Tev's Great Big Contest is over, but she'd love your feedback! Snubear! I finally finished your picture!

If uh... for example...

I submitted an entry of a fiction-categorized story.

Is it alright to use chapter-division? (I'm just getting the difference between prose and fiction-categorized stories)

YES: Don't post already, I know I've wasted enough time.

NO: Please notify...

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, so forgive me if I'm answering the wrong question. First, prose is, in it's simplest definition, writing that isn't poetry, so anything in the fiction categories would count as prose. If you want to break your story into chapters, by all means do so ... especially if you're entering in the novella category. I mean, if you're doing mini fiction, it's unlikely you'll NEED to due to the length (or lack thereof) of stories in that category, but there's nothing wrong with doing it anyway.

If you're referring to wasting your own time, I apologize if I've answered unnecessarily. If you're referring to wasting mine, don't worry; I'm happy to answer any questions or make any clarifications.

If I don't want to make a public release of my work (for any reason), can my entry be "private", "hidden" or something like that? I mean that the entry can be viewed only by judge(s). That would be useful if I want to work more on it after your contest.

I would rather all entries be public for this contest. Thanks for asking!

Are we allowed to get help from a friend for editing a piece of fiction?

So if I can't finish the work on time I can't participate submitting a part of it. unfortunately I can't do my stuff in 2 months, what a pity.

@Artist: Yes, it mentions in the FAQ that someone else can edit it for you.

@Mightmare: You actually have a little over three months from now to finish. You can certainly submit a WIP, but unfortunately, it would have to be up for public viewing.

Thanks for the answer!

About the time wasting... Its me wasting yours (sorry). So uh... I'll log off now!

If we're still working on the fics when you go live, do we have to switch them public then or can we finish them inb4 publicize?

HOW MANY ENTRIES CAN WE DO FOR EACH CATEGORY?

@Plad: Oh, no, you can finish them first. The "go live" date is just the earliest they're allowed to be public, and the earliest entries can actually be submitted.

@Kingvageta: One per category, in no more than three categories.

Good luck to all the competitors! ;)

Looking forward to this.

One day left! Can't wait.

Woooo. Only 4 more hours.

The contest has officially started! Happy creating; I can't wait to see your entries! :D

Ok, this is exciting.

Best of luck to all of the entrants. I might even try to do something to enter, though I'm not much of an artist - this sounds like loads of fun and an enormous ton of effort and thought has obviously gone into this whole event.

What do you get when you mix a snipe and a sniper?

Dinner.

@Toast: Thanks! I'm really hoping people enjoy it.

@Artist: Lol ... don't forget to change your subject line so that I don't accidentally skip over it while judging the mini contest. XD

Awesome to see this starting, you certainly worked hard enough on it. ;D

What do you get when you mix a new knight and a snipe?

A pets thread.

How do ye make a snipe do better than knights?

Make it sing ANYTHING YOU CAN DO I CAN DO BETTER!

Wow tev, you really outdid yourself this time.
I'm looking forward to all the events and games ^^

I may be submitting an entry, but its gotta be well after October. I have an important exam coming up. (darn)
I will, of course, be submitting a handicraft work that I've been planning for a few months now (but haven't had the chance to make)
It's gonna be... erm, gremliny *wink wink nudge nudge*

So, I hope this contest will go smoothly. I'll just continue planning till I get access to the You-should-know-what machine.

Oh, look. Here's a late bloomer. ._.
Darnit, I should have started working on my entry the moment I first heard about this contest.

Now I have school and all sorta crap that sucessfully takes away all my free time. Hopefully I'll make at least 70 frames with good visuals. :u

Nevertheless, it's a really nice contest, Tev. You must have put a lot of effort to it.

In-Game Name: Artistbma
Entry Title: First Steps
Entry:

I step off my pod,
then look all around.
Ash and dirt litter the ground.

I get a transmition,
calling for me,
its Rhendon, wondering where I could be.

He tells me to go to a special place,
a camp where I can be very safe.

I walk along an earthen path,
fending off the jelly’s wrath.

My sword slashes through their hide,
Cutting them up, a chromalisk cried.

I turn around, and meet the creature.
Head to head, I see its features.

I jab my blade into its belly,
But oh no! Here comes the jelly!

I take out my gun,
And start shooting it a ton.

I back away with every shot,
For die this day I will not.

I run past most of the monsters,
And jump over the rest,
Because today,
I’m the best.

I hurry into the rescue camp,
My toes smacking the ground with a tamp.

Im safe for now,
Those monsters will never hurt thou.

