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Hello Tibians!

TibiaQA.com is happy to announce the Quick Tour Design contest! The goal of this contest is to help users (especially new users) easily learn what TibiaQA is and how is it different from regular discussion forums.

Contest rules

  1. The deadline for submissions is 1. February 2020, 23:59 CET
  2. Players participate by posting an answer containing the Quick Tour in this topic
  3. The Quick Tour is supposed to easily introduce new users into the TibiaQA world and should follow the guidelines listed below
  4. The Quick Tour can take absolutely any form - they can be a bullet-list, an essay, an infographic, a poster, a GIF, a video, or a combination of various styles
  5. The whole entry needs to be in the English language
  6. There's no limit on the submissions from a single user
  7. TibiaQA.com team cannot participate in the contest

Quick Tour guidelines

The following points will be taken into consideration when scoring the entries. Most of the necessary information that you can include in the Quick Tour can be found in our Help Center

  • The Quick Tour should be straightforward enough so that users who do not speak English natively can understand it
  • The Quick Tour should be concise - it should take no more than 2 minutes to process everything for the average user
  • The Quick Tour should present the information in a creative way that will encourage users to go through and learn from it
  • The Quick Tour should touch on the following aspects at the minimum (but it may be more than that)
    • TibiaQA is not a regular forum
      • No chit-chat, no discussions - just questions, and answers
      • Well-formulated questions are important since they will likely be read by thousands of other users
      • Not all question types are well suited for TibiaQA
    • The importance of voting
      • Votes indicate usefulness/correctness of the posts
      • Up-votes move answers up so better answers are displayed first
      • Votes increase user reputation points what in consequence unlocks more moderation privileges for them

Prizes

  1. Golden Trophy of Excellence + Omniscient Owl + Blue Sphere + 60 TibiaQA reputation points
  2. Silver Trophy of Excellence + Hero's Medal + Yellow Rose + 30 TibiaQA reputation points
  3. Bronze Trophy of Excellence + Badge of Glory + Unicorn Figurine + 15 TibiaQA reputation points

Selecting top entries

  • The TibiaQA.com team will pre-select top 5 entries and forward those entries to CMs and Fansite admins
  • CM and fansite admin votes will determine the top 3 that will be rewarded
  • The final results are expected to be announced on 9. February 2020

Disclaimer: By participating in this contest, you agree that your entries can be used in any way by TibiaQA.com team to enhance the website, no matter if your contest entry wins or not.

Any questions related to the contest can be posted as a comment to this post. Please reserve the answers for contest entries. If you have more general questions about TibiaQA mechanics, you can also post them as a separate question on Meta.

We are looking forward to creative ideas and awesome entries!
The TibiaQA.com team

closed with the note: The time to submit contest entries is over! Please make sure to read the accepted answer for next steps.
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Can I make a poster using crayons or paints on a piece of paper or just graphics?
by (3,967 points)
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@Tynusiiaa - yes. As mentioned in the contest rules it can be literally any form. I'd just recommend that you take a high-quality scan or photo of that hand-drawn poster if you decide to go with it :) Good luck!
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The prizes could be more even , maybe changing unicorn figure for the blue sphere , the first prize is already taking the owl. Im saying this because on some contest is almost impossible to win because there is graphic designers that participates on this contest just for taking the prizes. That people have a very big advantage from the rest.
by (160 points)
good way. maybe not sphere, but unicorn figure is worth too small than other prices. I know cipsoft gives you restrictions, but in my opinion the rewards are probably more balanced with each other.

18 Answers

+5 votes
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Best answer

Hello everyone and thanks for the great entries! Your Quick Tours look amazing :)

In case you have uploaded your entry on a portal that doesn't allow direct downloads (like YouTube), please also send a copy of your entry to tibiaqa.adm@gmail.com or upload it on Google Drive or other hosting platform and share the link via the same e-mail address. If you have a better quality/higher resolution of your posters or images you can send them too!

We are planning to announce the winners around 9. February!

by (1,022 points)
Good Luck to everyone!<3
by (32 points)
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What if my presentation isn't a video, but an interactive presentation, such as Prezi? Is not a video to be downloaded, how should I proceed?
by (3,967 points)
For Prezi, a link to the presentation is sufficient
+5 votes
by (388 points)

When I was thinking how to present TibiaQA I decided to use presentation. This is in my opinion quite unique, more interesting and eye-friendly form than the text itself, thanks to the division of the text into individual shapes or slides. Moreover I could present some aspects graphically. I can also edit it any time, add or delete some info, what I can not do in case of a video.

An additional advantage of my presentation is that by choosing from the „main menu” manually – we can skip previous slides, which are not interesting for us. For example – I want to skip information what is TibiaQA, so I choose second section – „How it works?”.

The presentation would look good with TibiaQA’s modern and minimalistic desing, the colours correspond to the logo.

Owls are unfortunately only a hand-drawing, but maybe someone consider it as advantage… or at least additional effort xD It is my own interpretation of Omniscient Owl in a comic style! Some of them looks better, other worse but it is not a contest for the best drawing so I wasn’t focuse on it.

Isn’t it too long?

