Sorry. I thought it could have been neat

Don't apologize, I didn't mean that it was not, in fact, neat. Simply that the tentacles and mouth make me think Kraken. If MK had a character that was part octopus, I'm not going to lie, I'd play them. Now if they had a character who was part Sharktopus.... Well, I might just drown in my own glee.

Hahahah "Sharkotpus!" That's funny because when I saved the picture from Photoshop, I saved it as "Sharkotan"

Damn I'm ready to see all the characters. But I hope mine makes it out of the first round.

I'm really tempted to do some promotional artwork for Kuwinda in the mean time, but that'd give her appearance away. And I'm not too sure if we're allowed big up our own characters in the mean time. But the ideas are coming big time, and I've some fairly interesting pictures coming to mind.

I mean, her clothes (the MK female equivilent of clothes, that is) are already quite tattered and frayed. It's not like she'd be too shy for posing in a picture if a few bits of stitiching *mysteriously* happened to come loose. All she'd have to cover her dignity are her very distinctive battle axes. ;) lol

@Crow

I'd like to again thank you, like so many have done, for hosting and organizing this tournament. I'm sure the game developers and creative team can get a lot of creative ideas from some of the characters that are going to be showcased.

I was just wondering, where are the character submissions and tournament bracket going to be posted. I know in an earlier post you stated that the bios would be posted on MKO. I was thinking if that was going to be the case for the entire character tournament bracket or not.

Thanks again.

I know, I think itd be cool if maybe ed boon and them might just look at our characters! I mean they'd get a lot of ideas and maybe some could be implemented in the game or in the next one!

I'd hate that actually. The idea of a character I worked on, designed and created on my own merrits being spotted by the NRS team and being implemented into the game without recieving a penny for it? Would drive me insane if they took Kuwinda as their own and stole my idea from me. Unless NRS asked for the permission to use the character and pay me for her royalties, I'd sue their asses. If they spot talent from here and offer payment, all well and good, but stealing characters would just be bad form and it'd probably end up costing them more than it's worth.

Is it too late to submit an entry? I have been without a computer for a few weeks now and would really like to participate!

Deadline was tuesday

Oh, alright :/ thanks though.

Ed has stated awhile back he could not use anything from the fan base without proper compensation so in turn he also stated (don't quote me on this) he could use the idea to come up with a different form of it without making it an exact copy but the team rather not use anything unless it is extraordinary.
A good example of this would be for someone to make a game with fatalities in it...thing is they can't call them fatalities. They would have to change it a bit and call them like final blows.
Hell to be honest,if the glitch named Skarlet was a fan/rumor made character idea than how come we are not all compensated? I think it is greed that would drive someone to sue for this type of thing but I guess considering the economy I could see why people would take advantage.
I already posted on this site in a few threads that if I show something I would not mind stuff being used in the games plus I allow and give all rights to anyone. I would even hand out my information and send certification of proof that I allow the use. Now if the concept was meant for my own game than no I would not allow it. I bet if you are a big enough fan...you should be happy they would use anything if they did. I understand what you mean...you did the work and it is your creation. I get attached to some of my creations aswell and would feel I need something back for it to be used. That is why I never use them types of characters because if they are in your eyes that great than most other people will follow and like the concept too. So good advice to anyone...if you have concepts that you would not give up without a price than do not share them over the web. Though they can not use the exact make they can still twist it around and use it to drive their own ideas. So if that is stealing in your eyes than take my advice.

I meant it in the sense that if I bought the next MK game and there was Kuwinda, with the bio, outfit and backstory directly coppied into the game I'd be pissed off. If they made a warrior who resembled her, with a different bio and different name, I'd have no problems with that. I'm an artist myself, and most art is copied in one form or another. I'd be happy if they were inspired by her, but incredibly annoyed if they literally took everything about it and claimed it was their own. I'd see a distinction there. lol :)

I like the sound of that one Espio, hopefully we see her next time round.

