Steelman wrote:

Not to take away from your fictional country, but your knowledge and grasp of Malaysia and connected cultures always seem quite deep. I'd be fascinated by a small project that focused on those people groups and sporting cultures. (probably not hockey, I'd imagine) But on to the question at hand.

I think both ideas are viable. If you focused on the National Team, I'd want a story. It's gotta have some USA basketball "Dream Team" gravitas to it. That'd be a totally character-driven aspect that we haven't seen as much here. I think there's less room for design though unless that's your intention. However, it does give extra space for layout design and infographics to present something visually appealing. For other real-life countries, I think you'd simply take into account their hockey prowess in the given year and assign them a similar strength value. You can cherry-pick characters/players/etc from those squads, given you're not cataloguing their history, only whatever serves the main story for your Nation Team.

But if you're wanting to focus on more design elements, then a league is the way to go. But I like all of your ideas.

I've been a hockey jersey designer for three years, but designing every unique identity takes some dedication to work with. By doing a story like this, I can focus on one team and handle the media package reminiscent of the appropriate era.

As for the rest of the countries, though. I have to consider that divisions exist. Back then, when 'pools' were introduced in 1950, there were only a handful of countries participating in the IHWC. So, it's not like my fictional country stays in the top division for the longest. And besides, most of the squads before the late 90s aren't necessarily recorded.

It would be lucky for me if every game stats and players were recorded in history books. However, my other option is to create an entirely fictional squad by scratch using a fantasy name generator.

Also, I have an idea where I create a scoreboard not just to detail the scores, but to highlight some moments from different periods. Add in some newspapers and diaries from different players, coaches and managers. And BAM, a device to tell the story to the readers.

But first, I need some graphic (in the form of a newspaper) and scoreboard inspirations. Is there anything you can help me with it?

FC Macbeth wrote:

Steelman wrote:

Not to take away from your fictional country, but your knowledge and grasp of Malaysia and connected cultures always seem quite deep. I'd be fascinated by a small project that focused on those people groups and sporting cultures. (probably not hockey, I'd imagine) But on to the question at hand.

I think both ideas are viable. If you focused on the National Team, I'd want a story. It's gotta have some USA basketball "Dream Team" gravitas to it. That'd be a totally character-driven aspect that we haven't seen as much here. I think there's less room for design though unless that's your intention. However, it does give extra space for layout design and infographics to present something visually appealing. For other real-life countries, I think you'd simply take into account their hockey prowess in the given year and assign them a similar strength value. You can cherry-pick characters/players/etc from those squads, given you're not cataloguing their history, only whatever serves the main story for your Nation Team.

But if you're wanting to focus on more design elements, then a league is the way to go. But I like all of your ideas.

I've been a hockey jersey designer for three years, but designing every unique identity takes some dedication to work with. By doing a story like this, I can focus on one team and handle the media package reminiscent of the appropriate era.

As for the rest of the countries, though. I have to consider that divisions exist. Back then, when 'pools' were introduced in 1950, there were only a handful of countries participating in the IHWC. So, it's not like my fictional country stays in the top division for the longest. And besides, most of the squads before the late 90s aren't necessarily recorded.

It would be lucky for me if every game stats and players were recorded in history books. However, my other option is to create an entirely fictional squad by scratch using a fantasy name generator.

Also, I have an idea where I create a scoreboard not just to detail the scores, but to highlight some moments from different periods. Add in some newspapers and diaries from different players, coaches and managers. And BAM, a device to tell the story to the readers.

But first, I need some graphic (in the form of a newspaper) and scoreboard inspirations. Is there anything you can help me with it?

I like your thinking on this. I would probably do the fictional names and characters to give you more control over how it all interacts with your story.

I'd be glad to help in any way I can. I'll take a look around. Feel free to message me directly via email or Discord. PM me for either.

ThisIsFine wrote:

Civil War and Communist/Fascist Periods do a great job of making your country’s history interesting. And considering you have an Asian-esque country around the time a lot of political change was sweeping through the continent, You’re bound to run into one of those.

I will tell you one thing, boy. By the time World War 2 had ended, people have had enough with the Orang Puteh (aka the British). When communism swept to Malaya, the Malayan Communist Party was formed to gain their freedom and boot out the colonists from their lands. However, thanks to the success of the Malayan Emergency and the competence of a commissioner named Sir Gerald Templar, the MCP failed to get what they wanted and folded into the history of Malayan Independence (and possibly Formation of Malaysia).

Of course, the most famous case involving Communism vs. Capitalism is the Vietnam War. It's where the US deservingly lost against North Vietnam which gave the world the communism in Vietnam to this very day.

I'll see if I can implement a communist element in my story.

Oh sorry, OUR story.

Steelman wrote:

FC Macbeth wrote:

And that would mean me designing what those national teams are wearing during championships. Remember that no team wears the same jerseys throughout each tournament.

As I said in the last paragraph, I want inspiration for newspapers and scoreboards. Which would mean I have to make my own on MS Paint. This puts me in a challenge to make a graphic that fits the timeline well.

The thing is, do scoreboards exists in the 50s and the 60s?

I don't mean to imply I'd be involved in the project in any way. I think you can design scoreboard graphics in any way that makes sense and clearly shows information. 






I particularly like the last one, although it seems it's from the 70's.





A graphic similar to the last one above might make for a good banner to insert above regular paragraph text. That way you don't have to edit large swaths of text in graphic form.

Not sure if those are helpful or not. I designed a "vintage inspired" baseball scoreboard for my Torland Star League a couple of years ago. I'll see if I can dig it up. Different sport, but shows my process is something that fells vintage enough.

Don't mistake my reply for your constant help. All I need is tons of images to see what elements should I take on my creative designs and my story.