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April 2013 News 'n Fun 'n Stuff

Journal Entry: Tue Apr 9, 2013, 7:28 AM

CHECK YOUR SUBMISSIONS, PLEASE!


A reminder that it takes time out of the admins' day to respond to and sort our submissions, so your help really makes it possible for us to manage the workload. Our last club news post was an announcement about some club policy changes because the current workload for the admins is a bit much for both full time jobs + moderation. We very much enjoy contributing to this Group, and hope to continue to provide you with the best BioWare fan works available with your help. We really appreciate your understanding and cooperation. Thanks!

Illustrated Art Submission GuidelinesOk. We get it that you’re busy. And maybe don’t have a lot of time to read. But here at the club, we’re trying to keep up with our motto to collect the best of the best by fans, for fans, you know? So we gotta have standards. Yup, standards. And we’re not trying to say you shouldn’t submit anything just because you’re not a pro. But we do want to see the best of what you’ve got when you submit!
To make things easy, we’re updating our posting guidelines with pictures! You’ll probably still want to read our full guidelines if you’re a rules stickler (and also if you get declined) but we’ll go over the basics.
The number one and most important rule: The BioWare Fan Club will only accept FAN created work fully done by you, digitally or traditionally. We’re not picky about whether you drew it by hand or as a photo-manipulation, but it does need to s


BioWare Fan Club GuidelinesDecember 15th, 2012 UPDATES TO Club Policies
First, submissions not meeting club criteria will be subject to a decline without comments. Please refer back to this Guideline if you have questions!
Club members are encouraged to write articles to submit to our Blog!
Contributor status will be granted to long-standing members with top quality submissions; please apply by petitioning an Admin
It's always sad to get a rejection in your inbox, and we don't like giving them out, either. But your acceptance of this club's membership comes with acceptance of our rules and submission guidelines. Reviewing the guidelines in advance informs you of what you can or can't submit, and gives you advance notice of what might be rejected.
The guidelines are not meant to discourage submissions. To make it a great club experience for all, however, the Admins here have made a few assumptions:
a) we assumed


You can also read our Community Values Blog here: BioWare Fan Club ValuesHi folks!  There has been a some debate about copyright issues in association with fanart on the BioWare communities lately. Without naming any names, I want to set folks straight on what we do and do not allow as a fan community, and how to protect yourself as a fan writer and artist.
Our humble BioWare Fan Club began as a handful of fans who really loved all things BioWare. We just wanted to have a place to share our fan created artworks and stories. It’s been amazing that we have since grown into a real community with hundreds of members. Wow.
As a club, we don't claim credit for creating the worlds or the characters, and do not try to profit commercially from our works. The joy of having a fan community is to be able to share, and indulge in your love of a shared universe. I very much want to keep the BioWare Fan Club as a SAFE place to share and express our mutual appreciation of BioWare works. Please join me in keeping it positive.
We’re a Fan Comm




Help One of Our Own Kickstart It!



Longtime BioWare fan artist and all-around awesomepants deviantArtist :iconsavagesparrow: has a Kickstarter! You might remember her from such deviations as her amazing Tallis portrait, or her super-cute Dragon Age comics!



Help :iconsavagesparrow: achieve her dreams of becoming a four-book-series webcomic publisher for her webcomic, Mystic Revolution. What is Mystic Revolution? "Mystic Revolution is a bi-weekly, full color webcomic about the adventures of an eccentric group of characters in the massively multiplayer online game world of Mystic Revolution. Since its beginning in 2004, Mystic Rev has followed the journey of ex-admin and raging pyromaniac Lourdes and her not-so-l33t ninja cohort as they adventure through life, levels, and lots of alcohol!"  

Plus, you get cool stuff like pre-order copies of the book, and the artists' eternal gratitude. Because remember people: this is about someone's dreams.

So  link to the Kickstarter! Now's also a great excuse to go checkout her gallery or you can read all 700+ pages of Mystic Revolution online at Mysticrev.com and see new pages every Monday and Friday.




