Submission Payout Guide
This payout guide covers regular drawn/written prompt entry payout. Always be sure to show your math when posting an entry to make it easier to check (and so you get the amount of gold you're owed)!
SOME prompts may have special requirements or payouts (such as altered payout numbers, or even item payouts) -- always be sure to check the requirements and rewards sections of your prompt!
SOME prompts may have special requirements or payouts (such as altered payout numbers, or even item payouts) -- always be sure to check the requirements and rewards sections of your prompt!
Drawn entry -- (+15 ☀️ Gold Base)
Minimum Requirements
- Must at least be a flat, fully colored half-body (50% of character from top of the head, not including halo/crown, horns, or wings).
- Characters must be clearly visible and identifiable to count.
- Should clearly depict the events of the prompt. This could require props/items or at least a vague background!
ART BONUSES
Bonuses cannot be applied more than once (unless otherwise stated), but do stack together, meaning you can max out your count at 270 ☀️ gold total.
★ Full-body -- (+10 ☀️ gold per character, max 5 chr.)
- Must show 80-100% of the character's body (not including halo/crown/horns/wings).
- Up to 5 characters can benefit from this bonus.
- Character must be fully shaded or rendered. Slight lighting detail doesn't count!
- Up to 5 characters can benefit from this bonus.
- Painted, semi-realistic, realistic, or any otherwise particularly detailed styles that can be more time-intensive to use. Also applies to certain particularly detailed character designs and the amount of detail put into recreating them.
- Up to 5 characters can benefit from this bonus.
- Must be fully colored, detailed, and clearly show the environment the characters are in.
- Should not be blurred out or obscured by the characters.
- Must have at least 3 unique frames of animation.
- Slight moves/rotation/nudging cannot count for bonus, must be separately drawn frames.
- Character and/or background can be animated, both count, but do not stack.
- Very minor changes to the image might not count! Just be warned.
- Always spoiler/warning tag/label anything with rapidly flashing images/lights.
- Gifts should not include your own characters, only the characters of other people! NPCs alone do not count for gift art.
- Gift art can include your own companions.
- Includes at least one NPC in the piece. Stacks with the additional character bonus.
- Must meet minimum requirements to count.
- Varied bonus -- be sure to check the chart!
Additional Character Bonuses
Extra Character Count |
Total Gold Bonus |
Rate of Bonus |
1 Extra |
+5 |
+5 |
2 Extra |
+15 |
+10 |
3 Extra |
+25 |
+10 |
4 Extra |
+35 |
+10 |
Written Entry -- (+15 ☀️ Gold Base)
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- 700 words minimum.
- Should clearly describe the events of the prompt.
- Should be mostly in English due to language limitations, but it doesn't have to be the "best" or most accurate English as long as the prompt is still clearly followed! You will never be judged for the "quality" of your writing, only the amount of work put into it.
WRITING BONUSES
Bonuses cannot be applied more than once (unless otherwise stated), but do stack together, meaning you can max out your count at 270 ☀️ gold total.
★ Gift Writing -- (+35 ☀️ gold)
- Uses another person's character as the focus or POV character. Should not include your own characters, only ones owned by other people! NPCs alone do not count for gift writing.
- Gift writing can include your own companions.
- Uses an NPC as one of the focus characters.
- Stacks with gift writing, but ONLY if a non-NPC character is gift-written for as one of the focus characters.
- Word count bonus increases per 100 words.
- Word count calculation should round down. If you're at 999 words, slam an extra one in there to get the next bonus!
- Bonus caps out at 4000 words, but you're free to keep writing if you really, really want to.
- Varied bonus -- be sure to check the chart!
Additional Word count bonuses
Total Word Count |
Total Gold Bonus |
Rate of Bonus |
800 |
+2 |
+2 |
900 |
+4 |
+2 |
1000 |
+6 |
+2 |
1100 |
+8 |
+2 |
1200 |
+10 |
+2 |
1300 |
+12 |
+2 |
1400 |
+16 |
+4 |
1500 |
+20 |
+4 |
1600 |
+24 |
+4 |
1700 |
+28 |
+4 |
1800 |
+32 |
+4 |
1900 |
+36 |
+4 |
2000 |
+42 |
+6 |
2100 |
+48 |
+6 |
2200 |
+54 |
+6 |
2300 |
+60 |
+6 |
2400 |
+66 |
+6 |
2500 |
+72 |
+6 |
2600 |
+80 |
+8 |
2700 |
+88 |
+8 |
2800 |
+96 |
+8 |
2900 |
+104 |
+8 |
3000 |
+112 |
+8 |
3100 |
+120 |
+8 |
3200 |
+130 |
+10 |
3300 |
+140 |
+10 |
3400 |
+150 |
+10 |
3500 |
+160 |
+10 |
3600 |
+170 |
+10 |
3700 |
+180 |
+10 |
3800 |
+190 |
+10 |
3900 |
+200 |
+10 |
4000 |
+210 |
+10 |
Comic entry -- (+15 ☀️ Gold Base)
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Must at least be a flat, fully colored comic with 3 panels minimum.
