Allakhazam Pumpkin Carving Contest

[Elmer the Pointy]

Excuse me for ZAMing it up in here a bit, but I just wanted to encourage people to try their hand at this year's Pumpkin Carving Contest being held over at Allakhazam.

This year, the prizes include actual in-game items in the form of pumpkins you can place like furniture in your Mog House.

Spoiler: show

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It's not as enticing for some as slapping a WotG sticker on the side of a PC maybe, but it's definitely promising to see they are willing to create special items for the players like this.

The 25 large-sized pumpkins will go to the top 25 entries as selected by the admins. From there, voting will determine who wins the top prizes. However, there are 500 "small" pumpkins that will be awarded to the first 500 contestants who submit an approved entry. All you have to do is cut a hole in a pumpkin, but instead of putting your junk in that pumpkin, place a candle in there and take a snapshot.

The Japanese dev blog, Creator's Voice Z has already carved a pumpkin of their own to show JP players how its done. As a result, there's actually an overwhelming amount of JP player entries compared to NA right now.

There will be other "special guests" getting in on the fun, so I think this is something people will be glad they participated in. We've gotten more support than ever for this, so if the players come out for the contest as well, it'll definitely promote stronger ties between the players and game designers.

Check out the Contest Page to submit an entry, and you can see some of the entries we have received down at the bottom.

Just remember, entries must be submitted by 6 PM EST on October 24, 2009. Also, do not post your entry anywhere else or post which entry is yours.

If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask in this thread.

[Yugl]

That moogle pumpkin is badass.

[Beave]

I dislike these promo pics. I remember when the land king statues were announced for bonanza....was really excited to have a huge turtle in my mog house only to be thoroughly disappointed with the actual size. These do look a little bigger though!

[Vlorsutes]

The whole point of the Taru in the pic was to show the scale of these things, so the smaller, green ones are still larger than a Taru is, and the large ones can probably fit a Galka inside them from the way it looks.

[Silenka]

inb4 "SE has time to do this but not fix the problems in the game?"

Oh well, those are cool items, good luck to whoever is entering. I'm sadly far too lazy and inept with a knife to enter myself :D

[Corrderio]

Shouldn't this be in Official News?

[Flic]

Last years comp had some pretty good efforts, looking forward to seeing what people do this year.