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New Contest: Evil Hero D-Mod

Are you interested in making D-Mods, but simply can't find the motivation to do it? Or are you quite good at making them, and want to find a new challenge? Tada, this Contest might help.

Basically, the goal of the contest is to make an Evil Hero D-Mod. It also allows D-Mods to compete against D-Mods in a Contest, instead of battling everything in DOTM contests.

To view the rules, view the Comments.

The Rules

Deadline: All entries must arrive at redink1@rpgplanet.com before June 1st, 2003, PST, and they will be put online later that day.

If you upload your entry to another public website before it is on The Dink Network, it is disqualified from the Contest.

Voting: Voting will be conducted by the Senior Staff within a week of the deadline.

If there are less than 3 entries, the contest is basically cancelled, and no prizes will be awarded.

Prize: The current idea is the 1st place winner would get an item of their choice from The Dink Network's store. That may change in the future, but at the very least there will be a real, prize of value awarded. If more than one person works on the winning D-Mod, only one prize will be awarded.

Size: The D-Mod must be less than 2 MB zipped.

Specifications: The main player character must have some evil traits. You could have an Evil Hero start out evil, and learn to be good across the course of the D-Mod, start out good and become evil, or just be evil the entire time.

Multiple player characters are allowed, where at least one of them is evil.

You can use any graphics for the main player character, including brand-new ones (Dink, a Chest, a Scorpion from SOB, etc.)

Misc: If you have any questions, or think some of my rules are a bit silly, please post a comment or a message on the board.

Oh, and because there is a prize, and the voting will be conducted by the Dink Network Senior Staff, any entries by redink1, Dukie, WC, Kyle, and Tal are not eligible.

Previously released D-Mods are not eligible, nor any parts of their map and/or story. For example, Sharp couldn't take Milder 3 submit it for the contest. However, if you wanted to have a SOB scorpion as an enemy (or character) that is allowed.

The point of the Evil Hero theme was to make it so people couldn't just submit a D-Mod they've been working on for months. So if have been working on a D-Mod that fits in the rules for a while, please start a new one.

You can use as many new graphics as you wish (as long as the D-Mod zip size is under 2 MB). You can have new tiles, Characters, Trees, anything.

You can submit more than one entry. But beware: you may end up 'splitting the vote', and allowing another D-Mod to win, like the Green Party and Democrats vs the Republicans in the 2000 election.