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Wolfy's Official Unofficial Contest HOORAY!


RockRaiderWolf

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Basically I was planning on adding a Rock Raiders United Logo of some sort right below level 25 in my Custom Map Slots Mod (and my Ultimate Map Pack Mod as well) to separate the Original Levels from the Custom Levels. I thought it would be a great thing to have in there but, I was having trouble finding a way to make it blend in correctly with the level select screen. So after some thinking, I decided that instead of simply asking for help I would make a little contest out of it so anyone in the RRU Community could contribute! MUCH more interesting this way don't you think? There will also be a contest to find the best replacement for the Locked level images (Level"xx"G). The Reason for this is since the Level images take priority over the background, (Excluding the color Black, which is automatically ignored) if I take out all the caverns from the Custom Map Area of the Levelpick image It will allow me to more freely position the Custom Maps on the Level Select screen,but it cause the current Level(xx)G images to show incorrectly as seen in the screenshot below.

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Contest Details and Entry Rules.

  • There will be 3 separate Entry types as follows;

  1. Logo (Header)
  2. Logo (Footer)
  3. Level(xx)G Image: That's the picture you see when a level is not yet unlocked.

Rules and Requirements;

  • One Entry of each type Per Person.
  • All Entries should be in Bitmap or Jpeg Format.
  • Entry types 1 & 2 must be EXACTLY 640 Pixels Wide and preferably no more than 200 tall
  • Type 3 Entries I would Prefer be of equal height and width.
  • For optimal Resize quality Type 3 entries should be no less than 350 square pixels and no more than 750 square pixels. (350 by 350 through 750 by 750)


In other words so it can be easily resized to fit a variety of custom level images.
Entries must be submitted by end of Deadline (EST Timezone)
Entries should be Named to fit the following template:

Entry(x) - by (RRU Member Name)

The x should be the entry type. 1, 2, or 3.

  • Entries of the third type should not contain any monster, vehicles, buildings, or anything else that would give it a specific theme that might not match certain custom maps.
  • Entries must be no more than 10mb (shouldn't be hard)
  • Entrants agree that RockRaiderWolf reserves the right to judge the winner IF there are few or no votes made in the poll( Poll will be posted after all entries have been received and displayed)
  • Entrants agree that RockRaiderWolf has the right to use the submitted Image(s) in any future RockRaiderUnited related content as long as credit for the image is given to the creator of the Image.
  • Entrant agrees that they did not steal the image from someone else. ( Unless RockRaidersUnited.org or whoever has the right to the image, does not object to it being used. I will accept Images containing the logo found at the top of the RRU website.)

Once the final submission deadline is reached I will re-upload all the entries into a gallery which I will link to below and then I will add a Poll where the RRU Community can vote for the winners!

Prizes:

First Place Prize for each Entry Category is as follows:

  1. Image is used in my mod as the Header that separates the Original Levels and the Custom Levels.
  2. Image is used in my mod as the Footer that will be shown below the Custom Levels at the bottom of the level selection screen.
  3. Image is used in my mod as the new Level(x)G image for all the RRU Custom Levels.

All three winners will also be given the chance to work with me to make their own Idea for a Custom Level, if they wish it. It's not like I'm famous so if they already know how my help may not be needed.

Runner ups for each Category will be listed and they will also receive the following gag prizes:

  1. 1st runner up will get their very own RockWolf Tool Store Guarding Canine!
  2. An awesome Rideable Slimy Slug!
  3. Your very own Rock Whale! (Food supply not included)
  4. Your very own Lava and Ice Monster Powered Heating and Cooling system!
  5. A Tiny Rock Monster with real Energy Crystal Gnawing action! (Warning: do not feed more than one crystal per week or it may grow large enough to eat YOU!)
  6. One free ride in the Tunnel Transport!
  7. Their very own pet bat! (Sonic Blasters not included)
  8. Dynamite! (Warning may or may not be Pre-Lit.)
  9. One Energy Crystal (Warning: May be Radioactive)
  10. One Building Stud (Note: May be just a 2 by 4)
  11. One Chunk of Oreo (May or may not be a stale chocolate chip cookie)
  12. One pile of Rubble. (Tiny Spiders May or may not be included.)

