I am an aspiring graphic designer and indie game developer and I made two logo for another indie game developer. He liked it but I think it was too amateurish. What do you think? And how can I improve my next logo. (I'm making a logo for another game developer this week.)

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way too complicated,
the best logos are simple ones without words, eg nike, mercedes, apple etc (though no doubt most of them are gone)

company names too long as well (at least its not just the company name)
I'll do a highly stylized monkey

way too complicated,
the best logos are simple ones without words, eg nike, mercedes, apple etc (though no doubt most of them are gone)

company names too long as well (at least its not just the company name)
I'll do a highly stylized monkey

I thought it was too complicated but, with a game development company I added the name. I made a logo without the text but he didn't want to use it and the second picture was for a background on the website.