Howdy again!
We’ve released three devlogs in the span of four days. That’s a new record! Hopefully, that should fulfill our progress report quota, and allow us to stay completely silent for a few months again. Not really.

I want to take the opportunity to announce an event being held on our Discord server: the TS!Underswap Original Character Contest! To any long-time followers of the project, this probably sounds familiar—we actually held this contest before. However, we unfortunately lost the results a few years back when the former GameJolt was deleted by an ex-team member. The contest, which will run from April 24th-May 6th, will only be exclusive to the Team Switched Official Discord. In other words, you must be a member of the Discord in order to participate.

Instructions:

Draw/sprite your own character, fill out the character page [seen below], and submit it in the #oc-contest channel of our Discord! Again, you have from April 24th to May 6th to make your character and post it—currently, the channel is locked to give people time to develop their submissions.

Once it hits 12 AM EST on May 7th, we’ll make a Strawpoll with all of the contestants’ entries, and everyone gets to vote on who they think should win! (Please don’t vote for yourself.)

General Rules & Guidelines:

1.) No stealing any other artists’ art to use for this contest.
2.) Please refrain from shitposting in #oc-contest. Stuff like recoloring Sans red, and going “Haha this is my OC, red Sans” and then posting it in the serious contest channel isn’t funny.
3.) The design of your character must be your own. Inspirations are one thing; complete copying of another person’s character is another. Don’t do that.
4.) Please don’t insult others’ artwork. We’re all putting effort into our OCs here. Don’t act like your work is any better than their’s!
5.) Please also refrain from being irritating—saying stuff like “Well, [Person 1]’s OC is better than [Person 2]’s OC. They should win.” has happened in the past, and it was aggravating. Don’t be that person.
6.) Have fun!

Template:

Character Name:
Powers:
Personality Traits:
Extra Information:
Art:

Prizes:

• Third Place - Your OC becomes an NPC in TS!Underswap.

• Second Place - Your OC becomes a fightable minor enemy in TS!Underswap!

• First Place - Your OC becomes a miniboss in TS!Underswap!

You are not allowed to submit:

• More than one OC, even if one has major significance with the other.

• Human OCs, “monsters that look like a human,” “they’re a vampire and you can’t see their fangs”—this defeats the purpose of the contest.

• Boss Monsters. You can have monsters that resemble a Nubian goat, but it should not resemble a Boss Monster.

And that should be about it. Please remember that this event is ONLY exclusive to our Discord server—we wanted to announce it here so people would know about the contest, and how to participate if they want to. Expect updates in the future!

• Beethovenus