kirupaVille: Pixel City Contest Guidelines

[kirupa]

kirupaVille: Pixel City Contest
In this contest, create buildings for kirupaVille, the place where many of this site's members live! The deadline for submitting entries is February 24th.

How to Submit Entry?
First, if you are not familiar with kirupaVille, check it out here: http://www.kirupa.com/lab/kville/main.htm (http://www.kirupa.com/lab/kville/main.htm)

Second, browse through the following five steps: http://www.kirupa.com/motiongraphics/5steps.htm (http://www.kirupa.com/motiongraphics/5steps.htm) Ignore step 4, for you will be submitting your building to this forum!

In summary, pick a plot size, draw your building, and submit it as a new thread in this forum with your entry attached to the post using the forum's attach feature. After you have submitted your entry, check the stickied "Current Entries" thread after a day or so to ensure that I have your entry and name listed.

You are allowed to submit as many entries as you want. Just ensure that you create a new thread for each of your entry. It makes it easier for me to find and add your entry when it is a new thread as opposed to being buried as a post.

So What are the Prizes? :P
1st place - $50 Amazon.com gift certificate or Paypal payment
2nd place - $30 Amazon.com gift certificate or Paypal payment
3rd place - $20 Amazon.com gift certificate or Paypal payment

Judging/Judges
The judges have not been determined, but you will see more information on that as the contest deadline nears. The entries will be judged on how well they are designed.

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If you have any questions, post them in this thread and I will respond to them as quickly as possible. I will edit this post to incorporate good questions and related answers.

Good luck!
- kirupa.com Moderators

[bigmtnskier]

Brilliant! I'll definitally participate once I get this darn science project I'm working on done..

Thanks kirupa for hosting all these great contests! :hugegrin:

[Dislexsick]

Great! I'm sooooo in......

[Pasquale]

ditto!!!

[TheCanadian]

Thanks indeed, I can't wait to see the results of this :kommie:

[kirupa]

Glad you all like them. I'm planning on having monthly contests, so there will be more :hugegrin:

[Jeff Wheeler]

I can judge, as in the past. :D

Great idea. It'll be fun.

[Dislexsick]

Multiple Entries? I want to submit the 1 I made a few days ago, but I am working on a 2X2 entry. I havseen some of the previous comps and they have some multiple entries so i am guessing yes?

[pizzaguy234]

awesome, loved the 25lines comp, if i get the time i will hopefully enter this!

[Seb Hughes]

Good Luck Everybody, as always, ill be judging :D

[Shoo]

Does it have to be pixel art or can I use Vector? :red:

[Ben H]

Already started on Mount kirupaVille, the biggest known volcano in kirupaVille :P

-Ben

[kirupa]

Multiple Entries? I want to submit the 1 I made a few days ago, but I am working on a 2X2 entry. I havseen some of the previous comps and they have some multiple entries so i am guessing yes?
Yes, multiple entries are allowed. In the first post I mentioned:
You are allowed to submit as many entries as you want. Just ensure that you create a new thread for each of your entry. It makes it easier for me to find and add your entry when it is a new thread as opposed to being buried as a post.
:hugegrin:

[Shoo]

On the 5 steps page (the one that gives you 5 steps to making your Kville Building) the links to
"PixelArt Tutorials" and "Tread on which program to use" don't work :stare:

[kirupa]

Does it have to be pixel art or can I use Vector? :red:
It has to be pixel art.

Regarding your second question, I fixed the broken links :D

[thesparky007]

On the 5 steps page (the one that gives you 5 steps to making your Kville Building) the links to
"PixelArt Tutorials" and "Tread on which program to use" don't work :stare:they work fine for me!

[kirupa]

they work fine for me!
I just fixed it. They didn't work when shoo posted it :P

[Flash-Matic]

We submit here? Here is an old one. I will enter a few others.

Godzilla: http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/9021/godzilla2ft.gif (Edit: Seems so much darker... Ill fix it in a while.)

- Flash-matic

[kirupa]

No, you should create a new thread. Also, old entries will not eligible for the contest :cyclops:

[Flash-Matic]

I never entered it to a contest before. It was on Kville befor though.

[kirupa]

I never entered it to a contest before. It was on Kville befor though.
Oh, if the entry is currently not in kVille, then you can submit it. I must have just remembered seeing it in the kVille forum :)

[Dislexsick]

Oh, on broken links kVille v1 doesn't work...

[salvador marley]

I'm going to have a go at this one. Firstly, let me ask, Kirupa says buildings, does it have to be a building or could it be something else? lets say for example - a statue of elvis, would that count?

also, i am a little unsure where i should actually post the entry - not here i presume because someone did that already and they were told by kirupa not to do that.

Good luck to all contestants.

[kirupa]

Salvador - sure, you can create a statue if you want. It does not have to be a building.

You can post your entry as a 'new thread' in this forum. Posting your entry as a response to this thread isn't allowed :P

[salvador marley]

thats ok then kirupa. I will do a building of some sort - i was just curious about what is allowed. Ok it time to think, you know, that strolling around the room trying to come up with ideas time.

here goes...........

[hsadan]

I noticed that the submission example is from Futurama, so was wondering if it's ok if I did something similar (model mine after something say, in a movie). Would that be allowed/legal?

[kirupa]

I noticed that the submission example is from Futurama, so was wondering if it's ok if I did something similar (model mine after something say, in a movie). Would that be allowed/legal?
Sure! Even if your building is based on a movie/cartoon, the key is in how well you get your design into the pixel art form. As long as you don't borrow somebody else's pixel art building, your entry should be good :gi:

[MoyArt]

Pretty Cool Contest Kirupa, IM ON

BTW i was Cheking Kirupa Ville, and i saw some impresive buildings from salvador marley, way to go dude, your Mr. T Statue Rocks!!!

Good Luck to everyone!!!

[salvador marley]

moyart :) thanks. I'm just trying to come up with a new building for the competition. I'm thinking along the lines of a futuristic building or perhaps a building that has been bombed.

[sed|thh]

Kirupa I can't find my entry on the new, improved Kville map

[kirupa]

Oops - I forgot to add it up sed. I'll have it added to the map shortly :)

[Shoo]

Same for me, mine isn't on there :crying: I cant wait! *waves lighter in air* oops :red: