See You at Insomnia the Gaming Festival!

Birmingham, watch out! It’s not a bird! It’s not a plane! Wait, it is a bird – a huge chicken has been flung via slingshot across the pond and IT’S LANDING ON YOUR CITY! RUUUUN! We’re heading to Insomnia the Gaming Festival at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham this March 29-31, and we can’t wait to see you.

We’re bringing Alien Hominid Invasion, Alien Hominid HD, and BattleBlock Theater alllll the way to Birmingham! In addition to alllll the exhibit hall’s other awesome playable games (including many indies and tabletop titles), the convention features many immersive experiences like life-sized DnD, live-action gaming, simulation games, and a VR arena!

Imagine an alien invasion in VR… Actually, that sounds a bit terrifying. How about we stick with our 2D aliens, and you try out whatever exciting VR experiences the Insomnia crew has prepared? See you at the show!

Valentine’s Day Contest Winners!

We asked, and you all most certainly answered! Not only that, but you answered so hard we had to push our winner reveal out by a day to make sure each entry got the amount of eyes on it that it deserved. We’re always blown away by the amount of talent, passion, and attention to detail that our community possesses, so good job! To you specifically! Pat yourself on the back right now. I’m waiting.

Good job!

We received nearly three hundred entries for our Pink Knight Valentine’s Day art contest and while we wish we could award all three hundred of you people a Pink Knight figurine…contests are contests, and you either win first place or you LOSE!!!1!! (But try to keep a sunny disposition, nobody likes a CRYBABY.)

Except with this contest, we originally had only three winners. And we realized that we couldn’t pick just three. We realized we’re so surrounded on all sides by artists (and sculptors, and crocheters, and…ice cream molders?) So instead of purely winning or losing, the Necromancer found it in their heart to resurrect a few more goodies (read as: Blacksmith plushies!).

(For an ultra full-sized viewing experience of each entry, please right click and ‘view image in new tab’)

Presenting to you, our three winners of a Pink Knight figurine:

MiminTV!

A beautiful claymation entry featuring a star studded cast list of Behemoth characters!

Tansy

THUS IT WAS DECREED THAT THOU SHALLST BE THINE VALENTINE!

JellyBoy43

Pink Knight, Aliens, Hamsters, OH MY!

Presenting to you, our three winners of a BLACKSMITH plushie:

Steve

This papercraft card really, ah, JUMPED OUT at us!

Annette

Props to Pink Knight for putting themselves out there with this one! </3

Stupid Pumpkin

Our final Blacksmith winner is Stupid Pumpkin! Pretty fitting!

While chickens can’t talk, this chicken has chicken fingers, and wanted to thank everybody who submitted, participated, posted their art, and made us smile. It’s nice to take a step back and focus on love, rainbows, and hamsters every once in a while. We read and reviewed every single entry, whether or not we were able to give yours a personal response. This warm, fuzzy feeling inside was something akin to heartburn for us, so we decided to share it with everyone: go check out the full album of submissions here. They were too good to not be showcased.

Honorary mentions who shall always have a special place in our chicken hearts:

Aldwin

Gizmo

keppikun

Extra awesome

clam godwer

Luni

Evan

The Dudster

ICE CREAM KNIGHT!

Rowan

Thank you for abiding by the No Hair Collage rule (for the most part 🤮), save for one very clever submitter who blessed our eyes with a HARE Collage:

Thank you to the many who offered to send eye-bleach on the chance we did get hair collage submissions, and just thanks in general for reading our blogs and hanging out with us all these years. 

And thank you to the people who wished the chickens running the contest a happy day. <3 We heart you.