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Build-n-Share Weekly Challenge #37 - New Look for the Lunar New Year
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Welcome to the Build-n-Share Weekly Challenge!
The Build-n-Share challenges will be posted Wednesday of each week and run through the following Wednesday. Results will be posted approximately one week after all entries have been submitted in the Winner's Circle thread.
The benefits:
Each entry into the competition will receive an automatic rec (recommendation) and download on their entry lot.
First place will be awarded at all levels. If there are at least eight entries in a category, up to four places will also be announced. In each category, first place will receive 3 recs, second place will receive 2 recs, third place will receive 2 recs, and fourth place will receive one rec. Winners may request recs on a particular build/s by providing links to the related lots once results are posted.
Weekly challenges also create an opportunity for community on the forum site. We get to know one another’s names, share news, builds, and positive words. This is a chance to get your name out there, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.
What makes this challenge different from all the other ones I've seen?
We have been hosting this weekly challenge since the first week the game was released. We have many levels of builders in our community and welcome them all. This group is truly a product of all its great members!
Within the first few challenges, our group was recognized by the gurus that be, who have helped the weekly challenges gain even more popularity be stickying both Build-n-Share threads. Since then, we have had at least one featured creation almost every week, and our list of featured members continues to grow.
With 3 successful collaborative neighborhoods (Gnomelandia, Summer of Love, and NYC) just about completed, Build-n-Share hopes to bring more creative challenges and new neighborhood ideas to the community with the help of our dedicated participants who willingly contribute and help each week to make sure each challenge runs smoothly.
The rules:
All entries must be original work. Any competitor who submits another builder’s work will be disqualified and banned from any future Build-n-Share challenge. These competitors will also be removed from the Builders' Boulevard related websites if they have chosen to join (membership to the site and the Yahoo! group are not required to enter a Build-n-Share challenge).
Please announce your official lot posting using the entry form below. Make sure to leave the "Official Entry" label big. If you need to reformat it, you can do this by highlighting the desired text and then selecting "Big" in the font box above. This will help us see the entries in a sea of posts with no pics to guide us.
Entries must be submitted by the deadline, 7 p.m. Wednesday evening (eastern time, USA).
A description of the three major level categories:
Beginner--I have a little experience, but I'm still figuring a lot of things out. I would not call myself an official "builder" at this point.
Intermediate--I have been building for awhile. I know the basics and maybe a little more. I enjoy building, but it is not my primary focus with the game.
Advanced--I know the Sims, and the Sims knows me. My name is familiar to a lot of veteran players, and I've competed in and won some building challenges and maybe even been recognized in a community showcase or two. I know most of the cheats AND I know how to use them.
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Want to represent Build-n-Share in your signature? Here is our official signature. Just copy and paste [*img]http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/anjubee/bns_fade.gif?t=1251688153[/img] into the signature section under "preferences" and delete the *.
Two additional opportunities:
Love to build? Come join us at http://www.buildersboulevard.com . The site offers an additional forum for advertising lots, share tips and tricks, and participate in collaborative neighborhood projects!
We also have a Yahoo! Group for builders. It can be accessed at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/buildersboulevard/ . You do not have to be a member to enter. This group will be used primarily as an announcement center and for some of our more complex polls, and possibly, databases.
The Build-n-Share challenges will be posted Wednesday of each week and run through the following Wednesday. Results will be posted approximately one week after all entries have been submitted in the Winner's Circle thread.
The benefits:
Each entry into the competition will receive an automatic rec (recommendation) and download on their entry lot.
First place will be awarded at all levels. If there are at least eight entries in a category, up to four places will also be announced. In each category, first place will receive 3 recs, second place will receive 2 recs, third place will receive 2 recs, and fourth place will receive one rec. Winners may request recs on a particular build/s by providing links to the related lots once results are posted.
Weekly challenges also create an opportunity for community on the forum site. We get to know one another’s names, share news, builds, and positive words. This is a chance to get your name out there, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.
What makes this challenge different from all the other ones I've seen?
We have been hosting this weekly challenge since the first week the game was released. We have many levels of builders in our community and welcome them all. This group is truly a product of all its great members!
Within the first few challenges, our group was recognized by the gurus that be, who have helped the weekly challenges gain even more popularity be stickying both Build-n-Share threads. Since then, we have had at least one featured creation almost every week, and our list of featured members continues to grow.
With 3 successful collaborative neighborhoods (Gnomelandia, Summer of Love, and NYC) just about completed, Build-n-Share hopes to bring more creative challenges and new neighborhood ideas to the community with the help of our dedicated participants who willingly contribute and help each week to make sure each challenge runs smoothly.
The rules:
All entries must be original work. Any competitor who submits another builder’s work will be disqualified and banned from any future Build-n-Share challenge. These competitors will also be removed from the Builders' Boulevard related websites if they have chosen to join (membership to the site and the Yahoo! group are not required to enter a Build-n-Share challenge).
