Design a Beast Contest.

Now that we here at Double Cluepon have our house in order, we thought it might be time to really start getting you, our faithful watchers involved. To that end, we are announcing our first contest. Let’s be blunt. We are a bunch of talented people. But we cannot come up with everything. Where we fail, you can win.

So, we want you to design a beast or a monster for Emerald Kingdom. You can do a simple sketch/drawing if you want, but that probably wont be used to be honest. Our artist will do the concept of it. What we are really looking for is the following:

  • Name of the monster/beast.
  • A good description of how it looks.
  • A good description of how it attacks.
  • Its size.

We really want to see what shakes out here. That being said, while there is no theme for this contest, one of the things that would influence us judges (aside from a crate of liquor or Guinness) would be some kind of mascot character. Ragnarok has it’s porings, Emerald Kingdom has its…?

We will select three winners, based purely on the judging by Double Cluepon Employees. Upon winning, you must be willing to assign all rights to your winning submission. Now, before you get your hair follicles in a knot…here are the prizes:

First Prize: 1 year subscription to Deviant Art, 1st round call for Alpha testing, and of course, your monster/beast will be included in the game.

Second Prize: 6 month subscription to Deviant Art, and of course, your monster/beast will be will be included in the game.

Third Prize: 3 month subscription to Deviant Art, your monster/beast will be will be included in the game.

Okay, here are the rules:

  1. Contest runs between today, 11/24/2009 and 12/4/2009. The deadline for submissions: 11:30 PM CST on December 4th, 2009.
  2. Contest is open to anyone, however you must have a DeviantArt account to claim one of the prizes.
  3. You may submit as many items as you like.
  4. You may submit drawings, descriptions, even a beast evolutionary history.
  5. All submissions, while they can be posted to your dA gallery, they must still be emailed to cont...@doublecluepon.com.
  6. Winners will be determined by the employees of Double Cluepon Software based on detail, articulation, and completeness of the description, as well as any other supporting materials. Winners will be judged at the next Double Cluepon Software employee meeting, on December 5th, 2009 Winners will be announced on December 8th, 2009.
  7. Any use, re-use or theft of other game property, art, or descriptions which do not belong to you will disqualify you. In other words, if it is not your own original work, you will be disqualified. You may use original work from your past, or do something new. Using someone else’s obscure drawing will be a bad idea.
  8. Judging of the winners is final.
  9. You must have a DeviantArt account to claim your prize. Prizes will be awarded once rights transfer has been successfully completed. No cash value equivalent will be issued for subscriptions.

We look forward to seeing interesting entries. We know we have a lot of talented watchers/followers. Here’s to you, and good luck!