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Win $500 In Week 4 Of Sinespace's Creative Challenge! But First, Read Some Advice From Lead Dev Adam Frisby

Starting tomorrow (October 19), NWN partner Sinespace is opening up its fourth weekly content creation challenge, awarding $500 to the user who creates the best item or scene and submits it to Sinespace's developer server next week. (Last week's challenge, by the way, went to this realistic tugboat with puffing chimney by SecretWeapon Production, pictured here.) And yes, content previously created for Second Life and other platforms can be submitted. This is the challenge page.

Sinespace founder and lead developer Adam Frisby has some important developer advice to increase your chances of winning:

• "Please test your work! It hurts us to discount entries if they were broken, especially if they were well made.
• "You can update your work between submission and us testing it - but be aware, when we test could be anywhere in the following week, so your update may not be guaranteed to be tested.
• "Myself and @Jayden Catnip are not part of the judging pool, and will happily offer advice to entrants. So if you need more assistance, please reach out to us on Discord."

How to apply and submit:

Win $500 in Week 3 of Sinespace's Creative Content Submission Challenge

Starting tomorrow (October 12), NWN partner Sinespace is opening up its second weekly content creation challenge, awarding $500 to the user who creates the best item or scene and submits it to Sinespace's developer server next week, i.e., between October 12 to October 18.  (The challenge page dates are currently displayed EU style, by day-week-year.)

The entry with the most usefulness, creativity, originality, interactivity and effective use of Sinespace components wins the $500 cash prize. And yes: Pre-existing, mesh-based content you created for other virtual worlds, games, and platforms like Second Life are also eligible for this competition -- as long as you port and submit it to Sinespace in time (instructions below the break).

New to Sinespace and want to learn how to create content on the platform? Dig into the wiki for everything you need to know to get started, and check out the “Masterclass” videos on Sinespace’s YouTube page. Post questions to the Sinespace team in Comments below or talk live with them and fellow creators on the official Discord. 

How to apply and submit:

 

Sinespace's Weekly Challenge: Submit Cool Content for Chance to Win $500

Starting tomorrow (October 5), NWN partner Sinespace is opening up its second weekly content creation challenge, awarding $500 to the user who creates the best item or scene and submits it to Sinespace's developer server next week, i.e., between October 5 to October 11.  (The challenge page dates are currently displayed EU style, by day-week-year.)

The entry with the most usefulness, creativity, originality, interactivity and effective use of Sinespace components wins the $500 cash prize. And yes: Pre-existing, mesh-based content you created for other virtual worlds, games, and platforms like Second Life are also eligible for this competition -- as long as you port and submit it to Sinespace in time (instructions below the break).

New to Sinespace and want to learn how to create content on the platform? Dig into the wiki for everything you need to know to get started, and check out the “Masterclass” videos on Sinespace’s YouTube page. Post questions to the Sinespace team in Comments below or talk live with them and fellow creators on the official Discord. 

Sinespace Launches $24,000 Content Creator Contest With Themed & Free-for-All Challenges -- Content You Created in Other Virtual Worlds Eligible!

Sinespace (a proud sponsoring NWN media partner) just announced monthly and weekly creator challenges for Unity developers, established Sinespace creators, and 3D mesh artists/modelers, with a chance to a total of $29,000 in prizes, including $24,000 in cash rewards.

 

Pre-existing, mesh-based content you created for other virtual worlds, games, and platforms like Second Life are also eligible for this competition, as long as you port and submit it to Sinespace (instructions below).

 

This contest includes three themed challenges:

• Witchcraft: Witch-themed clothing, accessories, furniture item or a spawnable memento. 
• Carnival games/mini-games: Short, casual games (single-player, PVP, or PVE).
• “Out of this world”: Create a unique, interactive, outlandish sci-fi/alien-themed environment using the Sinespace SDK. 

Winners in each category get $2000, $3000, or $5000 plus a 1 year Exclusive Creator membership. One runner-up in each category will get $1000 or $2000  plus a 1 year Exclusive Creator membership.

 

Sinespace is also awarding $500 to the best item or scene submitted to its servers in the preceding week (subject/theme is creator's choice), from now until February 2020:

Sinespace Users: Refer Friends for Free Gold & Premium Subscriptions!

Here's a new offer for users of Sinespace, the Unity 3D-based virtual world sandbox MMO (and proud sponsoring partner to NWN): Get friends to sign up for Sinespace, and when they do and buy Gold, you get a Gold bonus that's 2% of whatever they buy. For instance, if they buy 10000 Gold, you get 200 Gold in your account.