I had the idea for a modern day pirate for my secondary choice. His name was 'Pegleg' because one of his legs was blown off in an unsuccessful raid on a cruise ship. He reforms his ways and becomes a gold medalist for sprinting at the paralympics. My inspiration came from this kinda prosthesis made specifically for runners:



It's kind of like a hook for the foot and I feel it has incredible potential for different moves and combos. I also envision him carrying around a golf bag full of other prosthetics that can be used as different kind of weapons. For example, there's one with a metal foot for strong attacks and a metal and sharp peg for stabbing attacks. I wanted to go for something grindhouse like (think Cherry from Planet Terror) but not as extreme.

Not to toot my own horn, but before mk vs dc I posted how they should do a time travel story to retcon armageddon, and low and behold .....

Who knows if they read it ,but my submitted character for this contest is the same character I used in that story , and when you read his story you'll see how nicely it ties in.

The major differemce is that my story would have put MK9 in an alternate universe to change things, rather than relive the old trilogy, but reguardless, as far as im concerned, my story and character still fits in with mk9, just as a parallel story, and my charaters ending touches on the things in the game I would have made mk 9, seeing as my story and nrs's story ultimatley end the same way.

You'll see what I mean.

I'm not giving any hints on my character but, This song is Snake's theme song. A bit of a hint, but at the same time not really

who knows. But with anything and everything, everyone has to ask before they use something. If a singer wants to use a beat from another song from another artist, they have to ask. Its the same with character art. First off, ed boon and netherrealm studios wouldnt be dumb enough to randomly takes someone character without asking. They would ask if they saw something that was extraordinary, they wouldnt just take it. Regardless of if you didnt care if they took your idea or not, being in that industry, you cant just take WHATEVER you want. thats just how it is. Believe me, they're smarter than you think. Theyd say "hey , thats a cool character, maybe we could work a meeting or something to talk about implementing your character in a game"

667th post in this thread...just thought I'd bump it up one so demon spawn wouldn't run through the Nethergates

Sounds like the prize for most inappropriately dressed female will be between my character and yours.

I've run into a slight situation. Upon working on converting each character into a document for MKO, I noticed one character had strikingly less detail than necessary to meet the criteria. Somehow I originally overlooked this problem. I have allowed people who only submitted one fatality, for an example, but this glaring issue was too much to ignore. I have sent an e-mail to this user and will give him a few days, but if he does not respond that means the character Psionic should be given an automatic bid.

What I've decided to do is that keep in the same way as I have it planned right now if he responds; which is take the best 8 characters from this bottom set of 13. If he fails to respond, I will take the best 9. How this preliminary round will work is a bit different from the tournament itself, due to the fact we have only 13 characters. So that everyone is on a level playing field, I am using a greatest to least type set up for this round.

Example:

+13 will be given to what you feel is the best character. +1 will be given to the one you like the least. The total of these scores will decide who survives. Everyone who wants to vote may vote; you do not have to be in the tournament to vote. You may also vote for your own character if they are involved in this round. I should have this round up sometime later tonight, within a couple of hours. It will be in a new topic (in the 2011 forum, if you are reading this from fan submission) and I will post a link to it here.

See you all soon.

Okay wait, I'm confused....the bottom 13 will be posted and on each one we put +13 or +1? Is that how it works? Or is it that we only vote for one?

The bottom 13 are being posted alone because the tournament needs to be a multiple of 32. 96 is the nearest number that works. There are 8 positions that can be won and 13 characters total; so 5 of the characters must be eliminated before we begin the actual tournament.

Once I reveal the characters, you simply read each of the 13, then cast your vote.

+13 (Your favorite entry here)
+12 (Your second favorite here)
+11
..
..
+1 (Your least favorite here)

You're basically just organizing the characters based on how you feel about them, from top to bottom. I will add up the scores at the end, and the 8 with the highest total score move on to the actual tournament seeding process.

So a preliminary preliminary?

This is the only preliminary event... the actual tournament is 96 characters total. This will help us reach the number. Once this is over, the actual tournament will be able to start.

Oh okay I getchu, we post our votes on here right? So for example itd be like
13 so and so
12 so and so
11 so and so
(And so on and so forth?)?