Friday Blog 237: Builder’s Contest! Prizes for the Best Worlds

Pathros by PatateNouille

We are organizing a new Builder’s Contest! The best world will win a digital Steam Gift Card worth €100, and the next spots will win €50 / €25 / €15 / €10, respectively. We are planning to use these worlds to film a new main trailer and to make new screenshots for the Steam Storepage. This leads to a bunch of specific needs and preferences:

[h3]What are we looking for?[/h3]

• Worlds showcasing many of the features in the game, especially newer features like the rails, roofs, gliders, outposts, traps etcetera
  
• Houses for colonists to work/sleep in
  
• Visually appealing colonies that form a coherent whole, like a village, castle or city.
  
• Functionality of what's built - it should be actively used by colonists and serve a purpose beyond the visual
  
• Visible infrastructure between colonies and outposts, with rails / paths / bridges / gliders
  
• Colonies that do "the whole game"; they should be approximately self-sufficient in the way it ends up when you naturally play the game, they should look "lived in".
  
• Worlds that have depth, that you can get lost in, with outposts in the distance and plenty of small streets and alleys

[h3]What are we not looking for?[/h3]

• Huge fields of tightly packed beds
  
• Giant warehouses
  
• "Car park farming"
  
• Worlds that look like they were built with cheats, where it is obvious that the player always used the flight-cheat to move between colonies, that many resources appeared without the required production facilities
  
• Worlds visibly using mods
• Purely decorative builds

[h3]The rules[/h3]

• Upload your world to the Steam Workshop from Colony Survival (Main Menu > Mod Manager > Create Item)
• Navigate towards the Colony Survival Workshop in Steam, acces "Your Workshop Files" and click on the world you just uploaded
  
• Put “2024 Builder’s Contest” at the start of the description
  
• Add at least one screenshot to showcase your colony
  
• Fully publish your world to the Steam Workshop
  
• Do this before January the 5th 2024, 8AM Amsterdam time
  
• It’s fine to use worlds that you’ve started before the start of the contest
  
• It should be a world of your own creation, you’re not allowed to download a stranger’s world and upload that
  
• You’re allowed to upload multiple worlds
  
• We operate according to the spirit of the rules, not the letter of the rules. We might adjust the rules to better fit the goals of the contest.

Good luck and have fun building! The winners will be announced in a Friday Blog after the contest has ended. If you have any questions left, put them in the comments or share them on Discord. We’ve got a dedicated channel called #builderscontest where you can share your progress and discuss the contest with us and others.

Bedankt voor het lezen!

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