Introducing the Steampunk VoxEdit Contest, where creativity and voxels collide in a world of gears and steam!

Steampunk is all about reimagining the past with a futuristic twist. Bring your vision to life by blending Victorian elegance with steam-powered machinery and brass contraptions. Create yourself a character or items that could be used within a Steampunk inspired experience.

In addition to the Regular and Beginner categories, a 3rd one has been added: Equipment! Create a set or a single asset from the equipment template Steampunk inspired. Think machines, steam, cogs, clocks all combined to make some amazing equipments for avatars.

Time to channel your inner inventor and create breathtaking machineries, characters, and gadgets that transport viewers into a realm of wonder. Mark your calendars and let your artistic prowess take flight!

Regular category

15,000 SAND will be split amongst the top entries the following ways:

• 1st place: 6,000 SAND*
• 2nd place: 3,500 SAND*
• 3rd place: 2,000 SAND*
• 4th to 10th place: each receives 500 SAND.

*The Top 3 of the Regular category will be able to mint their asset.

Beginner Friendly category

5,000 SAND will be split amongst the top entries the following ways:

• 1st place: 1,500 SAND
• 2nd place: 1,000 SAND
• 3rd place: 750 SAND
• 4th to 10th place: each receives 250 SAND.

Equipment category

5,000 SAND will be split amongst the top entries the following ways:

• 1st place: 1,500 SAND
• 2nd place: 1,000 SAND
• 3rd place: 750 SAND
• 4th to 10th place: each receives 250 SAND.

Important Dates

• Submissions open: June 5th
• Submissions close: June 18th, at 11:59pm UTC.
• Results announcement: Between June 25th to July 1st.

How To Submit Your Entry

Important Entry Guidelines

• To be eligible for the Beginners category:
  1. You must have not placed in the top 5 of the last 3 VoxEdit contests.
  2. You must have not placed in the top 3 of the beginners category at all.
• Make sure to select which contest you are entering in. If you wish to enter both Equipment and Regular fill out the form twice.
• Users can submit to both categories but if they go to voting in the Regular Category they won’t be eligible for the Geginners one.
• Low quality entries or spammed entries with no effort put into their creation will be disqualified at The Sandbox’s discretion. The same goes for attempting to claim other people’s creations as your own — we’ll know.
• Entries with sexual, homophobic, racist, and other NSFW or inappropriate references will be disqualified. Keep it family friendly.
• Your submission must be original, made entirely by you. You cannot make an ASSET of a character that belongs to someone else (ie, Marvel, Disney, Sega etc).
• If a contest is in partnership with an external brand, you are allowed to use their logo but cannot upload your asset on the marketplace.
• Your entry must be made in The Sandbox’s free VoxEdit software (click here), available on Windows and Mac.
• Make sure you have read and understood the VoxEdit Contest Guidelines.
• Assets should not exceed more than 5000 faces.
• Assets should not exceed a max of 175 nodes.
• The maximum size of an asset is 512 voxels tall (16 meters). Floor print should not exceed 512 x 512 x 512.
• You can submit more than one entry.
• Voting will be conducted internally by The Sandbox team.

Judging Criteria

Your asset will be judged based on the 5 criteria below. Each criterion follows a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being “very poor” and 5 being “very good”.

• Creativity (How creative was the asset based on the theme?).
• Usability (How usable is this asset in other games?).
• Optimisation (Does this asset look optimised in The Sandbox Game?).
• Level of detail (The detailing on the asset).
• Quality of Animation (Was new animations added? How good are the animations?).

IMPORTANT: While we have a deep appreciation for dioramas and their intricate beauty, we are seeking assets that can seamlessly integrate into gaming experiences. Thus, assets who are not practical and game-ready will get less points for the “Usability” criterion.

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Good luck to all participants!