finally the logo falls into light.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: Animation of the logo.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: It is silent.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen in <i>True Pinball</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><br/><br/>6th Logo<br/>(September 30, 1998)<br/>[[File:YNGtENoeI9AtCLfEV v21A31226.jpeg|232px|Digital Illusions (1998)]]<br/><u>Logo</u>: First, there is a blue ball lying on the gray surface. It zooms out and white skewed ellipse grows around, followed with yellow lines - one embraces the edge of ellipse, another appears under black DIGITAL ILLUSIONS words coming round the inner part of ellipse. The blue ball converts to plain oval with new structure (permanent since this logo) - connected DI letters with thick yellow dot.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: Animation of the logo.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: </font><font size="3">Several dramatic synth notes.</font><br/><font size="3"><br/><u>Availability</u>: Was spotted on <i>Motorhead</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/><br/><br/><br/>7th Logo<br/>(2000)<br/>[[File:4Wh717pSDJHqRhBj1SbUEQ62764.jpeg|235px|Digital Illusions (2000)]]<br/><u>Logo</u>: TBA<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: TBA.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: TBA.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: This logo was shown at the beginning on the <i>Rally Masters</i> installation. It's not clear if it was present in the game.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><br/><br/><font size="3">8th Logo<br/>(2000-2002)</font><br/><embed align="right" allowfullscreen="true" height="181" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/youtubevideo/9b51fab827a88ac51c4059da983383c6e77cf10e" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="219" wmode="transparent"/><br/><u>Logo</u>: A white dot appears in the center of the screen. The background changes from black to red and the dot releases 5 white concentric circles. The circles and dot rotate as the first circle around the dot morphs into a stylized "DI". The design turns solid as the background rotates to reveal the circles are now in a rectangle against a white or black background, with the stylized text "diCe" at the bottom of it, while the circles morph into an abstract spiral design.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: Solid 2D animation.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: Starts with a low synth hum that segues into a Thievery Corporation-esque down tempo theme.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on most games by the company, such as the Xbox version of <i>RalliSport Challenge</i>,<i>JumpStart Wildlife Safari: Field Trip</i>, <i>Shrek</i>, <i>Swedish Touring Car Championship 2</i>, <i>Shrek Extra Large</i>, <i>V8 Challenge</i>, <i>Riding Champion: Legacy of Rosemond Hill </i>and <i>Pryzm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn.</i><font size="3"><br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.</font><br/><br/><br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/></font></div><div></div><div><font size="3">9th Logo<br/>(2002)<br/><br/><u>Logo</u>: Some gray patterns are seen falling from the sky, and the camera quickly moves to normal view showing the DICE rectangle logo with parts of it falling into their positions. The BG is gradient gray, and the rectangle seems a bit skewed.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: </font><font size="3">Animation of the logo.</font><font size="3"><br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A single windy sound.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on <i>RalliSport Challenge</i> for PC and <i>Land Before Time: Big Water Adventure</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/></font></div><div><div><font size="3"><br/><br/><br/>10th Logo<br/>(September 10, 2002-February 2, 2003)<br/>[[File:VJoNZd0I4z2YHk pMz0vhA41333.png|221px|Digital Illusions (2004)]]<br/><u>Logo</u>: In darkness, glowing pink parts of the logo fly from nowhere and take their places. Then the logo glows and slowly zooms out.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: The flying parts and glowing.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: Electrical sound.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Used on <i>Battlefield 1942</i>.