Please announce your official lot posting using the entry form below. Make sure to leave the "Official Entry" label big. If you need to reformat it, you can do this by highlighting the desired text and then selecting "Big" in the font box above. This will help us see the entries in a sea of posts with no pics to guide us.
Entries must be submitted by the deadline, 7 p.m. Wednesday evening (eastern time, USA).
A description of the three major level categories:
Beginner--I have a little experience, but I'm still figuring a lot of things out. I would not call myself an official "builder" at this point.
Intermediate--I have been building for awhile. I know the basics and maybe a little more. I enjoy building, but it is not my primary focus with the game.
Advanced--I know the Sims, and the Sims knows me. My name is familiar to a lot of veteran players, and I've competed in and won some building challenges and maybe even been recognized in a community showcase or two. I know most of the cheats AND I know how to use them.
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Want to represent Build-n-Share in your signature? Here is our official signature. Just copy and paste [*img]http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/anjubee/bns_fade.gif?t=1251688153[/img] into the signature section under "preferences" and delete the *.
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Two additional opportunities:
Love to build? Come join us at http://www.buildersboulevard.com . The site offers an additional forum for advertising lots, share tips and tricks, and participate in collaborative neighborhood projects!
We also have a Yahoo! Group for builders. It can be accessed at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/buildersboulevard/ . You do not have to be a member to enter. This group will be used primarily as an announcement center and for some of our more complex polls, and possibly, databases.
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Challenge deadline: Wednesday, February 17th at 7 p.m. (Eastern time)
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New Look for the Lunar New Year
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
For those that don't know, I am Chinese-American. "Made in Taiwan," I moved to the United States when I was 7. For us, the biggest holiday of the year is always Chinese New Year.
Every year, Chinese New Year falls on a different date since it goes by the lunar calendar. This year, it just happens to fall on the same date as Valentine's Day! Since Addict already had you guys do a fun little Valentine's Day project, I thought this week would be the perfect week for a little Chinese New Year decorating project!
This week, you are to take one of your existing builds, whichever one you are most comfortable with, and spruce it up and redecorate it for Chinese New Year festivities. It can be a small house or a big community park that you've built - whatever you are comfortable with and have the time to do!
If you would like to research a bit more about how Chinese New Year is celebrated, here is a nice article from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year
When you are finished with your required media, choose one picture that you feel best captures what you've built and post it with your official entry form. Just make sure it is sized correctly and doesn't break the formatting of the page!
CC is allowed as long as you credit them appropriately and WA is not needed for this challenge! If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask.
Have fun!
P.S. - Here's another fun little challenge by Okadoka over at S.I.D. you can do in conjunction with this one! http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/167563.page
Official Entry
Name:
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media (required):
Optional Challenges entered?:
Experience level:
Lot Name:
Lot address, size, and final cost:
Details and Rational:
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:
To make it more searchable, we would highly appreciate it if you include Build-n-Share in the description of the lot.
Since judging will now be based on screenshots, we figured this would be a good time to go over some tips and tricks in taking good screenshots to help showcase your lovely builds.
1) Camera Man Mode - This is a must in taking good shots! You will have to be in live mode to do this, but just hit "TAB" to enter this mode. Once you are in this mode, you can use the mouse to freely control the angles and use "W, A, S, D" buttons to move forward, backwards, and side to side. "Z" zooms in, "X" zooms out. "Q" moves up and "E" moves down. "C" to capture the shot.
2) Find the perfect angle - With photography, it is all about finding the right angle. Spend some time in camera man mode to find the perfect angle. Get down to a sim's point of view to take the best shots of rooms.
3) Walls up - Most people play with walls cut away, but when you are taking pictures of your lot, try to keep your walls up to make your shots look more realistic.
4) No grids - Unless you need to show the grid for a specific purpose, make sure no build/buy grid is visible when you take your pictures. You can avoid this by taking pictures in live mode or by hitting the terrain paint button in build mode.
Ok, those are the basics! If you want to further your simatography skills, we highly recommend you visit http://simatography.webs.com for more tips and tricks and to see some excellent shots taken by professional simatographers!
Please try to keep this thread as photo free as possible and either create a story, a slide show, a separate thread, or use the stickied photo thread to post shots of your lots!
Your official judges are Robodl95, LKadas, and KitKat7145.
Freynas is the official organizational guru collecting entrants' names, levels, links, and results!
Judges will post their results in the winner's circle thread: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/47204.page
Look for results typically a week after the deadline.
Big thanks to our judges and helpers!
When I saw the pictures from Simposium, i knew you had some Eastern World in ya!
