Jolly good hello fellow comrades of the internets, surfer-lurkers and deviants!
Today I'd like to announce a contest me and my fellows are holding.

News Article: [link]


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Here's the breakdown:
Me, and are making a game called "The Adventures of Nucleon" or TAON for short. We'll be trying to make the game somewhat wacky and cliche and hopefully kinda like the Earthworm Jim games, so we're trying to go for a 90s theme. The main character is a mutant called Nucleon who unintentionally gets mixed up with an influential and rich mad doctor - Doc Mad (yes we're deliberately trying to have the names uninspiring). Doc Mad runs out of good test subjects and sets his eyes on Nucleon, launching his troops to capture him at all cost. At first, Nucleon tries to run away from them, however you can't get rid of something completely without removing the source, so the hunted starts hunting and will launch his own attack on Doc Mad's base to restore his peace. However, Doc Mad has many inventions and bodyguards, will Nucleon be able to succeed, let alone live through it?


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Poster - [link]
Nucleon and Doc Mad sketch - [link]
Character Set 1 (7 characters) - [link]
Nucleon Set Poses [link]
[I'll post an event storyboard and a coloured version of the poster later on as well as any other things I draw on topic, so stay tuned]


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1st Place - You get to design a character who will appear very early in the game as the first boss. The character will act as the right hand man to General Jakov and will be charged with leading the first wave of attack on Nucleon. He will either succeed or become Nucleon's substitute for Doc Mad's experiments. The character can be anyone or anything, since the game has droids and mutants, however please keep it in human size bounds.

2nd Place - You can design a character that will appear on a stage at some point. The character's role will be decided between us depending on what they look like. Again, please keep to human size bounds.

3rd Place - Your submitted picture will be included as a big poster in a stage during gameplay. Depending what the picture will look like, it might turn out to be a movie poster, an advertisement or a graffiti. We can decide on it after the contest.


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Well, now that you know the brief and prizes, here's the contest theme - make up and draw a scene or poster with the characters provided as well as the character or characters you might want to include, just not too many. If there's anything you'd like to know for your drawing, ask away, I'll provide you with any info I can. Also guys, please, no homosexual themes... You know which ones. If that's your kink, so be it, but keep it to yourself. If you like to make gay jokes, then go ahead, we can appreciate a joke, just know the bounds.

Please send all submissions to me in a note.

Also a side note guys - by submitting, you give us all the rights to use your character or submission. Whatever the results.


--------- J U D G E S ---------
- artist, 3D modeller and animator, storyboard artist, assistant writer
- writer, programmer, voice actor, composer
- programmer, artist, 3D modeller and animator, assistant writer
- joke generator


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We hope there will more entries than we think and that people will be motivated enough to set aside their busy schedules for a while and join in our little contest, we think the prizes are worth it.

The contest deadline is January 1st 2010. So submit your entries before midnight on the 31 December and have a great New Year. We'll be anxiously awaiting your entries. Good luck.