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/></font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><br/><br/>11th Logo<br/>(March 14, 2004-March 8, 2007)[[File:RY1H3c448FjGTdbymoMUWQ76865.png|221px|Digital Illusions (2005)]]<br/><br/><u>Logo</u>: Two bright blue-toned splashes appear sidescreen, meet and create glowing DICE logo in the center. A kind of interlacing can be seen. The logo continues to flash and flicker for two seconds until it renders stable. Then it collapses into the red line, as in old TV's, and clears out.<br/><br/><u>FX/SFX</u>: TBA.<br/><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: A windy synth entry and a sound of keypunch.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on <i>Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2</i> and all their expansions made to 2007.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.<br/><br/><br/><br/>12th Logo<br/>(June 23, 2008- )<br/><br/><br/></font><div align="center"><font size="3">[[File:M2OOVCAIOa5cXP5J58byJg5876.png|331px|DICE (2009)]][[File:PFxDUN95iaVbn8DY5wcEDw16436.png|329px|DICE (2008)]]</font></div><font size="3"><br/><u>Logo</u>: A new logo comes into the screen as a square with a cross inside (it is exactly what to be if all letters of DICE are placed together). The square expands to the full name, which is angular and stylized. Then E moves 90 degrees and slides to the left, wiping the logo.<br/><br/></font><font size="3"><u>Variants</u>: <br/></font><ul><li><font size="3">On <i>Mirror's Edge</i>, the logo is in red, following the same-designed EA sequence.</font></li><li><font size="3">On <i>Battlefield: Bad Company</i>, the logo follows an EA sequence with jumping grenade near to the golden ingots, and one of them bears the logo.</font></li><li><font size="3">On <i>Battlefield: Bad Company II</i>, the logo is black on a white background and is formed from merging squares.<br/></font></li></ul><font size="3"><u><br/>FX/SFX</u>: TBA.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br/><u>Music/Sounds</u>: TBA.<br/><br/><u>Availability</u>: Seen on <i>Mirror's Edge</i>,<i> Battlefield 1943</i> and their trailers, as well as on upcoming games from DICE.<br/><br/><u>Editor's Note</u>: None.</font></div></div><font size="3"><br/></font></div> |
Latest revision as of 17:55, 3 November 2020
Background: Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment (DICE) is a Swedish video game developer formed in 1992 (there was also a Canadian unit). In 2004, Electronic Arts struggled to purchase the company, succeeding in October 2006, thus making the company a wholly-owned subsidiary of EA. The Canadian headquarters was shut down immediately after the EA acquisition, but in May 2013 the company opened a Los Angeles unit.
1st Logo(March 13, 1992)
Logo: The 3D letters DIGITAL ILLUSIONS are lying on mirror, seen from isometry. There is a triangle which lies from L to U. Everything is light blue, but letter fronts are gray.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen in Pinball Dreams.
Editor's Note: None.
2nd Logo
(1992)
Logo: There is a drakkar, a vikings ship with dragon head and shields onboard, it crosses the sea waves. The sky has weird green structure. DIGITAL ILLUSIONS are in green italics above the ship.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen in the earliest (non-AGA) version of Pinball Fantasies.
Editor's Note: None.
3rd Logo
(1992-July 1994)
Logo: This logo is a compound of several circular entries. it has central yellow circle, red transparent circle part on upper left (where DIGITAL is written), metallic pieces and other red rectangle at right, where illusions is in italics. There is also green insertion below which reads Computer Entertainment.
Variants: The background in black on Benefactor and white on Amiganoid.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen in Pinball Fantasies (AGA version), Benefactor and Amiganoid.
Editor's Note: None.
4th Logo
(1995)
Logo: Same structure as before, lying on the brown surface, seen in better rendering. There is no green bar this time.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Used in Pinball Illusions.
Editor's Note: None.
5th Logo
(March 1996)
Logo: The camera moves through poorly-lit landscape towards the enormous pillar structure. It moves to the top view. The pillars are letters of circular DIGITAL ILLUSIONS (with two dots between them) surrounding the connected DI structure. A splash of light appears above I, moves up the pillars and finally the logo falls into light.
FX/SFX: Animation of the logo.
Music/Sounds: It is silent.
Availability: Seen in True Pinball.
Editor's Note: None.
