In all honesty, I forgot all about these threads... [size=+1]The Leather Bound Book Review Competition[/size] Howdili-Doodili-Doo! Happy Birthday Everypony.com! Now, to get us off with a bang I thought I'd run a little game and a chance to pick up some swag. So, I sat down and spent all of...ooo...3 pictoseconds thinking of what I could get you to do. So, rather predictably, we're asking you to write us a review and we'll pick the best of the bunch to get a prize! Your prize, filies and gentlecolts, is a gift code to claim your very own Humble Bundle. This can be claimed for at any time you like and you can run these games on Windows, Mac and Linux. Even your Andriod phone. No complaints about stuff not working. What you'll get inside is: Canabalt, Zen Bound 2, Cogs and Avadon: The Black Fortress. Now, the review can be about litteraly anything. You can review a game, a brick, a Fan Fic, one of the plushies someone was making somewhere, the sandwhich you just ate, a book, a film, the song the birds are singing outside your window or maybe even your own foot. We really don't mind what you do or how long the review is. However, we do have categories to help you drum up and idea for your review. There's 11 categories to shoot for and they're kinda set out like XBox Achivements to make them nice and simple. So in no particular order:
[size=+1]Seeing Everything with a Film Grain[/size]: This is for all film reviews that get sent in, whether they came out on DVD, video, thought-waves or still being shown in cinemas right now. There's no limit on the movie you can look at too! Dig up a forgotten classic or tell us your opinions on what's new. Trailers are allowed if your so inclined. [size=+1]Square Eyes[/size]: You will gain this honour with a review on TV shows. Anything you can find or thinks worth talking about. Supernatural better than Torchwood? After a certain point perhaps but thats not my place to talk about that here. And no, doesn't matter if you didn't actually watch a Television to see what your reviewing. It only needs to have appeared on a television at some point in it's life. [size=+1]The Anti-Noob[/size]: Have you noticed a pattern emerging? You think you can guess the next one? Nope, it's Games. You can review demos here too if a full game and a decent review seem like a daunting task but I think you'll get a good amount of time to get entries in. Anyway, platform isn't important and the older or more obscure games are more than welcome. [size=+1]Twilight Would Be Proud[/size]: For reviewing services to Fan Fiction and Reading Material of all kinds, we have a nice pile of games waiting for you. Oh yes! Your going to carry on reading? All right, we'll leave them here. [size=+1]Net Surfer[/size]: It's very simple: like a miner - shifting through code, hyperlinks and idiotic Youtube comments - you have delved into the World Wide Web and brought back tales of websites and internet videos that will dazzle the mind. Then given some sort of verditc on them. Easy enough. [size=+1]Audacity with Rythemosity[/size]: This'll be interesting as myself, and I'm sure JJWCool, no absolutely nothing about music. Sure, we listen to music but we're better at narrative techniques and....what...whatever JJ does. Anyway, we're prepared to hand over a prize for the best, zen-like explanation of what's best to go tune into out there.
[size=+1]Esteemed Professor[/size]: Simply put, we'll give a prize based entirely on how well you can make yourself sound like your a seasoned expert in whatever your talking about. Can you throw around words like "epistolary" or "GUI" or "gelatinous" with some level of reassurance that you know everything about the subject? Then we have a little something for you. [size=+1]Out-foxer[/size]: I'm going to live to regret this...Yes, I've also got Fan Fics and a few bits and pieces that haven't every really been looked at before. They're scattered around a bit, though and relatively short. Which is good for the purposes of this competition, I suppose. Just a chapter or two, won't take you long and you've got about...what? Four possible, hare-brained and personally-written pieces of Prose to work with. Good luck and pull no punches. I'll be judging this one personally. [size=+1]Doing that voodoo, that JJ does so well[/size]: JJWCool gets to take his pick of every single review of anything with a Horror theme. Him and his best pal, Slendy, will pick out a favourite for an extra prize. [size=+1]Agreed Favourite[/size]: All the currently active and regularly posting reviewers on The Leather Bound Book (so, me and JJ, so far) have looked over every single review and have decided to award a prize to our favourite one. It's the one that we think is 100% fantasticness. [size=+1]Everypony's Favourite[/size]: All right. This needs a little explainin'. Every review we recieve, we'll display in a new thread. Here, other ponies can read what's been sent in so far and then vote on their favourites. Simple! You can vote by sending me a Private Message with 'Vote' in the title and putting the reviewing pony's name on it, somewhere. You can also vote via e-mail in the same fashion. Vote in the title and make sure to put the name of the pony your voting for. Unless your voting for imaginary ponies. In which case, I agree, they should win as well.
