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Goonstation Summer 2025 Seasonal Contest Vote - Studenterhue - 08-22-2025

Welcome to the voting thread for the Goonstation Summer 2025 Seasonal Contest! Here, you can vote on your favorite postcard sprites. Remember, the five sprites with the most votes will get added to the game, and the folks who submitted them will get special prizes (more details below)

Voting Procedures

Read these carefully, because they're a bit different from how the last sprite contest was done.

You vote for your favorite postcards through the poll above, assuming you have a forum account and are logged in. I've given assigned each postcard a random number and compiled them together into one big image, shown further down. That is what the numbers in the poll refer to.

I've also made a "zoomed in" (upscaled/enlarged by a factor of three, so it's three times bigger than the base image) version of this image to show detail. There's also a supplement of sorts containing proposed titles and more for these postcards.

You can vote for as many entries as you want. The poll will automatically close after 7 days, i.e. around August 29. In event of a tie, all the tied entrants get prizes.

Prizes

After the vote ends, the five postcards with most votes will receive the following prizes:
  • Their postcard will be added to the mail loot table for all jobs. That is, when you open a piece of mail from the Mail Courier, you may find a postcard from this contest, whether you're a Geneticist, an Engineer, a Botanist, etc. 
  • A free sticker from Gannets. His bigcartel storefront shows all the possible stickers you may soon find waiting in your (real-life) mailbox. Please be aware that the mentor mice, nuke op patch, and NT patch designs are running low, so you might want to prepare some secondary choices in case these three run out.  
  • A Too Cool medal that lets you use the Discord "shelterbee" emote in-game (you use it via medal rewards, which pulls up a picture of it above your character sprite, not in the chat) and in OOC chat (type "shelterbee", but replace those quotation marks with colons, like in many modern chat platforms.) Here is what shelterbee looks like: shelterbee

In addition, if there's a submission we really like that doesn't make the top rankings, it might get added anyway, kinda as an honorable mention (but more). The submitter will get the participant rewards.

Postcard Entries, Native Size
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Postcard Entries, Enlarged for Detail
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Optional Title, Flavor Text, & Postcard Text Supplement

Here, you can see the titles (what the postcard's called in-game), flavor text (what you see when you Examine the postcard), and postcard text (what you see when you read the postcard) that people submitted with their entries. Not every entry has some, but many people did for fun. Put it in another way, not every entry has text in the supplement. You don't need to read all this if you want to vote, but you can if you like.

I've tried my best to figure out what was a title/flavor text/postcard text and what was just people making remarks/jokes about their entries. I'll admit, I wasn't very specific about what kind of text could go into postcards, so some the ambiguities are my doing. In addition, once I add/PR these entries, I may tweak some text.

1.
Title: "Singularity Postcard"

Flavor Text: "It's staring back."

2.
Title: "Lunar Farm Postcard"

Flavor Text: "A postcard of what seems like the surface of the moon, with the earth in the background, and potatoes and potato accessories in the foreground. A little sketch of a robobuddy is stamped on the back."

Postcard Text: "Happy Growing, from all the Robobuddies in the Pitatus crater!

Pitatus Farms, Luna"

4.
Title: "De Magnifique Vacances!!"

Flavor Text: "A postcard featuring a pair of mountains by a lake on the chilly planet Mundus. The card reads 'Visit beautiful Space Quebec!' The back features images of frontier vacationers hiking, camping, and skiing."

5.
Flavor Text: "A postcard from some 'Jerry' guy. It smells burnt and is coated in some sort of purple residue."

6.
Title: "Discount Dan's Affordable Postcard"

Flavor Text: "A postcard showing the Discount Dan's™ logo and their products. It reeks of oil."

7.
Title: "Large-letter postcard"

Flavor Text: "It's one of those tacky large-letter postcards. The background image still has the stock photo watermark..."

Postcard Text: "Greetings from SS13, Frontier!"

8.
Title: "The 'fun-gularity.'"

Flavor Text: "A shade-wearing singularity on a surfboard, somehow."

9.
Title: "A Roach Enjoying Some Discount Dan's Quik-Noodles"

11.
Title: "Believe"

Flavor Text: "Ancient Aliens, it's all true, I'm an expert just like you!"

12.
Flavor Text: "A postcard from the void of space."

Postcard Text: "Wish you weren't here..."

