In need of ideas for event~

Seeing there are no posts at all!
I will suggest make a screenshot contest!

The screenshot must be from a game you own and you have taken it personally before. You can state funny, angry, sad, happy and so on and then add them to a group and make a group giveaway.

Thats the only way the links wont be spread. Every invite only event links are spread!

Well if you want as you are an anime person to provide screenshots on the type of anime you like and that way you can discover more shows to watch and others can also. There are many good shows which I have never heard also but when I watch them I feel its great.

I like sharing screenshots so that's a good one.
Also bump for Whose Line Is It Anyway gif.

I'm terrible at coming up with my own events, but I'm a lot better at critiquing them (you explain the event to me, and I give my feedback to you).
Let me know if you need my help!

i have seen several ''suggest a person to get wl threads wich could be a idea though u could maybe check if people played a certain anime game u played and achieved some kind of achievement with it wich you & they have as well u wl them? \i always find the problem myself with the anime puzzles that i cant figure out at least 1 or 2 everytime due to there being so many anime out there hehe but thats the reason why the list are short in the first place i geuss :)
anyways have a bump to get more ideas from others!

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Well I hope I can take part in the next event, I arrived a bit late in the last one :3

For the time based events, it's a bit unfair for people living in different time zones. It would mean some would have to set an alarm and get up at 3 in the morning to be able to join the link hunt... if you don't stay up over a longer period of time yourself, spreading out the link drops.

Also might be quite much work?

The nice thing with an event where people gain whitelist spots instead of direct access to a giveaway is that you can have some kind of screening process. You decide yourself who to add to the whitelist, so there are fewer opportunities to cheat.

The anime related part can be a good idea for the visual novel games I think you had in your last event (I didn't have enough time to check everything since the event was shutting down due to the leak about the time I logged in and saw that the event had started), since I guess that they go well together (people who like anime often like the VN:s?). Not everyone has a large anime knowledge though, so many people wouldn't be able to enter, which can be worth considering (in case you were planning on making the whole event based on anime knowledge).

Right now I only had some notes on the ideas in the original post, but I will try to think of some other ideas and come back later.

Indeed, I find you very kawaii.

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I'm actually very curious what you'll come up with. I loved the hunt (clicking through all your screenshots/artwork for links was a lot work but of course very rewarding :D), however it's unfortunate it was spoiled by those people who leaked the invite only links...

If you're going to need a 'site' to hide stuff, I'd recommend adding people for the event to a group instead of whitelist, since you'll be able to edit the steampage of this group with information/hidden ga's etc. This of course depends on how much you want to use Steamgifts in the first place ;D

Good luck with the event, I'll certainly be joining once again!

Hi again Melly... I am in a rush right now, but I am going to think about it and get back to you...

I'm glad to see that you did not get discouraged due to the previous event ... keep it up ;)

Your last event was a really great idea, I'm really sad it didn't work. I wish you luck this time :)
I like the idea of anime theme screenshots, as I watch a lot, but it's probably not a majority here and a lot of great users who probably deserve to be part of event would be losing at the beginning.

Just after your event failed I was thinking what could you do to make it work next time, one of idea was to make group for people who really checked your whole profile and found a lot of links. You could post a lot of spam there or whatever comes to your mind and do another treasure hunt just within links hidden in a different way in anything you would post. (hidden links, pics with hidden giveaway code, maybe even something hidden in youtube movie - I saw it once, or whatever crosses to your mind - just all hidden in group theards). But to make such group work and spam there a lot... it probably would take some time.

Anime or screenshot event sounds nice, would love to participate, once again really sorry for your last event, I'm sure this one will be better :)

What happened with the last event? Only asking because I can try to give you suggestions that wouldn't have the problems the last one did if I knew what happened.

Another whitelist event like that screenshot one you mentioned : Top 5 funniest/saddest/creepiest acrostic for a (character from a) game/anime

You could do a "guess the game" show.

• Screenshots (created by you and altered in some way so that it's harder to guess
• Describing a game in a few words (example: "You play as a space cyborg with a knack for blue tentacled aliens")
• Maybe hangman style for gaming quotes (example: W??. W?? ????r ??a???s - War. War never changes)
• Hell, go wild. Can't wait to see what you decide to do! ^.^

Best of luck

for example: top 5 funniest/scaring/sadly story from life, top 5 beautyfull/interesting/ unusualy screan from games, top 5 interesting/scaring/unsuall facts from world, top 5 music, top 5 socrher reacher in some games without chating ofc ,

top "number" can be changed, just check ideas :)

"Paint yourself as anime character" Whitelist event
provide a tutorial from the internet, lean back and watch what people come up with -> invite those you like. make a maximum entry limit so you don't really have to judge the art skills.
Reveal some of your giveaways to encourage people to make something :>

i like the screenshot idea :)

An artistic/creative event such as what sappyMA is suggesting would be ultra fun. :3

the first person telling me where the link takes you and what is in the link wins a whitelist spot

And what about sad anime girl's that can't find a way to your whitelist in time? They'll cry all night long!

