[ZS] Zombie Slayer Late Summer 2015 Item Creation Contest

Have some great visual design ideas for a sweet new game item? Let’s see what you’ve got!

From now until Sunday, September 20th, submit your item concepts to this thread by commenting below. The Kano Creative Team will pick their favourite based on how well it meets the submission criteria, as well as how fun and interesting it would be to make.

The winner will see their entry added into the game as a powerful Limited Quantity item, get a free one for their inventory, and receive a package of 50 Favor Points!

Submission criteria are below. Please read them carefully! Entries that follow the criteria carefully will have a much better shot at winning. Entries that ignore the criteria will be disqualified and might be removed from the thread.

SUBMISSION CRITERIA

Your submission MUST include:

• A name for your item that is under 25 characters long.
• The type of item (Weapon, Vehicle, Gear)
• A description of the item’s appearance that is under 500 characters long. You can check the length here.

This is a visual design contest! What we’re looking for is the kind of information we would give to our illustrators to help them understand what the item is supposed to look like.

Creative names are great, but the most important part of your submission is the description. Item creation is a technical as well as a creative process. Give the artist clear and detailed information about the item’s appearance.

Remember, you have limited space and the illustrator is first and foremost concerned with key visual elements. Think about how you can best specify the shapes, colors, and textures of the image you have in mind.

EXAMPLE SUBMISSION

Name: Tacticool Assault Rifle

Type: Weapon

Description: A futuristic-looking matte tan assault rifle with smooth lines and rounded edges. The magazine is a standard NATO box magazine and is behind the trigger making it a "bullpup" weapon. On the rifle are a bunch of elaborate attachments such as a large scope on the top of the rifle and flashlights and laser sights on the side and a foregrip on the front of the rifle underneath the barrel. The gun is displayed on an angle to the viewer so as to display the entirety of the weapon and its various add-ons.

OTHER RULES

Stick to one single item submission per post, please! You can post more than once if you wish, but please don’t spam the thread or your entries may be removed.

In the past, we’ve allowed participants to include images with their entries. Not this time! We’re looking for interesting concepts straight from your own imagination, so you’re going to have to do this one without visual aids. Entries that include pictures will be disqualified and will be removed from the thread.

Keep the game’s theme in mind! While we do make some exceptions, don’t be surprised if submissions of ancient longboats don’t gain a lot of traction with our illustrators when they’re looking to make gear for a modern day-based title.

 

Gear Name: Poseidon Trident
Resembles the arrow-headed pronged fork, used by the Mediterranean fishermen

 

Name: Pride of Patu
Type: Weapon
Description: A hand carved wooden weapon with sharp edges. Tribal patterns etched in a dark, smokey grey color around the weapon. It has a rope attached to the handle made of fibers from the tree and a pom-pom at the end of the rope made from leaves of the tree (Coincidentally, similar to my avatar )

 

Name: Galactic Kickers
Type: Gear
Description: A pair of futuristic-looking boots, or rather, a wire-thin metallic frame of a boot. Within the borders of the frame is an unknown material, flowing yet unyielding. It depicts the galaxies in all its glory, the very universe itself seemingly compressed and shaped into the figure of a pair of boots.

 

A nice zombie outfit gear, best way to stay alive during a zombie invasion by looking already with an empty brain. So need bloody clothes to make it more realistic.

 

Name: Suicide vest
Type: Gear
Description: Imagine the most important outfit of a kamikaze slayer, ready to take out a whole mass of zombies at once. It consists of a green military-styled vest (naturally) combined with a black leather belt, both full of strapped-on explosives such as dynamite and C4. A teddy bear and a lollipop can be seen peeking from the vest's pocket.

 

Name: The Nagging Wife
Type: Weapon
Description: A very large woman shouting with a large shrill sound coming out of her voice, hands on hips with a rolling pin,ths sound pierces through a large crowd of zombies forcing there brains to explode, used has a mass killing weapon.

 

Name: TjaksAxe
Type: Weapon
Description: Handle is 33 inches long, made from second growth hickory sapwood, all white in color. Grain is 16 annual rings per inch of radius and runs parallel to the length of the handle. Weight is 6 pounds. Toe and heel has a red metal ball. Head is mace comprised of a triple half moon blade at 0, 120 and 240 degrees with a red metal ball on the wedge. Red metal spikes at 60, 180 and 300 degrees. Throat is adorned with the symbols MMXV.

 

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• Name:GOREka Type:Vehicle Description: A heavily armored Truck based loosely on the Gurka vehicle,with Monster Tires,Saw Blades fixed on doors and rear..and Sharp Spikes on the front brush guard(to gore the zombie masses as you leisurely drive to survive.Twin Barrel 30 Cal machine gun Turret mounted on top optional

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• Minion Maniac
• Weapon
• Everyone loves the minions, they are always out to serve the BOSS. Why not be that boss. Minions can come equipt with grenades, knives, fart guns, ice guns etc.

 

The Very Cross Bow.
Weapon.
A crossbow with a small blood dripping skull at the front and the bolts fire through the mouth. The bolts have gnashing zombie teeth instead of arrowhead
Damnit I'm off to make one

 

Name: Political Bus
Type: Vehicle
Description: Politicians Campaign Bus covered with bumper stickers and packed full of zombie politicians (Trump, Clinton, Bush, etc. etc).

 

Gavin Dashboard Bobble head Doll
Gear
A uncommon ugly head on a spring perhaps missing teeth and sporting a bloody axe in head
Must be heavy attack because everyone knows a gavin bobble head can not be good for you

 

Tesla ZK
Vehicle.
A black Tesla with an antenna to zap zombies

 

Weapon..Mai-Tai Moutain Dew Cocktail...Well known drink.Looks safe..... But can kill Several or many Zombies when detonated at one time.

 

Pumpkin head menace, for Halloween! large orange head, fire shooting from his eyes machine gun barrel from his nose, arms are up, to hold bullets rounds that are being held in his mouth! Nice orange and checkerboard suit, because our menace dresses nice!

 

Gear: Fire sweeping witches broom!! Standard witches broom with fire coming out of the bottom, when you sweep!

 

Vehicles: ghoul machine, antique car, full of ghost and goblins, death would be one of them, with all sorts of medieval weapons!!