2023-10-04 - Trick or Treat Submissions

[TJ09]

Once again, the Halloween Trick-or-Treat event is open to community submissions. If you can make pixel art, you, too, can have your treat (or trick) included in this yearly occurrence.

 

All submissions must be sent via PM to @Event Art Submissions. The deadline for submissions is October 22.

 

Here's some base guidelines:

• Treats should be generally Halloween-themed, not just random objects.
• Size limit of 50x50px.
• Images must be submitted in PNG or GIF form.
• Treats must be pixel art, which generally means that overall color count is limited and pixels are intentionally placed. Do not use filters or anti-aliased tools such as Photoshop's paint brush.
• Treats may be animated, but should not use rapid or flashing effects.
  • Animated PNGs are allowed, but your mileage may vary.
  • The first frame of animation should be identifiable, to accommodate situations where animations are disabled.
• Semi-transparency is allowed.
• Images must not be shared publicly before the event begins.
• Images should not have blank space around the outer edges.
• Treats should not use the egg base (save those for the Festival of Eggs).
• Treats may be rejected for reasons other than those in this post—namely, there will be a general quality bar. We'll try to provide useful feedback around rejections.
• Only one submission will be accepted per-person, unless otherwise announced.
• Images must be designed to look good on a variety of backgrounds (i.e. they shouldn't assume the scroll background or any other specific color).
• If your treat is a specific reference to other media (e.g. a video game, TV show, or so on), clearly identify the reference in your submission.

 

There are a limited number of spots available. Art will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis which only applies when the art is deemed to meet all of the above guidelines (that is, if you need to make changes and resubmit, that bumps you to the back of the line).

 

By submitting art to the Trick or Treat event, you grant Dragon Cave a non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license to host, use, distribute, modify, copy, display, and create derivative works of your content. You can end this license any time by contacting us, though the art may not be immediately deleted. The license also ends immediately upon notice from us that the art will not be used in the event.

[Alskasaur]

Yay! Excited to see all the new submissions come Halloween!

[Dragonearuss]

Had my treat done for many months now, was so excited when I finally saw this years notif!

[BringsTheSnow]

Good luck artists and spriters! Looking forward to seeing those that get selected in my Halloween haul this year. 🎃 

[Kaini]

Have fun!

[Leidarendi]

Good luck everyone!

[Brite]

This'll be fun. Good luck to all the artists! 

[sfts]

I can't wait to see this year's treats and tricks! 

[eeep]

Good luck! Looking forward to seeing all the sprites!

[sh20000sh]

This time of year come again  

[Animals65]

Good luck everybody! I would participate if my drawings didn't look like a 3 year old drew them. LOL!

[BloodSpell]

Good luck and have fun, people!

[s3w3rr0ach]

is there anywhere we can see the past years' treat sprites for reference and to make sure we don't accidentally draw a treat that already exists?

[Fuzzbucket]

In the wiki.

 

https://dragcave.fandom.com/wiki/Trick_or_Treat

[Juleteon]

I am so glad to be back right to the event of the season!!! Excited to see this years spooky delights!

[ShadowMistaken]

woooo! 

[bord]

I attempted a thing, hopefully it's good enough (I tried to at least make decent shading, it's not quite as fancy as my avatar, and of course I can't post it here since it has to be a secret lol.) looked through stuff from past years on someone else's scroll to make sure I wasn't accidentally copying other people's ideas, chose something that didn't need transparency because all I know how to use is MS Paint, RIP. can't wait to see all the entries that make it though

[Zonnedauw]

This is such a fun idea! I send my submission, I hope it fits well enough ^^

 

Also, will we be able to collect the tricks and treats from all the years? Or just the upcoming new ones?

[Fuzzbucket]

Going by past years, once you have all the new ones, older ones pop up.

[Yashiro]

Good luck everyone who's gonna submit. I was planning to send mine this year since last year I started collecting and was afraid of anything but now I have a job so I don't have the time to sprite. Anyway, I'm super excited to see new art! I love collecting them. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Yashiro

[sh20000sh]

Treats should be generally Halloween-themed, not just random objects.

 

What kind of submission made this rule on board by the way? I'm bit curious.

[Fuzzbucket]

It's been the rule for as long as I can remember - seems like common sense.

[Guillotine]

It increased the treat's chances of getting in, but i've seen plenty of treats they have nothing to do with Halloween. It's not a prior hard rule by any means.

Edited October 9, 2023 by Guillotine

[Ashywolf]

Traditionally treats were just that, sorta random knickknacks and such. The push for Halloween-themed ones is much more recent.

[Kaini]

1 hour ago, Ashywolf said:

Traditionally treats were just that, sorta random knickknacks and such. The push for Halloween-themed ones is much more recent.

No, it is not. Since Halloween submissions were opened in 2019, this line has always been in the rules:
 

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Treats should be generally Halloween-themed, not just random objects.

This has been the same since the very beginning of user submissions. You can go back and view the news thread for yourself.