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General discussionContest: Broken Age's Next Great Hero(73 posts)(73 posts)
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Posted April 28, 2015
The game is finished, but your creativity is only just warming up!

Tim Schafer has completed the first graphic adventure he designed with today's release of Broken Age: Act 2. Moment by moment, the storylines of both Vella and Shay, heroes from very different worlds but in scarily similar situations, were wrapped up. Settings remained just as beautiful and voice acting just as brilliant, if not better.

The game is complete - but we want more. We want you to bring a third Broken Age character to life through your own words.

The rules of this contest are simple: create your own Broken Age character, in 100 words or less. Give them a name, a story, and a goal - or just write whatever you wish about them, with as much or as little detail as you think is best. Post your writing in this thread before Sunday, May 3rd, 11:59 PM GMT and, if we decide your literary creation is the very best, you'll win the grand prize - but that's not the only reward we're planning to hand out!

THE PRIZES:

-- 1st place: A Broken Age t-shirt, a game print signed by Tim Schafer, and 5 GOG.com game codes worth $5.99 each
-- 2 runners-up: A Broken Age t-shirt and 3 GOG.com game codes worth $5.99 each
-- 5 honorable mentions: 1 GOG.com game code worth $9.99 each

Some extra rules:

-- Don't edit your post once it's posted. Check spelling, grammar, content, and punctuation before you make your post, not after.
-- Only one post/entry per person - if you make more, only the first one will be judged
-- The deadline is Sunday, May 3rd, 11:59 PM GMT.
-- The word limit is 100 words. Longer entries won't be taken into account.
-- We aim to pick a winner by Friday, May 8th.

Good luck!
Posted May 12, 2015
Hey guys and gals!

Quick update: I've picked my winners. I'm still waiting on input from people that were looking through the French, German, and Russian contest threads - and then I'll announce them ;)
Posted May 12, 2015
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Ciris: Hey guys and gals!

Quick update: I've picked my winners. I'm still waiting on input from people that were looking through the French, German, and Russian contest threads - and then I'll announce them ;)
Thanks for the update!
Posted May 12, 2015
It's taken a bit more time, and some hard calls have had to be made, but finally, our multinational team of professional & amateur contest entry readers (PACERs, trademark) has made their decisions and I am here to deliver the news.

Before I do, however, I'd like to say that once again I was quite taken aback by the creativity brewing in this thread and the number of awesome writers you all must be. We've had poetry and prose, tales of the young and of the old, and many very different settings, motives, and cultural backgrounds of characters.

However, I should probably get to the point before you alt-tab to a completely different place; so here goes: hear ye, hear ye, the contest winners shall now be announced!

FIRST PLACE:

The honors of winning first place (and a Broken Age t-shirt, a game print with Tim Schafer’s signature on it, and 5 GOG.com game codes) goes to tamablenebula. Congratulations! You can read their story below:
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tamablenebula: Lionel was just an ordinary teenager until a freak accident involving a ruby laser, an Aztec mirror, and the world's largest cubic zirconia split him into two new people – Leon, who is mute; and Noel, who has no physical body. Cast out by friends and family, they must cooperate, using their disparate skills to make their way across a surreal landscape, enduring hardship, deprivation, and numerous contrived, illogical puzzles in an attempt to solve their conundrum. Can they merge, and recreate Lionel? And do they even want to? Find out in Broken Age: part 3 (release date: May 2115).
RUNNERS-UP:

Our two runners-up are:
- xxtanmanxx and their story about the imaginary girl,
- Dalswyn and their story about a person living in two worlds.

Both will receive a Broken Age t-shirt and 3 GOG.com game codes each!

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

- AwesomeApostate and their story of a life between dream and reality,
- misteryo and their mathematically inclined birthmark idea,
- zazu49 and their jailed beggar story,
- EndlessWaves and their poem about dragons,
- pescebrodo and their method to restore color to the world.

Congratulations and huge thanks to all entrants! I will soon message the English-speaking winners with codes or other necessary details to collect your prizes :)
Post edited May 12, 2015 by Ciris
Posted May 12, 2015
Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks, Ciris and GOG, for a novel giveaway.
Posted May 12, 2015
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mrkgnao: Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks, Ciris and GOG, for a novel giveaway.
I make these, my words. ;)

Congratulations people of the win! ^_^
Posted May 12, 2015
Congrats all!
Posted May 12, 2015
Woohoo! What a fun contest! Thanks for all the creativity, everybody!
Posted May 13, 2015
All the entries were awesome to read, great contest. Congrats to all!
Posted May 13, 2015
Congrats everybody!!!
Posted May 14, 2015
Congrats to you all!
You see, taste is something you just can't argue with. Personally I loved the idea behind this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Posted May 14, 2015
OH MY GOD, I WAS AN HONORABLE MENTION!

Sorry, I never won anything for creative writing before, so I got super excited!
Posted May 14, 2015
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AwesomeApostate: OH MY GOD, I WAS AN HONORABLE MENTION!

Sorry, I never won anything for creative writing before, so I got super excited!
Congratulations! Yours was really good. It seems like an acid-trip of a game. :)

Enjoy your game! And keep entering contests. You're a creative person.
Posted May 18, 2015
Thanks for the honourable mention :D

Although I think it took me longer to claim my prize than write my entry. A 58 page list of options is a bit daunting. If the gog.com web developers get a spare moment I'm sure future contest winners would appreciate a search box being added to the redeem page.

I picked Avernum: Escape from the Pit. Having struggled with one of the geneforge games a few years ago (#4 I think), this seemed an excellent opportunity to give Spiderweb software another go with a modern engine from the start of a series.
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