A Winter Onwardland
Hello everyone!
Over the past couple of months we've seen Onward grow as many new players have joined our ranks. On top of that we've recently brought back custom map support for PCVR, and introduced it on Oculus Quest. Now, the holiday season is fast approaching and we've recently seen the launch of some exciting new technology. A perfect time then to celebrate a successful year for Onward, and to do that we're launching a community contest where you all will be able to compete for eternal glory, and spectacular prizes.
We will be awarding prizes in the following categories:
- Custom (Snow/Winter) Maps (3 prizes)
- Fan art (1 prize)
- Fan video (1 prize)
Custom (Snow/Winter) Maps
This category will be familiar to those of you who participated in our last community contest: creators will compete by making new and interesting maps for Onward. We'll be giving away prizes in three categories: overall best map, best PC map and best Quest map. Because we encourage creators to create maps that support all platforms, any map that supports both PC and Quest versions of Onward will compete in all three categories. Maps that support only one platform will only compete for that category. As a twist we've added a theme to the custom maps competition this time around: all maps submitted for this contest must have a winter setting!
If you're new to creating maps for Onward, go to the Onward Custom Content Guide to download the Onward Custom Content SDK for Unity and make sure to read the Rules For Content Submission on the Onward Custom Content Guide. All entries must abide by these rules.
- Submission deadline: Thursday January 21st
- Prizes:
- For the best cross-platform map: 1x your choice of either an NVidia RTX 3090 video card or an AMD 5950X processor with a high end motherboard
- For the best map on PC: 1x your choice of either an NVidia RTX 3080 video card or an AMD 5900X processor with a high end motherboard
- For the best map on Quest: 1x your choice of either an NVidia RTX 3080 video card or an AMD 5900X processor with a high end motherboard
- For the best cross-platform map: 1x your choice of either an NVidia RTX 3090 video card or an AMD 5950X processor with a high end motherboard
Fan Art & Videos
We always enjoy seeing the creative side of our community, and there's a lot of creative talent going around! We want to encourage and reward those of you who put your talents to use, and so we've added two new categories. For (aspiring) videographers we'll be giving away a prize for the best fan video, and we're also giving away a prize for any other form of fan art that catches our attention. Pretty much anything goes: from a drawing or painting to a music piece: catch our attention and you can win yourself a nice upgrade for your gaming system.
- Submission deadline: Thursday January 3rd
- Prizes:
- For the best video: 1x your choice of either an NVidia RTX 3080 video card or an AMD 5900X processor with a high end motherboard
- For the best fan-art: 1x your choice of either an NVidia RTX 3080 video card or an AMD 5900X processor with a high end motherboard
- For the best video: 1x your choice of either an NVidia RTX 3080 video card or an AMD 5900X processor with a high end motherboard
How to enter the contest For all categories
- Join the Onward Discord to stay up to date on any announcement we may make during the contest submission periods. This is mandatory if you want to be eligible for any prizes.
- Send an email to [email protected] with the following information:
- Which category you are joining (Maps, Fan Art, or video)
- Your Discord username
- Which category you are joining (Maps, Fan Art, or video)
For map creators
- In your email, include all the information listed above, and also:
- The name of your map
- The category/ies you wish to compete in (cross-platform, PC, and/or Quest)
- The name of your map
- Make sure the email address you use to submit your entry to [email protected] is the same email address you use to submit your map using the Onward Custom Content SDK.
You will receive a response from us as soon as possible to confirm your entry and the details on how to submit your entry or entries.
Submission deadlines & winner announcements
- Fan art: Sunday, January 3rd
- Videos: Sunday, January 3rd
- Custom Maps: Thursday January 21st
We will announce the winners of the Fan Art and Video categories on Monday January 11th, and the winners of the custom map category on February 1st.
The Fine Print
- All participants must join the Onward Discord
- Any participant can only win one prize, but they may submit as many entries as they want in as many categories as they want.
- Submissions for this contest must be original work, created after the date of this announcement.
- Submissions may not contain any material which is subject to a copyright or trademark owned by another person or entity than the one submitting the work.
- Submissions must not break or encourage breaking of any laws of the United States of America.
- We reserve the right to remove any person from this contest and/or reject any submission for any reason without prior notice.
- Downpour Interactive will, at its sole discretion, select the winners of each category of the contest.
- When the winners for each category are announced we will send them an email to claim their prize. If the prize isn't claimed within one week from the date of this email, that person will have forfeited their prize and we will award it to the next best entry.