The rules are simple:
- Carve a video-game themed pumpkin.
- Send a picture of your pumpkin, in .jpg format, to contest AAT joystiq DAWT com. (Be sure to take an additional picture with the word "joystiq" written on a piece of paper somewhere. If you're selected as a winner, we'll ask to see this other photo to ensure that you haven't submitted someone else's carving as your own.)
- Deadline for entries is noon Eastern Time Monday, October 29. Twenty-five (25) finalists will be selected by Joystiq staffers based equally on creativity and originality. Out of those finalists, ten (10) winners will be selected based on reader votes.
- You may enter as many carved pumpkins as you like, so long as they're all somehow related to video games.
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A pumpking is nothing but a miserable little pile of secrets.
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I would recommend you AT LEAST give the first 30 a try, you have been missing a lot of awesome games
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Can I carve an ORANGE? There cheaper and the same color as a pumpkin.
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Using some one else's template while fun, and looks cool, is cheating when benefiting from some one else's work. Nothing wrong when cutting with templates, but I think common sense implies the art work should be original if you wish to claim a prize from it. Or I guess if you can go through life feeling that is ok, hopefully karma will catch up to you. Give credit where do.
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That being said, one of the judging criteria is 'originality'. I'm sure that there will be tons of people submitting zombiepumpkin designs, so I think when judging commences, all those people will *probably* get the originality points deducted.
Of course, someone could get lucky and submit a stencil that no one else uses. Either way, it's all for fun anyway, right?
Using some one else's template while fun, and looks cool, is cheating when benefiting from some one else's work. Nothing wrong when cutting with templates, but I think common sense implies the art work should be original if you wish to claim a prize from it. Or I guess if you can go through life feeling that is ok, hopefully karma will catch up to you. Give credit where due.
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