Alien Hominid Invasion

Halloween 2022 Contest Winners

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It’s been the spookiest of times, it’s been the artiest of times. And it’s been an absolutely incredible return to hosting contests here at The Behemoth!

We are so grateful to every single person who entered a masterpiece into our Behemoth Halloween 2022 Art Contest, and to everyone in our Discord server providing some good Halloween discourse. There was an unearthly amount of aliens running around in their first ever Halloween costumes this year: some adorable, and some horrifying.

Also, the amount of talent that you all have hiding up your sleeve? I don’t have any Twix up my sleeve like that! (I ate all mine already on Halloween…)

Before we get to it, we wanted to let you know; due to the influx of costumed aliens pouring out of the sky and crash landing on Earth, we have decided to add some extra winners to all the categories, and some extra prizes. If we were able to, we would give each and every human who entered some sort of prize. Maybe we’ll send each alien with a briefcase of stickers to scatter as they land to Earth.

So without further ado…

Winners of the “Greatest Extraterrestrial Costume” Award:

Destri

Weirtyuo

Larry “Gareth”

Winners of the “Spooky Scary Alien” Award:

Rexibro

JuL

AyK

Winners of the “Silly Silly Alien” Award:

Sometinycritter

JamingVision

Mold

Since we had around 200 entries (yes, 200!), we decided to also honor some special mentions and send twenty contestants a lucky Chicken Keychain! Make sure to follow and keep up-to-date for future contests (and there will be future contests!) Thank you so much to everybody for submitting their out-of-this-world works of art. You are why We Make Games!

And the special mentions go out to (in no particular order)…

  1. _dog
  2. SirCrumbsAlot
  3. WariN
  4. @s_zenmode
  5. EyepodNation
  6. Kwepsi
  7. Serpent
  8. rebuK
  9. DULLDOOD
  10. Brokenarms_
  11. MaskeDnix497
  12. @Tlamat_Art
  13. Normal Human Earth Pig
  14. Dreamgiver, submitting for daughter ChaosPotato
  15. TimeSweepersecret
  16. @Ruben_SR_
  17. @mewtiplexer
  18. Sthespookybeebee
  19. Melat0nin

If you wish to view the gallery of submissions and feast your eyes on the special mentions, please visit our Discord, or search #BehemothHalloween on Twitter to see our Twitter entries!

For the winners, please be on the lookout for a message from The Chicken (or Churkey) on either Twitter or Discord (depending on how you entered) for instructions on how to claim your prize!

Until next time, spooky aliens.

Behemoth Halloween Is Back With a SpooOOooky Alien Contest!

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SpooOOOOooky SCAAARY aliens!!!! Did I send shivers down your spine?? We are now smack dab in the middle of spooky season, and it’s time to celebrate our favorite holiday of the year, Behemoth Halloween!

We were so busy chasing aliens around last year that we needed to take a break from our typical Halloween shenanigans, but have no fear, we’re back with a special Alien Hominid Invasion-themed challenge.

This year, our team wants you to decorate our little alien in his favorite Halloween costume. Use the template below or, if you’re a bit more art-savvy than me, create an original drawing from scratch to prepare this extraterrestrial pal for trick-or-treating – just make sure you hold his hand and look both ways before crossing the street.

Contest Details

• Because Alien Hominid Invasion is jam-packed with cool power-ups that change the player’s alien head and gun, our main requirements are that you modify his weapon and head, at the bare minimum; feel free to go above and beyond!
• Dress him up as a skeleton, superhero, secret agent, school girl, hot dog, you name it – anything is fair game!
• We maaaay give bonus points if you can come up with some stellar stat boosts your costume provides!!!

Categories and Prizes

There will be two winners for each category, and both original and template artwork will be eligible for prizes from our merch store!

(1) Our personal favorites out of all submissions will receive the Greatest Extraterrestrial Costume Award.
Prizes: Choice of “Bear” or Skeleton Figurine + Troll Bag + choice of Necromancer or Alien Hominid keychain

(2) The creepiest costumes will be up for the SpooOOOOooky SCAAARY Alien Award. (I’m already spooked just thinking about the possibilities.)
Prizes: Painbow Horse Throw Blanket + Classified Tote

(3) Last but not least, the silliest (the ones that make us laugh until our sides hurt) entries will be crowned with the Silly Silly Alien Award.
Prizes: Raccoon Hat + Necro Socks + Troll Bag

How to Enter

When your alien is appropriately dressed head-to-gun for Halloween, you can enter by sharing your artwork to either Discord or Twitter. If posting on Twitter, be sure to use the hashtag #BehemothHalloween so we can share it with the universe! If entering on Discord, please join our server here and post your creation in the #behemoth-halloween-2022 channel. We’ll share any Twitter-only entries with the community here, too.

To be eligible for prizes, post your spooOOooOOky entry before October 31st, 2022, at 11:59 PM PT. We’ll spend the following week voting for our favorites before announcing and contacting the winners on social media.

Official Rules

Spooked yet? Here are the official rules for Behemoth Halloween 2022:

• No purchase is necessary.
• Participants must be 18 or older to enter (if in the US), or have parental consent.
• International entries are welcome!
• You may enter more than once, but you can only win one prize.
• Similarly, you may enter as part of a group, but your group can only win one prize!
• Your entry must be your own creation.
• Only new entries will be accepted – artwork submitted from previous years is not eligible.

If you’d like some creepy (or silly) inspiration, feel free to check out the winners of our 2020 Halloween Contest. Let your imagination run wild – the possibilities are endless when choosing how to dress this little guy.

We can’t wait to see what you come up with, and have a Happy Behemoth Halloween!!!

Alien Hominid’s 20th Anniversary

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Hold on tight, humans, today marks twenty years since the original release of Alien Hominid! We’ve come a long way (in both time and space) since Tom and Dan first released the very first Flash version on Newgrounds, and we want to take the time not only to acknowledge the crazy journey it’s been, but also to thank you, our fans, for coming along for the ride. (Crazy Journey!! Thank you!!!) Since 2002, over 21 billion million people have played the 2D run and gun that started it all – from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. We truly couldn’t have done it without you. <3

Throughout the process of releasing Alien Hominid on Newgrounds and later as a console game from the Behemoth, we learned a ton and collected loads of important intel data about your planet, the tragically primitive technology of earthlings, sensitive government information, and how much you all love decimating agents and blowing up rotor propelled sky crafts. You could say it’s been an absolute blast… Twenty years later, Alien Hominid is still free to play in its natural habitat (in all of its original glory on Newgrounds,) so if you’re ever craving a traditional side scroller (or are hoping to experience the ancient computer wizardry that was, according to reconstructed manuscripts and restored scrolls, called “Macromedia Flash”) you know right where to go! Like always, we’re totally excited to see what the future holds, but it’s always fun to treat yourself to a blast from the past. Now, if anyone’s going to be making a pit stop at Steakery Cakery on their way out of the atmosphere, (Musk? Bezos? Branson?) we’d appreciate it if you could pick up a cake for us… (the more tiers the better – twenty is an appropriate number, right? A tier for every year?) 

XOXOXOX