Puzzle Contest!
As you may have (hopefully) heard, NetPass recently implemented custom puzzles in the Puzzle Swap minigame of the StreetPass Mii Plaza.
As it's the only logical thing to do, we are officially announcing the first NetPass Puzzle Swap Art Contest! :D
That's right, you will all get the chance to get your own piece of art sent to all SpotPass-enabled 3DSes that use NetPass, so people can collect pieces of your own puzzle!
How will you decide which puzzles get selected?
There will be a community vote!
Details are still being figured out as we speak (we will make another announcement when we have more to say about this), but what I can tell you is that:
- Submissions will be open until Sunday, 6 January 2027 at 23:59 CET
- Votes will be open from Monday, 7 January 2027 at 00:00 CET until Sunday, 27 January 2027 at 23:59 CET
While submissions are not open yet, you can of course still get started on designing your puzzle :)
Any guidelines?
There is no theme, so your puzzle does NOT have to be NetPass-related.
However, we kindly ask you to respect the usual NetPass rules, most importantly:
- Nothing hateful in any way
- Nothing NSFW in any way
- No generative AI of any sort
- You must either have full ownership of the art you submit, or have all involved parties consent to its usage in NetPass
Also, please make sure to respect the following instructions to make sure your puzzle can be implemented with no trouble:
- The image must be at least 854 × 512 pixels. Higher quality is appreciated (although it'll be downsized in-game), but the aspect ratio needs to be kept at all costs
- The final submission will need to be sent as a lossless PNG file, either raw or put into a ZIP file
- If you want a 3D scene for the fullscreen render, you will have to submit a CGFX file directly, samples can be given but we don't have expertise on how to make them
- Please choose a puzzle size: 5 × 3 ; 6 × 4 ; 8 × 5
- Please choose one of the pink puzzle patterns available here (EXCEPT for fully pink ones): https://tcrf.net/StreetPass_Mii_Plaza#Unused_Pink_Puzzle_Piece_Formats
- Please give us the name of your puzzle
- Full puzzle names must to be 96 characters or less
- We use the following format for full names: "Puzzle Title ~credit1, credit2, creditn". Please make sure there's enough space for everything!
Thank you for reading!
We hope to see your wonderful pieces of art soon.
Feel free to ask in our Discord if you have any question!