Hello fellow Groupies! In honor of Lara's birthday, we're happy to announce the group's fourth contest! We have lots of amazing prizes and tons of fun in store for you, so if you're looking for action, adventure, creativity, exploration and treasure, then this is for you!
EDIT: As per several requests, the date for the contest has been extended for another two weeks until the 22nd of May, at 12AM.
There are so many wonderful great moments in Tomb Raider, far too many to count, but we want to remember why we do and what made certain sequences and adventures special to each one of us personally. This is the chance to bring together fans of Lara that have been with her through the games' infancy and the ones she's created today.
This contest is about the very things that make Tomb Raider special. So this begs to question: What makes Tomb Raider so important to every one of us? What has made the game unique? What makes us keep running back to Lara? So we have divided the three main elements of Lara and her adventures to pin point what exactly makes them so special to our hearts.
EDIT: As per several requests, the date for the contest has been extended for another two weeks until the 22nd of May, at 12AM.
T H E M E
There are so many wonderful great moments in Tomb Raider, far too many to count, but we want to remember why we do and what made certain sequences and adventures special to each one of us personally. This is the chance to bring together fans of Lara that have been with her through the games' infancy and the ones she's created today.
This contest is about the very things that make Tomb Raider special. So this begs to question: What makes Tomb Raider so important to every one of us? What has made the game unique? What makes us keep running back to Lara? So we have divided the three main elements of Lara and her adventures to pin point what exactly makes them so special to our hearts.
C A T E G O R I E S
Traps and Danger - Who doesn't remember running from rolling boulders, bloody spiked walls, enemies that made you run first and shoot later? Anything that shows these very key elements listed would belong to this category.
Ways to do an entry in this category: Lara running from a incoming boulder. Having Lara jumping on a springboard; Lara battling a dinosaur or some poor helpless endangered species, etc.
Exploration and Discovery - One of the biggest gameplay elements, if not one-third of the game is exploring and discovering new places of interests, finding new realms, whether they be supernatural, historical or simply natural.
Ways to do an entry in this category: Lara discovering an ancient ruined area, be it underwater or on land. Having Lara find a relic or unique artifact, etc.
Puzzles - A big part of the Tomb Raider series is solving ancient puzzles. While all not need to be elaborate portrayed or shown, even small logic stumpers have always been a vital element in the series.
Ways to do an entry in this category: Showing Lara stumped or triumphed over a puzzle. Finding or placing keys in doors, showing elaborate puzzles, etc.
P R I Z E S A N D T R E A S U R E S
We have lots of great prizes for you to win in our contest, some that are even outside of deviantART!
F I R S T P R I Z E
-1,000 points
- 2 week feature from Tomb-Raider-Groupies
- 1 month feature from Forty-Fathoms
- A feature on Stella's Walkthroughs Tomb Raider Website and her participating sites as well. Stella has a massive range of Tomb Raider fans and traffic when it comes to Lara and all her epicness. You would be personally featured on her website and your artwork would be shown to thousands of viewers and fans alike!
- However Lara is shown in the image, her image would be used for part of our front page's greeting. So say you do a whole scene with Lara, while that image would win, afterwards, Lara would be cut out of it and placed in the area of the group's greeting. This is to show how awesome your piece of artwork with thousands of members with promotion, and to show where your inspiration came from!
S E C O N D P L A C E
- 600 points
- 1 week feature from Tomb-Raider-Groupies
- 2 week feature from Forty-Fathoms
- 2 week feature from ColinCroft
T H I R D P L A C E
- 400 points
- 1 week feature from Forty-Fathoms
- 1 week feature from SlayerSango
R E Q U I R E M E N T S & W H A T ' S A L L O W E D
Each and any entry must be purely made for this contest.Any entry can be based upon one of the games in the Tomb Raider series or can be completely original.Entries are encouraged to be able to have Lara cut out for the group's greeting prize, but are not required. Only two entries per participant. You can choose to do one from a certain category and another from a different category or choose to keep them in the same category. You don't necessarily have to go with the braided, red-sunglasses, tank top and shorts Lara, but it certainly doesn't hurt your chances of winning. Any medium is acceptable! In the case for Photomanipulation and Cosplayers: Cosplayers if you feel you can really bring these ideas to life in your cosplay, that's acceptable. Photomanipulaters: If you too feel you can bring life with photos etc, those entries are acceptable. However, any stock used in the images must be given proper credit. Any images not giving proper credit to the original stock owners or entries using stock not given permission to use will be disqualified! In your entry, you must place: This entry is for :*devtomb-raider-groupies*: Tomb Raider Memories contest :icon*tomb-raider-groupies*: <--- remove the asterisks when posting this. And please post what category you're piece is being chosen from.It should look like this when posted properly:
This entry is for Tomb-Raider-Groupies Tomb Raider Memories contest
. Category: ______
This entry is for Tomb-Raider-Groupies Tomb Raider Memories contest
. Category: ______
D E A D L I N E
At the moment, the contest will go from February 14th 2014, 12:00AM CST to May 1st 2014, 12:00AM CST
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This is subject to change in case entrees need more time. Enough requests of more time will extend this date.
Q U E S T I O N S ?
This is something we have thought long and hard on and we're extremely excited to see what you bring to us and fans alike. We hope you're just as excited as us and if you have any questions at all, please leave a comment below, note the group or any administrator and we'll answer your question! If you're confused or want to know more information, don't hesitate to ask!
Now everyone get out there and let's do some tomb raiding!
Happy Raidings!
