That's right friends, we're here SHAMELESSLY asking you for VALIDATION with the Steam Awards!

Feel free to contribute to my addiction for public attention and send some love our way if you enjoyed this FREE game. Send extra love to Carmet for his amazing original soundtrack!

For those of you seeing this game for the first time, it's 100% FREE and super-fun! We've crammed all the charm we could manage into the music and animations, we even created our own rudimentary drawing program inside the game's Main Menu which was the focus of this event.

Here's all 5 winners for the #NEARDEADline art contest in order, their prizes have been sent out already, but we wanted to highlighted these super-special entries! We tasked out players to create an art piece using the in-game drawing tools and limited color palette within the game's Main Menu and this is the Top 5.

1st Place Winner ($80 Prize)

Artist: @Stelamoris1

This one was a unanimous choice between us, it's original, it uses the limited palette for a great combination of colors, it has a nice perspective, and it has that canvas art feel that makes it really appealing to look at.

2nd Place Winner ($60 Prize)

Artist: @snailpirate

A nice homage to Evangelion in the composition, not to mention the details in the thin lines that require a fair bit of patience to get right.

3rd Place Winner ($30 Prize)

Artist: @Glob_Gallery

An amazing monochromatic composition of a city drowned in clouds, this one won a lot of points for originality, exelect use of white space I might add.

4th Place Winner ($15 Prize)

Artist: @BenSalerno

We really like this one because of how many adorable creatures are jammed in this composition, it looks as though they're gathering to take a picture, it just looks fun to be there.

5th Place Winner ($15 Prize)

Artist: @WildsStuff

We love the concept that someone used Bob Ross' tutorial to draw this on the program, what it loses in originality it gains back in execution with the landscape.

We had some other really nice entries so be sure to check out the hashtag on Twitter and Follow these Individual artists. If they can do this well with our limited tool, they must be incredible with their preferred one!

NEAR DEADline is a game where you gotta keep an animator awake for 5 days to finish his deadline and to celebrate it's release on Steam, I wanted to have an Art Contest, so here's the deal:


Rules
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Tweet it with the hashtag #NEARDEADline to submit it[/olist]
Guidelines

• The drawing doesnt have to be related to the game
• Keep it SFW
• Must be made in the main menu using its limited palettes provided in-game
• You can submit as many drawings as you want, just remember that Quality > Quantity

Judging

• The judging will be done by the developers and heres the things that we keep in mind:
• Creativity (by that I mean how you use the brush of the game)
• Thats it

Prize Money

• 1st - $80
• 2nd - $60
• 3rd - $30
• 4th - $15
• 5th - $15

Deadline (heh)

• [u]August 31st[/u]
• Ill send the prize money through [u]Paypal[/u] so make sure you have one

Here's some examples if you want to get an idea of what to do
(credit to @irri , @Frenchporkybuns and @heyopc )

That should be it, hope everyone has fun doing this, cant wait to see the submissions.