So, why do a contest for StickGuy?
I am just going to let it all out on this, and hopefully give a little prospective to the entrants of the StickGuy setting contest. I want to set a standard right here and now for 1km1kt.net and myself, I want to add a little commentary (a blog if you will) to the major undertakings here at 1km1kt.net so that whoever drops by can get a little legit insight to what we are doing and why we are doing it.
So, why do a contest for StickGuy? There are a number of reasons:
Basically, we are doing this for the exposure.
1km1kt.net is still a very new site, and a lot of the people that deal with the site on a regular basis are the ones that helped put the site together. I’d like to see the website forums and contribution increase, and I can’t think of a better way to encourage the kind of people we want at 1km1kt.net to drop by than through a contest that asks people to have a little fun writing and use up a little bit of their creative juices. If we can get some people to drop by the site, post once in a while (maybe ask a few questions about StickGuy or whatnot), and generally help the site prosper, then great. We like 1km1kt.net and we hope other people will as well. Even better, if we can help make 1km1kt.net a haven for freelancers of all types, then we will be quite content with the site. The key, of course, is that we need creative people to drop in and help make a community here.
Basically, we are doing this because it is fun.
Honestly, this is a major reason for the setting contest. StickGuy is a fun little rules-set. It surely is not the end-all-be-all of role playing games nor is it even the best example of a rules-lite rpg. What it is though, is fun (and free). I think it is a versatile rules-set and want to see if anyone out there agrees. So, by putting together the setting contest we are encouraging people to play around with StickGuy, have a bit of fun, and put together some material that will help the StickGuy rpg grow. I think it will be fun to read all the entries and share them with other roleplayers out there. I think it will be fun to talk a little StickGuy on the forums. I think it will be fun to talk about all the oddball settings people will come up with. And, in the end, I think it will be a lot of fun deciding which setting takes the cake (in this case $4U.S.).
Basically, we are doing this to see if we can do it.
1km1kt.net is really a one man show. Keeton Harrington, a good friend of mine, is putting a lot of effort into the site as a bit of a pet project. StickGuy is my pet project' something that came about late one evening after I got home from working in a movie theatre. In both cases, our little labors of love have grown about as far as we can push them on our own' now it is time to see if we can encourage 1km1kt.net and StickGuy to grow even further. It’s a bit of a challenge, but Keet and I are not ones to give up.
So, here we are, offering a bounty of forty bucks to whoever can put the best setting for StickGuy together' and in the mean time, help us at 1km1kt.net complete a few personal goals of our own.
Thanks for your time,
Chris Gunning
Shapeshifter13@hotmail.com
-SPQR
Chris Gunning writes copy for the 'one thousand monkeys, one thousand typewriters' online publishing group, where they accept open submissions and provide publication resources for artists and writers in the roleplaying game, fantasy, and science fiction genres. His site can be found at: http://www.1km1kt.net
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