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Temple Challenges
With this Event, we've expanded upon the normal Color and Word palettes with the option for something more -- Temple Challenges! The Temples respond to your esk's inner thoughts and mental state, and thus their rooms are mutable, ever-changing, and sometimes volatile. To reflect this, we created Temple Challenges to further your creativity in how you depict your Prompts. These are meant to both challenge and inspire you, and we look forward to seeing your unique spin on them!
● The Temple Challenges can only be used in the five prompt rooms from each temple. They do not apply to the Introduction and Conclusion prompts.
● You may claim the Challenge bonus once per challenge. You may use the challenge more than once if you'd like to continue the 'theme' throughout your play through, but the bonus can only be claimed during the challenge's first use.
● Challenges can be used for inspiration outside of this Quest, but do not receive any bonuses when they are.
● Challenges may be combined if two separate prompts inspire you, but you may only claim the bonus once per Prompt image.
● Challenge submissions must also follow the quest submission rules, i.e. full body, shaded, with at least a vignette background.
● Please remember to include the name of the challenge you used in your submission's description!
● The Temple Challenges can only be used in the five prompt rooms from each temple. They do not apply to the Introduction and Conclusion prompts.
● You may claim the Challenge bonus once per challenge. You may use the challenge more than once if you'd like to continue the 'theme' throughout your play through, but the bonus can only be claimed during the challenge's first use.
● Challenges can be used for inspiration outside of this Quest, but do not receive any bonuses when they are.
● Challenges may be combined if two separate prompts inspire you, but you may only claim the bonus once per Prompt image.
● Challenge submissions must also follow the quest submission rules, i.e. full body, shaded, with at least a vignette background.
● Please remember to include the name of the challenge you used in your submission's description!
Using a Temple Challenge in your submission will earn you a bonus of +10AP and +5GP!
Challenges for Art Submissions
● Different Strokes
- Draw in a different style and/or medium than you normally use! (e.g traditional instead of digital, lineless instead of lineart, etc. feel free to get creative!
● Different Tools
- Pick a tool you don't normally use or that you haven't used before, and use only that tool for the entire scene. (e.g a new digital brush, colored ink, the lasso or polygon tool, etc.)
● Inversion
- Invert some or all colors of the scene and paint using those! Don't just invert the final product, but utilize these inverted colors throughout the whole process.
- Emulate a comic panel or movie poster style; either by using an existing one as template or by using common tropes for these kinds of artwork. Alternately, create a fake screenshot or storyboard!
● Let's Play!
- Emulate a video game; either by using recognizable styles (such as Don't Starve or GRIS), or by using common game tropes (pixel art, low poly art, isometric perspectives).
● Sharp Relief
- Use crosshatching, stippling, scribbling, or other shade markings for all the shading in your finished piece.
● Masterpiece
- Reinterpret a famous artwork to suit the prompt and your piece. Remember to name the original artwork and artist in your submission!
● Texture
- Use stark textures or patterns throughout the artwork. These textures should be obvious and starkly different than a "normal", untextured piece.
● Perspectives
- Use forced, wacky perspective or strange angles to depict your scene. (eg Dutch angles, fish-eye lens distortion, and exaggerated foreshortening.)
● Monochrome
- Depict your Quest entry entirely in black and white, or in another monochrome color of your choosing!
● Contrast
- Use as many bright, saturated colors in your piece as possible. Saturating your esk's palette is both allowed and encouraged for this prompt.
● Negative Space
- This prompt requires that you leave a blank white space on your canvas. This can be your esk or a small portion of the environment (a tree, building, several rocks, bushes, plants, flowers, etc). The rest of the scene requires a full scenic, shaded background. If you choose your esk to be the white negative space, make sure that they still cast a shadow and are interacting with the enviornment so that it is clear they are still present in the scene, just portrayed as negative space. This challenge still earns the fullbody bonus.
- Examples can be seen here: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
Challenges for Writing Submissions
● Different Tones
- Write in a different style than you usually do. If you like to write about introspection, try something action-heavy; if you rely on dialogue, try to avoid it.
● Sounds
- Make noticeable use of sound rhymes within your writing. Examples of sound rhymes include alliteration, assonance, and consonance. You are free to choose one to focus on, or to use a variety!
● Points of View
- Write from a different point of view than you usually do. You could change from third person to first, or you could try to write in second person or use an omnipresent narrator.
● Tenses
- Write from a different tense than you usually do. You could switch from past to present tense and vice versa. Or perhaps you could try future tense or get even more abstract, like writing in past tense but as if the past happened a very long time ago.
● Tall Tales
- Emulate a different genre of writing (fictional, like gothic, fairytale, etc. or non-fictional, like a memoir, critique, scientific writing, etc.) by utilizing tropes or styles common to these genres.
- Emulate a different medium of writing (eg. a play script, an essay, a choose-your-own adventure, a review, etc. by utilizing tropes or styles common to these mediums.
- Emulate a famous writer. Maybe Hemingway's concise and deliberate narration suits your esk's personality, or perhaps Agatha Christie's way of setting up mysteries could help illustrate what your esk is going through. Be sure to name the author in your submission's description!
● Consciousness
- Try stream-of-consciousness writing with this prompt! This can either be utilized as the means of which you approach writing this piece, or to reflect your character's thoughts. Be mindful to keep paragraph breaks when necessary!
● Lipogram
- Pick one of these letters: e, a, r, t, i, o, n, s. The letter you chose is now illegal, and cannot be used in any words through the piece you write. See where that takes your writing and what choices you'll have to make to tell the story!