Contest Voting

The deadline for submitting your contest submissions has past, and we are now moving into the voting phase. Although the contest moderators and Human Head studios will be reviewing and voting on submissions, we felt that it was very important to involve the community in the process! Thus voting will be opened up to All Rune Community members who wish to participate.

You will have the opportunity to rate each submissions from one to five stars. The winners (in each category) will be those with the Highest Average Rating. You will be limited to one vote per entry. Any suspicious voting patterns may result in Disqualification of one or more entries.

So please don't try to cheat.

Voting will begin on May 16th and end on May 31st.

 

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the contest!


Human Head Studios judges will make the final decision and decide all tie breakers

Winners will be announced June 2nd

 

The Contest

Hello, Rune fans around the world! Got a good Viking level, drawing, or story on the brain? Then get it down and digital and submit it to the Rune 7th Anniversary Contest!

To celebrate the 7th anniversary of Rune's release, Human Head Studios, RuneGame.com, and Rune2.net are sponsoring a taking-all-comers contest for original creative content based on themes, characters, and environments from the Rune universe.

Prizes: The T-Shirts

There are fifteen equal prizes: T-shirts from a very limited run of same, specially designed by Human Head and that evoke the original "developer" shirts from Rune's release.

The Competitive Categories

There are three submission categories, with five prizes in each category:
  • Mapping
Please submit your very best multiplayer Rune map for consideration. There can be only one map per entrant. The zip file size should be no more than 10mb. The map should be accompanied by any necessary additional documentation (readme.txt), a preview screenshot (not manditory), and any necessary support files so that it can be easily accessed and played. The map does not have to be brand-new for the contest; you may submit existing work for consideration.

However, the map must not have been submitted to any previous mapping contest.

The maps will be judged on flow and balance, creativity, aesthetic quality and consistency, performance, and the all-important "fun factor."

  • Fiction
Have you been inspired by the Rune universe? Either continuing Ragnar's adventure, or introduce other characters of the Viking age? Here is your chance! Send in your stories -- We would love to read them!

Please submit your very finest literary treatment of Viking lore set in the Rune universe. The work should be no more than thirty pages, and may be a short story or may constitute a chapter in a larger work. Regardless, the submitted writing should stand on its own and encapsulate a story or event. The work should be submitted in English, and there must be only one submission per entrant.

The work will be judged on creativity and creative use of the Rune characters and their universe. It will also be judged on the quality of the writing itself: command of the language, proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and the writer's personal flair

  • Concept and Illustration
Please submit your vision of the Rune World and its denizens, both known and as yet undiscovered, in JPG format for consideration. The work will be judged on a number of merits: originality, creativity, execution and aesthetics, style and overall completeness of the effort. There can be only one submission per entrant in this category.

Concept work will tend toward the visual realization of new characters and environments within the Rune universe.

Illustrative work will tend toward a narrative or aesthetic expression of characters and environments within the Rune universe.

Submissions and Moderators

An individual may make a single submission into no more than two of the three categories as identified above: Fiction, Mapping, and Concept/Illustration. All work submitted for judging must be original.

In any category, any submission that is determined in Human Head's sole discretion to have been plagiarized will be removed from consideration.

The moderators for the contest are Laurie Wise of RuneGame, Phil (Socketboy) Pliuskonis of Rune2, and Ted Halsted of Human Head Studios. Human Head Studios reserves the right to make final decisions on matters relating to the contest and the awarding of prizes.

Duration of Contest

The contest will run between March 1st and May 1st. This is the time frame in which you must make your formal submission to the website Runeiverse.com

There will then be a ten-day period for voting. The winners will be formally announced on May 15th. The moderators will then collect the addresses of the winners and a brand-new Ragnar T-shirt will be on its way to your mailbox from Human Head Studios.

Voting

The entries will be posted on the website and will be voted on there by Rune fans and Human Head staff. Each voter gets to put a vote into each category, for a total of three votes.
In the case of a tie, an additional T-shirt will be awarded.

The Vibe

Just as the Rune game is about competition with a grin, so is this Rune contest. It's about celebrating people's creative abilities and a game we love to play. Everyone at Human Head and the Rune community looks forward to seeing all of your creative endeavors!

Additional

These limited-run T-shirts are intended as prizes, and there are currently no plans to sell them on the Human Head Website.

Legal

All submissions become the property of Human Head Studios. Human Head Studios retains the right, but has no obligation, to use any submission, a facsimile of any submission or any derivative of any submission in any upcoming Rune-related video game title or for any purpose whatsoever. Contest participants retain no rights, moral or otherwise, in any contest submission. Any disputes related to the contest shall be resolved by Human Head Studios in their sole discretion, and contest participants agree to be bound by these terms through their act of participation.