Steem Monsters 1500 SBD Fantasy Writing Contest Winners and Finalists!
The Steem Monsters team spent the last week reading through all the writing team's submissions to determine who the finalists are for each Splinter!
There are 6 Splinter groups based on their Elemental Color:
Red, Blue, Green, White, Black, and Gold (recently changed to purple).
Each Splinter group will have a winning writing team and that team will be awarded 250 SBD!
So far, we have selected 2 winners!
One for the Gold team and one for the Green Team.
We have selected the finalists for the other splinter groups as well!
Winners!
Green Splinter and overall Champions of the contest!
These two did an exceptional job and simply blew us away in terms of quality, organization, and a thought out template. There were many wonderful submissions. This stood out as the best of all of them. Aggroed has been in touch and they are now working on putting together the next round of the contest.
Gold Splinter:
@rakkasan84, @neoxian, @jestermage, @accio, @chronocrypto
The Gold Splinter has some plot elements that make it so that we couldn't quite share this with everyone. As a result we only had one team submit and there were eyes from the Steem Monsters team on this one. They didn't have competition, but they still brought their A-game and we're excited by their performance.
Finalists!
White Splinter:
Lucidia - @eaglespirit, @apolymask, @iexplore, @davemccoy, @cryptosharon
Khymians - @enn0, @littlescribe, @mys, @quiplet, @simgirl, @zaimrofiqi
Red Splinter:
Ferexia - @blockurator, @Swolesome, @AnikeKirsten, and @Javo1096
Fire Ants - @heyimsnuffles, @steamdan, @hispeedimagins, @cryptouno
Blue Splinter:
Azmare -@wholeself-in, @staceyjean, @omitaylor, @sunravelme, @foxfiction
Achernar - @focygray, @article61 @ubongj
Degondon - @virtus-q and @bashadow
Green Splinter
Tellurians @toricio, @katrina-ariel, @graylan, @bxlphabet
Black Splinter:
The Sharmosatics @dragonflyarrow, @torkot, @lpanies and @oscarps
The Dark Eternals @jarvie assisted by Remington Jarvie and Derek Kind
This week the winners in each Splinter will be announced and teams will complete their campaigns if things are deemed missing.
The table of contents will include some additions like bios, an introduction to the splinter, and some flavor parts.
@aggroed, @chrisroberts, and @carrieallen are working on a final table of contents that each splinter will need in order to complete their campaign submissions.
For teams that didn't win, but were selected as finalists participants will be invited to contribute to the document as a whole either as a member of a specific team or work throughout the document to add in missing details.
Next up
After we've finished the updated and finalized table of contents we'll start round 2. That will include merging of these stories and the melding of each splinter's timelines to create interaction between the splinter groups as well as overall cohesiveness.
There's a few writing components but it's much shorter than the first contest. Mostly we're just trying to make them all have similar parts while maintaining their own flavor.
We should have the finalized ToC in the next 48hrs or so and we'll let everyone know who won the remaining splinters and next steps in more detail.
Thank You for your continued support!
@isaria and the @steemmonsters team
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Great one.. Off to work!!
Yes matey!!! We are still in the mix :D Well done bro :)
Yeah... Time to buckle up and give the best...
Hey buddy!! How cool is this?! Can't believe we made it this far with only 7 days. It would be great to polish it all up and we have so many things still to add! Just keep those fingers crossed matey.
Yeah.
Very cool! I'll start right away!!
Fabulous @carrieallen & @chrisroberts!! Way to go :) I see @oscarps, @eaglespirit, @katrina-ariel & @simgirl up there too. Excellent job peoples! Good luck in the finals!
Your words are appreciated, a hug X40L1N
@enginewitty
Amazing job everyone! I am very excited to be apart of this project. Thanks to everyone from team gold for all their hard work. @accio, @neoxian, @jestermage, @aggroed and @chronocrypto you guys rock.
I'm looking forward to the next writing assignment and working towards making Steem Monsters a success!
CONGRATULATIONS @carrieallen @chrisroberts I know how hard you've been working on this and I'm sooooo happy. I kind of felt it, knew it... sensed it... witchy powers :) but I hurried to check as soon as I saw this post... and I did the happy dance... and I don't dance (like never ever) but did the happy dance ! :) weeeeeeeeeeeeee @aggroed @isaria I feel like I have superpowers hahaha :) but I've been seriously addicted to Carrie's horror stories sketch and I love her style of writing.
Thank you so much, Pris! Especially for your superpowers! 😉
We also did dances... many dances... and I still occasionally find myself doing them...
Next stop dlivestar pretty please...
Dlive, you hearing?
Gotta use those superpowers ;) lol
YUUUUUUUS!
WE are #dlivestars! It's happening... I feeeeeeeeeel it!
Yay!!!! Congrats @carrieallen and @chrisroberts! Your hard work paid off!!!! I'm so happy for ya'll.
Hey @simgirl, it was nice to see your name in the hat too. Good luck me'dears :)
Congrats to making it as one of the finalists, my cohort and khymian in arms.
Congrats to you too!!! And all the other finalists :D
Thank you! We so excited!
OMERRGAWD... Ya'all best get ready to werk. We gonna make this the best thing eva!
