Shoutbox

As we announced before, the skinning contest is back, and it starts today. The contest consists of two parts. You can either make a Messenger Plus! skin pack for Messenger 2011, or if you are not into the technical aspect of making a Plus! skin you can design your vision of a Messenger 2011 skin in Photoshop or Illustrator. The objective is the same in both cases. Make Messenger 2011 look great!

So what is in it for you? Prizes, and you decide what kind of prizes. Winners receive a gift card from one of the preselected online stores ranging in value from 500 up to 1250 US dollar. As a bonus everyone who submits a Messenger 2011 skin package which gets approved will receive a small mystery prize. The contest is open to Plus! users worldwide.

From today until May 15th you can submit your skin packages and skin designs to compete for the prizes. See the contest page for the full details. Have fun!

http://www.msgplus.net/Contest

No more big master winner category?

Er, I'll email Plus! Buttons now, seeing I've tried without success (10+ times) to upload it.

Time to start skinning half way through exams

Edit: Also, one person cannot win more than one of the prizes?

finally

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Edit: Also, one person cannot win more than one of the prizes?

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"Contestants can submit multiple creations in multiple categories but only a maximum of 1 prize will be awarded per contestant."

Great, hope to see nice skins hit the database

Just one question:

code:

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Skins are not allowed to hide Messenger's advertisements (at the bottom of the contacts list and the conversation windows).

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that means not even .reg files?

The rules with regards to ads are the same as when you submit a skin to the database pretty much. Just obviously make sure that your skins do take into account that an ad should be there.

finally! I thought it will never start..lol

so 5 winners in total.

judges is willz and menthix. Great!

I hope I win.

So 7 weeks? march 27 - may 15

yep, just to give people enough time to get creative and also for newcomers to learn if need be.

Yeahhhhhhhh great gift for my birthday!

I still remember my skin containing 70 options and not a single bug not winning in the functionality category in the 1st contest.

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Originally posted by Basilis
I still remember my skin containing 70 options and not a single bug not winning in the functionality category in the 1st contest.

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Maybe you'll win this time.... don't give up....

But note that having massive set of options is not always the same as 'functionality'. On the contrary, quite often less is more...