Distant Worlds: Legends Creature Contest Results!

[Erik Rutins]

Hi Everyone,

The official announcement will go out this weekend, but I don't want to keep you waiting any longer.

First, a huge thank you to all who participated. We had twenty five entries in total, ranging from brief ideas to fully detailed proposals with original art and multi-part background stories. Great stuff! Overall, we were very impressed at the quality of the entries and it was very difficult to narrow things down to the top ten, then the top five and then finally choose a winner. We had three of us doing the judging and each of us had our favorites. Our decision also had to keep development and art concerns in mind as well as what we thought would be best for gameplay, so those were also a factor in making our final choices. While we did end up with a consensus on the winner, we had enough proposals that we loved that we're going to try to get more than one into Distant Worlds: Legends, if time allows.

If we manage to fit more than the top entry into the expansion, the authors of those other entries will get a free copy of Distant Worlds: Legends and a note in the credits. The top prize is a free copy of Distant Worlds plus Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi plus Distant Worlds: Legends and a note in the credits.

So, without further ado, the winner is:

Silvermist: tm.asp?m=2924642
We liked several aspects of this proposal, from the basic idea of a cloud of ancient nanomachines to the fact that they can potentially reproduce and become a larger threat, as well as their increased vulnerability to ion weapons.

Congratulations to WiZz for winning the creature contest! Please e-mail me at erikr@matrixgames.com so that we can get you your prizes and get your information for the credits.

Here are the top runners-up:

Eraser: tm.asp?m=2922147

Quagnii Swarms: tm.asp?m=2916489

Ghost Ship: tm.asp?m=2914984

And the rest of the finalists (our top ten), which all could have made the final cut:

Siren: tm.asp?m=2916448

Unidentified Dark Matter Object: tm.asp?m=291735

Crystallus: tm.asp?m=2919438

Avatars of Ancients/Darkness: tm.asp?m=2921164

Void Gravi: tm.asp?m=2921583

Tech Eradicator: tm.asp?m=2914857

Thank you again and even if your entry did not win or make the top ten, don't be discouraged! There were a lot more quality entries than just the top ten! Thanks for your participation and creativity and for making this a rewarding experience for us as well as judges. We hope you will enjoy Distant Worlds: Legends and we hope to have more opportunities for your input into Distant Worlds in the future!

Regards,

- Erik

[WoodMan]

Well done Wizz!  It should be great addition to the game [&o]

[HectorOfTroy]

Congrats WIZz, your concept sounds cool .

Erik, any info on how the Silvermist will be incorporated in the game? In the description the creature sounds powerful.

[Erik Rutins]

Hi Hector,

We're taking the base idea and implementing it in a way that will make for good gameplay, without being overpowered, but it will be a bit more of a unique "mega" threat than the existing creatures that are mainly localized threats. I'll save the specifics for the release, but I think you will like it.

Regards,

- Erik

[Hawawaa]

Congrats! [:)]
Can't wait to deal with em little buggers. [:D] 

[ehsumrell1]

Congrats WiZz!

[J HG T]

Gongrats to the WIZz! The idea was indeed great and sounds very interesting and menacing as "mega" threat.

[Webbco]

WIZz, congratulations, I really look forward to seeing Silvermist in the game, it's definitely very different to those already present in DW so will bring something new!

So...ahem...without wanting to sound cheeky...are there any prizes for the runners up? [8|]

[Data]

Wohooo, a new concept in creature world, congrats for making it into the DW universe.....you'll be veeeery popular in there [:D]

[WiZz]

Thanks to all for your congratulations! Victory in this contest is very unexpectedly for me.

[Kalthaniell]

Congratulations WiZz! A 'mega' threat monster sounds really good. I can't wait to see the silvermist consuming a rival empire I really hope the Quagnii Swarms will make it into the expansion, too.

[Webbco]

I'm currently getting back into DW and playing a bit of an epic at the moment. Just got to the point where I'm considering researching Ion weapons and couldn't think of a good enough reason to research them at the stage I was at in the game....but that's all going to change soon with the presence of Silvermist!!

ORIGINAL: Kalthaniell

I really hope the Quagnii Swarms will make it into the expansion, too.

Thanks Kalthaniell, maybe in the future at some point[:)]. There were many good ideas suggested in the contest.
Erik, are you considering prizes for the runners up?

[tedesco]

Congratulations WiZz!

Just hope that creatures will be modable too. So all the great ideas from the contest could be implemented by modders.

[Ilita]

So close...

Congratulations to Nanocloud!

[Haree78]

WiZz you are a genius this is such a great addition to the Galaxy, I think you are really going to enjoy this 'creature' in game, lots of fun.

[WiZz]

Lots of hardcore I hope [:D]

[MaxyGamer]

'mega' threat is the way to go on this one. You know, I'd even dare to start a brand new game just to have my empire fight for its survival against this new grand element. The concept is dark and sinister enough. Wouldn't need any other AI for this kind of game. Or perhaps... uniting with my enemies to defeat this threat ...