Hanako Games

Contest ideas

#1 by hanako - Dec 12 2009

Since CKK is out and I usually like to do a contest for new games and the holidays are coming up, here are some possibilities:

1. Completely random draw for a free copy of CKK.
2. Art contest, draw any character celebrating the holidays - I think we did this one year previously. Winner gets free CKK.
3. CKK "generations" fanfic - Write the character from the first game meeting the character from the second. Winner gets choice of free game or some sort of gift certificate thingy, like to Amazon or something.

Thoughts?

#2 by lill_sweetty - Dec 12 2009

I actually really like the 2nd and 3rd idea. There's more effort involved (I think you'd be pretty swamped with the 1st one). The only problem I see with the 3rd idea is that you'd have to KNOW of the 2nd character to write a fanfic with the 2 characters together... which, if the prize is a free CKK copy, is rather pointless.

#3 by hanako - Dec 12 2009

Yeah, that's why the prizes for that would involve more choice - you could get some other game free or figure out something else for me to award you with.

You can learn enough about the character from the CKK demo to possibly write a story with her in it, though, you just wouldn't know everything.

Random draw is easy for me as I don't have to worry about picking and choosing the best of a mix and making other people feel bad if they didn't win, or bad if they won only because no one else entered!

#4 by phoenixgirl - Dec 13 2009

I'm liking the third option but only because that's the only one that's doable for me. I don't draw well but even if I could, I don't have a scanner so the art option is always out for me.

Anyway, just my thoughts.

#5 by Saetana - Dec 13 2009

Umm, I hate to be boring but I'd go for the first option - I personally cannot draw to save my (or anyone else's, lol) life and given how close it is to Christmas I just don't have the time to write fan fiction. The first option would allow all forum users to participate. Should a competition only be open to those who have a talent for writing or drawing? Not to mention the time to do either at this time of year. All of us using this forum have bought one or more games from Hanako and the draw would be fairer.

#6 by phoenixgirl - Dec 13 2009

Ahh I'd completely misread the first option. lol Now that I think about it, the first one could work, too. But I wonder how a random draw would work. Would there be a thread announcing who wants to win a free copy of CKK and everyone who posts in that thread would be entered?

I think if it were the first option, perhaps two or three winners could be announced, since I think there would be a lot of people entering if it was a random draw.

And true, true. I think most of us here have bought games from Hanako at some point or another. I've bought Fatal Hearts and Science Girls! from here. (The first Cute Knight I bought from another gaming portal. This was before I found out about this place, of course.) ^^

#7 by Diz - Dec 13 2009

Ooo, this is tough. I do agree with what everyone is saying...#1 you may be the lucky guy/gal to win, however your odds of winning will likely go way down. #2 if you're good with art then you have a shot at this, but you kinda need to know how to draw to impress (for me it's hit or miss when it comes to art...most likely miss since I played the demo a while ago and can't remember characters too well even if it meant life or death at this point lol. T_T). #3 is totally doable...if, it weren't for Christmas around the corner like @Saetana said above.

So perhaps a combination of #2 or #3?...I was thinking about this and ran the idea with phoenixgirl since she pointed the contest my way (thanks, again phoenix, btw! ), but do you think it’d work if you posted specific screenshots from CKK--your choice, Hanako--- (say no less than 5-10 screenshots but participants having to use no less than 2 of the X number of screenshots) and for participants to have to put together a short story for people using those given screenshots? That way the contest could be a mix of art and storylines too.

Well, that's my two cents. If anything I'd prefer #1 or #3.

#8 by hanako - Dec 13 2009

Might be best to stick with random because of the time factor, then... but I'll have to put a couple of extra twists on it to prevent people from spamming entries...


After christmas I can set up the generations fanfic thing with a mid-february deadline (for my birthday!)

#9 by lill_sweetty - Dec 14 2009

Yay! Though I am not lucky, can not draw, and can't write really well, maybe I can still do it. xD

#10 by Saetana - Dec 14 2009

Sounds like a good idea Hanako, random draw (with "twists", its a shame - everything gets spammed now) for Christmas with fan fiction after when people have more time.

#11 by fallowdeer1 - Dec 14 2009

Random is nice for those of us who can't draw, but the twist makes me feel like I'm spamming anyway. But, I'll do what I have to to get a chance at CKK.

#12 by Saetana - Dec 15 2009

Umm, does that last post mean the contest has started? I came to this particular topic through an email link (I follow topics I post in). Looks like I'd better go and check, lol.

#13 by Saetana - Dec 15 2009

Just had a look at the contest thread and I don't know what anyone else thinks but I am not totally comfortable with people joining the forum just to enter the contest. I have not been a member long but I joined after buying Cute Knight Deluxe a few weeks ago (I now own the original as well). Why give away a game to someone who had no interest in it before learning about this competition.

I have had to up my posts content to enter the comp but these were posts I would have made eventually in any case (being a new member I did not want to bombard topics with posts all at once).

#14 by hanako - Dec 15 2009

Anyone who's flooded in super-fast to sign up may not have been subscribed on the forums, but they WERE subscribed to the newsletter.

Of course, people who'd never heard about the game before rushing in with hopes of winning is good for business, since most of them won't win and some might then buy.

#15 by Saetana - Dec 15 2009

Newsletter? What newsletter? I want one!

#16 by hanako - Dec 15 2009

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hanakogamesnews/join

I don't send news out very often, and if you check the forums every day you'll generally get news faster than the newsletter does. Sometimes there are newsletter-only discount offers though.

#17 by Saetana - Dec 15 2009

Thanks, I'll sign up now.

#18 by Saetana - Dec 16 2009

Well I have now signed up - god I truly hate and detest Yahoo, lol! I hadn't used it for ages so tried to create a new identity and finished it only to get a screen coming up saying I needed to get my parents consent, when I put my year of birth as 1965! I then recalled I had changed my password for my original identity so it had not been "deleted" as I thought and when the sign up screen came up for the newsletter I had the choice of my old identity plus one I must have created some other time I had completely forgotten about - but not the new "parent consent" one! Still, I signed up anyway - just a thought but I signed up through a different email address than the one I use for this forum (I had a problem signing up using the one I gave when I bought Cute Knight Deluxe, no idea why), is that likely to be a problem?

#19 by Saetana - Dec 16 2009

Ouch! Just realised I made myself 4 years older in my last post - not a good idea at my age. 1969!

#20 by fallowdeer1 - Dec 21 2009

Saetana, I've been a member for a long time, but I am a pretty quiet person. You may not worry about meeting the post requirements, but I can honestly say that I wouldn't have posted this much in years if it weren't for me wanting CKK. This forum is a nice place and good for updates and help, but I feel hesitant to use it like a chat site. I guess some of us are more brave than others. I fall into the more hesitant category.

#21 by Saetana - Dec 21 2009

fallowdeer, well anything that gets people posting more has got to be a good thing - I only joined a couple of months ago (I only recently discovered Cute Knight) but I have to admit a few of my posts have been regarding a specific problem I was having with the game. I find that once I post a couple of times and others post in the same topics then I end up posting again (and again....). I did try not to make posts for the sake of it to make up my intial 10 but ones that I may have made anyway (eventually), given how many I have made now I needn't have bothered but at the time of the competition being posted I think I had only made about 5.

Thinking about it, maybe people who had been members for say 6 months or more could have been exempted from the 10 posts requirement (given it shows our joining date), I too have forums where I have only made a handful of posts (if that). Still, as none of us thought of it in time to suggest to Hanako, its a little late.