Kingdom Below

What Are Team Challenges?

Artists from different backgrounds join forces in Team Challenges, working in teams of five to design and complete an environment from scratch in five weeks. This is a chance to refine your collaboration and communication skills, work towards a unified vision, and make team-based decisions — all essential skills for a professional setting. Additionally, you’ll gain hands-on experience using source control, a crucial tool in any studio workflow. At the end of it, you’ll have a fully fledged environment piece to add to your portfolio!

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What You’ll Gain

• Stronger communication and teamwork skills
• A polished, portfolio-worthy environment
• Hands-on experience with source control
• The ability to specialize in one area instead of handling everything alone

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Challenge Theme: Kingdom Below

"Beneath the world as you know it, something stirs. A kingdom: buried, sheltered, waiting. To enter is to tread where history and legend blur. Others descended before you… few have returned unchanged."

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Timeline

• 20th March Sign-ups Open
• 24th March Sign-ups Close, Team Formation & Email Approval
• 28th March Kick-off Stream (Live on Discord) & Challenge Start
• 04th April Beginning of the production stage of the challenge
• 02th May Challenge Deadline & Submission
• 03th May Finals Livestream & Winner Reveal

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Judges and Mentors

Each team will be provided a mentor that will remain with you throughout the entirety of the challenge! Your mentor is around to give weekly feedback.
These Mentors are separate from Judges. At the end of the challenge, a panel of industry professionals will evaluate each submission based on key criteria, ultimately selecting the grand winner. These judges will be revealed during the Kick-off Stream.

THE BASICS

- Teams are made up of 5 artists, teams are assembled by the challenge organisers (we try, where possible, to arrange the teams to give the optimal experience by balancing factors such as time zones)

- There are both realistic and stylised teams

- The challenge is 5 weeks made up of; 1 week of setup, ideas, planning and blockout and 4 full production weeks. The complete timeline can be found in the calendar below.

- Teams will be provided with source control and starting resources, such as basic shaders, so you and your team can get up to speed quickly.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

You can sign-up for the challenge without being a member of the community via the form. After sign-ups close we invite artist that meet the expectations to join the challenge. If you accept this invite to participate you will need to sign-up to the 'DISCORD ACCESS' tier on our Website for the duration of challenge.
By signing up you also get all the other benefits such as full access to the discord, Environment Art Tips and Tricks collection, Weekly Live Feedback Stream, Your art included in our weekly newsletter and more on top of your entry to the team challenge.