Long time, huh! Ok let's get straight to it. There's no reason an older game can't have another moment to shine. So we had a fun idea.
WE'RE HAVING A CONTEST
Starting August 13th and ending August 27th, take some screenshots in game and share them either in the Steam community, on the Optimum Link Discord, or both. It can be funny, interesting, broken, meme-worthy, or terrifying -- share your best! The dev team will look at the aftermath after August 27th, where we'll decide on 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place winners. The winners will receive Steam gift cards of $25, $10, and $5, respectively. Anybody can vote for their favorite using Likes/Thumbs Up, but in addition to popularity there are a few other qualities we'll judge. Even if you don't care for prizes, it's a great time to jump back in and revisit a wacky sandbox game! Game's not that old!
Rules are subject to change because we've never done a contest before and we might encounter something unexpected and try to make something more fair. But basically:
RULES
- Up to 3 submissions per player. If you submit via both Discord and Steam, no worries, we will just count them as one. Votes will be combined.
- Screenshots must be taken on or between August 13th 2021 and August 27th 2021.
- Screenshots must not be edited. You can use whatever you want to take the picture, just don't modify what appears to be game content. If you are doing a live stream, be sure your submission is taken from your screen, not from the stream output.
- Screenshots must be your gameplay. Do not submit screenshots of other players' gameplay.
- Winners will have 3 business days to collect their prize after announced. Failure to cooperate or reply to contact will result in that prize being given to someone else.
- Submissions may be disqualified if the community or developers thinks it contains offensive content.
- Participants agree submissions (only the image) may be used by Protoria Studios in game content, social media, or marketing material.
HOW TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT IN-GAME
Optimum Link has a photo mode. You can use this to frame the camera, or just do regular gameplay. Doesn't matter. The simplest way to then capture this is just hitting F12 on your keyboard, which should capture the game's screen via Steam. Steam then has these images ready to upload when you are done playing the game. This is the easiest way, but if you're savvy with screenshot tools and want to do things another way, go for it! Just remember the no modifying rule.
You can submit up to 3.
HOW ARE THE WINNERS DECIDED?
Throughout the contest, anyone can "vote" for favorite submissions via Thumbs Up. You can vote for as many as you want, even ALL of them. At the end, each submission will be scored from 2-10 points in each of the following qualities:
- Popularity (thumbs up received)
- Character customization
- Dream-like imagery
- Aesthetics
- Humor
So don't worry; popularity from likes is not critical. However, it can help, so we encourage all participants to give fellow submissions a look and share the support.
HOW DO I COLLECT MY PRIZE?
We'll have to contact you. So please follow us on Discord or at least pay attention on Steam for when we announce the winners!
CONTENT CREATORS
We encourage you to stream or share videos! The game is pretty wonky, we get it.. So go crazy with it! Encourage your audience to participate and win up to $25 on Steam. The more screenshots we receive, the more interesting this gets!
AND HEY.
This is the first time we've ever done an event like this. It may go terribly wrong. But we'll learn from it and improve for next time. This event also doubles as a chance for us to get more feedback on the game itself, so we can improve future versions of the game (wink).
Have fun of course!