Spiral Knights - A Good Day for a Knight Video Contest! [WINNERS POSTED!]

A Good Day for a Knight Video Contest! [WINNERS POSTED!]

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Wed, 04/02/2014 - 11:34

Aphrodite

Community Manager

To celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Spiral Knights, we want you to create a video showing a good day for your knight. It can be any type of video, from live action, to animation, to game play videos.

Deadline: April 14, 2014, 11:59PM Game Time (Pacific timezone)

Prizes: At least three winners will be selected. Other prizes may be added depending on participation.

1st place will receive a print of game art signed by Lead Artist, Cherub, a prismatic anniversary party pack and a grand topper accessory. You must be willing to supply us with your real name and mailing address to receive the print in the mail.

2nd places will receive a volcanic anniversary party pack

3rd place will receive a divine anniversary party pack

The anniversary party pack includes:
party hat accessory
blowout accessory
candle accessory
sprinkle aura
10 confetti
10 large fireworks
10 medium fireworks
10 small fireworks

Rules:
1. Create a new and unique video showing a good day for a knight.
2. Upload the video to YouTube and tag it Spiral Knights.
3. Keep it clean. All entries should comply with YouTube's Terms of Service, the Spiral Knights Terms of Service and the forum rules.
4. Videos should be two minutes or less in length.
5. You may use Spiral Spy for this event, but the video must only include things that are currently in the game, and must not violate our Terms of Service.
6. All the following information must appear in the video description:

“A Good Day for a Knight” video contest entry
Credit to Three Rings and SEGA for Spiral Knights
https://www.spiralknights.com
Knight Name:

7. Only one entry per player.
8. Submit your entry to the entry thread: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/98903

Your entry must have the following information:
Knight Name:
Link to your video:

Judging Criteria:
Entries will be judged on creativity and quality. Depending on the number and type of entries we receive, we may create categories for judging and prizes. Only one signed print (see above) will be awarded, however.

française = http://forums.spiralknights.com/fr/node/98936
deutsch = http://forums.spiralknights.com/de/node/99100
español = http://forums.spiralknights.com/es/node/98933

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 11:53

Qwao

So this can be just about anything, as long as it shows a "good day for your Knight".

Very vague... o3o

Does that mean we are allowed to have anything we want, including trading with people or grabbing something off the auction? :o

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 11:55

Arcknightdelta

@ Qwao

If you think that will win you the contest, smash that video out then.

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 12:04

Aphrodite

Community Manager

@Qwao

Yes, we left it vague on purpose - we don't want to squash anyone's creativity. It can show anything that you think is a "good day for a knight."

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 15:45

Psychnade

Knight

Is it required for it to be our in game knight, or can it be some random knight?

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 16:46

Pipipipipi

Stealin questions! >:)

It can be whatever knight you want (most likely)

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 17:03

Mr-Miggles

Curious...

Are collabs allowed?

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 17:07

Popoixd

Look at this light. Thanks you seen nothing.

Does it has to be fresh? Or you can just post something you already did?

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 17:13

Fehzor

Isn't the prize pack a bit underwhelming?

Sprankle aura = 200Kish? Something like that. You could get them way cheaper a while back.
Special Blowout/candle/hat = chump change of around... 80k for all? Somewhere in that ballpark.
Fireworks aren't worth much, but you are giving out 30 of them and someone might want them. 4K for one on the buyout, but it doesn't look like many are selling/being sold. Even if you did sell all of your fireworks for 4K, you'd only end up with like 120K
Confetti < 300 crowns * 10 = 3000 crowns. More chump change.

And the grand total is....... ~400K crowns + several days spent finding someone crazy/dumb enough to buy 30 fireworks. Compared to say.... a single head top unbinding ticket from the supply depot. 10,000 energy at 6.5k per 100 ce = 650,000 crowns. Or even winning NJThug + Digicom's event thing. The top prize for that is 10K CE, and you can enter a ludicrous number of times if you're so inclined, so as to potentially have a much higher chance of winning.

Just sayin'. The artwork is a pretty sweet prize though. Now that I can get behind... and the theme is also quite nice.

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 17:46

Dmatter

This makes me wish I had a

This makes me wish I had a recording device of sorts on my computer. I'm not really willing to spend money for one, and I probably will never use it afterwards. Also, I don't have a YouTube account. However, I'll probably check on the submission every now and then, it looks like it'll be fun to at least watch.

