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The latest Principia building contest, Daft Dummy, concluded earlier today with a single entry being submitted. I don't like announcing a winner when there is only one participant in total, so I will just call off the contest.

I would still like to thank randomguy123 for submitting the sole entry to the contest, and their level has been highlighted with a badge to go along with it.

https://principia-web.se/contest/4

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Daft Dummy!

Hello and welcome to the fourth Principia building contest. This time we are doing a re-run of the old [Stupid Dummy!](/archive/contest/3) contest from back in the day, but with an alliteration as the title. Fun! The theme is to create a fun or interesting way of taking the dummy from one point to another. Let him fly in a rocket, cut him into pieces, deliver him in a plastic cup or just send him through a Rube Goldberg machine. Please clearly mark the starting point and ending point of the dummy's journey. ## Rules - Only one level per player participating in the contest! - Old levels created before the contest are not eligible for entry. - Theft of entire levels is not allowed. Inspiration is allowed, plagiarism is not. ## Scoring Once the contest is over, a winner and a runner-up will be decided by the contest judge (ROllerozxa). Both will get their levels featured on the front page as well as awarded a stylish trophy badge on their user page. Depending on the amount of entries, there may be some other level entries that will be highlighted, for things that are interesting but didn't make it to the top.

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Principia Mar 16

In general, there is no point in running contests when there is so little interest in them. I don't know if the theme sucks, the duration is too short, too long, nobody has expressed their concerns with me if that is so.

Otherwise there does not seem to be enough activity in the community to warrant running a contest, despite people's previous suggestions to me to begin running contests again

There was supposed to be a new contest today, but it has been put on hold until a later date, whenever that would be.

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Eduard Molnar Mar 16

@Principia I'm afraid I only now stumbled upon this part of the Principia community. I first played the game in my childhood and it really left a mark on me. I'm currently studying computer science, and I like to think Principia helped me go down this path.

Hopefully more people will be able to participate next time, I'm pretty sure I will.

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Principia Mar 16

@edml Hey, happy to hear that! :D there are a lot of people who played Principia back in the day who have ended up in various places in life thanks to it. I myself played it as a kid and am now the maintainer ever since the open source release in 2022, after my unofficial attempts to revive the game ever since 2020. And outside of Principia I have been studying software engineering in university.

As for the contests... We'll see in the future!