Yeah, and that's the backup option if more than 10 options in a poll is not feasible. However, if it is possible to do a 14 (or more) option poll, why bother with all that work?

I believe roon3 said he was going to make badges to suit the theme of this contest for this contest's winners. If he decides not to make them, I was going to use the demos (higher quality versions) and put the winner's name underneath with a matching texture.
The 1st place winner gets to decide the theme of the next contest. What the next contest's winners get for prizes (besides the 1st place contest theme again) is up in the air again. If this contest's prizes work out well, I suppose I'd just do it again, with different dates.

Double post for important information:
I will not be refusing submissions because they do not fit the theme. If you want to totally forget the theme, go right ahead. However, it will very likely hurt your score at the end, as in the voting thread one of the criteria for people to vote on is "This mod fits the theme well". If people vote according to the criteria, off-theme mods will not get very many votes.

This came up in some PMs people have sent me, so I wanted to make sure everybody knew if they were wondering.

Triple post for bump.
Theme is up, have fun modding.

May the best modder win, and for all of you, have a lot of fun.

Explosions eh?
Sounds like fun...
Could you list the criteria?

It would be more like guidelines, but I suppose so. This will be copied to the theme.

Explosive weapons should have at least some delay between firing or launching and exploding, and, well, explode. Usually this happens with chemical explosion sounds, with lots of fire, smoke, and particles. There are other types of explosions, however, from other types of explosives.

brilliant. now i have something to do until i can sleep.

Got a great idea, I'm in. (Sending a pm too)
Badges will come tomorrow hopefully

(Geti, the sprites'll have to wait...)
/offtopic

I was going to join this but the theme is rubbish IMO.

With that attitude you will surely not win a contest with a different theme either.
Youre just supposed to make a *something* that must *explode*.
The rest is up to you on how creative you are.

If you lack an idea then let me give you all some:
-Cluster bomb cannon
-Target guided missile
-micro missile barrage launcher
-plasma auto cannon
-rocket propeller chainsaw (make it explode at the end)
-artillery cannon of any style
-classic flak cannon
-dumbfire cannon
-nuclear suitcase bomb


And thats just the start with what you can do with just this simple theme.

The theme is explosions. if the theme wants explosions, I'll give it explosions

Indeed. Hey, would an explosive craft be considered a weapon? [/foodforthought]

Nah, its a craft. As Duh stated before, this competion focuses on guns and bombs(TDEs).

How would you make an actor bleed explosions without tossing them around at all?

No idea, but it has nothing to do with this guns and TDExplosives contest so that doesn't matter.

AEmitters.

Make one come out of it really quickly and then gib into an explosion.