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 18:33

#10

Rothni-Halias

Yay.

Ok, great, I already had a stellar idea about _____.

I have a critical question though: How is stuff like the following two videos possible?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_RcnBWqju0 [] Is this rendered with something other than the game engine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa8EmsgMnEk [] How is that intro scene possible? It seems to be impossible footage of Spiral Knights with a filter applied.

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 18:43

#11

Nuclear-Atom

COLLABS

Are collabs allowed? I think that collabs add a new aspect to the videos. Oh, and you cant have a good day in Spiral Knights without friends, no?

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 19:14

#12

Pipipipipi

Behold, the evil squares shall take over the world!

@Rionaka and Nuclear, my guess is yes but only one knight will get the reward

@Rothni they used spiral spy

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 19:50

#13

Feline-Grenadier

Should the contestant be unable to supply an address after receiving first place, would a given digital copy be given to the user through any private means?

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 03:54

#14

Cinoa

How am I supposed to enter this contest when everyday is the best day for my knight on SK?
P.S: can it be about an npc, like Kozma?
Also, I can't play the game or use SpiralSpy, so my only shot would have to be a flipnote kind of thing. GL to me trying to find that much paper!

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 07:31

#15

Aphrodite

Community Manager

You can collaborate with

You can collaborate with other knights, but only one player will be awarded the prize. The items in the party pack are unbound, so if you collaborate and win, you could choose to share the prizes.

@Cinoa The subject can be about an NPC. It just needs to be about a knight.

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 09:28

#16

Davuxz

Region Limit?

This is only for english language players? What about if a spanish language talks/texts in english?
I'm asking cause of the signed artwork prize and delivery mail.

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 09:33

#17

Eurydice

Community Manager

> Does it has to be fresh? Or

> Does it has to be fresh? Or you can just post something you already did?

It needs to be something you created for this contest, specifically.

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 09:51

#18

Cinoa

Well, I'm not entering the contest, because I can't make a stopmotion.

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 10:11

#19

Iapnez

I have no chance, but I

I have no chance, but I figure I'll enter for once. :p

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 13:22

#20

Animalminion

Bound?

Will the party packs come bound or unbound? I might be creating a new knight soon and if I do I will want the pack with that knight if I win but at the moment he doesn't exist so I can't put the name in the YouTube description.

P.s happy anniversary!

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 15:20

#21

Pipipipipi

Behold, the evil squares shall take over the world!

@Animal it has already been stated that they are unbound

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 22:17

#22

St-Praxiex

Time limit

Are there any time specification? or a the max duration of the video? Well I guess It could be tiring watching an entire 1hr video of a single entry. :3

Thu, 04/03/2014 - 23:27

#23

Qwao

@ St-Praxiex

From the original post: 4. Videos should be two minutes or less in length.

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 07:39

#24

Zaderules

Can the video extend to 3 minutes? or is it DQ? :(

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 08:17

#25

Eurydice

Community Manager

> Can the video extend to 3

> Can the video extend to 3 minutes? or is it DQ? :(

That would result in a disqualification, sorry!

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 11:56

#26

Sandwich-Potato

What if we manually sped up the video to play at like double speed to keep it withing 2 minutes?

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 17:01

#27

Snipes-Eat-Us

Question!!!!!!

Can we use SK soundtrack in our video without problems with copyrights?

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 17:52

#28

Lizzi

If I make a flash animation, could I just upload the resulting SWF to deviantart? Or do I have to export it in a format that Youtube will accept?

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 18:11

#29

Sandwich-Potato

If we win the artwork, are we allowed to distribute it like it's our sole property? Collaboration has that issue, you see.

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 19:37

#30

Fangel

Question about the prizes too

Is it possible to trade in certain accessories for "lower" valued ones? That is, if I got a volcanic grand topper, but wanted a divine one, could I get that switch?

Sat, 04/05/2014 - 00:27

#31

Fangel

Hey wait a minute

Is there only one entry thread as a universal language entry thread? Because the links on the other languages still leads to the English entry thread.

Sat, 04/05/2014 - 11:46

#32

Mrxxavierxx

spanish?

can i make the video in spanish? or at least with english subtitles?

Sat, 04/05/2014 - 14:14

#33

Pipipipipi

Behold, the evil squares shall take over the world!

