Lucky Dog 1 pre-Contest

First off, for those of you who don’t know, I have a tumblr.

• terracannon876.tumblr.com for random reblogging shiznit
• terracannon877.tumblr.com for random shiznit like thoughts on games I’m playing and sneak peeks at what I’m working on in my translations.

Second, some of you may already know, but I am hoping to run a contest on Lucky Dog 1.  I am hoping to do this by the time I finish up the first draft of the entire game.  (And again, I must emphasize, this is the first draft.)

The end game is that I hope to print this out in a hardcopy book and send it out to tennenouji to show our support.  (Now I just have to convince them to not be stingy with their mailing address…)

However, this won’t be a contest without some prizes, and this is where I need help.  I’m going to outline what I hope to do below, and if you have any thoughts / criticisms / suggestions, please leave a comment.

I have never had any experience running a contest, and since this is all mighty subjective, I hope to use a sort of crowd-judging system, where every contestant gets x number of votes after all the items are in.  After they’re all in, the contestants can view the items (probably in photobucket or something).  They can’t vote for their own work (which probably means I will have to do the tallying myself), and each person can only submit one entry.  The entries do not need to be entirely new (as in, they do not need to be started the moment the contest begins), but they can’t have been posted online already because I want to avoid people just picking their best work from two years ago or something.

Hmm, perhaps we should try for a theme?  Any ideas?  No?

Depending on the number of contestants, I hope to give at least the top 20 people prizes.  Since I know some people have gone and bought LD1 goods on their own, I hope to make it a sort of “first come first served” deal in that the top ranking contestants can choose from any of the prizes first.  This way I won’t have to worry about you getting duplicate items.

However since not all items are not made equal, I hope to assign points to the items so that, say, an artbook is worth 100 points while bookmarks are worth 20, and each person can get 100-points-worth of prizes.  Prizes will be shipped to contestants.  No need to pay for prizes … however, I do need you guys to pay for some of the shipping (sorry).

Does this sound like it would work?

Also, some questions below. I want to get a measure of the interest in this contest, too.  Please only vote if you’re reasonably sure you can do something, since I don’t want to over-buy.  But also, please spread the word because I hope this reaches LD1 fans who don’t read the blog, too.  (Say, Japanese fans…  The prizes include preorder goods so maybe some of those guys will be interested as well 😉 )

The question about the contest prizes refers only to the TOP prizes.  There are plenty of goods that I have already collected (such as folders, bookmarks, keychains, trading cards, postcards, etc.), but … well, these are the more expensive ones and I’m not going to buy them if too few people want one.

Here are pictures for the items in question:

• Bernardo & Ivan dakimakura
• Luchino & Giulio dakimakura
• YURA Lucky Pack (includes CG from LHL and IFG)
• Lucky Dog 1 Visual Fanbook (includes CG from LD)
• 4th Anni books (scroll down and click on big colored button for samples)

Currently, I’m thinking 4-5 months for the contest running time.

Thank you for helping me out m(._.)m

I don’t know where I would be without all of you guys ❤