Create a Monster Contest
Art
Draw what your monster looks like. You can use any tools to draw your monster that you'd like. Photoshop, Pencil & Paper (& Scanner), anything. With this, submit your picture and a name for your monster, as well as a description if you feel it necessary.
Lore
Give your monster a back story. How and when was your monster born/created? Where did they come from? How old are they? What's happened over their life? How did they get to where they are currently?
Mechanics
How does the monster move, attack, die. What skills do they have? Any immunities? Special powers? Implement your monster into the game (any game in the series), talk about how they'd work in regards to game balance, what their purpose in the game would be, etc. Your best bet here would be to look at a monster wiki article and check out the different fields of data that go into monster development.
Rules
1. One entry per category.
2. You do not have to enter every category
3. Winners chosen by the Staff. If a Staff member chooses to participate in the contest, s/he will not be eligible to be in the judging.
4. There will be a first, second, and third place winner for each category.
Submission
This newspost will be strictly for talking about the contest itself. Entries can be posted in the Submission thread here. The first reply in that thread will also be an example submission.
You will have one month to do this, the deadline is August 25th, Midnight PST.
Prizes
First place: D3 T-Shirt, Special Custom User Title (depending on the category), One year Curse Premium
Second place: 6-month Curse Premium
Third place: 3-month Curse Premium
Everyone else who participates will receive a one month Curse Premium.
Thanks.
That's a pretty awesome idea... Someone can draw the art for a character, someone can do the Lore, and someone else can do the Mechanics all on the same monster... And you can all potentially come in first.
I'll do mechanics. I love writing about the monster and all that stuff.
Lol if you can honestly make a crazy ass sound that will erase my ears, then you're in
Sound effects and sounds would fall under game mechanics. Mechanics is any and all things that would pertain to them being in the actual game.
edit: nevermind, I re-read the Original post. ^^
first place winner should get their monster put in diablo 3 as an actual monster
Sure! You can submit one different one in all three, or you can submit the same one in all three.
Don't think Blizzard isn't watching our contest, ;).
or I can be completely ridiculous, give you a picture without description, and then submit a different monster with lore, and mechanics? ;/
actually now that I think about it, il go pic, mechanics, and have a second submit that is just lore, leave the rest to your imagination.
still say it has strange rules though
If you wish, you can do one monster for all three, or do different monsters for each category.