Steem Monsters Official 1500 SBD Writing Contest Announcement!
Steem Monsters is looking for Writers to help create the backstory for the Steem Monsters world with a 1500 SBD Writing Contest!
This is pretty exciting. To our knowlege, this is the largest reward for a writing contest on Steem so far!
Steem Monsters is a collectible trading card game built on the Steem Blockchain. Players have summoners and monsters (and will eventually have items too) they can use to fight one another in the grand tournament and in the campaign setting. We need help building the campaign setting. Who are the monsters? Who are the summoners? What is the Splinterlands? Who said the Prophecy? We need you to help us flesh all of this out.
To be clear one of the most important aspects of this game is the fantasy lore of the game....and we want to make sure it's awesome while also involving the Steemit community in its creation!
The Process
The setting of the Steem Monsters world is called The Splinterlands.
The overall story arc is that the world was once whole, then became splintered, and the prophecy states that it will become whole again.
There are 6 Splinter groups based on their Elemental Color:
Red, Blue, Green, White, Black, and Gold (recently changed to purple).
Each Elemental Color of the game (Splinter group) will have its own writing team.
We have already begun the process of creating teams in the Steem Monsters Discord so if you are interested in taking part of this contest then head over and pick which color you want to write for, then join or create a team. Announce your Splinter selection in the Discord group and Aggroed or a mod will assign you the "writer" role and the Splinter color role of your choice.
Repeating: At this stage all you technically have to do to start is join the Discord, and request the writer and Splinter color role. Then find a group to join/create to work with.
Each writing team should have 4-5 people (you can have more or less but it isn't recommended. Too few is a lot of work. Too many and it's a lot of voices to coordinate). If more than 1 team is writing for a Splinter they are competing to have their template accepted.
The gold team is currently locked and pledged to secrecy on some plot elements. We'll show off their template in a week from now ahead of the other colors to provide further inspiration and a little more to work off of from other Splinters.
This week we will be finalizing the teams and making sure each team understands the Campaign Setting Process as well as the Steem Monsters Splinter Template.
There will be 2 Parts to this contest.
- Part 1 will be the backstory for each Splinter
- Part 2 will be the merging of these stories to create interaction between the splinter groups as well as overall cohesiveness
The scheduled layout of the contest is as follows:
- The Official Contest for each Splinter group will begin on Monday, June 25th
- The Finalists selection begins on Monday, July 2nd
- Part 2 of the contest begins near Monday, July 9nd - the merging of the finalist's stories
- The backstory will be completed on Monday, July 16th
Judging
The teams will be judged by @aggroed, @yabapmatt, and @isaria (we may invite others as well)
Judging is based on completeness of the template and cohesion of the Splinter around central values and a culture that seems well thought out.
The Prize!
The Prize for Part 1 of this contest is 1500 SBD!
There are 6 Splinter groups (Red, Blue, Green, White, Black, and Gold)
The winning writing teams from each group will be awarded 250 SBD.
We will announce the Prize for Part 2 of this contest when it begings on Monday July 9th. We're still determining the scope of work necessary to start merging independant groups into a collective timeline.
Thank You for your continued support!
@steemmonsters
Steem Monsters Contact Info
Official Account: @steemmonsters
Website: https://steemmonsters.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/CAFJRjY
You can find more details about the contest here: https://hackmd.io/npOH7pi0TwqVg7gOVje5ww
Thanks for good information
Awesome!
Yes it is. I am agree
I never heard of a contest in Steemit that as high as this contest. The prize of 1500 SBD is amazing and enticing to participate. The future for the Steem Monster Trading Card is bright. I am making a video of promoting the Steem Monster Card and will make @aggroed see it first. Good job!
This is really cool! everybody was fueled to be more excited on this contest while waiting for the upcoming tournament.
I'm going to start writing tonight!
This has been a great thought exercise ... Already 10pages into BLACK and it's gonna be awesome, with an incredible twist for their story... if I do say so myself. I may end up helping some other teams but super excited about this one.
The lore begins with Fruit Daddy; the Earth God who bears the fruit that sustain all the monsters on Earth.
When monsters were interviewed for their particular position in the game they were asked, "Who's your daddy?" They each looked at the interviewer and begrudgingly replied, "FruitDaddy".
Nice idea !
I am excited to start helping in creating lore!
is very nice ..
Quite interesting, while taking a look at the given names of the cards, I guess that it will be quite a difficult task to put a good lore together that will fit with every single one of them. However, having fractured worlds as "Splinters" in one world can be a promising story to tell.
Good luck!
Amazing contest that I can join! ♥
Amazing contest with big prize 1500SBD..Greate
sounds really good @steemmonsters
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Nice!
Awesome! Good luck to whoever joins!
I have been hearing about @steemmonsters but I do not know yet, is steemmonsters a community?
thanks for the explanation
It's a tradeable card game online through this blockchain. But it's in alpha and beta. It needs a backstory and some lore for the characters, which is where we come in! You can also collect the cards here: steemmonsters.com/#
It's only a few bucks to get started, and the booster packs are cheap too. You can trade with others as well. Let me know if you have any more questions. I'm over on Discord.
Nice idea but not for me i came from germany.
i am not a good writer though but i would love to try
hi there!!!
great idea to get involved more people into this awesome game, thanks @steemmonsters.
good luck!!!
have a nice day!!!
Interesante concurso, cuales son la características que deben tener los equipos, puedes explicar lo de las astillas,
Wow.. This is really interesting..
Nice initiative. Games connect people.
Muy impresionante este concurso, donde se necesitará mucho ingenio y creatividad ,estaré pendiente del resultado. Creo será muy bueno, les deseo muchos éxitos y bendiciones!!
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@steemmonsters, good job for all the steemit new and fresh users. Dear sir, i am also a fresh user in steemit how can i make the group and engaged in the contest?
Excellent contest.keep going !
Interesting proposal, let's hope you define the rules well
I have no doubt you will get a lot of very talented writers with the large prize on offer. Best of luck everyone.
I dare say so with a whopping sbd value like that!! Another Aussie I see mate what part you from? Good luck everyone
Hey mate, Hervey Bay in Queensland. What about yourself?
Thanks to everyone who contributed a confession to the You Are a Writer Contest!!
what we have to write ??
We will be writing the back story lore to the Steem Monsters collectible online card game. If you would like to participate, then you can message me on discord. I can point you in the right direction. Teams are already formed, but there may still be room somewhere!
Awsome, feeling !!
Cant we write without joining discord.. it will be helpful if it is simple especially for new ppl. may be a group in steemit for the colors and teams. ppl can join the team write the story for their team.
Wow! Such a generous prize!
Wow, this exciting contest this month. If not follow the loss of opportunity
Just bought two packs and got a legendary and a gold card.
I've done the stats analysis. This is clearly correlated with an England victory!
Great contest, make this game great
Great idea to reward the best writers, they need similar support. Upvoted and resteemed to reach more users.
nice to see like this contest and good luck for the winner ;)
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We promise :D
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This is really gonna be one for the books, joining at the moment!
fun!! getting my team
together!! howd you make $550 in 3 hrs ?? 🤣🤣
Great idea! Magic the Gathering had a great storyline for some of its older card sets. Not so sure about now. Its been about 10 years since I played. Good luck to those giving it a try!
Good initiative
A good idea.
Great! I'm going to participate for the first time :)
That is great news and thanks for sharing
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