Platinum Arts Sandbox - Free 3D Game Maker Forum

Well we finally have our winners! Congrats to those selected and thank you to everyone who has entered!

Best Logo: Chaze007

Best Teeshirt: Drago

Best Trailer: Stefos

Take care and stay tuned for the next contest!
-mike

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NOTE CONTEST EXTENDED 24 hours UNTIL MONDAY JAN 18th 8PM EST

To thank our community for their support in getting us to the top 100 Mods/Games of the year at moddb.com we decided we'd do something special for our community, a contest where you can win free games with over $150 in prizes! Thanks to our awesome sponsors Bluewolf72 and CDV Games we have three copies of Divinity II: Ego Draconis to give away among other prizes!

Official Contest Posting: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=757

Prizes:
Copy Of Divinity II: Ego Draconis
Your credited work being seen by the tens of thousands in the Sandbox community and used in many schools and colleges across the world which certainly doesn't hurt your resume.
VIP forum tag.
A special place in our hearts.

How To Win:
The contest will have three categories, Best New Sandbox Logo, Best Teeshirt Design, and Best Sandbox Promotional Video. The winner of each category will win a game key to Divinity II: Ego Draconis. Entrants have until Monday January 18th 8pm EST.

As many of you know we made it to the final round for Indie Game Of The Year at moddb.com If you haven't voted TWICE please go to our moddb.com profile and do so.
http://www.moddb.com/games/platinum-arts-sandbox
http://www.moddb.com/events/2009-mod-of ... scoreboard - Countdown until the end of Second Round Voting

It is a pretty huge deal that we even made it into the top 100 since it was out over seven thousand projects and only two other released indie projects made it. I think it is still worth trying to win top indie project even though we are extreme underdogs. With enough help I think we could pull something out. Winning to us is really important because of the credibility factor. Also it helps you because more attention to Sandbox can mean more developers coming to Sandbox which can mean more features in Sandbox which helps us all.

I'm looking for any suggestions and media I can get to help us promote Sandbox and try to get enough votes to win the Game Of The Year. Here are my ideas and plans so far.

#1 I have a few webpages that I'm going to post to about Master Chef Ogro and when people come to the site, hopefully they will vote for Sandbox.
#2 I'm going to make a commercial that features the inside of a house with a table and cookies. This is going to be the main bit for it:
"Depressed? Got the blues? There is one fix that is sure to cheer you up, cookies! Have you ever dreamed of owning your own stack of soft warm delicious cookies? Now is your chance! For the low price of voting for Sandbox, your cookie dreams can come true!"
Hirato also wants me to do one with raining cookies.

What we need
- Any really nice looking screenshots. /hidehud 1 hides the crosshair and FPS
- Any nice looking and/or funny videos
- If you know any webpages that would be good for us to post info on Sandbox please let me know
- Any other ideas you might have to help us get attention and votes

If anyone has any cool youtube videos or screenshots that I can put on moddb that would be awesome. With the videos though I need the original file and also make sure you have permission to use whatever music.

So what's in it for you and what happens if we do win? I was thinking about some kind of extra prize for the community. I'm not sure exactly what yet, but I'm up for ideas on that as well. Perhaps some kind of special feature and/or special content. Perhaps individuals who contributed a lot could get something personal too, like added into Sandbox as characters and more. In addition, it is a chance for you to get your content seen by many thousands of people. The moddb community is huge and our profile especially getting in the top 100 gets a ton of traffic.

We only have 12 days so we need to get moving. Thanks for your time and also a HUGE THANKS to everyone who has voted for us, thank you so much!!!!! Take care.
-mike

A lot of you already voted, but now the votes are wiped clean for the Final Round so please consider voting for us again. Please see the instructions at the top of our moddb profile:
http://www.moddb.com/games/platinum-arts-sandbox

Thank you for your help and support! Take care!
-mike

AND DON'T FORGET, A VOTE FOR US IS A VOTE FOR DELICIOUS COOKIESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!