Announcing the "
FORUM ICONS" competition.
Fred and I invite you to submit new icons that we can use on this Forum. These are the "Smileys" or "Emoticons" that you see in messages. Like these:
and so on.
Your prize is the prestige of having your icons used on the forum for a while. (You may grin very smugly for at least a month!)
We're starting with a simple competition. Please submit your set of thre icons, covering the following:
1. A "Shhh" icon
2. A "Captain" icon
3. A "Cheering" (YAY!) icon.
From the entries, we will select icons to enhance the existing set, if suitable entries are submitted.
Competition is now open. It closes at 11pm UK Time on 22nd March 2009. The judges decision will be announced within a day or two of that date.
Please read the guidelines below.
Guidelines for creating icons for Ship Simulator:
(1)
What do you get out of this?
We will use your set of icons on the forum until we hold the next competition or until we decide to use another set of icons. Generally, this will be for a minimum of a month. In that time you will get the appropriate level of hero-worship from other forum members.
(2)
The judges will consist of selected Moderators and/or Administrators. Do not try to influence them or you may be eliminated from the competition.
(3)
All work submitted must be your own creation. This is most important. Do not submit anyone else's images.
(4)
Icons should be
preferably produced in "
gif 89a non-interlaced" format
(not essential, though). If you don't know what this (or any other terms used here) means, the answer is Google!
(5)
You should probably set the background as the transparent colour, unless you have a really good reason to do otherwise.
(6)
The size of your icons should be consistent with those already on this site. It's probably not going to win many favours if your icons cause the text to look strangely positioned.
(7 )
When you submit the icons, you are giving Vstep permission to use them in whatever way they see fit, in perpetuity (forever). You won't be able to stipulate what happens to them. This is the case whether your icons are selected as competition winners or not.
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One entry per person, per competition.
(9)
The judges decision is final. No discussions will be entered into. Unless it involves Marmite.
* update 2nd March - underlined words added in section 4.
