Contests have become a popular way for many social VR/virtual world platforms to promote themselves and to encourage content creators with prizes.
Sinespace has just announced several new contests, with over US$29,000 worth of prizes, in three big contests and a series of smaller weekly contests:
We’ve got over $29,000 in prizes here – including $24,000 cash; between now & February 2020.
■ Wicked Witchcraft – Due October 28th, 2019, something Halloween/witchy; prize: $2000 grand prize, $1000 runner up. ■ Out of this World – Due December 20th, 2019, it’s all aliens and outer space for this one; prize: $3000 grand prize, $2000 runner up ■ Carnival Games – Due February 10th, 2020 – build something fun, interactive and interesting; prize: $5000 grand prize, $2000 runner up. ■ Weekly Contest, each and every week for the next few months starting from the September 28th, 2019 through February 21st, 2020, submit any original creation that week (once per item, must be a new item) for a chance at a $500 weekly prize.
After much anticipation, video tutorial series, guest blog posts and a global SDK bootcamp, the 2019 Decentraland Game Jam has finally kicked off. Over 2000 digital creators are currently flooding into the Metaverse for two weeks (Sept 16–30) of intense creative development and collaboration, competing for over $250k USD in prizes. Their efforts will form a lasting contribution to the evolution of Decentraland.
First Place: 350,000 MANA (worth approximately US$21,000 at current exchange rates), plus LAND (Decentraland’s virtual land parcels)
Second Place: 200,000 MANA (worth US$12,000), plus LAND
Third Place: 100,000 MANA (worth US$6,000), plus LAND
4th through 10th Place: 50,000 MANA each (worth US$3,000), plus LAND
11th through 20th Place: 25,000 MANA each (worth US$1,500), plus LAND
Every qualifying scene wins 1,000 MANA each (approx. US$60), plus LAND
Please note that prizes above 50,000 MANA are subject to an irrevocable six-month vesting schedule (in other words, you have to wait 6 months before withdrawing the money).
So, what are you waiting for? Register today and get cracking!
I am in a somewhat cranky mood this morning. (Yes, I am 55 years old, and in certain circumstances, I am already considered a senior citizen, so I assume that this comes with the territory.)
Attack of the Clones: a series of running (I believe) challenges for users to create avatar likeness of famous people using Sansar’s facial morphing capabilities (not made outside of Sansar and then uploaded). The first selection of faces runs through until Monday September 16th, and features the faces of Ripley (aka Sigourney Weaver) from the Alien franchise, Lando Calrissian (a.k.a. Billy Dee Williams, not Donald Glover) from the Star Wars films or someone called Pow3r (no, I’ve no idea who this is either). I gather entries are to be posted to Flickr.
I’m unable to give further context to these challenges, as the details are buried somewhere in Sansar’s Discord pages (where contests and competitions apparently don’t even have their own channel).
And I agree with Inara Pey: why is Linden Lab making it so hard for us bloggers to learn about these contests? I just did a search for “clones” on the official Sansar Discord, and I can’t find a damn thing! How am I supposed to write up something about a contest when I don’t have any of the details? I only learned about it today via Inara’s blog. Digging through my bloated Twitter feed, I finally found a tweet with an announcement:
So, now you know about it too. You have a couple of days left to submit your entries, by tagging them with @SansarOfficial and posting them to Instagram or Twitter by Sept. 16th, 2019 (not Flickr, as Inara said). I have no idea if this is a one-time contest, or a running contest, or if there are any prizes. Like I said, the lack of details is irritating to me.
Let me make a suggestion for Linden Lab: how about setting up some sort of mailing list just for promoting your contests to bloggers, influencers, and members of the news media? Put all the details in one email (deadlines, prizes, etc.) and send it out once to everybody, so we’re all in the loop.
Ryan takes another swig of Geritol, shakes his cane, and yells at those damn kids to get off his lawn.
In the next few days we have some wonderful changes coming, we have a new logo and were working on a whole new brand to boot. We’ve got our biggest update ever coming tomorrow with a whole host of new features and fixes. We will also be giving away another Quest (64GB model) to a lucky user! Just add a reaction to the message in the #announcements channel on our Discord to be in with a chance of winning! We will announce the winner tomorrow!
We are going to OC6! If anyone is headed to San Jose around the 25th-26th of this month come and say hello! We’ll have free stickers!
I also just want to say thanks again to this wonderful community, thanks to the developers, the modders, the mappers, the @Awesome Helper team and all the users here. This has been an amazing journey and its only just beginning! I will add more info here tomorrow on the details of the new SideQuest release.
So head on over to the SideQuest Discord, find the message in the #announcements channel, and add a reaction emoji. That’s all you have to do to be eligible to win! Good luck!