13.
Title : "Better go catch it!"

Flavor Text: "This joke doesn't hit the same through mail..." 

14.
Title: "Mail buddy!"

Postcard Text: "More mail for you buddy!"

15.
Title: "The Scientific Method"

Flavor Text: "A postcard with a tobacco company's logo on the back"

Postcard Text: "Nine out of ten scientists Prefer Pro Puffs"

16.
Title: "Ride 'Em Cowbee!"

Flavor Text: "A postcard featuring a rugged looking cowpoke in front of a gorgeous sunset. An obligatory cactus stands tall in the center."

17.
Title (multiple provided): Green Hills Postcard / Bliss Postcard

Flavor Text: "A postcard depicting rolling green hills with cirrus clouds in the sky. Something about it seems familiar."

19.
Title: "New Memphis Postcard"

Postcard Text: "Greetings from New Memphis, home of the BonkTek Pyramid!"

21.
Title: "John's Bus Postcard"

Flavor Text: "A greasy postcard advertising a local shuttle service. Clearly made by someone with little graphic design experience, as almost all of the text is hidden under the driver's photo."

22.
Title: "Remember Who You Are"

Flavor Text:"An iconic scene from... The Shelterfrog King? Huh?"

23.
Title: "Heisenbee's Big Day Out"

Flavor Text: "Research has a brand new experiment."

Postcard Text: "Much love from the Toxin Lab!"

24.
Title: "A Silicon Greeting"

Flavor Text: "Looks like a postcard with some cyborgs in it. Can't tell what it says since the message is written in binary."

25.
Title: "Desert Landscape"

Postcard Text: "Desserts are a lot nicer at night. Oh and uh, deserts too. "

26.
Title: "Cargonia!"

Postcard Text: "FOR CARGONIA!"

27.
Title: "Greetings from Thundrando!"

Flavor Text: "....Thundrando? What kind of name is that?"

28.
Title: "Greetings from the Rave Beach."

Flavor Text: "An image of the amazing Rave Beach. It even has an adorable crab playing a violin on it! Wait, is it crying? On the back of the card is a messy, shaky writing: 'Cherish your happiest memories.'"

Postcard Text: "Cherish your happiest memories."

29.
Flavor Text: "A postcard showing the NanoTrasen logo. It smells like starch"

30.
Title: "You are here!"

Flavor Text: "This picture feels familliar to you..."

33.
Title:  "Greetings from Amantes!"

Flavor Text: "Seems like a pretty generic photo of Amantes. Although it does smell a little funny..."

34.
Postcard Text: " Wishing you many terrifying honks. 

Many Disgraces,
The Pumpkin Patch"


Requesting Corrections
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RE: Goonstation Summer 2025 Seasonal Contest Vote - meaow589 - 08-23-2025

did u miss the 20 text?

RE: Goonstation Summer 2025 Seasonal Contest Vote - Studenterhue - 08-23-2025

(08-23-2025, 06:12 PM)meaow589 Wrote: did u miss the 20 text?

No, the person who submitted entry 20 did not supply a title, flavor text, or postcard text. (Same with the others not listed in the supplement.)

RE: Goonstation Summer 2025 Seasonal Contest Vote - Studenterhue - 08-30-2025

The votes are in! We had a tie for fifth place, so we have six winners this time around. Here are the winning sprites and the people who made them. Going from left to right:

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  • SnugglyCactus
  • Whele
  • Scientifically
  • Mailman T
  • Shiiba
  • IncendiaryCrocs

If your name is on this list, hop onto our Discord and send a direct message to Gannets. He'll send you your sticker. He should have his DMs open. (If not, check back in a day or two.) Check his bigcartel store to see what stickers he has available. Again, some stickers are running low, so you might want to prepare some backup choices. For the record, stickers are shipped from the UK. You should also receive your Too Cool medals shortly. 

Assuming all goes well, the postcards should be in the game soon. Some of the entries that didn't win were still pretty great, so we might add them to the game anyway.

If you have yet to receive your medal, whether you're a participant who hasn't gotten Fun Times yet or a winner who still hasn't received Too Cool, feel free to if you to reply to this thread or ping me on Discord.

Thanks for participating, everyone! We'll have more contests very soon.

RE: Goonstation Summer 2025 Seasonal Contest Vote - meaow589 - 08-31-2025

i quite busy and didn’t play for a week now glad that atleast i can participate on this.