Guidelines for Fan Submissions

Guidelines for Fan Submissions

Please note: Due to the volume of submissions received, only those submitters whose work is accepted for publication will be contacted.

Fan Fiction:

• Time to dust off your trusty word processor and spin a heroic tale of fan fiction for possible publication in the City of Heroes comic book or on the website. What we want to see is a story (no comic book scripts) that chronicles your hero’s, villain's or team’s (in-game or original characters) adventures! Be as creative as you want, but keep it PG-rated. Files must be in .doc, .txt, or .rtf format.
• Aim for about 1000 words, with a max of 2000 words. Special word limit consideration will be given to exceptional work. Screenshots to illustrate your story are encouraged!
• Please send all submissions to cohsubmissions@plaync.com, with the subject heading Fan Fiction Submission. The by-line can be your real name or a character name(or both).

Fan Art: General

• Send us your best City of Heroes-inspired artwork for consideration in the Heroic Visions art gallery or for the City of Heroes Fanzine! Any original medium is acceptable (pen & ink, digital, oils, etc.) as long as you keep it on a family-friendly level. Do not send us nudity or other objectionable images. Let us know if you want credit under your real name or a character name.
• The full image should be between 100 x 100 and 2000 x 2000 pixels and be less than 380KB in size. Images should be in JPG format. We may also ask for a higher resolution (300dpi) image in .tiff format — so make sure you save a high-resolution version of your submission!
• Please send all submissions to cohsubmissions@plaync.com, with the subject heading Fan Art Submission.

Fan Art: Double Fusion Testing

• Send us your best City of Heroes-inspired artwork for consideration to be used for testing the coming optional in-game advertisement using Double Fusion technology.

• Guidelines:

  • Ads should be designed stylistically and thematically as content for existing billboards in the game.
  • Photos of real people will not be accepted. Any representation of humans should be done either via in-game characters or stylized art work.
  • Copyright, trademark or intellectual property infringements will not be accepted.
  • Let us know if you want credit under your real name or a character name.

• File Format and Pixel Dimensions — Images must fit into one of the following dimensions and formats:

  Square

  • 256x256 pixels (1:1 aspect ratio)

  Horizontal

  • 512x256 pixels (2:1 aspect ratio)
  • 512x128 pixels (4:1 aspect ratio)

  Vertical

  • 256x512 pixels (1:2 aspect ratio)
  • 128x512 pixels (1:4 aspect ratio)

  Format

  • JPEG
  • BMP
  • PNG
  • TGA
• Note: All textures must be opaque. No transparencies will be used in-game on any ad content. If a texture is submitted with an alpha channel or transparency, that data will be discarded and its resulting appearance may be altered.
• Please send all submissions to cohsubmissions@plaync.com, with the subject heading Fan Art Submission.

PLEASE NOTE : You may NOT use any materials that you do not own the rights to and utilize them for your fan art. Likewise, taking an image and altering it slightly (via Photo Shop, for example), then presenting it as your own work is strictly prohibited. You must have ownership rights to every element included in the fan art you submit. Also, any copyrighted heroes and/or trademarked names that appear in your art will automatically disqualify it! We're talking comic book heroes, T.V. characters, movie characters, etc. If it's a recognizable, copyrighted character from a property that isn't owned by NC Interactive, Inc., or you, it can't be submitted. You must make sure your submission doesn't infringe on any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right, or any privacy, publicity or publishing rights of any third party, or is libelous, obscene or otherwise contrary to law.

If you have any questions regarding these submissions, please drop a note to cohsubmissions@plaync.com

Submission Guidelines: Legal Notice:

You acknowledge that NCI and/or its Game Content providers have rights in their respective Game Content under copyright and other applicable laws, and that you accept full responsibility and liability for your use of any Game Content in violation of any such rights. NCI and/or its Game Content providers grant you the right to use the Game Content for noncommercial, personal purposes, including in connection with creating fan fiction or fan web sites regarding the same. However, you acknowledge and agree that you shall not reproduce, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, publicly perform, or transmit any Game Content for commercial uses without first obtaining the express written consent of NCI. For clarification purposes only, "derivative works based upon" Game Content are works that are substantially similar, both in ideas and expression, to the Game Content. If a work created by you or someone other than NCI (or its Game Content providers) is likely to bring to mind the Game Content, then it is likely that such work is a derivative work of the Game Content, which may not be used for commercial purposes.

You can upload to and create content on our servers in various forms, such as in selections you make and characters and items you create for City of Heroes, and in bulletin boards or similar user-to-user areas ("Member Content"). By submitting Member Content to or creating Member Content on any area of the Service and/or throughout the world, you (a) warrant that your Member Content is your own original work, which does not violate any rights of any third party (including, without limitation, any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right, or any privacy, publicity or publishing rights), and (b) acknowledge and agree that such Member Content is the sole property of NCI and assign to NCI all right, title and interest, including copyright, in and to the Member Content. NCI, in its sole discretion, may edit and modify the Member Content. To the extent that NCI cannot claim exclusive rights in Member Content by operation of law, you hereby grant (or you warrant that the owner of such Member Content has expressly granted) to NCI and its related Game Content providers a non-exclusive, universal, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable right to exercise all rights of any kind or nature associated with such Member Content, and all ancillary and subsidiary rights thereto, in any languages and media now known or not currently known.

11/13/07