Ok Good luck to all and to all a good fight! :P

May change deadlines based on feedback.

Tentative Entry Deadline: 11:59PM(and 59 seconds) Nov 23rd 2014

Tentative Voting Deadline: 11:59PM(and 59 seconds) Nov 30th 2014

EDIT: Updated the contest based on feedback of Aidenpons. Instead of a Separate category for the RRU initials logo and a fully written out Rock Raiders United logo, INSTEAD the first two categories will except both(including a combination of the two) and are specifically for choosing header and footer logos.

Note: Please submit entries as comments below and not as Private Messages.

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Wait... so what are you actually asking for? An RRU logo (I think Cirevam had one of those for Time Raiders... *checks* Yep, he did. (under Languages), a Rock Raiders United logo (why do you want them to be different in particular, and a... yellow-taped level? :S

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I'm sorry RockRaidersWolf, but just launching into doing community stuff at around the time of possibly a few weeks or something since you joined. This is the internet, where some people act insanely stupid and sometimes just kinda selfish [i am not targeting anyone directly]. If you had people who liked your work or something then they'd be happy to work with or for you to complete a certain project.

 

Just jumping right into it without anyone having had interest in you in the time spent here [not to say you are friendless, which would (and it probably sounds like it right now) make me sound like a Bully]. Also, wouldn't these be easy to do on your own? You can easily just ask for the logo or recreate it, and as for the Level(xx)G thing you can simply create a new barrier thing using programs like paint or photoshop.

 

Yeah, I DID try and help you by being the only one to give you a Level(xx)G replacement picture, but I don't really feel like upgrading it to over lap... Sorry...

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I'm sorry RockRaidersWolf, but just launching into doing community stuff at around the time of possibly a few weeks or something since you joined. This is the internet, where some people act insanely stupid and sometimes just kinda selfish [i am not targeting anyone directly]. If you had people who liked your work or something then they'd be happy to work with or for you to complete a certain project.

 

Just jumping right into it without anyone having had interest in you in the time spent here [not to say you are friendless, which would (and it probably sounds like it right now) make me sound like a Bully]. Also, wouldn't these be easy to do on your own? You can easily just ask for the logo or recreate it, and as for the Level(xx)G thing you can simply create a new barrier thing using programs like paint or photoshop.

 

Yeah, I DID try and help you by being the only one to give you a Level(xx)G replacement picture, but I don't really feel like upgrading it to over lap... Sorry...


Actually I joined almost 8 months before you did (smirks) :P 
As for doing the logos on my own I was having real trouble finding a way to add them in that looked good. for the level(xx)G thing you're probably right and it might well be somewhat easy to find one that works somewhere on the internet if I looked hard (It would probably take me forever to make one that looked good, if you look at the one I included for my Improved custom map slots level 26 (just a duplicate of 25 atm) you will see how much trouble I have actually drawing something in paint.net (the program I like to use) from (nearly) scratch. 
I will work on looking for a level(xx)g image today and may remove that from this contest. 

Also while I liked the idea behind your suggestion for a level(xx)G image, it was just too low a quality to match up to the rest of the level selection screen.
 

Lastly I do understand what you were saying about the lack of interest in my work and that is why I had made the entry deadline not only a month away but, I also said it was tentative because I was not at all sure I would get enough/any entries by then. What I was/am thinking is that I was not going to set the final deadline until after I had at least four or five entries. anyway I still appreciate the reply as every single reply I get has a chance to generate more viewers. :)

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I gots an idea. Could you perhaps use dark grey instead of black for the levelxxG images?

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@aidenpons:

Problem with doing that is you would end up having the X shaped tape just covering up a dark grey square and not a cavern. However it occurs to me that I could maybe just cut and paste the X shaped tape onto the Glevel images to make a new LevelxxG image for each level. Will probably end up doing so unless someone does make something better.

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