Logo design for indie video games company

This short briefing was written by a client:

target-audience

We're a small independent video games company based in Berlin. We are currently working on the completion of our first title 'CLARK', a humorous grid-based puzzle adventure game for the OUYA-Console aswell as mobile devices (iOS/ Android)
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Description

We've already done some sketching and we like the general direction. Maybe with the right polish we are already pretty close. the font is obviously just a place holder, though we like the two-color-thing though.

There was also an attempt to clean up the sketch and turn it into a vector file but we always had trouble with the continuity of (out-)lines.

One thought was going into a harsh black and white shading, adding some Frank Miller flavour to it, but a lack of time and skill prevented us from further investigation in that direction.

The character himself should have some classyness to him. We also like that his face doesn't really show in the sketches, so there's room for robotoid interpretations, especially with his monocle.

Even when the direction of the attatched Images seems pretty straightforward, we are open to all sorts of other good, playful, more rounded designs.

The logo should work on light and dark backgrounds. It's probably a good idea to have a variation to be suitable for light ground.