The #Christmas2021 Collab/Contest Winners!

By Ralph (Developer) 37 Comments

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

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!

The Stick Nodes #Christmas2021 Collab (Contest)

By Ralph (Developer) 135 Comments

Edit 12/26: Collab went live yesterday! Thanks to all who entered, JackFly for the stickfigures, and Stix for managing the entire thing. A more proper post will be written in the upcoming week with the five best entries and their prizes.

Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLUICdFgt1w

Edit 12/21: Entries are closed. The collab will be launched soon, and winners announced soon after!

So it only took seven years, but we’re going to have our first ever official Stick Nodes community collab, and it’s Christmas-themed.

It’s being managed by StixFigurez, who has hosted a good number of successful SN collabs this past year, but the finished product will be hosted on my channel.

See the below video for the instructions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__gj38IlJ-U)

The Plot

Christmas Eve night, an otherwise normal night at RalphCo™ finds Ralph and Sean doing what they do every night – scheming ways in which to take over the world with Stick Nodes. Well, Ralph does the scheming…Sean more-so wonders why he’s not at home watching TV.

The night is interrupted by a security breach. The ever-patient and conniving Demonbot has finally launched his plan into action to utilize the RalphCo™ Missile Defense System® in order to take out the fast-approaching Santa Claus flying overhead.

Knowing this would be awful publicity for Stick Nodes, Ralph and Sean frantically attempt to break into the control room where Demonbot has barricaded himself. As he prepares the lock-on sequence for the approaching Fat Man, Demonbot deploys hundreds of his minions into RalphCo™ to cause chaos and buy time…

Prizes

The prizes this year will be actual physical items, and the first-ever SN merch. Want to be beat up and ridiculed in the streets? Boy do I have some accessories for you to wear! In traditional blue/black/white Stick Nodes colors comes an embroidered hat and scarf combo:

The scarves are still in production, but I hope for them to arrive by the end of the contest (the collab will premiere on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and the “winners” (best entries judged by me and a few others) will win the prizes).

I’m not sure how international shipping will be handled, and it may not be financially feasible, so I can’t yet say if I will be able to ship to anywhere outside North America right now. We’ll cross this bridge when/if we come to it.

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans here…now everyone get to animating for Christmas.

The #Halloween2021 Winners!

By Ralph (Developer) 37 Comments

Happy Halloween! Time for me to give away free money again…

Here are the winners of the #Halloween2021 “spookiest background” stickfigure contest! All entries can be seen here.

Criteria

Quick note about how the winners were chosen. First, I put a printout of each submission a dartboard. I blindfolded myself and then whichever darts hit, that was the ranking order.

No but seriously, the main qualification was usability – both in terms of ease of use and usefulness. Secondly was creativity and uniqueness. As a result, here are the winners.

The Winners

First place is awarded $50, second place receives $25, and 3rd place is awarded $10. These three winners will also (soon) receive the #Halloween2021 badge on their profile.

All runners-up will receive $10 as well. Winners will be contacted via email within a day or so.

Christmas Collab

For Christmas, the “contest” will be an animation collab. The collab will be managed by StixFigurez but will be the first “official” Stick Nodes collab, and will be hosted on my channel.

Details about the collab aren’t decided yet, this is just a head’s up of what to expect. Entries will be something short. Information about this will be announced in the latter half of November, so look out for that.

Winners will receive a cash prize and maybe even…something more, tangible.

Stick Nodes 3.3.0

By the way, the next update is coming. Just some minor issues holding back it’s release. It should be out this week. Blame Sean.