Yup, you're reading right! The Creative Showcase is back, back again!
We have taken some time to revamp how we want to do these, how not to run into time constraints on our end, and so on and so forth. Before we get to the Theme announcement, let's have a quick look at the things we changed:
The Creative Showcase will be held on Discord only!
We will post announcements whenever we hold Showcases and will share the results everywhere, but participation and voting may only occur on Discord as that makes it easier for us!
Speaking of Voting, we have revamped how we handle Voting for Showcases massively:
- You may cast as many votes as you'd like
- There are four categories of Votes now
- Voting will be available all through the Submission phase!
You will now be able to cast four different kinds of Votes as well, each pertaining to a different kind of "Liking" a submission. The different kinds of Votes are:
- 👍 ENJOY
- This is your 'basic' vote. You 'enjoy', or 'like', that submission.
- 🎨 ARTSY
- Artsy is used to highlight submissions which you think represent interesting interpretations of the Theme.
- 🤯 MINDBLOWING
- Found a Submission you think goes above and beyond? Remember the Dragon Island of the Showcases of old? Yup, those are Mindblowing!
- 😆 FUNNY
- Submission made you chuckle? you are obligated to vote it as FUNNY!
Themes will be selected from a pool that we will happily add suggestions to, and once the pool is empty we'll start to recycle them, should we get to that point. We are also going to experiment with 'Modifiers' like restricting shape and size of your submissions (Think our Dioramas for reference), as well as other fun things!
We're still working on some organizational stuff in the back, like how often we'd like to hold these
To participate you need to JOIN OUR DISCORD first of all. Same if you'd like to vote.
For a submission to be valid the following stipulations have to be fulfilled:
- YOU need to be the author of the submission
- A Submission is required to HIDE THE UI (TAB on KB/M, SELECT on Controller)
- A submission has to be an unedited Screenshot, preferably in .png file format.
BY SUBMITTING A SCREENSHOT TO A CREATIVE SHOWCASE, YOU ALLOW US TO USE YOUR SUBMISSION FOR MARKETING PURPOSES WITHOUT CREDITING YOU AS THE AUTHOR.
(Note that we try to credit where possible but is sadly isn't always possible)
The Showcase Announcement!
For the first Creative Showcase 2.0, we would like to ease everyone back into the swing of things. As such, the Theme is Black Forest, a pretty open theme based on the German region of the same name. We are not working with any modifiers for this one, as we want to see your unbridled, raw creativity. 😉
The Showcase will run until 2023-06-13 2359 CEST.
We welcome all submissions from across all platforms. We ask, however, that you take your Submission Screenshots with the UI disabled. To hide your UI, press TAB on your Keyboard or the SELECT button or equivalent on your controller. Submissions are preferably posted as .png files.
Super happy to have these return, we did miss the Creative Showcase but it was just too clunky to handle on a recurring schedule especially when someone who was not involved with planning had to handle things. With this revamp, we're pretty sure we can juggle running the event, as well as passing it around internally, should the need arise.
We know not everyone will be happy about the requirement of Discord to participate and vote, but it really makes things a lot easier for us!
Once again, you can join our Discord here.