David Gaider Gives Talk on Sex in Video Games at GDC


If you missed the event and haven't caught up on the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) news, how about a straight shot to one of the highlights of the event? David Gaider gave a talk on sex in video games, and no, it wasn't about boobs and stuff.

“The moment [BioWare] broached the subject of romance and sex, we were saying something about what was acceptable, and what was normal, and who we thought our audience was,” said Gaider. “We said that whether we wanted to say anything or not. We said it by virtue of what we included, as well as what we didn’t include. Those were statements.”




Read the article summary




The Calling Machinima


:iconladyofpayne: has come up with a Machinima based on David Gaider's The Calling! (Machinima is a genre of using video games to animate stories.) The Calling takes place some 20 years before the events of Dragon Age, and is the story of how Duncan first met and befriended Maric, as well as the backstory behind the Blight events in Dragon Age: Origins.

Always wanted to know the story but was too lazy to read it yourself? Let :iconladyofpayne: do all the work for you in this cleverly animated adaptation. Well, Episode 1 anyway. Worth a look!



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Illustrated Art Submission GuidelinesOk. We get it that you’re busy. And maybe don’t have a lot of time to read. But here at the club, we’re trying to keep up with our motto to collect the best of the best by fans, for fans, you know? So we gotta have standards. Yup, standards. And we’re not trying to say you shouldn’t submit anything just because you’re not a pro. But we do want to see the best of what you’ve got when you submit!
To make things easy, we’re updating our posting guidelines with pictures! You’ll probably still want to read our full guidelines if you’re a rules stickler (and also if you get declined) but we’ll go over the basics.
The number one and most important rule: The BioWare Fan Club will only accept FAN created work fully done by you, digitally or traditionally. We’re not picky about whether you drew it by hand or as a photo-manipulation, but it does need to s
BioWare Fan Club GuidelinesDecember 15th, 2012 UPDATES TO Club Policies
First, submissions not meeting club criteria will be subject to a decline without comments. Please refer back to this Guideline if you have questions!
Club members are encouraged to write articles to submit to our Blog!
Contributor status will be granted to long-standing members with top quality submissions; please apply by petitioning an Admin
It's always sad to get a rejection in your inbox, and we don't like giving them out, either. But your acceptance of this club's membership comes with acceptance of our rules and submission guidelines. Reviewing the guidelines in advance informs you of what you can or can't submit, and gives you advance notice of what might be rejected.
The guidelines are not meant to discourage submissions. To make it a great club experience for all, however, the Admins here have made a few assumptions:
a) we assumed
BioWare Fan Club ValuesHi folks!  There has been a some debate about copyright issues in association with fanart on the BioWare communities lately. Without naming any names, I want to set folks straight on what we do and do not allow as a fan community, and how to protect yourself as a fan writer and artist.
Our humble BioWare Fan Club began as a handful of fans who really loved all things BioWare. We just wanted to have a place to share our fan created artworks and stories. It’s been amazing that we have since grown into a real community with hundreds of members. Wow.
As a club, we don't claim credit for creating the worlds or the characters, and do not try to profit commercially from our works. The joy of having a fan community is to be able to share, and indulge in your love of a shared universe. I very much want to keep the BioWare Fan Club as a SAFE place to share and express our mutual appreciation of BioWare works. Please join me in keeping it positive.
We’re a Fan Comm


The BioWare Fan Club has setup a chat channel! Find fellow deviants online at the BioWare Fandom chat.

Time to do a new Club Challenge? 

38%
53 deviants said YUSH, FINALLY.
17%
23 deviants said How about a theme about NPC ORIGIN STORIES?
14%
19 deviants said I like the theme of MAGIC MOMENTS
11%
15 deviants said I'd love to do something to the theme of SPRING
11%
15 deviants said Ugh, my tablet/brain/computer doesn't work in Spring.
10%
14 deviants said It's a great time to do a theme with PETS