6th Logo
(September 30, 1998)
Logo: First, there is a blue ball lying on the gray surface. It zooms out and white skewed ellipse grows around, followed with yellow lines - one embraces the edge of ellipse, another appears under black DIGITAL ILLUSIONS words coming round the inner part of ellipse. The blue ball converts to plain oval with new structure (permanent since this logo) - connected DI letters with thick yellow dot.
FX/SFX: Animation of the logo.
Music/Sounds: Several dramatic synth notes.
Availability: Was spotted on Motorhead.
Editor's Note: None.
7th Logo
(2000)
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds: TBA.
Availability: This logo was shown at the beginning on the Rally Masters installation. It's not clear if it was present in the game.
Editor's Note: None.
8th Logo
(2000-2002)
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Logo: A white dot appears in the center of the screen. The background changes from black to red and the dot releases 5 white concentric circles. The circles and dot rotate as the first circle around the dot morphs into a stylized "DI". The design turns solid as the background rotates to reveal the circles are now in a rectangle against a white or black background, with the stylized text "diCe" at the bottom of it, while the circles morph into an abstract spiral design.
FX/SFX: Solid 2D animation.
Music/Sounds: Starts with a low synth hum that segues into a Thievery Corporation-esque down tempo theme.
Availability: Seen on most games by the company, such as the Xbox version of RalliSport Challenge,JumpStart Wildlife Safari: Field Trip, Shrek, Swedish Touring Car Championship 2, Shrek Extra Large, V8 Challenge, Riding Champion: Legacy of Rosemond Hill and Pryzm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn.
Editor's Note: None.
9th Logo
(2002)
Logo: Some gray patterns are seen falling from the sky, and the camera quickly moves to normal view showing the DICE rectangle logo with parts of it falling into their positions. The BG is gradient gray, and the rectangle seems a bit skewed.
FX/SFX: Animation of the logo.
Music/Sounds: A single windy sound.
Availability: Seen on RalliSport Challenge for PC and Land Before Time: Big Water Adventure.
Editor's Note: None.
(2002)
Logo: Some gray patterns are seen falling from the sky, and the camera quickly moves to normal view showing the DICE rectangle logo with parts of it falling into their positions. The BG is gradient gray, and the rectangle seems a bit skewed.
FX/SFX: Animation of the logo.
Music/Sounds: A single windy sound.
Availability: Seen on RalliSport Challenge for PC and Land Before Time: Big Water Adventure.
Editor's Note: None.
10th Logo
(September 10, 2002-February 2, 2003)
Logo: In darkness, glowing pink parts of the logo fly from nowhere and take their places. Then the logo glows and slowly zooms out.
FX/SFX: The flying parts and glowing.
Music/Sounds: Electrical sound.
Availability: Used on Battlefield 1942.
Editor's Note: None.
11th Logo
(March 14, 2004-March 8, 2007)
Logo: Two bright blue-toned splashes appear sidescreen, meet and create glowing DICE logo in the center. A kind of interlacing can be seen. The logo continues to flash and flicker for two seconds until it renders stable. Then it collapses into the red line, as in old TV's, and clears out.
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds: A windy synth entry and a sound of keypunch.
Availability: Seen on Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2 and all their expansions made to 2007.
Editor's Note: None.
12th Logo
(June 23, 2008- )
Logo: A new logo comes into the screen as a square with a cross inside (it is exactly what to be if all letters of DICE are placed together). The square expands to the full name, which is angular and stylized. Then E moves 90 degrees and slides to the left, wiping the logo.
Variants:
- On Mirror's Edge, the logo is in red, following the same-designed EA sequence.
- On Battlefield: Bad Company, the logo follows an EA sequence with jumping grenade near to the golden ingots, and one of them bears the logo.
- On Battlefield: Bad Company II, the logo is black on a white background and is formed from merging squares.
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds: TBA.
Availability: Seen on Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 1943 and their trailers, as well as on upcoming games from DICE.
Editor's Note: None.