[VC] Viking Clan Winter 2016 Item Creation Contest

Have some great visual design ideas for a cool, funny, cute, or terrifying new game item? Let’s hear them!

From now until Sunday, Jan 31st, 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 less than 25 characters long.
• The type of item (Weapon, Warrior)
• A description of the item’s appearance that is less than 500 characters long. You can check the length of any text you have written at www.lettercount.com

Creative names are great, bonus points to anyone who comes up with a clever title for their item.

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, we’re looking for information really makes it clear to our illustrators what the item is supposed to look like. You have limited space and the illustrator is first and foremost concerned with key visual elements.

Tell us about your item’s shapes, colours, and textures and anything other details that make it stand out from a more mundane object! Note that item stats are decided by our developers so there is no need for you to include them in your description.

EXAMPLE SUBMISSION

Name: Snolem
Type: Warrior
Description: A hulking golem made of packed white snow. Thick, powerful arms, short fat fingers, and wide stumps for legs. It has a deep chest, large, broad shoulders, and a hunched, combative stance. It’s head is relatively small and is pretty much a lumpy blob of snow emerging from its chest. Its facial features consist of 3 irregularly sized holes in with a faint icy blue glow coming from deep within.

OTHER RULES

Stick to one item submission per post! You can post more than once if you like, but please don’t spam the thread or your entries may be removed. Consider taking the time to polish each submission a little before putting it up. The effort shows!

Don’t include any images! We’re looking for interesting concepts straight from your own imagination, without using existing art as a crutch. Entries that include images will be disqualified.

Keep the game’s theme in mind! While we do make some exceptions, don’t be surprised if an idea for a Fission-powered Cybernetic Hippogriff doesn’t gain a lot of traction in a fantasy Viking realm.

 

Name: Fat of the Land
Type: Warrior
Description: Last of the fallen angel who has some awful transformation because he fall in a lake full of toxin. )
He has big muscular hands and legs, huge molten wings, muscular & scared chest, small head with chopped horns. He has scales like lizards, long red hair and his sword is like a cross.

 

Name: Windigo
Type: Warrior
Description: This mythical shapeshifting creature of the New World (Vinland) shares traits of the Vampire and Werewolf from European lore. I picture him in his true form as an owl like creature with pitch black feathers, vaguely humanoid, large reflective eyes for night vision, terrible talons on the feet and wingtips and a hawk-like beak for tearing unsuspecting Vikings apart in the black Northern night.

 

Name: Vingor the Gladramen
Type: Warrior
Description: Dirty, skinny, old, wrinkly, Viking guy with long straggly hair with bones and feathers woven in. Clad in ragged animal skins, a belt with potion bottles hanging from it and a bone knife stuck in it. Holding a curiously shaped wooden wizard's staff. Uses mystical sedir powers to scare enemies and reduce their fighting powers.

 

Name: Rune Chiseling Set
Type: Weapon
Description: Chisel, hammer and anvil, used only to decorate weapons with runes before battle. All of them are of black steel. The handles of chisel and hammer are made of a branch of Yggdrasil, which broke off, when Odin hung himself to get access to the trees knowlege. The almost white wood (ash) looks used, because the tools were used by generations to win their battles with Odins blessing. The tools lay on the anvil in a secret workshop, full of chiseled weapons.

 

Name : Frozen Elf
Type : Warrior
Description : Dark elf ( covert in ice ) how has rais against Santa and has the power to froze

 

Name:Radioactive smoke
Type:Weapon
Description: grey Barrel with a radioactive substance and radioactive sign from it rises light green smoke and shape the form of skull

 

Name:The Dreams Maker
Type:Warrior
Description:A little midget dressed in a nightgown with stars , on his head has a night cap. It is sitting on a crescent in one hand holding a black umbrella symbol of nightmares,in the other hand colorful umbrella symbol of beautiful dreams.

 

Name: Baby Balthazar
Type: Warrior
Description: A small child around the age of 3 with penetrating eyes. In his hand is a broken Popsicle stick dripping with blood. On his head is a knitted war helm adorned with spikes. His mouth is pursed with an whimsical smile. His playful clothes are bloodstained and torn.

 

Name: Barbarian King
Type: Warrior
Description: Tall, broad shoulders, strong, deep chest, carries two large broad swords he holds the by the handles with the blades resting on his shoulders ready to fight, strong stance, dressed in fine furs, under clothes slightly ripped and bloody, thick chunky belt for smaller weapons, long thick beard, scar on the face, foot wear heavy set black boots.

 

Name: Aurochs
Type: gift/ beast weapon/ boss drop!?
Description: A huge Bull, with horns, strong heavy set, weight 1.5- 2+ tonnes, colour can vary white and tan, can be used for attack and defence as well as food, hide can be used for clothing, Horns as drinking cups or weapons.

 

NAME: The Moaning Diamond
Type: Weapon
Description: It looks like an uncut diamond, but when activated a mouth appears from it's center and with the diamond's loud moan, the ground is magically alive. Many hands made from the surrounding earth shoot upward trying to catch any unfortunate victims in the area and drag these unfortunate souls to their deaths beneath the surface.

 

NAME: GUNGNIR ( Odins spear )
Type: Weapon
Description: A 3mtr highly defensive spear, at the top is a 5 prong golden tip, the shaft is jet black with golden runes circling the shaft from top to bottom at the end of the spear is a fist sized unbreakable iron knob which is used for shattering shields and skulls alike, used mainly to defend against charging horses in the line of battle.

 

NAME: The Legendary Peasant Viking
Type:Warrior
Description: A Black, Shadowy figure with a horned helmet and a sword strapped to it's back. The only other thing I can tell you about this warrior is it has a big ? mark on it's chest.

 

Name: Aurora Sorceress
Type: Warrior
Description: A woman with long, gorgeous red hair that's glowing like it's on fire. Black dress with woven silver patterns, almost sheer cloak attached to her shoulders glowing in the colors of northern lights. Holding a ball of glowing fire like light in one hand, a decorative silver staff in the other hand.

 

Name: Vinland King
Type: Warrior
Description: A young man with short golden hair, short clean cut dark beard. Clothes made of the finest raw leather and holding a cloak made of lynx fur on his shoulders. Leather shirt has sharp bone spikes attached to it and he has a gold encrusted belt with a sharp and mean looking long sword hanging from it.

 

Name: Gorekon tha king
Type: Warrior
Description: An over over weight king that sets on his throne, belly sticking out as he eats human body parts and limbs

 

Name: The skull collector
Type: Warrior
Description: A strong and healthy Viking that hunts to collect skulls. He holds a bone axe and has a bow n quiver on his back. He carries a fur sack for his heads. He wears bear fur clothing.

 

Name: The skull collection
Type: Weapon
Description: A pile of bones including an dragon skull, a centaur skull, a deer skull and to top it off a human skull with a cracked cranium. A collection a king would be proud of dont you agree!!!

 

Name: The collector creations
Type: Weapon
Description: His bone handle axe along with his bone bow and fur quiver. A man must use and not waste any parts he finds, words to live by!