Alright I made you wait long enough, here are the winners of the first-ever “official” Stick Nodes collab (contest). Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLUICdFgt1w

• 1) Nonex Anims (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxKccn4Cx8)
  
• 2) Noobish! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hptw54EY9I4)
  
• 3) T.A.K Animation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubibgsIbVKc)
  
• 4) The Posse (Gigan) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GNXShHLeVM)
  
• 5) Jared S (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkVyZu1wPrY)
  

The five winners receive the first-ever Stick Nodes merch. A custom-made Flexfit hat and scarf (art by X-Ray Anims). The merch came out very nice and may lead to some actual store-action in 2022…

Winners will also receive the option to have their (or a person of their choosing) OC displayed on the SN splash screen. And of course the #Christmas2021 badge if they have a website account.

Once again, shouts out to StixFigurez for managing the entire collab and animating the beginning/ending bits, and to JackFly for making the background, Demonbot, and Demobotling stickfigures.

It was a very impressive and enjoyable collab and tough to select a top-5. So many entries had creative OCs, creative attacks, and even creative ways of leaving the screen. Special runner-up status to Robert for having the worst best entry (the ending). And honestly even his actual entry wasn’t too bad (the taco bell sound tho).

I’m going to be running a few more official collabs this year, so stay tuned or whatever.

Other Stuff

Stick Nodes 3.3.0 is still actually coming (shocking I know). Personally I have been very busy irl and all that, so the release has been delayed ridiculously. I’m going to bang out the rest of it and get it out in January for sure. Then right onto the Sprites update which should not take as long (it’s been over 200 days since the last update roflrofl).

As for the rest of 2022, well…I have some vague ideas which may very well turn into plans. We will see…

Happy new year!