Coloring Contest Underway!

Submissions are now officially open for the Coloring Contest. Use the Contest Submission Page to submit your entry when you are ready!

To help you create the color of your dreams, copies of the pet line art with transparent backgrounds are provided below. You can also use these links (Direfang, Phasmic, Velarie, Xyren) to download the .psd files!

Contest Rules:

★ Create an awesome new color using the provided Direfang, Xyren, Phasmic, and/or Velarie line art or PSDs.

★ Your color can be entirely unique or your own interpretation of an existing color—let your imagination run wild!

★ Each participant is limited to one entry, but you can color as many as you’d like. However, you may only submit one (1) of completed design for your official entry.

★ You may use any artistic medium, including crayons, colored pencils, markers, watercolor, digital painting, etc.

★ You are allowed to color or create as many as you'd like, however choose your favorite one (1). That will be what is accepted towards the contest.

★ Submission Period: March 10th 2025 @20:00 till April 3rd 2025 @ 23:59!

★ Voting Period: April 5th 2025 @ 20:00 till April 12 2025 @ 23:59!

Prizes:

All participants will receive a Pet Adoption Paper and a Jar of SanDust just for entering at the conclusion of the Coloring Contest!

The winners will be selected through community voting on site after the contest ends. The chosen winners will receive the following rewards:

1st Place: 50sC, a Glitched Pet Name Certificate, and a Divine Wispyr Figurine
 2nd Place: 30sC and a Glitched Pet Name Certificate
 3rd Place: 20sC and a Divine Wispyr Figurine

How to Enter:

- The Contest Chat channel on Discord is for showcasing WIPs of what you plan to submit. If you are working on designs but aren’t submitting them officially, please keep the discussion there.

- When you’re ready to submit your entry, please upload to our Official Contest Page on site!

Important Disclaimers:

These colorings cannot be used to apply for an artist position at Santae. Artist applications must showcase original line art, anatomy, and shading styles created by the applicant. Entries must be colored by the submitting member—you cannot send the line art to another artist or friend for them to color on your behalf. These images/designs are copyrighted by Santae Entertainment LLC and cannot be resold for profit or distributed without prior authorization from Santae Entertainment LLC. While Santae Entertainment LLC holds the copyright to all official designs, we do not claim authorship or ownership of your creative works—your artistic interpretations remain your own. If you share your artwork on another platform or server, please credit Santae Entertainment LLC for the designs by stating: (The original design in these images belongs to (c) Santae Entertainment LLC).

We can't wait to see your creativity shine. Good Luck to all entrants!

SanArt Sunday

Each Sunday, we choose a piece of Santae fanart to spotlight on the official Santae social media channels. It's our great pleasure to share this week's selection with you: A gorgeous rendition of the Auroralight Xyren by Horus#9578!

Thank you to Horus for your permission to share your wonderful artwork! Going forward, SanArt Sunday featured artists will always be contacted for permission to use their work before it is featured on social media or in site news.

Mystic Adventure Monday

Development of Santae's Mystic Adventure, an exciting upcoming game mode, is underway! Each Monday, we'll share development progress and sneak peeks at how the Mystic Adventure is progressing.

In this week's update, an exciting look behind the scenes at the first steps toward Mystic Adventure levels becoming interactive spaces: Creating maps and allowing player tokens to move around the board!

The world is dynamically built using data we store in a 2D Array, allowing us to change anything on it "on the fly" during development for testing. In the future we're planning to have this download the map layout from the database, allowing us to create tools to create more levels without needing to edit the code of the game. This is a future plan for now while we get the base mechanics working 🙂

While working on allowing the player tokens to move around the board, we've programmed a simple NPC that simply has the rules:

- When it is it's turn, roll a 1 sided die (so they can only travel one tile while we're in testing mode)
- Move my token that number of tiles (currently limited to 1)
- Mark the turn as completed and pass the turn to the next player
- Each player may only move their token onto tiles configured as "walkable" - this includes the path tiles and the two types of bridges.

We've set the game to run with 4 NPCs and just like that, we can watch them each taking their turn and moving independently around the board.

Of course there are no objectives yet, no items to collect, no rewards to work towards, and in the full game we intend for there to be animations and all sorts of shiny things such as minigames to play in between each turn. However, this is  a great start! The thing to note is that the tokens are adhering to the rules and remaining exclusively on the pathing which means the basic rules we have set up are working.

The next step is to change them to animate/transition to their target tile, followed by also allowing the human player to select which tiles they wish to move to when it is their turn.

Watch out for Mystic Monday next week where we'll hopefully be able to showcase progress towards that!

TL;DR

★ The Coloring Contest has begun! Copy the transparent lineart from above or download the .psds (Direfang, Phasmic, Velarie, Xyren). Use the Contest Submission Page to submit your entry when it is ready.
★ SanArt Sunday feature: Auroralight Xyren by Horus#9578!
★ Mystic Adventure Monday update: Progress toward creating maps and allowing player tokens to move around the board.