Cat GIFs. WL entry for cat GIFs would be perfect.

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hello MellyMelly! i have no ideas atm, maybe will never have but i 'm here because i really want to thank you for the unbelievable amazing event. didnt get really why banned/cancelled or whatever, sad because it was the most generous thing i ve seen so far.

let me make a little contribution for the new event anyway, i think "acrostic" idea could be a lot fun, despite guys here seem to like "screenshot" event more. btw, will u make a poll after deciding some event options? a poll might be useful to see ppl's tendency.

No ideas, bro

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Put a theme and make people take screenshots related to that theme, it can be gamewise or irl , that last one will be original o:

Quite some time ago, on sappyMA's line of thought, I remember a contest of sorts where a link was provided to "create a superhero", the most original & funny entries were added to that persons' whitelist. I can't find the thread now, not entirely sure what to look for; but yeah, was back close to when I first joined SG.
Or there was another one more recently, where someone did something similar, but wanting game ideas to create a game in RPG Maker. Just a couple of paragraphs to outline the basic story -- Creative writing.

The problem with anything even remotely "artsy" is judging potentially hundreds of entries, and/ or risk creating the event too "restrictive" from those who would struggle to draw even stick figures. Worse when everyone has different opinions over what constitutes as art.
You could gather some people who help with the judging, but then you'd still have to work out a consensus over who gets the final say, encase everyone chooses different 'finalists'.

I mentioned in a reply to one of the older giveaways, to create a private group made specifically for hosting your own series of events.
Theoretically, it could still be a 'treasure hunt' with the giveaways all restricted to requiring to be in the group to enter, thus eliminating link leakage concerns, as they wouldn't be able to enter. But then that comes down to how to establish who should get into that group.

Just an "anyone may enter" system where people post some random screenshot, joke, or haiku upto a certain date/time, then you send group invitations to them? Or still make some kind of competition of sorts out of it, using an event and the event winners get entered into those event choices.

Perhaps 'theme' the giveaways across multiple groups, and users have to write up a "Why I want to enter the... horror category"

So many options, but there would always be concern for regard to puzzles that the answers, or links, would be leaked due to certain people who like to spoil it for others. No idea how true it is, but I remember reading a comment on the other thread where the person who leaked the links was then complaining in his thread later that the giveaways were being deleted.

Also. posting screenshots of the sadest/ ... moment in your favourite show
Clannad ~After Story~, two moments no less. Nuff said.

Ok: Here are some ideas:

Since you want to limit the number of people who get in to the event, think about who you want the entrants to be. Some variations I've seen recently in different events:
-Users who have knowledge about a certain thing (anime/other?) - you can always make a puzzle for it. Puzzle links can be leaked though, so you might want to combine it with some other requirement and hand out whitelist spots to those who solve+meet the requirements.
-Users who have contributed much to the Steamgifts Community? You can always say that the entrants must have a certain won:sent ratio, check the people who want to enter and whitelist only those who meet the requirements.
-Users who have played a certain game? You can check if they have gametime/achievements in that certain game before the event started, and only whitelist those who actually have played it.
-Users who have a game wishlisted before the event started? Also easy to check. Whitelist only those who have.

Any combination of the above could work, or any other way you think would be a good idea to limit who has access to the event.

In the original event, you did the hidden links as a few short "trains", right? Each found hidden link took you to a chain of maybe 5-10 givaways.

One way of sticking to that and making things interesting is by dividing the event in several smaller events. You could divide your giveaways on a few different "trains", with the AAA games spread between them. The train which contains Fallout 4 maybe doesn't contain any other AAA game, and a second "train" maybe has 2-3 older/cheaper games, and all have a few bundle games. Maybe divided after theme too?

Then you do whitelist giveaways for one of the "trains" (won't be a train if all are whitelists giveaways, but you get the idea) at the time, maybe one each week, one each day, or what you think would be best (as long as everyone invited has time to enter). For each set of giveaways you could have a different set of requirements.

Example:
Set 1: Mixed bundle games. Requirement: Have at least one of the games on your wishlist
Set 2: VN + anime games. Solve anime puzzle and have given away at least 50% of the number of games you have won.
Set 3: Racing games. Have at least 10 hours of gameplay in any other racing game in your library and have given away at least 50% of the number of games you have won.
Set 4: Ori, Vanishing of Ethan Carter + mixed bundle games. Have at least one of the games on your wishlist, and have given away at least 50% of the number of games you have won.

And so on. Just examples.

Or, you can have the same requirements for all the sets, say what games will be included in which one, and only let users who enter the event choose one (or two?) trains to enter, and whitelist only those who have applied for that particular giveaway set.

Or, just have one, big event with the same entry requirements, but still have the whitelist filtering, so only those who meet the requirements you set up get access to the giveaways.

So, if you're thinking about doing it some way like that, you should think about what kind of user you want being able to enter the giveaways.