Rules

By participating, you agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules. In addition, you agree to accept the decisions of the MMC Team, as final and binding as it relates to the competition.

Metaverse Maker Competition 2024 - Legal Competition Rules

Registration

All participants must register to be entered in the Metaverse Maker Competition 2024.
This includes team members and team leaders. If you plan to work on an entry in any capacity then please register.

Registration start and end date are the same as the competition:

Start Date: February 1, 2024 14:00 EST (UTC 19:00) Thursday
End Date: March 1, 2024 14:00 EST (UTC 19:00) Friday

Participation Rules

Multiple entries are allowed.
Teams are allowed.
Participants can be on multiple teams.
Every team is required to have a lead. Team lead is the primary contact and the sole person to receive a prize. It is up to the team lead to distribute prizes among the team. Ensure you’ve entered team information as a part of your registration.
Sponsors can participate.
Judges cannot participate.
MMC team members cannot participate.
Resonite team members can participate with the exception of Resonite dev team members.
Resonite dev team members can participate but cannot place or receive prizes. If a member of the Resonite dev team joins the team, the team cannot place or receive prizes.

Entry Requirements

All entries must follow the Resonite guidelines. Information about the Resonite guidelines can be found here.

Contest Period

Participants start creating on the Start Date. This is in the spirit of the competition.

Permitted

Thinking of ideas and forming a team is fine beforehand.

Not Permitted

Everything else. NO WORK PRIOR IS PERMITTED: including but not exclusive to acquiring assets, building assets, writing, and coding.

Credits

Credits should be displayed somewhere easily seen or able to be found easily in the world. Include:

Creators / Collaborators
Playtesters
Assets Used and their Creators:
- Models
- Sounds
- Textures
- Materials
- Fonts
- Music
The Entry licensing (see below)

Assets and Copyright

Any assets used must be credited properly with appropriate licensing stated.
Turbosquid and CGTrader licenses do not allow use in Resonite.
Minecraft asset’s license does not allow commercial use in Resonite (contests, etc…)
A list of websites that are not allowed will be compiled as more information is known.
No Unauthorized copyrighted material.
Fair use is allowed but major caution is advised. Fair use is a very misunderstood subject. If fair use is used incorrectly, your entry will be disqualified. For more information on fair use and copyright go here.
Rips, re-skins and kitbashing of copyrighted materials are not fair use.

Licensing and Permissions

The Entry itself can use a variety of licensing and permissions. It is strongly recommended to use one of the following licenses:

Permissions in The Entry can be restricted in such a way to not allow the content to be copied. This is very important for certain asset licensing that is not CC-BY or CC-0. It is the Participant’s responsibility to make sure they use and understand the proper licensing for assets and The Entry. Any violation can result in disqualification.

Entry Submission

All submissions are in the form of a submitted (published to the regular Resonite World Browser) World Orb, which is properly tagged.
All world orb submissions must be tagged with “mmc24” in their tags. You can add this by editing the world metadata through its world orb and adding the “mmc24” tag. Ensure the tag is entered exactly as it appears here. Each tag must be a separate word delineated with a comma. Case sensitivity and spelling are very important.
All world orb submissions must be tagged in the appropriate category:
- “world”, “social”
- “world”, “game”
- “world”, “misc”
- “avatar”, “avatars”
- “avatar”, “accessories”
- “avatar”, “misc”
- “other”, “tau”
- “other”, “misc”
- “art”
- “esd”
- “meme”
- “narrative”

If a world orb has multiple, incomplete, or no tags, the entry will be placed in a category that the MMC 2024 team chooses. This may not be the same as the creator intended.

All entries must be submitted before the End Date or they will be disqualified.

Do not make any edits to submitted worlds after the End Date or during the judging period or they will be disqualified.

Entry Recommendations

Factors that will be preferred and can help benefit during the judging. Entry recommendations are not required.

Original works
Open source
Building “from scratch”
The Entry and all assets within are public domain or Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Open permissions within the world (ie. Builder)
Work in progress (WIP) images, videos, and/or streams

Judging

The judge team will be announced at a later date. The Judging team consists of Resonite and non-Resonite vr users with varying skills and interests. Works will be judged on creativity, skill, uniqueness, usefulness, and many other qualities.

Audience Vote

Audience Voting Begins: March 15, 2024 14:00 EST (UTC 18:00) Friday Audience Voting Ends: March 18, 2024 14:00 EST (UTC 18:00) Monday

During the audience voting period Resonite users will be able to access the voting booths in multiple voting worlds inside Resonite.
Any registered Resonite user can vote during the 4 day audience voting period.
Each registered user can “thumbs up” as many entries as they choose.
The audience vote will add up to 49% of the scores of an entry. The remaining 51% will be decided by the judges.
The audience vote also helps add visibility on what entries the judges should view.

Winner Selection and Notification

Winner selection is a result of the audience vote and judging. Winners are announced and prizes awarded on the Creator Jam Twitch Stream inside Resonite after the judging has been completed.

ANY VIOLATION OF THE OFFICIAL RULES BY ANY PARTICIPANTS WILL RESULT IN
DISQUALIFICATION FROM THE COMPETITION AND ALL PRIVILEGES AND PRIZES WILL
BE IMMEDIATELY REVOKED.