Nigel Evans
Posts: 212
8/7/2012
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FBG is happy to announce the World of the Season Competition!
We want to recognise and promote the best community-created StoryNexus worlds, so we’re launching the World of the Season competition.
This will happen once a season – four times a year. So this first competition is the Autumn 2012 season. We’re looking for the best StoryNexus worlds to share with the world. To enter, you need to create an original StoryNexus world and reply to this thread with the world’s name.
The panel of judges will pick the World of the Season Autumn 2012 from the entrants.
Judges
We're delighted to have the assistance of mighty figures from the games industry to help us judge the entries. The Autumn 2012 World of the Season competition will be judged by:
- Mike Laidlaw, Creative Director of BioWare's Dragon Age series.
- Susan Arendt, Managing Editor of The Escapist.
- Jonas Kyratzes, noted designer of splendid story-driven indie games.
- A panel of Failbetter folks.
What we're after
We’re looking for quality rather than quantity. To have a chance of winning, a world must be complete and playable, but it doesn’t have to be big. We'll be looking at writing, design and originality.
Prizes
The prizes for the winning world are:
- The creator of the winning world gets ‘Accredited Architect’ status. This means that Failbetter recognises the winner as a reputable and skilled creator. You’ll get a fancy badge showing your status when we get the profile pages live. It also opens the possibility of commissions and collaboration with FBG on things like Kickstarter projects. We’ll announce your new status on these forums. We’ll also give you the option of doing an interview with us about your world. If you want to do this, and we’re both happy with the results, we’ll put the interview up on the Failbetter blog.
- The winning world gets added to the list of promoted worlds, at least until the next season’s winner is announced, and possibly longer. The world also gets permanently added to the list of recommended worlds. We’ll also do a forum post announcing the winner, and stating what we liked about the winning world.
- Our artist, Paul Arendt, will draw a banner for your world! This will be a 655 x 150 pixels picture displayed at the top of your world's StoryNexus interface, where the 'welcome to the StoryNexus World Builders' Beta' banner currently is. You can ask for a particular subject, but final word on the banner rests with Paul.
Two runners up will also win:
- 'Accredited Architect' status for the second and third prize. This has the same benefits as for the winner - the badge, possibility of commission and collaboration, announcement on the forums and the option of an interview.
Rules
Entries must be in the form of StoryNexus Worlds.
To enter, you must reply on this thread with a link to your world before midnight GMT on the 30th September 2012. You can enter multiple worlds if you like.
- Any world that you enter must be playable, playtested, finishable (i.e. have at least one [GAME_END_EFFECT] event and/or a storylet that marks the end of an episode) and original. It can be an episode of a larger work, as long as what you submit is narratively coherent on its own. There's no problem if your intention is to expand the work after the competition. It can’t be fan-fiction or set in someone else’s universe (including FBG universes). Your world must be written in English.
- Your world must have at least 12 storylets, and at least 20 branches. There is no maximum size, but larger worlds aren’t necessarily better than smaller ones.
- Worlds will be judged by FBG and any guest judges we appoint, and our word is final. Worlds will be judged on writing, design and originality. We’ll announce winners as soon as we can after closing.
- This competition is subject to the rules covering all Failbetter Games competitions, which can be found here: http://about.failbettergames.com/competition-rules/
Note: the competition is now closed! - we're in the process of judging.
edited by Goatdance on 10/1/2012
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Caitydid
Posts: 65
8/7/2012
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One month to get it to a "complete for now" point, huh? Great incentive for those of us working on games! You guys have been nothing short of amazing with the support you've given us. Thanks for the opportunity to submit our games!
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - G.B. Shaw
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Nigel Evans
Posts: 212
8/21/2012
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Judges!
We're entirely thrilled that we have two splendid judges from the industry joining us for the first World of the Season competition. These two fine folk have agreed to help us look at your worlds on StoryNexus. They are:
Susan Arendt, Managing Editor for The Escapist
Mike Laidlaw, Creative Director for BioWare's Dragon Age series.
They're generously giving their time to help us out. Many thanks, Susan and Mike!
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