DP Pumpkin Carving Contest - Winner announced on page 5!!

[Queen Of The Felines]

That's right folks, it's contest time! Halloween is just around the corner and now's the time when the pumpkins get gutted and mutilated and set on fire for our viewing pleasure. While you're busy doing that, why not go the extra mile and enter this new spiffy contest.

All you have to do is decorate a pumpkin so it has some sort of video gaming theme. You can carve it, glue stuff to it, paint it, or whatever else you feel like doing. As long as it resembles something related to video games it's all good. Carve Mario's face or the Atari logo in it. Use it as replacement Gamecube case. Create a field of pumpkin Pikmin. Make a giant pumpkin Pikachu. Use a single pumpkin or a dozen, it doesn't matter. Get creative and have fun!

Take a picture of your creation and then e-mail it to me at kathara@sbcglobal.net. Entries must be e-mailed to me by 11:59pm Central Time on October 31. Once the deadline passes I will put all entries up on my own server and board members will vote on which one is their favorite (pictures will not be labeled so there will be no way to identify who did what to prevent bias). The one which receives the most votes will be the grand prize winner. In the event of a tie, uh, I'll think of something. You can enter as often as you wish if you REALLY like carving pumpkins. Oh, and by the way, if anybody tries to cheat and use Photoshop you will be disqualified and I will laugh at you.

So what IS the grand prize, you ask? It's a huge box filled with games and goodies from the "survival horror" genre and/or involving monsters in general. A small sample of what will be included is below:

D (PSX)
Silent Hill 4 (PS2)
Resident Evil longbox (PSX)
Dark Fall: The Journal (PC)
Manhunt (PS2)
Countdown Vampires (PSX)
Clock Tower (PSX)
Darkstalkers The Night Warriors longbox (PSX)
Fear Effect (PSX)
Kouldeka (PSX)
Nightmare Creatures (PSX)
Silent Hill 2 (PS2)
Resident Evil (GC)
Shadow of Destiny (PS2)
Clock Tower 3 (PS2)
The Ring: Terror's Realm (DC)
Illbleed (DC)
Resident Evil Outbreak survival kit
Resident Evil wall clock made by Sniderman
Extermination (PS2)
Haunted House (2600 - loose)
Dracula (Genesis)
The Thing (PS2)
Resident Evil Code Veronica X w/bonus Devil May Cry DVD (PS2)
Grabbed by the Ghoulies (XBOX)
Shadowgate (NES)
Ghostbusters (Sega Master System)
Run Like Hell (XBOX)
Blade II (XBOX)
Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick (PS2)
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (PS2)
Carrier (DC)
Zombie Revenge (DC)
Eternal Darkness (GC)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (XBOX)

If anybody has any questions you can post them here or PM them to me.

Good luck, and start carving!

Kristine

[hydr0x]

ah i wish we had the pumpkin tradition over here, this way i'm practically out of the race because i have NO experience with this kind of stuff, man i would love to win that package

[davidleeroth]

All that stuff and I haven't got a pumpkin.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

i need a pumpkin and i can get it tomorrow,

Is there more than one winner?
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[Aussie2B]

Awesome line up of games. o_o I'm one step ahead too. :) I already have pumpkins carved with video game themes AND I have photos taken of them, so I just gotta scan 'em and I'm good to go. :) I guess great minds think alike. :P

[tholly]

damn.....thats a nice prize pack....too bad i lack all artistic quality.....maybe i will have to pick up a pumpkin and give this a try anyway.....we'll see


good luck to everyone

[downfall]

I was totally just thinking about doing this the other day.

Commence pumpkin carving!

And yes, that is one heck of a prize pack!

Yet another reason why DP is *the* community.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

I have a few sweet ideas. This should be fun.

[SegaAges]

i actually thought of a good idea yoinking somebody's avatar and making that into a pumpkin. i rock, as i already know whos avatar i will be using.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Is there more than one winner?

There may be. It depends how much more stuff I can accumulate this weekend.

It doesn't matter if you don't have artistic talent, try to make something anyway.

Btw, PLEASE include "DP contest" or something similar in your subject line so I'll know it's not spam.

Kristine

[punkoffgirl]

Not to complain, but I wish you were putting the pictures up as you got them, instead of waiting until after Halloween (which seems so far AWAY!)

[Queen Of The Felines]

If I put them up when I get them I'm afraid people are going to go "Oh there's no way I'm going to beat that!" and not even bother. The more competition the better, ya know.

Kristine

[punkoffgirl]

If I put them up when I get them I'm afraid people are going to go "Oh there's no way I'm going to beat that!" and not even bother. The more competition the better, ya know.

Kristine

But after Halloween is SO far away!
Plus, I kinda wanna know what I have to beat

[punkoffgirl]

Omygod, I JUST carved the BEST MOST AWESOMEST pumpkin in the whole entire world, and I'm DYING to just post an image of it. DYING here!

[izret101]

Sweet load of stuff
I am going to get a Pumkin ASAP. I just said i didn't want to get pumkins this year too.
I am guesing this is a one shot deal too. One pumkin one person? If not i am going to get like 18 pumkins

[JasonMewes2001]

I'm in. I dont know when we're going to buy a pumpkin, but I'm sure it will be relatively soon.

[punkoffgirl]

My pumpkin entry photo has been sent. For poops n giggles, here's a link to another (non-gaming) pumpkin that I carved, using a pattern. Those darn hole pokey thingies SUCK!
http://home.gwi.net/~jamoreau/witchesbrew.jpg

[AFGiant]

I'm so going to do this. But, the only thing is, I'm afraid of most survival horror games. Seriously
But I could use some of those for the collection, and I do like zombies so I'ma enter anyways. Maybe I'll carve this weekend.

[Queen Of The Felines]

You can enter as many times as you wish, as long as they're different pumpkins of course.

Oh, one more thing, every one who votes will have their name put into a drawing for another prize yet to be determined. This way those of you that don't live in the U.S. or those that can't get a pumpkin/don't feel like they have talent can win something too.

Kristine

[Aussie2B]

*looks at punkoffgirl's pumpkin*

I'm totally going to lose this. o_O I'm probably going to get the least number of votes out of them all, haha. I still love my little pumpkin, though. :)