The Referral Program also has a Premium offer: Refer 5 friends who become Premium members, you get your Premium membership free while they are subscribed!

Click here for details for how to redeem these offers, or log into your account and click the "Referral Program" tab.

Questions? Post in Comments below or even better, join Sinespace's official Discord. 

Sinespace Launches New Website With Upgraded Shopping Options, Region Teleport, Many Other Features

Click here to check out the new website for Sinespace, the Unity 3D-based virtual world/open world sandbox MMO (and proud sponsoring partner!) with many updated/expanded features tailored especially made for virtual world fans. Including:

• Enhanced shopping for buying items on the website or in-world, and for creators, a Curator page to manage and track your items, sales, tips, land and API access to the platform tools.
• Brand pages for content creators, such as this one for Synty Studios, a popular 3D content developer for Unity and Unreal which also sells their content to Sinespace users.
• Direct teleport to specific regions (kind of like a SLurl). For instance, there's an event happening at the 381 Club right now: Click here to visit.

Whether or not you're a user, the Sinespace team would love your feedback if you get a chance to give it a look: Post in Comments below or even better, join the official Discord. 

Watch: How to Use Sinespace's Snapshot Tool -- Then Create & Sell New Snapshot Filters

In this latest masterclass tutorial for Sinespace (a proud media partner to this blog!), co-founder and lead developer Adam Frisby shows you the basics of the virtual world's snapshot tool, which comes with options to add new poses, frames, camera angles and filters. A longtime virtual world developer and user (he's known as Adam Zaius in Second Life, Adam and the team designed the snapshot app to have a functionality that other worlds don't have. "It's inheriting a lot of ideas from mobile apps; Instagram and such," as he puts it to me. "The idea being it's quick and simple to dress up a photo nicely."

For creators, there's also an option to go deeper and completely customize those features for fun and profit:  

This Sunday at 1pm PST: Join Me & Karsten Rutledge for the Official Launch of Greedy Greedy in Sinespace!

NWN partner Sinespace is launching a huge Summer festival this weekend full of fun live events, including one on Sunday at 1PM PST which I'll host with Joshua "Karsten Rutlege" May, whose Greedy Greedy game is a huge hit in Second Life -- and is officially coming to Sinespace:

Greedy Greedy: Official Sinespace Launch Party With Karsten Rutledge & Hamlet Au, 8PM UTC/1PM PST at the Welcome Centre - Come to play, come to dance, come to show off your style in the official launch of Greedy Greedy, the hit dice game from Karsten Rutledge (aka Joshua May)! Your MC for the show is Hamlet Au (aka Wagner James Au), who’ll interview Joshua and MC the activities.

More events here on the Sinespace blog. That's Karsten above in the middle, playtesting the Sinespace version, which comes with new animations and effects. Here's how to join in on the gaming/dancing/partying mayhem:

Sinespace Unveils New User Interface, Welcome Center & Free Home Region for All Users

Sinespace just launched a huge new updated to its Unity-based virtual world platform (a proud sponsoring media partner to this blog), featured in the video above: A greatly improved viewer UI, a revamped welcome center (coming later this week), and a completely new home region (free for all users, just click "Home" in the viewer to claim/access). Here's how to check out these new changes:

• Create a free Sinespace account here 
• Download Sinespace for Windows, Mac & Linux here, then log-in. 

These updates are part of Sinespace's upcoming Summer Festival, which launches this weekend, with live music and DJs, karaoke and beach party, and much more -- like a Sunday event I'll be hosting with Greedy Greedy dice game creator Karsten Rutledge. More info on that soon, but for now get all the event details from the Sinespace blog here.

Watch this video below for a deep dive look at the new UI:

Watch: How to Create Audio Reactive Clothing in Sinespace

Update, 1:35pm: Live masterclass is over, but watch the full video above!

In today's 11:00am PST tutorial for development in Sinespace (a proud NWN partner!) lead developer Adam Frisby shows off a pretty cool feature: How to create Sinespace clothing with an Audio Reactive component. Which as that suggests, means that the clothing item can literally react to audio around it -- for example, a metallic dress that lights up and pulses in synchronized rhythm to the beat in the nightclub. Watch the YouTube stream live above, or on Sinespace's Twitch channel.

Post questions in Comments below, or perhaps even better, join Sinespace's official Discord for quickest answers from the creators.