Invader pyramid.
The prototype for these stamps was created at the AVCon Ball in June. We needed a way for people leaving the venue to be identified on their return and the German House also wanted to have a way of verifying people eligible for the discount schnitzel offer.
As the idea of making an invader stamp was something that had been bouncing about in my head for a while, I figured I’d give it a shot. I borrowed a Stanley knife from the Streetgeek folks and rustled up a regular ol’ eraser and knocked up the stamp in five minutes or so.
Without a stamp pad this first stamp didn’t get us very far (we were using a Sharpie to ink it which eventually dried enough that the transfer stopped working) but it did prove that the idea could work.
For the Indie Games Room component of the Ultimate Gamer qualifiers we had to provide the developers with a way of verifying that attendees had passed the challenges associated with their game. It was time to make some stamps en masse…