Prize Preferences:
Participation - CR, CE, Enamorocks
1* -Divine Bolted Vee, Heavy Goggles, CR
2* - Tri-Heart Pendant, Toasty Stranger Hat, Fancy Canteen
3* -Shifty Eyes, Silver Key, Kilowatt Pulsar
4* -CR, Mirrored Lockbox, Volcanic Wings
5* -Fancy Dragon Wings, CR, Nemesis Prize Box

Fallenhope: Thank you! Can't wait to see what you do!

Fox: Thank you, too! I'd been wondering what you were up to away from the forums, since I'd been seeing you on Devart but not here. Hopefully you can get whatever project you're envisioning done within the 3 months.

Artist: Thank you for the entry!

*O* .......... what shall i do! I...I... I * light-bulb* I HAFS AN IDEA!

IGN: Gingermace
Entry Title: A light in the Dark
Entry: http://i.imgur.com/7Sqrr.png
Prize Preference:

Participation- CE, CR, Enamorocks.
1*- CE, CR, Sketch.
2*- CE, CR, Iceburst
3*- CE, CR, Glasses
4*- CE, Shadow Key, Colored sketch
5*- CE, Mewkat Pocket, Solstice Box

Had I had more time I could've made it a bit better, but since school starts soon, and I don't want to drag it on to long, here it is.

@Shuichi: Yay! Ideas are always good. ^.^

@The-Ark: Thanks for the entry! :D

you didnt mention any of this, but, how many times can you participate? can you only enter once?

It's actually mentioned in post #2 with the entry form ... but you can enter up to three times, no more than once per category.

So if you were just drawing, you could do an entry in the gremlins category, the everything else category, and the Tev and Friends category, but not two entries in the knight category and one in the everything else category.

EDIT: I added it to the rules so it would be easier for people to find. I guess it's easy to skip over since three or four people have asked me so far.

Don't worry, I have some art I want to do after something I did on the test server...

IGN: Phantomhamachi
Entry Name: The Fall of the Quicksilver Factory (it has something to do with the new mission coming out on Wednesday or Thursday.)
Entry: The story
Prize Preferences: (please note that right means the least wanted and left means the most wanted.)
Participation: CE, Enamorocks or CR
1*: CE, CR or Lockbox
2*: Tri-Heart Pendant, CR, or CE
3*: Shifty Eyes, Sealed Sword or Twisted Targe
4*: Sniped Stranger Hat, Shadow Key or Mirrored Lockbox
5*: Regal Valkyrie Wings, Color picture of me or CE

Thanks for the entry, Cobalt!

Could you please cut your prize requests down to your top three in each category though, please? Preferably in the order that you want them most in. Thank you!

It's just you put far too much stuff in 5* that would make them irresistible.

P.S. The only spoiler I will give about the art is that it's a comic.

IGN: Phantomhamachi
Entry Name: Suddenly, Battlepod
Entry: The comic/art piece
Prize Preferences: (please note that right means the least wanted and left means the most wanted. I also copypasta'd because the prizes I want in the first entry are going to be the same for all 3 entries.)
Participation: CE, Enamorocks or CR
1*: CE, CR or Lockbox
2*: Tri-Heart Pendant, CR, or CE
3*: Shifty Eyes, Sealed Sword or Twisted Targe
4*: Sniped Stranger Hat, Shadow Key or Mirrored Lockbox
5*: Regal Valkyrie Wings, Color picture of me or CE

Here's my second entry, a silly comic I made with Paint.NET. Also contains a Doctor Who reference.

Thanks for the second entry, Cobalt!

I have a couple thousand words for a short story already made, but as usual I leave loose ends to develop into a larger story which makes more loose ends which makes the story larger whi-

Do you want what I have right now or should I continue a little more?

Unrelated; for the patient readers waiting for me to work on this, the last installment of chapter six should be done today within a couple hours.

Whatever you think would make the better entry, really. You have almost three months to wrap up ends and edit if you so choose, so there's no real rush, but you don't want to get so carried away that you make your story over-complicated or miss the deadline.

Derkay.

That means I can write my own stuff for today then be distracted by Wakfu again.

See you in about thirty days. That should be long enough to make a decent sandwich of a story without stuffing it full of walruses. I already do that in the other story.

Well...

I finished my poem...

And I was about to enter it...

Then I had to post my prize preferences...

Then I saw all the prizes I had to choose from.

._.

It's gonna take me a looong time to figure out what things I want. :/ Do I want this Silver key or monochrome colored picture? Valkyrie wings or more art? Probably the art actually. ._. I don't care for accesories or gear.

But even still...

I'm gonna send my entry

@LoN: Well, you do get to choose three in each category. If you don't have priority preference between them, you can note that and be surprised if you win.

@Benightz: Looking forward to it!

Just started to make a Spiral Spy scene yesterday. It was the most complicated scene I ever make. The scene is not completed now, maybe I can complete it this day.

Then, the school comes.

I can't complete it right now so, tommorow, or more?