We all have different reading rates. I checked it with a stopwatch and read whole presentation took me 1:35 to 2:20, my friends did it too and their result was 1:40-1:53 – I decided that presentation is in accordance with the rules (2 minutes).

https://prezi.com/view/Mq5v2reuBeaL30zPXiT2

Hope you like my idea to present TibiaQA :)

by (10 points)
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I like the art work , especially the happy owl in the end! Never saw this prezi webpage before it looks nice. Cool idea
by (388 points)
Thanks a lot! =D
by (63 points)
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Waaa, beautiful and original work
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by (42 points)

Here is my TibiaQA Quick tour design entry!
Its a combination of two styles: a Poster and a Motion graphics animation.

Click here for a better resolution.


Click here to start the TibiaQA Quick Tour!
(Download it for better resolution)
 

All materials used are free copyright and some are created by me.
I create a square video because it fits better on social media.
Don’t forget to watch the video on the best quality or download it.

 heart

Programs:
Adobe Ilustrator - Adobe Photoshop - Adobe After effects - Adobe Premiere


Character name: Amy Meow
World: Firmera

by (99 points)
Wow really great work!
by (115 points)
No chance to winning , haha you guys have too good graphic design skills . nice work
by (42 points)
Thank you for good comments <3 and I wish good luck to everyone, I'm pretty sure everyone can win because there are an amazing entries and would be hard to choice, whoever wins I will be happy <3
by (21 points)
This Is Amazing ;D
+4 votes
by (37 points)
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Here's my entry ^^

Added some bits to fill out the empty space

by (50 points)
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Very ingenious entry, I liked it very much :) Good luck !
by (37 points)
Thanks a lot :)
by (1,022 points)
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Beautiful hes so cuuteee
by (27 points)
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Wow! This is amazing! And this cute helmet <3
by (3,967 points)
I like the way it was presented a lot! I think there's still room for two improvements: making the font size a little bigger and maybe re-wording/adding something from yourself to the text - currently, it mostly contains topic subjects to mention from the contest rules. Still, a good entry - thanks!
by (37 points)
Are you talking about the headings or the body of text Ellotris? And you pretty much worded the websites keypoints perfectly to give people a gist but not overload them with info so didn't change much of it :P But I'll see what can be done :)
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No, the headings are perfect :) I was talking about the body of text in those orange rectangles. I don't think they need to be way bigger, but just slightly bigger will be awesome :)
by (37 points)
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Changed some of the text and the font size thanks :)
by (27 points)
Wow! one of the best!
by (37 points)
Thank you :)
+4 votes
by (115 points)
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Here is my entry, hope you enjoy:

  • Same RGB colors as the original TibiaQa logo.
  • Size adapted to mobile devices.
  • Easy and concise information without too exact data to be persistent on the time.
  • Modificable and adaptable 100%.
  • 100% free copyright images.

by (3,967 points)
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I like the design, but the content could use some improvements. There are many grammatical errors and some points do not really represent what TibiaQA is well (e.g. things against the rules will be punished).
by (115 points)
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I made some changes to the information. I agree with you that the previous information about the rules does not fit very well with tibiaQA. I also checked grammar and I have made some fixes.
by (160 points)
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for me these is really pretty clear, you should win :)
+4 votes
by (31 points)
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Hello, this is my entry:

For a high res picture here's an external link: https://imgur.com/a/OJLBK5M

There seemed to be a problem with the size of the image and the website so that's why its a external link, I hope its no problem :)

by (99 points)
I really like it
by (31 points)
Thank you :)
by (10 points)
Simple, clean and direct! Definitely can understand the website in under 2min, really like it :)
by (31 points)
Thank you! I appreciate the nice words
+4 votes
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Here is my entry for TibiaQA's Quick Tour! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_-8du2bzd8

(This was actually my very first video I've created in my life ever so I hope you can enjoy it as much as I did thank you!)

Character: Shawtay World: Pacera

by (573 points)
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Really nice! Unique!
by (37 points)
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Well presented, and braver than other entries :D
by (1,022 points)
You all are so sweet, thanks for the support
+4 votes
by (31 points)

Hello, here is my entry.

Hope u guys enjoy that!

by (388 points)
Looks great! :D
+3 votes
by (573 points)
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Entry #1

I passed fun day making it, special the little 3D version of the Omniscient Owl (Maybe in future can update it to a more original/detailed version).

Entry #2

A new version with less words and less details. Something more minimalist.

Good luck to all entries!

by (31 points)
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I don't mean to be rude, but it seems you're copying other designs and information, moving it a little bit, adding your own thing and calling it a day. Might just be me though.
by (573 points)
Its okay, you are free to think and say what you want. If you feel bad / have problem or have doubt about my entries, you can contact with the Admin (Ellotris Guardian) using the email (tibiaqa.adm@gmail.com) and ask him by it.
Anyway, good luck and have nice day!
by (99 points)
Hmm I like your second entry. In my opinion sentence "Get 5k reputations~~" should be more visible, also there is mistake with word - Reputations (not reputatios)
by (573 points)
Thanks,  going to fix it.
+3 votes
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Been working on this entry for TibiaQA!
I enjoy making videos so this was great fun!
Enjoy!


Click on the PICTURE or HERE to see the Video
 

  • The characters in the video is in no way supposed to resemble anyone particular from Tibia. Outfits + colours have been selected somewhat random.

    Programs used:
  • Paint.Net
  • Paint Tool Sai
  • Sony Vegas

    Song:
  • “Epic Inspiration” by Sophonic Media - Copyright Free

If there is any need to change anything in the video I can with no problem edit it quickly, my main language is not english but I hope i've spelled most things right

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