- Quality should be (mostly) consistent throughout the comic.
- Focus character must have at least one panel with a half-body shot (50% of character from top of the head, not including halo/crown, horns, or wings).
- Characters must be clearly visible and identifiable in at least one panel to count.
- Should clearly depict the events of the prompt. This could require props/items or at least a vague background!
- Each panel should show a progression of the story or events. Filler panels will not count towards the panel bonus!
COMIC BONUSES
Comic entries benefit from all the same bonuses as an art entry (with altered numbers & more bonuses), but with additional opportunities for gold! Bonuses cannot be applied more than once (unless otherwise stated), but do stack together, meaning you can max out your count at 835 ☀️ gold total.
★ Additional Panels -- (+5 ☀️ gold for every panel after the first, max 10 panels for up to +50 ☀️ gold)
- Counts the two mandatory panels after the first one.
- Panels must be fully colored.
- Panels must progress the story/events or establish environment, setting, or action to count.
- Counts for up to 10 panels, but you're free to include more.
- Filler panels will not prevent you from maxing out your gold bonus, but will not count for anything.
- Must meet requirements for each bonus.
- Additional characters must have at least one panel with a half-body shot (50% of character from top of the head) to count.
- Varied bonus -- be sure to check the chart!
ART BONUSES
★ Full-body -- (+10 ☀️ gold per character, max 5 chr.)
- Must show 80-100% of the character's body (not including halo/crown/horns/wings).
- Up to 5 characters can benefit from this bonus.
- Character must be fully shaded or rendered. Slight lighting detail doesn't count!
- Up to 5 characters can benefit from this bonus, and it can apply to 10 panels (10 times per character, up to 50 times total) -- meaning this bonus caps at 250.
- (Example: the focus character shaded for 10 panels nets 50 gold.)
- The more times you apply this bonus to your comic, the stricter the mods will be with what counts for it since it goes so high.
- Painted, semi-realistic, realistic, or any otherwise particularly detailed styles that can be more time-intensive to use. Also applies to certain particularly detailed character designs and the amount of detail put into recreating them.
- Up to 5 characters can benefit from this bonus, and it can apply to 10 panels (10 times per character, up to 50 times total) -- meaning this bonus caps at 250.
- (Example: the focus character done in a detailed style for 10 panels nets 50 gold.)
- The more times you apply this bonus to your comic, the stricter the mods will be with what counts for it since it goes so high.
- Must be fully colored, detailed, and clearly show the environment the characters are in.
- Must be unique for each panel to count for multiple.
- Should not be blurred out or too obscured by the characters.
- Up to 5 panels can benefit from this bonus.
- Must have at least 3 unique frames of animation.
- Slight moves/rotation/nudging cannot count for bonus, must be separately drawn frames.
- Character and/or background can be animated, both count, but do not stack.
- Very minor changes to the image might not count! Just be warned.
- Always spoiler/warning tag/label anything with rapidly flashing images/lights.
- Gifts should not include your own characters, only the characters of other people! NPCs alone do not count for gift art.
- Gift art can include your own companions.
- Includes at least one NPC in the piece. Stacks with the additional character bonus.
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER BONUSES
Extra Character Count |
Total Gold Bonus |
Rate of Bonus |
1 Extra |
+5 |
+5 |
2 Extra |
+15 |
+10 |
3 Extra |
+25 |
+10 |
4 Extra |
+35 |
+10 |
Roleplay entry -- (+15 ☀️ Gold Base PER PERSON)
TBD! Considering adding this in but would need to do a bit of work-shopping and community discussion. It's possible we won't necessarily accept RP prompt entries but will allow you to submit RPs in another way to earn gold.