Virtual Villagers - The Secret City™
Comic Strip Contest

Guess what time it is? It is time, once again, for another LDW sponsored contest! This contest is going to be fun and the prizes are great. In this contest, we would like to see you put together a VV3 comic strip. That's right, a comic strip, centered around your little villagers from Isola's north shore.

How to participate:

• Take a screen shot or make your own drawing of the game, adding captions or other amusing content of your little villagers.
• Tell a mini story about VV3 in a cartoon format.
• Attach your screen shot to this thread. Instructions on how to do this are posted HERE.
• Dialogue or thought bubbles are not required.
• Please follow all LDW forum rules and posting guidelines.

Rules for the contest:

• You may submit up to 3 entries. If you should submit more than three comics, anything after the third one will not be considered and may be removed from the contest. So choose wisely.
• Your comic strip should not be more than 6 panels long. It can be as little as 1 panel long but definitely not more than 6.
• The contest will end at 12:01 AM, PDT, on August 1, 2008. To find out what time Pacific Time is, go towards the top of any forum page and follow these steps.
• Click on "My Stuff" and then on "My Preferences".
• Towards the bottom of the page, locate "Current server time is:".
• Subtract 1 hour from that time and you will have Pacific time.
• All entries will be judged by the LDW staff members and the winners will be announced on or before August 7, 2008.

Prizes:
Grand prize:

A Nintendo DS™ and a copy of Fish Tycoon™.

2nd and 3rd place winners will have their choice of any gear from LDW's office (T-shirts, mugs, notebooks, or whatever stuff we can find around the office!)

As an added bonus, the winning entries will be posted on the Virtual Villagers homepage at http://www.VirtualVillagers.com for everyone to see!

So put on your thinking caps and show us what you are made of.

How is he swimming?

How do you make a comic strip?

A comic strip is just a picture or a series of pictures that tell a story. It can be serious in nature or it can be humorous. If you would like to get an idea of what a comic strip for Virtual Villagers would look like, try going here and see some that were made before VV3's release.

This is a classic comic strip

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I love doing comic strips, I will get working on 1 as soon next week.

Well, this is an animation and it's my first entry. There's no dialogue. I literally spent about 3 hours making it. I'm proud of my work

(Since it's too big of a file to put on the page, you can view it here.)

VI Jr.'s main skills are Snooping around the alchemy lab,and making the Guiding hand angry.
I fixed five years in five seconds.

Nice Jazzo. I have a question. Can you post a picture here that you have posted in another topic?

Ok. There is mine.
I've done comics before, but I'm not that great.

Of course, as long as you made it.

I am not allowed to enter in the contest but I made a VV3 comic anyway. You can find it HERE

Note: If you would like to leave a comment on it, please do so in that thread and not this one. Thanks

*sigh* Everyone's comics look great! Too bad I won't be entering!

Here is my first:

LOL hope you like it!

Here's my first one!!!

This one is more of a strip:

(Uh oh, I only get one more entry )

The mother is Coral Father is Natilli Daughter is Indi

Here a 1 pic comic:

Waipi was awaked late, this day!!

Umm... PG? Good comic though...

This is a teacher trying to teach, but the student wasn't paying attention.

I'd Like to call this Rain Day.. The Story of a little boy who didn't like rain. His mother convined him but when it stopped.. well..

lol, Jo0ine, thats great. Im almost done with the one I'm doing so, get ready!

The tale of Gamay. (poor kid )

This Comic is titled Chief It's about girls who regret when male chiefs come along. (Featuring characters from Rain Day!)

That one is great, Joine the great!

This is a comic where the chief can't stick to one wife...much to his first wife's displeasure.

My 2nd one - hope you like it!

This is mine

Yeah so I thought I would enter! seeing as I think VV3's amazing...


I drew my entry, thought I would do something different.
(scroll right to see all of it)




Hope you guys like it!!!

This is my 2sd pic. 1 more to do. When I saw all these villagers leaving the lab this give me an idea why they were walking out and quickly took the screen shot and enter it. It's called villagers on strike.

First time making a comic, quite lousy.. Hehe..

Doesn't ANYONE like my comic????

I like all the comics they are really good.
Here my last comic no 3 this villager seemed to be stuck. I got this idea.

Here is my first contribution to the contest. This villager has been stuck on top of the hut since she popped out of her "cocoon"! Enjoy!

Lol here is my second one, its based on real life with my friends - except for the end of course


EDIT: OH NO its tiny and you cant read it...does anybody know how to fix this

I saved it so I can blow it up, Sorry the captions are blared what did you do. you could delete it and start again if its not too late to edit

No luck its too late to edit it and when I resize it, it blurs.
Thanks for the help anyway

Heres my last two:

The second one here is the one i previously added. I hope it turns out okay.

I hope its viewable like this, im having a littloe trouble resizing and posting here.

WOW... what an amazing talent!
Your villagers are the cutes I've seen to date. LDW should hire you on the spot!

Well done Becca I'm glad you got it sorted and they are great

A HappyPlayer Comic:

I love it HP!

That's hilarious HP. Great work!!

Thats a good one HP

LOL I love it!!

Whew, finally able to post myawaited comic strip....

Very good!!

Cute, Wise!

