Ideally, you would enter a tower built for this contest instead of using one you've already posted. In fact, our platform won't let you enter posts made prior to the jam itself. Perhaps you could revisit the tower in-game and make a significant update to make it "new", publish and then enter it into the jam.
Overall, we're mainly looking to see what our members can create in the game. The jam is meant to motivate you to push your own abilities because you're aware of the competition.
Hey... Just noticed your initial thread tripped a spam agent. I approved it along with all the replies you tried to make after it. Sorry for the trouble and looks like a great server.
I don't think BuildShare modifies the terrain unless the export included it.
You might try PlanBuild an alternative to BuildShare. I don't know if it can help you in this case but it certainly looks well developed, polished and maintained.
Good luck to everyone who entered and to anyone who might be submitting last minute!
I'm very pleased and impressed by all of the different entries already. We may be a small community but it's clear we've got serious talent here. Thanks for entering, giving others feedback on their creations and just being here reading these letters! :D
Next, the contest will enter a review phase for several days while we check to make sure entries followed the basic requirements. After that, it will enter the final judging phase where my wife and I will separately rate each entry with 3 judging criteria. I can tell it's going to be challenge! Our ratings for the criteria will be averaged together to compute a final leader board.
Typically the upload build file is for sharing .vbuild files but it supports .zip as well. This means, you could zip your world directory and share it. I've seen members do that before.
Your world zipped will probably be larger than 15MB which is our maximum supported upload size at this time. If so, you'll need to upload it to a file hosting service such as mediafire.com or dropbox.com. You could then copy the download url and paste it into the "Alternative Download" field on the submission form.
World / vbuild files are not required for the contest but of course greatly appreciated by the community since we get to explore your world / build ourselves. As you mentioned, photos can only capture so much even though they say they are worth a 1000 words :D A world / build file must be worth a million.
You can also utilize the description. Images uploaded to image hosting sites, such as imgur.com, can be embedded in the description by using the insert media button, image, in our editor. Top row, just after the link buttons.
I think because the game just updated that the mod is broken until it is also updated. I haven't tried it myself but that's typically what happens with mods when the base game updates. Hopefully the buildshare devs have time.
Welcome! It would be nice if it was built for the contest. However, as long as it is yours & built in the Meadows, it qualifies!
Vaheim is still very new and we're just getting established. Maybe future contests, year+ out, will ask that builds be built for the contest. Right now, everything everyone has built is relatively new (few months).