A hint of my scene look: the scene is an inspiration of Tev's art, Spiral Flower, with a twist :P

In-Game Name: Xxpapaya
Entry Title: All He Needs Is Love

Entry:
Beneath some fallen leaves;
On the Wolver dens floor,
Lies a Snipe; silent.
Flying no more...
His once flawless beauty
Of his purple feathers,
Are now torn away,
By the slimes and awful wolvers,
His beak is bent and broken;
He can barely sing,
The modest & kind heart he once had,
Is now beginning to die.
No knights looks up to this Snipe anymore.
He is just another fallen object,
Lying on the Wolver dens floor...
The little Snipe, as he dies,
Looks up at the blue skies,
And no knight even stops to cry,
Or to feel any emotions inside,
As his heart beats its last song,
No knight wonders if they have done wrong.
As it was, the Snipe just needed love;
Love, all along.
But there was no one there,
To mend his broken wings,
There was no one there,
To listen to the song he would sing.
The knights were too busy,
And too controlled by crystal energy,
To care at all about nursing a Snipe,
Back to proper health.
They could not feel emotions,
To the broken, sad, and lonely;
And spot a little Snipe,
Lying there,
On the forest floor,
They could not kneel down,
And carry him in their palm.
They could not heal him,
And make his frigid heart calm.
But there was some-knight,
Up in the sky,
He watched sadly,
As the little Snipe slowly died,
His hand reached down,
From the hole in the sky,
It carried the Snipe
Way up high.
Now the Snipe is home,
Free again.
Free to fly, free to sing,
A flight of no end,
But, down there,
Where the Snipe once lay;
On the Wolver dens floor,
Things get more difficult;
Worse than ever before,
More things die,
And drop to the core.
Things fade away,
Without leaving a trace,
And while they are now jolly,
We can not forget,
The Snipe we left there to die,
On the Wolver dens floor.

Prize Preferences:
Participation - Enamorocks (2), Hallow Round Helm, Toasty Vented Visor
1* - Enamorocks (5), Mod Calibrator, Hallow Winged Helm
2* - Electron Charge, Hallow Vertical Vents, Trinket Slot
3* - Fancy Party Hat, Toasty Party Blowout , Dusky Birthday Candle
4* - Sniper Stranger Hat, Cool Cat Tail, 1800 CE
5* - Mewkat Monster Pocket, Solstice Prize Box, 3,000 CE
EDIT: Updated the poem, had quite a few spelling mistakes (very serious ones which ruined the poem)
New EDIT: Updated prize preferences

@Myqpalzm: Great! Can't wait to see it!

@Xxpapaya: Thanks for the entry!

Well, I just mailed in my entry for the scavenger hunt thing. :/ and 5 minute afterwards, I realized I got one of the questions wrong.

D:

Lulz.

Alright, I'm actually probably gonna modify my poem a bit before I turn it in. Found an area where it doesn't really run smoothly.

Well, you could always send me a second message to correct the question you think you missed

Hey Tev, I was wondering how much CE do we get from the scavenger hunt? Because due to timezones, it ends on Friday. I'm not allowed to be online for more than 5 min (pathetic) on weekdays. So I want to know if it's worth the trouble scanning the forums.
Oh, also working on a story and sketch for my poem :P. Since I use pencil and since I have NO experience AT ALL in Digital Art, Photoshop or anything related to that. My sketches turn out to be very weak when I scan them. Will that "help" me lose interest in my sketches?
Thanks :P

Hey Tev, I have seen many pieces of Spiral-Art done by you and I was wondering if you could give me some guides to things like Digital Art (if thats the way you created your artwork) As I mentioned earlier, I was making a drawing to go with my poem. But since ALL of my art is done in pencil, it doesn't stand out too clearly when I scan/ take photos. So if you could help me with that it would be wonderful. AND since its you who helped me (if you do) I won't put it in the competition. (I'll put in the one I did with pencil:P)
I know that this isn't the most appropriate place to put this (its like putting a penguin in a living room -_-), so if you wanna talk about it over spiral or someting else just tell me and I'll delete this

Prizes for any of the mini-games or weekly contests is 100 CE. This particular scavenger hunt will likely take you more than 5 minutes, so you might want to skip it, but next week's game is one you can save and work on offline.

I'd be happy to help you with some resources for digital art; since I'm not actually physically helping you (probably just giving you tutorials, suggesting programs, or telling you how to do a technique) or critiquing a specific piece of art, you can still enter it (that goes for anyone). If you want me to critique a piece of art and suggest improvements to it specifically, then that piece wouldn't be allowed in the contest. So what kind of art programs do you have on your computer? I'm assuming just MS Paint, if you don't really work digitally. Also, you're using a mouse rather than a pen, correct?