June 6, 2006

New Video and Screenshot Contest for Seed

The development team behind Seed has announced that they are conducting a contest among players for new screenshots and videos. Seed is a sci-fi MMORPG that released on May 2.

The official release posted on the Seed forums can be read below:

Location graphics as well as lightning and particle effects in Seed have improved vastly during the latest months. So vastly that our current collection of screen shots and videos on our website is rather outdated.

We need new ones, and we would like all of you to help creating a large collection of great, intriguing, fascinating, original screen shots and video clips. All screens/videos published afterwards on the website will carry the credit (forum name) of the person who submitted them.

As in all competitions there will be prices for the best contributions as well. We have emptied our suitcases from E3 and gathered a little pile of our best swag.

The prices will be:

• 1st price: 1 Seed boiler suit + 1 Seed T-shirt (limited sizes available) + 14 days added to paid subscription *.
• 2nd-5th price: 1 Seed T-shirt (limited sizes available) + 14 days added to paid subscription *.
• 6th-10th price: 14 days added to paid subscription *.

*For trial players the 14 days will be added to the first paid subscription period following the trial.

The jury will consist of lead artist Jan Roed Thastum, lead writer Alex Uth and communications manager Morten Juul.

Requirements

• To participate, you must submit at least 3 screenshots from Seed no later than Monday, June 19th 2006.
• You may either post a link (and link only) to your contributions in this forum thread or send a link (and link only) as a private message to mortenj
• Screens must be at least 1024*728 pixels.
• Screens must be captured no earlier than June 6th, 2006.
• Screen format must be BMP or JPEG in ultra-low / no compression.
• Screens must be uploaded to a source easily accessible by us (website, FTP-server, etc.) You may upload your contributions to www.seedthegame.com/gallery by logging in with your forum username and password - however, here you will be able to upload max. 5 images, each of no more than 1024 KB in size.
• If the file size proves too big to upload, you may upload a lower resolution version, as long as you are able to provide us with higher resolution version if we should request one.
• Videos must be at least 320*240 pixels and preferably at least 640*480.
• Videos must be captured no earlier than June 6th, 2006.
• Video format must be AVI, MPEG or MOV. Codec must be common and preferably DivX or mpeg4.
• Videos must be uploaded to a source easily accessible by us (website, FTP-server, etc.). You may upload your contributions to www.seedthegame.com/gallery by logging in with your forum username and password - however, here you will be able to upload max. 5 videos, each of no more than 1024 KB in size.
• If the file size proves too big to upload, you may upload a lower resolution version, as long as you are able to provide us with higher resolution version if we should request one.
• The winners will be selected before July 1st, 2006. Winners will be contacted directly via forum private message for shipping arrangements. In addition, the forum names of the winners will be announced on the www.seedthegame.com.
• This competition is open for everybody - trial players as well as paying subscribers.

We like screenshots/videos of

• all locations (rec space, lab space, canyon)
• all angles (close-up, landscape, up tilt, down tilt, etc.)
• all motives (environment, characters, machinery, repair jobs, etc.)

We particularly like

• Footage with more than one character
• Footage with dialogue and/or action (repairs, emotes, etc.)

Hints

• Make sure all textures are properly loaded before capturing footage.
• You can move the camera (so it does not automatically center on your character) by holding down <ctrl> and left-click + dragging the mouse.

Conditions

All images and videos (footage) submitted to this competition are considered the property of Runestone Game Development. Runestone will solely decide what footage to use. Runestone may use and distribute the footage in any way we see fit. Contributors will be credited by forum name if their footage is used on www.seedthegame.com.

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