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:iconincognito44:
Thanks for adding me ^^
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:iconkipperdee:
Mood: Joy ~Kipperdee Apr 25, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Many thanks for accepting my submission :D
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:iconguzzardi:
Hi there! Any news on when you'll be doing the new club challenge? C:
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:iconzoe-the-pink-ranger:
That's odd... I can submit to KotOR but not TOR.
I'd like to submit [link] and [link] to the SWTOR folder please :)
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:iconkulibrnda:
Mood: Love ~Kulibrnda Mar 20, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you so much for accepting me :-)
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:icons0cketwrench:
So I searched for: "geth armor" and "geth armor on shepard" and so far, I haven't found any artwork with any of shep's squad with geth armor.
The scenario is: legion gifts shepard and/or the squad with some gethy armor.
"Shepard commander, the geth have reached consensus, and geth manufactured armor-shells equipped with ezzo powered cyclonic field generators are being manufactured by geth r&d platforms for allied species in the reaper war. If the designs meet your approval, the geth would gladly send armor-shells to the normandy."
Any artists interested in this idea?
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:iconkiraxhuimang:
Thank you so much for accepting me ^-^
you have a nice group.
I like it~ :)
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:iconkanthesis:
~Kanthesis Mar 12, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Thanks for the feature !
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:iconmrs-zack-fair:
*Mrs-Zack-Fair Mar 1, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I just wanted to ask if the group would ever consider doing a Cosplay folder? Or can I submit cosplay pictures into the relevant game folders? I know some groups prefer cosplay to be seperate thanks in advance! ^^
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:iconswordofthelight:
Hi, hello, this might come off as a bit rude but how do I unsubscribe from this group? It's getting a bit too much to keep up with and I can't seem to find any such button on the page.
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:iconvinny-vieh:
~vinny-vieh Jan 9, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Hello! ME3 was indeed THE game of year. Gratz! And thanks for adding my Wrex Fanart in the gallery.
deviantART muro drawing Comment Drawing
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:icongreyxenocide:
glad to be a part of the group!
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:iconzoneh:
HELP SHEPARD WIN

vote for best mask on [link]

help shepard win the contest that was rigged/unfair from the start, where my friend's entry was removed due 'unknown' reasons and then added after some masks gained much popularity...

Fight the injustice in the universe!

Help shepard take the contest back!

Spread the word around! Together we are stronger!
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:iconblightfighter45:
congrats to Mass Effect 3 for winning RPG of the year !!!!
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:iconmetroid473:
~metroid473 Dec 6, 2012  Student Writer
Some person who does stuff (I really should find this stuff out) has made a Mass Effect contest revolving around the females of the universe. Accepted mediums are various visual arts and fanfiction which I proudly fought for. Prize is decent and the deadline is January 31st next year so plenty of time. Details and link here [link]
Please share with the group. Maybe this is will be a big contest.
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:iconnebulaluben:
*Nebulaluben Nov 27, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Thank you very much for including us in this group. We'll keep on making Bioware costumes ^^
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:iconlady-of-the-evening:
~Lady-of-the-Evening Nov 23, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Someone requested that a picture of my warden [link] be shown in this group, but suddenly, the request was withdrawn. Might I ask why?
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:iconpanicatsphantasie:
*PanicatsPhantasie Nov 22, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Hey Bioware-Fellows!

I started a Mass Effect Contest!

Check it out here:
[link]

You can win a T-Shirt & 50 Points!

I can't wait to see your submissions :meow:
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:iconlux-rocha:
Thanks for adding my fan art to your group. =)
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:iconkittanee:
I accidentally submitted a piece to the wrong folder so I withdrew my request and re-submitted to the correct one. I hope there's no confusion.
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:iconsynnewarrior:
ah
well
crap.

long ago when swtor came out I took of deviant watch, xD so how Do I put it back on now that I'm active here again? >.>;
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:iconrevercetti:
Mood: Joy *ReVercetti Oct 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank U for accepting my work :)
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:iconelrith-shadowstepper:
~Elrith-Shadowstepper Oct 11, 2012  Professional Writer
Accidentally submitted my DA sub to the ME folder :/
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:iconblightfighter45:
have you guys heard of "project x" supposedly it's a big top secret dlc that bioware is doing for mass effect and they are going to have more sp dlcs......
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