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Monday, June 30, 2014

ROYGBiV Tmog Contest - June's Winners

Hello all!

Nothing like waiting until the last minute, right? At least it's still June 30th and I'm technically not late.

:o)

You all are still doing a bang up job with your outfits! Lots of tough choices. Picking two winners was tough...were I still picking one, it would have been tougher.

Here are your winners for the month of June:

Congratulations Cymre and Zeirah!!!

For your prize you can choose one of the following:

1.) Blizzard Store Pet - Lil' K.T. (if you are on a US server)
2.) Beta Key for the Closed Beta of the game EverQuest Landmark
3.) Any of the level 25 pets listed below:

Please send me an email stating which prize you would like. If you choose one of the level 25 pets listed above, let me know what day and time would be good for me to meet up with you in game to trade. Or, let me know which realm you are on and I can create a level 1 toon to mail you the pet.

Thank you to everyone who submitted outfits and have been making my ROYGBiV contest a bunch of fun!!!

Here are all of the outfits submitted in no particular order:

Thank you again to everyone who participated! Your outfits were/are outstanding!

Come back tomorrow to find out what Blizzard Store Pet I'll be giving away for July's leg of the contest.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

ROYGBiV Tmog Contest - June's Deadline

Hello all!

Today is the deadline for June's leg of the contest. You still have roughly 13 hours to get your submissions in if you have not sent them yet.

I currently have no comments on the outfits submitted yet. I have intentionally not checked my email this month to see if I have better luck making sure that every entry makes it into the contest. In the past I have failed twice at this "trying" to be organized.

You see, when I first started the contest, I was a good girl and I created folders in my email for each month. I named the folders with the month and the color figuring that would be the easiest way to keep track of the emails I would receive. I would place the emails, as I received them, in their corresponding folder.

That plan worked for the most part. One month I completely missed an entry even though it was in the correct folder. Another month I put an entry in the wrong folder. This month I decided I would do things different and not touch my email at all. Less chances of me screwing it up this time.

Tomorrow morning I will be opening my emails for the first time this month and should not miss one of them....hopefully.

Also, I've learned that my bank does not like me making purchases on the EU Blizz store. Last month one of the winners I chose lives overseas. Not knowing this, I bought the pet from the US store and sent it off. She was kind enough to let me know that I bought it at the wrong store and sent the code back to me. When I tried to purchase the pet from the EU store I could not complete the purchase. I tried a couple of times with no success.

A few days later I received a phone call from my bank. They locked my credit card because of what appeared to be "fraudulent charges". Thankfully I hadn't tried to use my card during that time. That would have been embarrassing being at the register and having my credit card not work. Eeeeek.

So, for this month I've decided to do things a little different. I am still offering up Lil' K.T. for those of you on US servers. For those of you who are not, if you win, I will allow you to browse my collection of pets and choose any level 25 pet, that can be caged and traded, as your prize. I will create a list of the level 25 pets I have, that can be caged and traded, and post it here along with the winners on the last day of the month. You can also browse through my pets on the WoW Armory. I will post the link in the winner's post as well. Or, you can choose to receive a key for the Closed Beta version of the game EverQuest Landmark. I still have two keys left.

(If you're keeping track of the keys I have, yes I "should" have three left. I broke down and used one and made an alt...lol. Damn alt-o-holicism. hahaha)

Good luck to all the entrants! I can't wait to see your submissions tomorrow.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

ROYGBiV Tmog Contest - May'sWinners & June's Prize

Yea, I know....I'm late. :o(

But, there's good news ahead. Not only am I here to announce the winners for May's leg of the contest, I'm picking a third winner as well! Yep, three of you will be proud owners of a Blossoming Ancient or Landmark Beta keys.

The winners for May are:

Congratulations Kamalia, Erinys and Tyledres! Well done!!! Please email me to let me know which prize you would like.

Here are the other entrants for May:

All of you submitted some WONDERFUL outfits! Keep up the good work, we still have two more contests to go.

Speaking of...for June's contest the prize will be: Lil' K.T.


Can you make the connection??????

Depending on which prizes May's winners choose, I might have a Landmark Beta key to give away as well.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

ROYGBiV Tmog Contest - May Deadline

Hello all! I hope you are doing well.

Just a reminder that today is the final day to get your entries emailed to me.

The outfits submitted already have been amazing!

I wish all of you luck!

I have no screenshots of what I've been up to lately in Landmark. I had been working on a ski lodge/resort with some ski slopes. I ended up scrapping it (and forgetting to get screenies of it) to build something different.

I am now working on building a workshop and viewing rooms to show off my creations. I have been having loads of fun just fiddling around with different shapes and seeing what I can come up with. A lot of the things I have created can be used as wall art or as floor/wall inlays.

I am currently creating a variety of stairways. Trying to see how many different shapes I can create them in. I currently have a long, tall staircase that is in the shape of an "S". I also have a spiral staircase that is not rounded but is in the shape of a large oval....it looks really cool.

I'll get photos out soon.

Friday, May 16, 2014

My Latest EverQuest Landmark Endeavors

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Little by little, the team at Landmark have been doing a great job at tweaking the tools we have to work with and giving us more goodies to test out and play with during the Closed Beta phase. Every week we have a patch and an occasional hotfix or two. Even with all the downtime for this, I have been having a ball.

I currently have two builds going on, in two separate locations. One is in a desert area and the other a forest area along the coast. Neither of them are finished...and I doubt they ever will. One of the cool things about this game is that if you can think it up you can more than likely build it. That means that my builds are always victim to new ideas and additions.

This also means that I have been a very busy bee. Not only am I working on two separate builds, I often tend to stop building/decorating and do a lot of experimenting to see what kinds of things I can and cannot create. The tools we have (right now) have their limitations and it's fun to try to find work arounds to them to create the ideas in our heads.

Prime example, in one of my builds I knew I wanted tunnels...curved/rounded tunnels. At first this was not a major task. It was pretty easy to design the curved straight-a-way sections and the sections that have a downward/upward slope. The bends/turns in the tunnel, however, were a different story. I spent roughly 30 hours, over the course of a week, getting a 90 degree bend to look like I pictured it in my head. The game is based on a small grid pattern and does not play well with curves. Keeping the walls and ceiling curved to where it meets the flat floor all while making a 90 degree turn almost had me pulling my hair out.

After about 4-5 different builds/attempts, just on this one section of tunnel, I finally had a finished product I was proud of. Then came the task of making it possible to edit the colors/textures of the walls and floors, while putting in a border where the walls and floors meet, all while keeping the curves nice and smooth. Again, the game does not like curves and tends to give you wonky results.

Enough of my ramblings on this. Browse the photos below to see what I have been working on. If you happen to be playing the Beta as well, feel free to stop by my homes. They are both on the server Adventure and on the island Marsh. One, Fort Thelan, is the first claim southwest of the Spire. The other, Hidden Enchantment, is due west along the coast. My toon's name is Thelandir.