That is a good one heidirea.

lol

I Yaro have a most unusal problem. I have the five most beautiful women in my village living under my roof.It all began when the Guidling Hand blessed my life with Noaha.
Noaha, the Chief's daughter had the chose of any man. And she chose me to be her husband. I had loved her since we were children and always hoped she would love me back.
One month after we were wed, Noaha and I learned we would have a baby. But then it turned out that the Guidling Hand was going to bless my wife Noaha and I with triples.
Three babies? I aske the Guiding Hand. We just got married and not only am I new wife but now three babies!

The girls, Alanna, Elanna and Ianna are now 16 and their younger sister Zanna is 14. I have the four most beautiful daughters in the village.
And the village boys hanging about my door!


What is a Papa to do?

Noaha told me I had nothing to fear. Our daughters were as wise as they were beautiful. We needed to trust The Guilding Hand t bring the right husband to each of our daughers.
just as The Guilding Hand brought Noaha to me.

And The Guilding Hand did.
First there wad Alanna who married Motu.

Then, Elanna married Ash

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Soon to be followed by Ianna marrying Tabu

And a few years later, Zanna married Tabu's son Lance from his first marriage.
Now, with my four beautiful daughters all grown and married, I can sprend the rest of my years enjoying my beloved Noaha.

This was my second comic called "Old luvas".Hope you like it !

[font:Book Antiqua][color:#330033][i][b]That is awesome! I love your story!

Thanksalot Mocha !

Ok, this is my second one. Hope you like.

How big was your attachment? It looks like it exceeds the maximum file size allowed, and it can't be viewed. You might try converting it to a jpeg, which will make it a lot smaller.

LOL Excellent heidirea!

Very good comics Heidrea and Mucha. Did any one like mine?

Very nice, renaweir!
Of course yes, I like yours (sorry, I didn't tell it) But I don't know which one, the chief creating magic food or villagers on strike, I prefer!!

Ooo, the chief creating magic food one's mine

Hopefully my addictedness for VV3 pays off!

I call it: I Believe I Can Fly!














The End

LOL! Bravo!

Oh so funny my ribs they hurt to much laughing!

"Don't Worry the guiding hand will never catch us!"

"Nooooo!"

I love this one. LOL

Hmmm, look! There is a tiny note at the bottom of the comic (not really). It says: I, the author, am not responsible for laughter-related complications due to the reading of this comic. LOL.

Thanks for all the compliments!

I couldn't resist

Here are two comics - just a single frame each. I'll submit a third if I come up with something in time.

Oops - sorry they're so big on the screen. I hope you can see them ok.

#1...




#2...

very good slh!!

LOL It will be difficult to choose!!

This Is My last one Called Work simply. My farmers are laid back but others not so much






Get back to work you villies!

If it isn't closed, here is my second entry:








the tradition lives on !

Here's my next one. Hope you like it! It's title is:
Failed Once Again!

LOL
That is brilliant, Puppetmaster!

Rebellion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love it!

LOL Very good! and I like the claims!! We could put in the Official VV4 Suggestions Topic!

How did they sneak the chalkboard?

My first time trying. The villagers are just too cute in all the entries. Everyone has done a great job!

The Chief Needs a New Lecture Venue
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Do baby lectures incrase fertility within the tribe? Good work, that is funny!

Training for the next Isola olympics





Later that night when Tikini's family were asleep....

Put an end to men only olympics!!!!!!!!!!! Lol!!!!!!!!! Good pic!

these are hilarious! I love the part in puppet's comic about the herbs!

omigosh that is so good Jazzo!

Love it, Crazy VV2 fan. Hehe, the guiding hand cant reach them now!!

Jazzo did one?

He did either 2 or 3, I lost track.

Wow, these comics are great! I'm not too late to enter, am I?

No, this contest stops August 1.

Yes. Jazzo did two

OK, here's my LAST one.


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Nice! Was the woman talking to the leader or the baby?

LOL These are great!!!
I'm loving them all.
:-)

The leader. She's his wife.

Oh, okay.

My entries

lol, 300

My last entry

A HappyPlayer Comic: #2

LOL! I love it, HP!!

Wheeeeeeee!

Jazzo,that was amazing! if any one should win....well say no more, as we Brits would say.

Bravo renaweir!

I just love it! I think you should win this HP.

A HappyPlayer Comic: #3
The Smelly Lecture

LOL Happy thats funny as all get out!

That was super awesome!!!

I copied it with Macromedia Fireworks, eliminated the background and pasted it. Same can be done with Paint Shop Pro, etc.

Thanks, I appreciate it!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback! My old brain has a hard time waking up my imagination...

I had so much fun doing this!!!!! lol

LOL! Sounds like my daughter. I love it!

HA HA!!!!!! LOL love it, Diversity

omigosh these comics are great!

OK, I spent way too much time on this, but all your comics were so fun to read... I felt like I needed to contribute something!



...but that might not be the complete story: to avoid any appearance of cruelty to villagers, I've saved it as an attachment only. Download "tufos_end.jpg" to see the mysterious fifth panel...)

lol, love it squawky

Here's one I made.
It's Called: CHILD SWIMMER! The Envy of the Tribe!

she needs room, on panel three there are black words and if you cant read them imn sorry

my second

i call it "the mushroom kingdom"

here is my comic:

LOL love it Tutui

Finally finished my comic strip! Enjoy! (of course I'd like to thank those who gave me a few pointers )

I call this one: the crocolion!

LOL!

Very good, laurence! And what a great group of kids, too!

Thanks! it was not easy to get all together on the pics!!

GUESS WHO!!!