Big respect to the folks behind this competition, must have been an eye-watering task.Congratulations @chrisroberts & @carrieallen!! Well done and I am looking forwards to seeing what you came up with. This contest has been awesome and it looks like our team(Blue-c) are still in the running. Good luck to everybody else and I will be glued to lap-top, waiting to hear more.
Yay! Thank you! We are stoked. Can't wait to get everyone together and do this!
Yes this has all been a lot of fun and something that is completely diffent to what I normally do. Strange how things open up, eh? :)
Totally.
I've never even played an RPG ... but here I am. To be fair, I went to University to study theatre performance ( one million years ago... it seems...), which included quite a bit of this kind of thing. You know, the 'world of the play'. Writing 30+ page documents with seemingly innocuous information... more it seemed like torture that brought joy to our professors. And look at us now! Doing it on purpose... by choice!😆
Haha, very funny reply and isn't it always the case? My teachers would be slack-jawed if they saw how I am now. Your experience has led to a brilliant template, that was a lot of work and still organised. Doth my cap to you m'dears :)
Hello Buddy.
Nice one steemmonsters. I am loving it.
Molding the stories will be such a fun challenge and experience....
Still shooting for time travel ⏳
Thanks sir great one... Off to work
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Great!
Congrats for all the winners & finalists...🥂☕❤
Congratulations to all, a hard work has been done and it is a pleasure to accompany you in this adventure.
This was a really good idea to separate top stories into finalists. That way, if someone doesn't win but has done an excellent job, they can still feel proud of what they did. And certain people on those teams can still potentially be a part of the creative process down the road. Great idea.
Congrats to @chrisroberts and @carrieallen! Totally and completely well-deserved. You guys are awesome on so many levels. This being only one of them.
Awesome and congratulation for all. This something that could encourage everyone to write better abd better. Anyway, congratulation for @zaimrofiqi, I think he is the only one semifinalist from Indonesia. Keep up the good work!
Congratulation for all the winners and participants.
MY TWO CENTS (probably what it's worth)
There has been no one who has praised the skills of @chrisroberts & @carrieallen over the last week or two (early access) more than me and I'm super happy you have them there to help format future templates and make them look as beautiful as theirs. I hope they get paid well for their wonderful skills.
READABILITY
With that said I hope that the guides are pretty AND also "readable"... like in the sense that a normal player says to themselves "I really want to understand this splinter let me go check out the guide and read about them and get a sense of them". A smart player will read a few pages and understand the foundations and then the details become like "common sense" ... they keep saying to themselves "yeah that totally makes sense because I understand not just their values but their motivations and what made them who they are"
And once they understand who the splinter really is with the most important foundations of that splinter set forward then they can go reference the glossary like format.
I personally don't have this format in place in my template and now looking back I'm excited to give that a try... but i've learned a TON from looking at the green after the contest ended both the extremely strong points of design but also realizing there was something that changed after the first few pages of reading their document that made it hard to consume the document. It's because the foundational story to understand them ended too quickly and went into glossary mode and I wasn't prepared for that, i didn't understand green and now I was being thrust into the details of green.
LOOKING FORWARD
Part of what I learned is we all need to improve. In my draft 1 I spent way too much time getting the reader into the head of my splinter and should have worked to do that quicker. I've realized the benefit of quickly establishing the foundational elements and then moving into more of a glossary format with lots of details.
So i just personally hope that these guides can help the players (and writers) to understand the races better and are compelling for us to want to consume them voraciously (at least the foundational parts... but if the definition/glossary stuff is also enjoyable all the better).
I think we'll also see that there are different topics that make the different splinters tick. So the splinters should have a big say in stating which aspects of their society are most important for that table of contents... Black for example is so completely opposite of Green that half of what they spend time talking about just isn't even slightly important to my splinter. haha
NEXT UP
Looking forward to taking what I've learned and applying it and doing the table of content and establishing a strong foundation of the splinter then leaving a lot of details for a quicker glossary like section that fills in lots of the less foundational details.
I think similar to you in some questions that you propose, the green faction is completely opposite and an enemy of ours, it was an important fact but we have taken into account that we are in a global game and although we are like that with green there are other factions that also interact . Especially what I agree with you completely is that it must have a meaning and be consistent, death is not about marriage or cultivating lettuce. Jarvie
@jarvie
Yeah there will be NO table of content entry for marriage in our splinters. Actually hoping they don't expect quite a few of these same table of content entries with Black Splinter. haha
hahaha, it would be nice a wedding in black, we should have been in the same team, I think we would have fun, lol, a hug Jarvie
@jarvie
Haha isn't most of your team spanish speakers? Did you do a spanish version as well. I speak spanish well but my writing skills are horrible.
Yes, we are a group from Spain, we really did almost everything in Spanish but a member of our team put the batteries with translations. Something similar to English happens to me, but my writing is bad. Hey, I've seen your photographic works, they're excellent. You know that in the south of Europe you have your house, you are welcome, thinking head in black, lol.
@jarvie
Sungguh membahagiakan ada wakil dari indonesia @zaimrofiqi selamat mas anda beruntung
I congratulate you. Excellent project and good team: @jestermage, @neoxian,, @aggroed, @accio and @chronocrypto
Congrats everybody! So looking forward to getting to read some of these campaigns and lore.
Congratulations everyone! XD
Congratulations to all winner
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