Make a billboard for City of Heroes, win fantastic prizes

by Eliot Lefebvre on Nov 29th 2010 10:00PM

Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Contests, News items, Miscellaneous

Whatever part of City of Heroes you traverse, there is a constant -- the billboards. From Praetoria's official billboards extolling the virtues of working for the state to the civil and capitalistic advertisements dotting Paragon City, no part of the game is free of advertising, albeit for fictional products or services. And the newest contest for the game is asking players to help add to that storied tradition of fake advertisements via the creation of your own billboard, advertising a new service or product within the game's setting.

The contest is open for entries until Monday, January 24th, allowing players ample time to design and send off their best possible advertisements for the game's setting. Obviously, the contest comes with the usual restrictions that disallow players from making offensive, copyrighted, or libelous advertisements, but other than that the sky is the limit. And the prizes? Nothing less than every single add-on for the game, including exclusive convention costumes, for the first-prize winner. Read the full rules and restrictions here, and if you want to make a mark on City of Heroes, get ready to start selling.

Source: CoH Billboard Contest

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Reader Comments (3)

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Nice!, always good to see a nice competition for CoH.

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to a redux of the banners since the Double Fusion in-game ads failure.
Hopefully we can get some really charasmatic banners in keys zones through this competition and I'm hoping this is only the first step in the redux of some of the zones.

For CoH to remain relevant, the suggestions in David N's 'Art of: Building edition' thread needs to be implemented asap and shake up the ageing design of the zones.
Currently both CO & DCUO have more realistic city planning and CoH needs both diversity in building models and a less rigid grid-like city design. Steel canyon needs to resemble Times SQ.