That takes us up to 11 categories. A little more idotic rambling before I let you go like a bull in a china shop...Hmm...Gives me an idea... [size=+1]A few notes[/size] - So that you can have plenty of time to read stuff, play stuff or watch stuff and have enough time to write a decent review, we're giving you 3 weeks from today. Ehyup! That should be just about long enough. - Like I said; length is of no consern but we also don't mind being sent videos or audio files if that's the way, uh huh, uh huh, you like it. Uh huh, uh huh. - While anything is fair game, please make sure that you keep this kid freindly. I'm not expecting wall to wall cursing and nudity but it's best to make sure. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a Cupcakes review somewhere... Lastly, a few tips to help: - Tearing into something is really easy but it's much more useful and difficult to give praise and to suggest ways of improving. - You should be looking for a happy medium between information and entertainment. Information is what the reader came for but the entertainment keeps them awake. - Backing up declarations and opinions with solid reasons tends to be a good way of avoiding people arguing with your reviews verdict. OK. I'm going to slink back to my little hovel and play some more Rayman Origins. I'll still be posting reviews and I'll still be about for questions and stuff. Good luck. [size=+1]To enter, send your reviews to me via PM or send them to leatherboundbookreviews@gmail.com Entries should all be in by midnight on the 15th of April. Goooooooood luuuuuuuuck![/size]
Can we send in more than one review for a different topic? That's my only question, I just have a feeling I know which one I'm going to do if only one is acceptable.
Can these be about anything at all? I might go for the Esteemed Professor award with a report on how ducks will take over the world.
Now, the review can be about litteraly anything. You can review a game, a brick, a Fan Fic, one of the plushies someone was making somewhere, the sandwhich you just ate, a book, a film, the song the birds are singing outside your window or maybe even your own foot. We really don't mind what you do or how long the review is. There you go.
PAAAHAAAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Sorry...*ahem*. Yes! Do it! Do it now! Go! Go! Go! Edit: Make sure you get down all the pros and cons.
The Leather Bound Book Competition but BETTER! Right, ignore this Double Post and look at this... [size=+1]The Leather Bound Book Review Competition[/size] is now even [size=+2]BETTER![/size] I was looking at Humble Bundle when I picked up the Gift Codes and I realised that they'd updated the deal they were doing with each of the Bundle Prizes I got from them. They've added stuff. You now get another game on top of the original games you were getting as well as their soundtracks, it appears. Your prize is now: - Zen Bound 2 - Canabalt - Cogs - Avadon: The Black Fortress - and the newcomer: Snuggle Truck Plus, the soundtracks for Snuggle Truck, Canabalt, and Zen Bound 2. The prize has been increased slightly! Huzzar!
[size=+1]The Leather Bound Book Review Competition[/size] [size=+2]Almost a Week Left to get Entries in[/size] Get your entries in to be considered for the 11 prizes on offer. Competition closes 15th of April (Next Sunday) at Midnight.
[size=+1]The Leather Bound Book Review Competition[/size] [size=+2]Ends Tonight: 12 o-clock[/size] Get them in quick! We've had nothing come in so far so you might be in with a chance of getting a prize for the sheer fact that you sent something in. PM link to the left. WARNING: Running out of Message space. E-mail would be a safer bet. Email: leatherboundbookreviews@gmail.com
Awesome idea. Can it be something we wrote before though or do we need to write it now? (I'm guessing the second but it was worth asking). I have something I wrote last year, though it is super long. Edit- oops sorry, I'm super late >_>
If Tyro wants to continue this, he can ask to have it unlocked, but at the moment it's a useless thread. ~Locking~
