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2025-10-04 - Trick or Treat Submissions
Once again, the Halloween Trick-or-Treat event is open to community submissions. If you can make pixel art, you, too, can have your treat (or trick) included in this yearly occurrence.
All submissions must be sent via PM to @Event Art Submissions. The deadline for submissions is October 22.
Here's some base guidelines:
- Treats should be generally Halloween-themed, not just random objects.
- Size limit of 50x50px.
- Images must be submitted in PNG or GIF form.
- Treats must be pixel art, which generally means that overall color count is limited and pixels are intentionally placed. Do not use filters or anti-aliased tools such as Photoshop's paint brush.
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Treats may be animated, but should not use rapid or flashing effects.
- Animated PNGs are allowed, but your mileage may vary.
- The first frame of animation should be identifiable, to accommodate situations where animations are disabled.
- Semi-transparency is allowed.
- Images must not be shared publicly before the event begins.
- Images should not have blank space around the outer edges.
- Treats should not use the egg base (save those for the Festival of Eggs).
- Treats may be rejected for reasons other than those in this post¢namely, there will be a general quality bar. We'll try to provide useful feedback around rejections.
- Only one submission will be accepted per-person, do not submit multiple treats unless otherwise announced.
- Images must be designed to look good on a variety of backgrounds (i.e. they shouldn't assume the scroll background or any other specific color).
- If your treat is a specific reference to other media (e.g. a video game, TV show, or so on), clearly identify the reference in your submission.
You can check for a few common mistakes by using this sprite analyzer, though it does not catch all issues that we look for.
There are a limited number of spots available. Art will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis which only applies when the art is deemed to meet all of the above guidelines (that is, if you need to make changes and resubmit, that bumps you to the back of the line).
By submitting art to the Trick or Treat event, you grant Dragon Cave a non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license to host, use, distribute, modify, copy, display, and create derivative works of your content. You can end this license any time by contacting us, though the art may not be immediately deleted. The license also ends immediately upon notice from us that the art will not be used in the event.
- Date Posted: 2025-10-04
- Link: Original Post
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