Most people thought I am or look Chinese, I'm not
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You are right Evergreen, I'm 100% Filipino, but I do look like Chinese
Our country do celebrate Chinese New Year here. My family have lots of Chinese friends and three of them gave us Nian gao, or we called it here 'tikoy'. It's a sticky, sweet and delicious food. For more info with Nian Gao click this wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nian_gao
I also like their mooncakes, so many variants
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Yay! You do look Chinese though XD
We just celebrate normal New Years. I don't think Czech people have their own New Years. Or Mexican. Or British. Or Irish XD
Mooncakes remind me of the book Legend of the Lost City, because they're looking for the Mooncakes of Chang-o XD
I appreciate the advertising for Year of the Tiger Challenge. Thank you
Pogi in our Chinatown in Chicago area mooncakes are a prominent part of the Autumn Moon Festival, or Moon Festival, or Mooncake Festival. This festival takes place on the first full moon in the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Which makes it fall either in late September or early October and is called by those various names depending on the community you live in. They all refer to the same festival though. There is actually a myth about the tradition of eating mooncakes. Legend has it that Ming dynasty revolutionaries who were fighting against the Mongolian Yuan dynasty conquerors, smuggled messages to each other baked inside the mooncakes. This worked because the enemy, who did not have the custom of eating mooncakes, did not intercept the messages.
Messages inside or not, they do taste good :thumbup:
http://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=1&selYear=2010#1340591864
HOOPLA! now if only we could all actually get the page to load, more people might actually see it!!
Link to the posted asset: Working on it
Link to media (required): http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1987010
Optional Challenges entered?:
Experience level: Beginner
Lot Name: Lunar New Year
Lot address, size, and final cost:
67 Water Lily Lane
30x30
128,012
Details and Rational:
This lot uses both items used from WA and HELS. I used many chinese artifacts and many chinese plant life
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:
There are some windows but dont the creators name
Link to the posted asset:Dont know what this is :S
Link to media (required):http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1989383
Optional Challenges entered?:N/A
Experience level:intermediate
Lot Name:The Luna New Year
Lot address, size, and final cost:
53 waterfall way,
36/47,
171,801
Details and Rational:This house contains stuff from HELS and WA
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:
Not that i know off
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/169264.page#2015442
Hey Joegibzz56, when it asks for the 'posted asset', it means the link to the house. But in Build N Share, the judges actually judge pictures that you take of your home, which you can post with Create a Story/Movie or on another site. I would strongly advise you to upload some pictures of your home.
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1997298
Linkto media:
http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=172087
Optional Challenges Entered:
None
Experience Level:
Beginner/Intermediate
Lot adress,final cost, and size:
15 Summer Hill Court
Furnished:104,365
Unfurnished:96,675
60x60
Details and Rational:
Base game only items.The kitchen and the bridge are my main entries.
Credit to simmers for any custom Content:
Wallpaper in the front room:
Bramblepelt
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1999777
Link to media (required): http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=172317
Optional Challenges entered?:
Experience level: Intermediate
Lot Name: Jade Manor (Lunar Party)
Lot address, size, and final cost:
477 Sunnyside Blvd
30x30
75,009
Details and Rational:
This lot uses items used from WA. The main rooms are the lounge and kitchen.
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:
I used a few things from the store, and 2 patterns from unknown Simmers.
Name: linday
Link to the posted asset:http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1999443
Link to media (required): http://lotsoflinday.wordpress.com/build-n-share-entries/tiger-cottage/ - I had to use my wordpress blog, can't post to my forum thread... grrr...
Optional Challenges entered?:
Experience level: advanced
Lot Name: Tiger Cottage
Lot address, size, and final cost: 40x30, about 65 000 - will have to check that!
Details and Rational:
I remade my old lot ‘Summer cottage’, and had a lot of fun transforming it into an asian-style home.
The home is quite small, and has a combined living room/kitchen, a bathroom and two bedrooms. The outdoor areas however… Outside there’s a temple, two zen gardens, a pond stocked with Chinese fish, a sim-fu training dummy and a gazebo. There’s also fireworks for the celebration! Red is used throughout the build.
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:
Thanks to Ricci2882, Apple, Mutske, ShinoKCR and Frances - for complete list click here
Name: Daenarys82
Link to the posted asset:http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2003680
Link to media (required): http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=172827
Optional Challenges entered?: None
Experience level: Intermediate builder, first time competition entry.
Lot Name: Year of the Tiger
Lot address, size, and final cost: 415 Skyborough Blvd, 40x40, 133,835
Details and Rational: Used Store and WA furniture and decorations.
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used: No CC in this house.
Name: Leebeejeebee
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2007728
Link to media (required): http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=173251
Optional Challenges entered?: No
Experience level: Beginner
Lot Name: Bamboo Courtyard
Lot address, size, and final cost: 18 Redwood Parkway, 40x30 lot, £153,928 furnised, £99,796 unfurnished
Details and Rational: I made a house recently with a central courtyard area, and so took this design and added a pagoda roof. The rest of the design is mostly focused on the interior. I've used the Asian Fusion set from the store.
Credit to any simmers for custom content you used: All custom content was generated by me.