You can make it anouther language with english subtitles (I think)

Sun, 04/06/2014 - 02:51

#34

Kkingsly

Warning:Fanboy moment

EHRMAHGERD SIGNED POSTER BY LEAD ARTIST CHERUB!!!!, Hes my floofin hero i must do something to win that :O
Also time to get to the question what if you are unable to support you address and real name?, just out of curiosity that is but if i did enter something im more than willing to put my mailing address and real name o.o

Sun, 04/06/2014 - 07:21

#35

Juvon

Very excited! I'm already

Very excited! I'm already working on mine.
Hope to finish it next week. If not then well, I'll finish it after the contest :p.

Sun, 04/06/2014 - 10:34

#36

Pretzelninja

Actual video length versus content length

If we post the video and the video itself is 2:03, but the actual content of the video ended around 1:58 and the rest was just a black screen with a "thanks for watching" message would that be a DQ? Basically i'm asking would you excuse a video for going over the 2 minutes by 1 or 2 seconds just for the sake of a proper outro? since those 1 or 2 seconds aren't really part of the actual content of the video for the contest.

Mon, 04/07/2014 - 02:30

#37

Corrosive-Paladin

A curious question

Would you happen to know how to pull SK materials/models into Valve's Source Film Maker? Or even into 3DXMax?
I'd love to do an animation (and have honestly been wanting to for some time) but I haven't been able to figure out any conversions that would work, unless im doing something wrong again............

Mon, 04/07/2014 - 08:19

#38

Aphrodite

Community Manager

Answers!

@Snipes-Eat-Us - yes you can use the SK music for this video

@Lizzi - The entry must be uploaded to youtube.

@Fangel - We won't substitute prizes, but they will be unbound, so you can trade as you like.

@Fangel and Mrxxavierxx - There is one entry thread for all languages. If there are entries in French, German or Spanish, our GMs from those languages will help with judging.

@Pretzelninja - If your video is over 2 minutes it will be disqualified, so squeeze out a few seconds!

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 04:54

#39

Crazierz

Yes Fantastic WE SHOULD DO THIS MORE OFTEN

I might want to do a love story ;D
I'm on steam though so its not in my favor right now.
If there multiple knights in a short do they get anything???

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 15:15

#40

Pipipipipi

Behold, the evil squares shall take over the world!

@Crazierz Only one knight will get the prize, but the prize is unbound so you can share it

Sat, 04/12/2014 - 08:38

#41

Theirillusion

What are the rules when it comes to music? Which (if any) copy right categories will get you disqualified?

Sat, 04/12/2014 - 12:57

#42

Animalminion

I like broccoli and cannot think of a subject

If we get a prize how will we know who has won? Will the winners be emailed to everyone or just the winners or will it be posted on one of the forum topics? Also when will it be revealed?

P.s sorry about last question I must have missed the post which you said the answer in XP

Sun, 04/13/2014 - 10:27

#43

Juvon

I'm sure the results will be

I think the results will be notified through a new forum post, made by the hosters.

How will the winner be contacted for the mailing address?

Sun, 04/13/2014 - 13:28

#44

Super-Ratman

@Juvon

Email, perhaps? Or maybe an in-game message?

Mon, 04/14/2014 - 17:56

#45

Lawrence-Ayala

@Juvon

My guess is that they might or will mail you the prizes....... Just a thought

Tue, 04/15/2014 - 00:57

#46

Theirillusion

He meant how we give our mailing address and name to get the printed art, not the in game accessories...

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 12:13

#47

Cinoa

Fun... Is... INFINITE.

As much as I want that print, I just don't want to (or can) make a video for it. Can't wait to see who won or what the print looks like!

Sat, 04/19/2014 - 15:44

#48

Mayaura

wow, great videos

@ Latisan-Sklay: Your video was so, so good - I was super impressed and entertained by it. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

@ Thegreatpiggy: Your retro black and white look with that ole time music from The Sting was great, too.

@ Juvon - I don't know how you did that, but it was very cute and well done.

@ Gfjmember = Epic poem, Bro.

@ Zaderules - Best music and funniest dance video. Encore!

@ Theirillusion - Hahaha, funny "story" and neat visuals.

@ Mezuka - You had me chuckling the whole time.

@ Solotron - Oooh, Japanese! Made me feel right at home. Chu-lu-lu!

Tue, 04/22/2014 - 15:48

#49

Lawrence-Ayala

So in the end..... Who won?

Tue, 04/22/2014 - 21:20

#50

Mezuka

@Lawrence

They haven't finished judging yet, as stated in the title.

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