OLD - Battle dice design contest

[Groblutsnak]

Q-Workshop announces “Your Wargame Dice” contest !

Q-Workshop, producer of Unusual Dice announces contest for design of D6 dice for use in tabletop wargames. The project of dice, sizes 11-12mm should be prepared in accordance with custom dice design guidelines and sent to contest@q-workshop.com The theme of dice is up to designer, however one should remember about clarity and uniqueness of the design !

Several attractive prizes await:

- money prize of 125 EUR
- 5 dice sets designed by the winner (each set contains 5 dice)
- Information about the winner will be printed on dice packaging and on Q-Workshop website

The deadline for submitting designs is 15th November 2007.

Good luck !

[Groblutsnak]

CONTEST RULES "Your Wargame Dice"

General Information

1. The "Your Wargame Dice Contest", further referred to as the Contest is organised by Q-Workshop Patryk Strzelewicz, with head office in Poznan, Poland, further reffered to as Q-Workshop

2. The contest begins on day 7th September 2007 and ends on day 15th November 2007

3. The contest winner will be awarded 1 prize, consisting of equivalent of 125 EUR, 5 packs of dice authored by winner (each pack contains 5 dice) and publication of information about the winner on dice blister pack and the Q-Workshop website

Rules of Contest and Prizes

1. The contest is open to every physical person excluding Q-workshop employees and their relatives.

2. The Contest is open only to persons of 13 years or older.

3. The Contest relies on submitting a project of six-sided dice sized 11-12mm to contest (at) q-workshop.com

4. The prize will be awarded by Council made up of Q-Workshop employees.

5. The Council's verdict is final.

6. The winner will be announced on Q-Workshop webpage (http://www.q-workshop.com

7. The winner is not entiteld to claim monetary equivalency of the prize.

8. All claims regarding prizes which are not awarded are excluded.

9. The prize will be sent to the Winner by post. The money will be transferred by bank transfer on winnner's account or by cheque/postal order.

10. Contest participants agree to have their names and country/city of origin published in event of winning the contest.

11. The personal data on contest participants are gathered and used by Q-Workshop solely in regard to contest.

12. The participants of contest agree for Q-Workshop to gather and process their personal data in compliance with Polish and EU laws.

13. The participants have right to review and modify their personal data, as well request for Q-Workshop to cease processing these data.

14. This document is the only one describing rules of the Contest.

[Kevin Cook]

4. The prize will be awarded by Council made up of Q-Workshop employees.

Would you make an exception in my case ... I would like to help in this area as well ... as I have designed ... and seen so many dice over the past 30 years

[Thomas_P]

How many entries per person are allowed?

Thomas

[Groblutsnak]

Multiple entries are allowed.

[Myrilath]

Are you after one design for 5 dice or a themed design set for 5 dice?

[Groblutsnak]

We are after a single d6 design, however entering several designs is perfectly fine - gives us more things to choose from, and that's always good

[Darksyde]

If baseing die designs on ones favorite or current game are there any restrictions on useing graphics from the intended game the dice are being designed for?

[Groblutsnak]

Well, you can't lift the images from an existing intellectual property and use them in a design. For any specifics, ask via mail/pm/im

[Groblutsnak]

Submissions deadline is over, so here are the entries - expect the verdict soon !

Alvin Helms





Bartosz Pawelczyk



Bartosz Topolczyk



Caroline Lundin



Dominik Bialczyk



Jan Machalski







Jochem van Hoogstraten



Marcin Oszczyk







Moa RInhalder







Paweł Hachaj













Przemek Nowaczyk



Radek Chodorowski



Thomas Pasieka







Tomasz Ptasznik

[Kevin Cook]

WOW ... very nice ... the hard part is now picking one

[Kevin Cook]

Ok ... I have Rated the submissions above ...

Please note ... that I am not an employee of Q-Workshop so my rating is nothing more than my opinion

In my opinion ... everyone did a great job ... so much so I intend to make paper models of ALL of these ... for my collection ...

So ... at least if your design is not produced ... one example will exist in the worlds largest collection of dice

[Thomas_P]

Some excellent designs I have to say! Good luck to everyone!


Thomas

[Groblutsnak]

DRUMS ROLL....

The Winner of Battle Dice Design Contest is ....
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THOMAS PASIEKA with his "Dog Tag" design !!!

Here is the "money shot" of Thomas' excellent design:




We would like to thank all participants for their input and great work - we will remember about you ! Also, Kevin "Dice Collector" Cook has given us great help, and deserves once again a big thanks.

[Thomas_P]

I won!? I can't believe it Well I feel honored of course! Thanks everyone! I personally saw some cool entries so I bet picking a winner wasn't all that easy. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank my wonderful wife....(well this isn't the oscar nomination is it?).


Thanks everyone!! Can't wait to see the dice in my hands next


Thomas

[Kevin Cook]

Congrats Thomas

If anyone cares to look ... I did a cardboard model of each of your entries ... Click Here

I will be doing closeup photos of each die ... as lighting permits ... 4:07pm and the last embers of sun were just enough to take this photo

If you care to model them yourself ... Click Here

Does anyone object to me making these templates permanently available on my website?

Email or private mail me direct and I will remove your art should you object

[Kevin Cook]

I have done a full page devoted to the contest and your wonderful submissions ... if you care to take a look ... CLICK HERE

[Cozmo]

is there any way to actually get some of these dice?

are the designs protected, or can I have some of them made into real dice?

[Kevin Cook]

I know there was a limited release of the dice ... as I have a couple of examples ...

As to the intellectual property rights ... I will let Q-Workshop answer that

[Maciej Q-workshop]

If You give us about two or three more months - You will see the two designs of Thomas Pasieka on our site, as they are already made into real dice

I can already see them on my desk :]

There will be 4 types of dog tags - German, Alliance, Russian and American, all 4 types in two different colour schemes.
We also came to an agreement with Thomas and he passed the sniper dice to us - they should also be released soon in I guess two colour schemes.

If You're interested in battle dice, we also received the Orky Dice for us - I don't know if they were ever mentioned here on the forum.. Kevin, would You mind helping me out with the Orky dice?

As to other projects - well, they are a property of their creators so not likely.

[Kevin Cook]

If You give us about two or three more months - You will see the two designs of Thomas Pasieka on our site, as they are already made into real dice

I can already see them on my desk :]

There will be 4 types of dog tags - German, Alliance, Russian and American, all 4 types in two different colour schemes.
We also came to an agreement with Thomas and he passed the sniper dice to us - they should also be released soon in I guess two colour schemes.

Cool ... I am looking forward to acquiring them ... as I only have the General (American?) and the Soviet

Kevin, would You mind helping me out with the Orky dice?

I will be glad to help ...

HERE is what the dice look like

HERE is the Warseer / Orky dice thread ... from which details about ordering these dice can be found