Challenge Status: Winner announced!

Congrats to tuinahvuni for your Dreanscape winning collection. This Sporecast will be featured soon!



Challenge Details

Dream up a surreal scene for a Galactic adventure, then organize a cohesive collection of prop creations to flesh it out in a Sporecast for the Surreal Setting Prop Challenge!

Not sure what to make?
Start by imagining up a dreamlike (or nightmarish) setting for a galactic Adventure. You're welcome to use the following questions to find inspiration. Is your setting...

• In the future or the past?
• On an alien world, or somewhere familiar?
• Claustrophobically enclosed or dangerously open?
• Toxically waste-ridden or fanciful and fun?

Got artists block?
If you're stuck and can't think of what to make, check out these surreal artists' works to get inspired by worlds they've dreamed up:



• Daniel Merriam
• Salvador Dali
• Max Ernst
• Paul Nash
• Zdzislaw Beksinski

Next Steps
Build a bunch of creations that will set the tone of the scene in your adventure. These can range from architectural structures such as bridges, domes and towers to small inanimate objects such as mirrors, trapdoors, or telephones.

What will the challenge winner get?

A chance to be featured on Spore.com!

We'll post our favorite submissions here, then YOU get to vote for which one is your top pick! The winner may be featured if it meets our criteria for featured creations.

• It must not contain any creation parented or created by different authors.
• It must not contain any creation with an offensive creation in its lineage (any parent or child creations).
• It must not contain any creation with any links or references to other sites in the submission's tags, name, or description

Submissions that do not meet the above criteria will not be considered for the poll

Rules:
• Your sporecast submission should be based on any surreal setting you've imagined
• To submit a sporecast, tag it with: mcsurrealchallenge and post a link to the Sporecast here.
• You can submit as many sporecasts as you’d like
• Sporecasts must contain at least 10 assets.
• All creations in the Sporecast must be tagged with GAprop
• Creations in the Sporecast can be made in any editor, but must all be made by you or members on your team!
• All submissions must be in by 11:00am PDT June 23rd 2009

Optional
• Post images of the creations you've included and/or a scene that's inspired your Sporecast here!

Challenge FAQ

Q: Can I work with a team to create my Sporecast?
A: Yes. There can be up to 5 members on a team. If you're on a team, your Sporecast should also be tagged with your team name, starting with Team_ such as Team_LlamaLovers.

You should designate a team leader, who creates the entry post and publishes the Sporecast. All team member names should be included as tags on the Sporecast.

If an individual wins the challenge, his/her Sporecast will be featured. If a team wins the challenge, each team member will have a creation featured.

Q: I know this is for props, can I add creatures?
A: Since it's required that all creations in your Sporecast be tagged "GAprop" please keep in mind that part of the purpose of this tag is to help others find props.

If your creature creation looks like an object, it is allowed, but you're not allowed to use just any creatures and simply tag them GAprop to make your submission eligible.

Examples of creatures that would work:



Examples of creatures that shouldn't be included (however wonderful they are):

Awesome. This is definintly a great challenge to get me thinking. Nice one, Maxis.

Like i'm not entering!

I don't exactly understand this, but I really like those art pieces. I will definitely try this.

I will probably join, I have to get to work though.

Nice! An interesting challenge to pass the time until GA. Also, it's a sporecast challenge, which is a cool idea.

dananddna wrote:Nice! An interesting challenge to pass the time until GA. Also, it's a sporecast challenge, which is a cool idea.

Not entirely new though. beta_psi and I ran a space civ contest a while back where you neede to do something semi-similar: create a civilization including ships, creatures, and buildings, and organize it into a Sporecast. Off topic note there.

Anyway, can't wait to see what sort of surreal things all of you come up with.

Super Awesome idea! I'm going for this.
A team sounds fun too.

Can we also make characters though?
Also can we submit more then one Surreal Setting?

LordofDestiny wrote: Super Awesome idea! I'm going for this.
A team sounds fun too.

Can we also make characters though?
Also can we submit more then one Surreal Setting?

Team=awesomeness

She said any editor, so yes, i assume charracters would be fine. PLus a lot of surreal stuff portrays some sort of human element...

I'd like to do more than one as well.

Moejoe18 wrote:

LordofDestiny wrote: Super Awesome idea! I'm going for this.
A team sounds fun too.

Can we also make characters though?
Also can we submit more then one Surreal Setting?

Team=awesomeness

She said any editor, so yes, i assume charracters would be fine. PLus a lot of surreal stuff portrays some sort of human element

MaxisCactus wrote:Next Steps
Build a bunch of creations that will set the tone of the scene in your adventure. These can range from architectural structures such as bridges, domes and towers to small inanimate objects such as mirrors, trapdoors, or telephones.

I believe they're looking for scene props rather than creatures.

I told myself that I wouldn't make any props until GA came out, but I might have to make a set for this....

....Let's see, when is the deadline? We only have 2 weeks! I guess I'll have to assemble or join a team, or start working right now

Ryuujin wrote:I believe they're looking for scene props rather than creatures.

True. I suppose i missed that.

Out of curiosity, what exactly are the criteria for featured creations?

Great contest, I'll make something for it. Just have to think of a theme first...

Okays, who wants to make a team! :]

Doomnova wrote:Great contest!

Okays, who wants to make a team! :]

I do.