Hi everyone! With the holidays being so busy, we are extending the NPC design contest until January 31st! See all the details below, copied from our previous news post!

NPC Design Contest!

It's time for our first ever NPC Design contest! We will soon be launching a brand new shop, the Holiday Shop, and we are looking for a new NPC to be the shopkeeper! Here are the guidelines for the character design:

• Any species is allowed, though if you design a Puppillar or Snailcat, the maximum rarity level should be Rare! No special traits can be included for Puppillars
• The NPC is a shopkeeper with a cheerful demeanor who loves to celebrate all the holidays of Arcanis
  • Even though this design contest is in December, the design doesn't need to focus on the winter holidays!
• We encourage designers to make this NPC design easy to replicate, as the character will be available for anyone to draw for activities

Contest Rules

1. All members of Puppillars may participate in the contest, including staff members
2. All entries should be design concepts, rather than fully finished/polished peices, as only one will be accepted, we would rather folks submit quick concepts!
   1. If your entry is chosen, you will then be asked to create a finished version of the design, which we will use for the Masterlist art and Shop header!
3. All entries must be submitted to the 2023 NPC Design Contest Gallery Folder
4. Entries will be judged on design elements, creativity, and what we think will fit the NPC, rather than art "quality" or level of polish
5. Participants can submit a maximum of one entry
6. If your design is not chosen as the winner, you are free to do whatever you want with your design
7. Staff members will choose a number of finalists (depending on the amount of entries we recieve), and then the final winner will be determind by member voting!
8. For this design contest, entries will be open until January 31st, 2023!

Prizes

• The winning design will be used as an official NPC on our site, and the creator will recieve 10 Nuggies!
• All non-winning finalists will recieve 200 treats!
• All participants will recieve 5 Holiday Tickets