interesting

very excited to see others take on it ! :D

is there any chance you guys are going to update steam image assets?, and while at it maybe new steam point shop items? like animated profile backgrounds and stickers. also do you plan to update the trailer for steam store dlc operation crimson hammer?

This sounds exciting! Looking to throw my hat in the ring on this. My only concern is that (at time of writing) Steam accounts such as mine are unable to login to the SK wiki to upload. Will this be fixed in due time? If not, where else could I possibly submit my entry as a failsafe?

When uploading a submission, since the wiki has only 2 mb. file size limit.
The submission should be an individual panel or everything in a single image (say, ten panels in one picture)
My main concern is that it would be bigger than 2mb (but that depends on quality and image type)

Hello! I cannot get to the submissions through my Steam account (which is what i'm using to post right now). Is there a way to fix that or do I need to create an account through the official website?

Nice, good luck everyone!

the main goal of steam announcements seem to bring back old players, and the player count on steam charts shows how successful it's been. while this storyboard might be a huge deal to people who have already been closely following the latest updates, it's mostly irrelevant for people who haven't played for years. i'd say making it a subpost was the right call

This sounds like a super cute idea! Is there any chance you might accept video submissions, like animatic storyboards set to the game's own soundtrack? I know the main theme as it were is about 2 minutes long, which miiiight be pushing on the rules a little much, but it'd be such a good opportunity to do something dramatic and dynamic with the setting!

When you makes notes about transition on the storyboard, what are the examples of it? I'm kinda confused about it

Are we talking about like "slow dramatic animation", "fades away", or 5 seconds showing this "concept" or "animation", add dramatic music to or something? I wanna make sure I follow the rubric and the format

Hi Clotho! This is a wonderful idea, and I'm so glad that the community will directly be influencing the newest promo trailer for Spiral! Do you have any updates yet regarding the upload limit?

Hello! Any other alternatives to upload the storyboard? I cant upload it to the wiki because I am using Steam and it doesn’t let me change my email account here in the page.

So my main question is what is the idea of this trailer? Is it like "A call to all knights" for a return of the game? Is it a trailer to quote on quote, go over the full aspect of the game? Is it a trailer to show the return of the game/revival of Spiral Knights?

Is it just to make a trailer of the game as if it's a new release, and you want to show the games story and premise? What the game is about? Story, gear, community etc?

What is the full plan here, so I know what to build the storyboarding around?

Will the rewards be tradable? (I ask because I'd rather be credited as "Archemiday" than "Archemiday-Thebard", but my main character uses the "Archemiday-Thebard" name, and would rather accept the rewards on my "Archemiday" alt and then transfer them over to my main Knight, if that makes sense.)

Also, I assume that .jpg files are also acceptable? The original post does say to name the file as a .png, but the wiki does support other image formats, and .jpg files do seem to appear in the wiki's Storyboard_Event category.

@Clotho: Uploaded to the wiki as a .webp, going to the original file works (raw/original file link), but the preview/thumbnail on the file list is saying "Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127". In lieu of a bigger upload limit at least I have something up before the deadline, hopefully that counts! :P

Hi! I've been having concerns with the file limit as many others have. I plan on also submitting a video/animatic.
I was wondering if we'd be able to upload the submissions a different way- such as uploading it to youtube and providing a link instead as a submission?

Uploaded mine, enjoy

Interested in entering. I do have one issue though - ten panels maximum?

Like, if the trailer is 60 seconds long, 5 second cuts would need 12 panels at minimum. for 3 second cuts it would take 20.

Are submissions with more than ten panels allowed?

I really don't think AI submissions deserve to win prizes on something that's creative-based. This is a directive/art-based contest, not type a prompt to create soulless slop contest.

@Clotho: It's very kind of you to be so encouraging and make these changes. I am hopeful that the next time such a contest runs, things will go a little smoother, but I understand that doing backend improvements on game and forum infrastructure is time consuming and complex, with all the unpicking of a legacy codebase. Whether it's just a little bit frayed at the edges or an outright gordian knot I'm certain you are all doing your best to make this fun for us all. (That in mind, a more developed fanwork submission portal on the forums might be something nice to have even if it only runs during competitions, but, bandwidth and moderation costs, I know.)

I'd certainly like to try to share my entry. Truly, I think all any of us want is to share what this game means to us, and for those efforts to mean something to you at Grey Havens, too. We came back to see where this game would go, and we want to prove it'll be worth the time you're spending on it by participating.

All that said, I have similar concerns to other users. I don't want to contribute too much to the invective surrounding AI-generated content (no matter how ardently I dislike generative AI), but I respect my peers of all skill levels enough to want to say I agree wholeheartedly with them that it is a concern.

I respect that your team is almost certainly trying to foster an inclusive environment where anyone can participate, even those of us that can only manage stick figures, but the absence of a firm stance on the matter is... understandable, but not encouraging, let's say. Diplomacy is valuable, and everyone does have a place here, but it would be very frustrating to put time into something meaningful only to lose to some vector calculus masquerading as a text parser.

Speaking for myself? I would sooner cede my place to a loose moodboard of game screenshots than to a data-scraper that neither understands nor cares for the work both your team and your players have done.

If the spirit of the contest is to tell you what matters to us from the heart, I can only hope that means that even the simplest stick-figure impression of a moment that a player treasures has as much potential as you've promised. Half of the love I have for this game comes from Ian McConville's timeless art direction. The other half is from the people I met while enjoying playing it. This contest - and future ones, hopefully - represents the moments where community and creativity meet. As I understand it, Spiral Knights itself exists as a sort of passion project - now more than ever. I don't believe your team ever would turn its back on that authentic human history and authentic human creativity, but I still think it's important you hear it from us; "It matters." Thanks for your time, and again for the lengths you've gone to to make this happen for us.