Hey Folks!
We are now officially two week into the bounty, and I've realized that some changes need to be made.
When coming up with the contest I was working from a mistaken assumption that 3D scanning was more widespread and reliable than it is.
The fact has come to my attention that such scanners are incredibly unreliable at this point, and rather expensive if you want one with a good level of accuracy.
So we're going to make this easier for everybody by removing the necessity for deconstruction and scanning and replacing it with a far more simple task:
Design your custom amiibo/skylander/et cetera with a recognizable character or style, print it, and then share how you did it in the form of a
tutorial.
This can be done with any design software, and any printer. You can use a single color, or as many colors as you want. Keep in mind that we'll be having to grade your design more on style now, rather than depth of detail in the
tutorial.
The base
Does Not Have To Open to accept a NFC tag, however you may have seen that somebody is trying to do just that and making impressive strides.
If you've already been deconstructing amiibos and scanning the pieces then you should
definitely continue your
tutorial in that regard, because the ones that do will be weighted more heavily when we're deciding upon our winner or winners.
While we're at it, the submission process needs to be changed as well.
Concerns were raised that if tutorials were publicly posted as soon as they were completed, late-comers to the contest could easily use those to improve their own tutorial. So instead you can either
Keep your tutorial until the contest is nearly at an end. The last week of June we'll prompt everyone to send in their tutorials via private message and we'll post them once the deadline is here.
If you're concerned that you might lose the information and want it kept for you, then you can send them to me via private message as soon as you're finished with them.
If you're one of the people here that has butted heads with me over the years and don't want to send it to me (which is fine, you're still eligible to win) then choose a member of the staff that you feel you can trust and send it to them instead.
And finally, you may have noticed the phrase "winner or winners" in the above paragraphs. We are not limiting this contest to only a single winner, but instead we intend to base it on the number of serious participants. I say "serious" because those of you who might get the idea to send in simple four-line tutorials just to bump up the number of prizes available will have your entry disqualified.
I apologize for the necessity of these changes.
We really hope no further changes will be necessary.
Feel free to ask any questions that this might have raised.
Good luck to everyone!
