Category Archives: Challenges

Come up with the funniest -- while still being clean, that's important this week, as you'll see -- replacement dialog for the balloon in this panel and you'll win the chance to include any item you like, or a portrait of yourself, in HeroMachine 3!

The rules are simple:

• No more than three entries per person;
• All entries must be left as a comment (all in one comment or separate ones, doesn't matter) to this post;
• Must be relatively clean, appropriate for broadcast on late-night network TV, for instance.

That's it! Good luck everyone, we'll post the Finalists for voting next Monday.

I hate doing this, but I am going to change the rules for the "Hunted vs. Hunter" contest mid-stream because this thing didn't quite work out the way I intended originally. My apologies for the course correction. What we're going to do instead is to have two polls, one for the best overall Hunter and one for the best overall Hunted. The top vote getter overall will receive a free custom black and white character portrait by yours truly, while the top vote getter in the OTHER category will get any item they like or a portrait of themselves to go into the HeroMachine 3 final version.

In other words, if the overall vote leader is a Hunter, then the Hunter team "wins" and that person gets a character portrait. The top Hunted vote-getter essentially becomes runner-up and gets an item. Or if the overall leader is Hunted, the top Hunter would come in second. Hope that makes sense.

Good luck everyone! You can vote for three Hunters and two Hunteds. Congratulations to all the Finalists, you did a great job! Click on any of the images below to see the character in a larger size.

The character design contest for this week is a bit more involved than usual, but here goes.

Your challenge is to build a character in any HeroMachine version that would fit into the category of either "Hunted" or "Hunter". At the end of the week, I'll pick an equal number of superior designs from each category to go into a poll. Whichever group gets the most overall votes at the end of a week will be the winner, giving each of the finalists their choice of either any item or their own portrait to go into the HeroMachine 3 final version. The member of that group who gets the most votes will instead receive a custom black and white character sketch of whatever they like (within reason).

Here in bullet form are the rules:

• Using any HeroMachine version, create a character that fits into the category "Hunted" or "Hunter";
• Upload an image of the character to a publicly accessible web server (ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO HeroMachine forums, whatever) and post that link as a comment to this post;
• Also in the comment, include which category the character goes in, their name, and why they belong in the group you chose;

Next Monday, I will post a poll containing the same number of finalists from each group, and you'll be able to vote for as many as you want. The "team" with the most overall votes will win for each contributor an item or portrait to go into HeroMachine 3, except for the overall vote winner, who will get a free custom black and white character portrait;

• A limit of two overall submissions, one in each category. You don't have to do two, you can do just one if you want.

Hope that makes sense! You can do characters from fantasy, sci-fi, super-heroes, cartoons, whatever you want. I do prefer that

Thank you to everyone who entered Caption Contest 69, there were some really great submissions. I've selected the six I thought were funniest (and which fit in that balloon), put them into the image, and set up a poll so you can vote for the ones you think are best. The winner will be the one with the most votes come next Monday.

Good luck to the six Finalists!

Come up with the best replacement dialog for this random comic book panel and you'll win your choice of either any item or a portrait of your beautiful face to go into the final HeroMachine 3 program!

The rules are simple:

• No more than three entries per person;
• Each entry must be left as a comment (or all three in one comment, whatever) to this post;
• Keep it clean, appropriate for a late-night broadcast television show.

That's it! Good luck everyone, we'll run this contest for a week and next Monday I'll post the finalists for you to vote on.

(Image from "Day of Vengeance" number 1, ©2005, DC Comics, Inc. Having realized this was contest 69, I declined the opportunity for mass chaos this panel would've generated.)