The Fallen London Hallowmas Competition
Delicious friends, it’s time to prepare your sewing kits, glue guns and rolling pins for our next Fallen London competition!
Our fanart competition was a delight. We were humbled by your skill and creativity.
This time we will be accepting entries in cookery, costume or craft.
The theme is Hallowmas. Ring in the season with your festive creations!
Hallowmas is a Fallen London festival celebrated in October/November. A time of revels, confessions and feasts, of harmless merriment - or something more sinister.
How to Enter
You’re free to interpret the theme in any way you see fit, as long as your creation relates back to the theme. Think masks, skulls, candles, tricks and treats. (And sympathetic Surface traditions, like pumpkins.)
Post your creations to your Tumblr and include:
- Which category you’re entering
- The name of your creation
- The tag #fallen london hallowmas competition
- At least one clear photo of your creation, to a maximum of five
- Accompanying text of no more than 250 words (if you like)
If you don’t use tumblr, email your entry to competitions@failbettergames.com, marked Hallowmas Competition, and we will share it from ours.
The competition will close on 9 November 2015.
We will review all the entries and announce our top 5 in each category.
These will be up for community vote until 16 November, with one winner in each category receiving a prize package.
The Prizes
Your choice of merchandise from our new range
A piece from our brand-new merchandise range! We’ve just relaunched our store with new merch for Sunless Sea and we’re adding Fallen London pieces over the coming weeks. You’ll have your pick of mugs, aprons, shirts and phone cases.
Exclusive Fallen London jewellery
Your choice of an Exceptional Hat necklace or brooch. These very limited edition pieces are hand-made by us from laser-cut acrylic.
This is the first piece of Fallen London jewellery we’ve ever produced, and winning a competition is the only way to get your hands on one!
100 Fate and 3 months of Exceptional Friendship
This means 3 months of two candles, 10 cards to draw, access to the House of Chimes and 3 brand-new stories, plus enough Fate to sample some Fate-locked stories (or just refresh actions furiously).
A copy of Sunless Sea, plus the official soundtrack
Sunless Sea, our game for PC and Mac, will be yours along with a download code for its haunting soundtrack.
Entry guidelines under the cut. Good luck!
Competition Guidelines
1. The piece must fit the theme Hallowmas. It doesn’t have to be a new piece, but pieces which clearly don’t fit the theme will not be taken into account.
2. Please, nothing NSFW. We’ve got interns; their minds are so fresh.
3. JPGS, GIFS and PNGs will be accepted for the image of your creation. See Tumblr’s image guidelines to make sure your image will look its best.
4. We kindly ask that you don’t send any entries to the office - we love to see your creations but would rather not risk them being destroyed or lost in the post!
5. We will not be accepting fan art, written entries or video this time. You may use a gif to illustrate your entry in motion.
6. The competition is open internationally. The piece must be made by you, and submitted by you.
7. Your ask must be open, or you must include alternate contact details when posting your piece. If we can’t contact you within a week of voting closing, we’ll move on to the person with the next highest number of votes.
8. Any attempt to manipulate voting will be cause for disqualification. We trust you not to do anything like this, and to know when ‘trying to drum up support’ turns into spamming or manipulating either the system or other people.
If you have any questions, drop us an ask and we’ll try to help.
Good luck, delicious friends!