Homestead Furniture Making Contest
Prizes
All Winners: All winning models get immortalized in the Roblox Toolbox. Thousands will see your work and hundreds will make use of it.
Grand Prize: The contestant with the most solid portfolio of work submitted to the contest, being either a collection of models, or one totally awesome model, as judged by the Roblox staff will win a one-time customized character of their own design! This includes selecting part colors and optional submission of a 107×128 pixel torso decal (so long as the graphic is not copyrighted). “One-time” means we’ll set it up the way you want, but we don’t guarantee any sort of permanence or support in the future when we roll out customizable avatars for everyone.
The Contest
We’ve decided that the default Roblox starting places are lame and need revamping. To this end, I have created a house for starting players that looks remarkably like the house on the Homestead Badge.
The house starts off empty. The idea is that new players will insert furniture to customize their house and add landscaping to make it more interesting.
To make this process super-easy, I am going to add a “Furniture” tab to the standard Roblox Toolbox. I am then going to select 15-25 outstanding furniture models of standard house stuff (table, chairs, sofas, TVs, ovens, refrigerators, beds, ect ect) and include them in the Toolbox. This is where you come in. Instead of recycling the same old furniture from Roblox World Headquarters or the Haunted Mansion, we want brand-new stuff.
Submission
1. Publish your entry as a model.
2. Post a link to your model on the Homestead Contest thread in the Creations Forum, along with a brief description.Â
Rules
All submissions must be original. Winners will be judged on a rolling basis. This means as they come in. When we get enough good stuff, the contest is over and we will announce the Grand Prize winner. You can make whatever furniture you think would be cool, but we’re looking for variety. So once we’ve chosen five winning chairs, probably no other chair submission is going to win. Multiple entries are encouraged! If you submit multiple things, please use the same account name for each submission so that I can track people’s portfolios for the Grand Prize. Enter early and often!
Judging Criteria
Points awarded to entries on the basis of: creativity, construction, attention to detail, attention to scale. Remember that the point of this exercise is to provide new players with cool furniture for their house.
Bonus Points
Since I know someone is going to ask, the first person to post a decent description of how to create and publish a model to Roblox on the Homestead Contest thread will get bonus points in the judging (hey, it could be enough to break a tie).
Great idea!!
but im gunna lose like I always do…
Comment by ToaZ — January 17, 2007 @ 4:01 am
Got a few of my entries in the forum. And, I already made a page on how to publish a model, it is in the FAQ section in the Wiki.
And I seem to be gravitating toward Kitchen appliances…
Hmm…
Comment by Mr Doom Bringer — January 17, 2007 @ 5:11 am
Sounds like a great idea! new starting map is needed, and the prizes are really something. Ive already created some furniture, some of which have been used already. Am i allowed to submit some of these with minor adjustments, or must they be 100% new?
Comment by miked — January 17, 2007 @ 8:21 am
Im quite busy over the next four days, I see there is no strict deadline, but how long roughly do you estimate the competition will run?
Comment by miked — January 17, 2007 @ 2:55 pm
miked: You may modify previously-constructed furniture so long as it was your original creation at some point. The thing I wanted to prevent was mainly people submitting recolored stuff from the Haunted Mansion. Theoretically, updating the Toolbox and default place is an out-of-band upgrade that doesn’t require a client release. However, I’d like to have something to show in the next client release, so we’re probably shooting for Monday here. But no guarantees.
Comment by Telamon — January 17, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
umm,how to enter?
Comment by pokemon97 — January 17, 2007 @ 11:39 pm
Is this the next contest?(if it is I want to be in it!)
Comment by Riddick98 — February 7, 2007 @ 2:16 am
i made this on october 1 2007
Comment by galgirlygal — October 1, 2007 @ 9:02 pm
old post lol
Comment by ~Articuno X~ — November 18, 2007 @ 10:17 pm
how do i enetr it
Comment by jonathan9 — January 28, 2008 @ 12:01 am
I won it. :P
Comment by ToaZuku — August 30, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
YAY FOR THE CONTEST!
Comment by Widoreu — December 1, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
Right on, brother! YAY FOR THE CONTEST!
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