Screenshot of the Month, which one will it be?
Reply to this comment with your own submission for next month's contest!
There are few simple rules you must follow:
- Only one submission per month! However you can change the shot before the voting poll has been made, just edit your comment with the new screenshot.
- The screenshot has to be something you took yourself. It does not matter if it's old or new, just as long that it is yours!
- Screenshots should have a (roughly) 16:9 aspect ratio. Otherwise we will need to crop them to fit the page ourselves.
- You can upload the screenshot into Discord directly, or post a link to your screenshot on Steam/imgur, but please be sure to include the name of the game with your submission.
- No heavily edited screenshots. Modern photo modes have high variety of ways to edit screenshots but we will reject submissions that have been edited too much. Little bit of editing is acceptable, but if you make your shot look like a promotional poster then it will not be accepted for the contest.
- No pornographic content. We've elected to allow nudity to an extent, but no shots from porn simulator or hentai games, etc. basically if you would not expect to see the shot in a real gaming magazine, don't submit it
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Little Nightmares II
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2913677994
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Bump!
It's interesting to see what people are voting for.
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I feel like everything in this thread would be better organized on Discord. And I don't even (like to) use Discord.
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I'd be surprised if there isn't. I've seen voting stuff being done with emote reactions there.
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I was mainly asking out of curiosity as I've myself never seen actual polls there, but have seen the emote reaction voting. The reason behind making a poll here (and asking for other easily accessibly poll site suggestions) is that the SG Monthly team wished for the screenshot contest to be as communal to the whole SG as possible, the magazine is aimed to be read mainly by the users of this site after all. Limiting both submissions and voting to Discord would then only include those who are both part of the magazine project itself and use Discord. We thought this might get dull and wouldn't be as engaging, but if the majority of the group members want to change it to only Discord then that would happen. Same if many users in here will find this to be a dumb idea, then of course it will not continue. It's still being discussed where it goes.
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It would appear that there is not explicit/structural support for polls. The help document suggests creating a channel for polls, but makes no mention of polls being implemented per se.
There is this link which points to a Poll Bot that can be used to create the "Emoticon poll" or a straw poll which looks a bit more interesting.
Polls on Discord?
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Also don't like to use Discord but I do know the answer to this ...
You can use Emojis and Reactions as a poll, just Google "Discord Poll" and will likely tell you how.
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I was mainly asking out of curiosity as I've myself never seen actual polls there, but have seen the emote reaction voting. The reason behind making a poll here (and asking for other easily accessibly poll site suggestions) is that the SG Monthly team wished for the screenshot contest to be as communal to the whole SG as possible, the magazine is aimed to be read mainly by the users of this site after all. Limiting both submissions and voting to Discord would then only include those who are both part of the magazine project itself and use Discord. We thought this might get dull and wouldn't be as engaging, but if the majority of the group members want to change it to only Discord then that would happen. Same if many users in here will find this to be a dumb idea, then of course it will not continue. It's still being discussed where it goes.
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As someone who can't contribute to the magazine for various reasons (my own backlog of games, not having an abundance of time, having disabilities which would likely make typing a review an overly long task, etc), I am interested in reading the magazine and hate using Discord, so would prefer the magazine has more reliance on SteamGifts then Discord.
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While that is true, not everyone on the website is also on discord. This way those people have a chance to vote too :)
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I believe you can use google forms for the voting later.
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I just became aware of this. Is there a link to the SG Mag discord, or is it private?
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Central Hub for SGM
It has everything, including the Discord.
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You're welcome. You've come at the perfect moment actually because SGM: The First Issue Is Here!.
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Who's the author of that Genshin Impact screenshot? 🤔 Such a cool shot and looks like it actually took some effort to set it up (unless it's some cutscene?), too bad it didn't get much love.
Edit: good job, jbondguy007.😺
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That one is by jbondguy007. I'm also surprised it didn't get much love, it's a really nice shot.
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EDIT: Poll is now considered closed and no new votes will be counted!
The first issue of the magazine has been released and can be found in here.
The topic will remain open for a while to allow anyone interested in posting their screenshot submissions to do so.
Most of you have already seen talk about the Unofficial SteamGifts Magazine and those who haven't can go read more about it from the [Central Hub]
Part of the magazine's format will include a Screenshot of the Month display, and this topic is where you can all vote on the winner for the first ever issue coming out March 1st! The winner will received their own page in the magazine and selected runner-ups will get to be featured as well. There is no other prize aside from the prestige of having your screenshot featured for all to see and this is all just for fun.
The submissions were gathered from the SGM Discord server, but for the future we wish to open screenshot submissions to everyone, without the need to be part of Discord or the Steam group. If you have a screenshot you'd like to submit, please see my first comment for more information and rules.
While this first poll is held right here in SG, we are seriously considering that in the future we might host the poll on another site. The reason we are thinking about this is that we'd like the winner to be a surprise until the magazine comes out, which obviously can't be accomplished by using SG's own polls. We are not sure where we could effectively do that, so if anyone has any recommendations of sites that could do this we'd much appreciate it! The outside poll would need to be simple to use and not require registration from voters, we will not be asking SG users to make outside accounts for this.
And now on to our very first submissions, attached below!
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