We are very happy to announce that we are partnering up once again with our friends at BeamNG.drive to run a modding contest!
For this challenge, we’re celebrating both of our new major updates - Automation’s Ellisbury Update, and BeamNG’s 0.31 Update - with a bit of a holiday-themed design competition…holiday logistics!
We challenge you to unleash your imagination and build a vehicle designed to carry cargo for the holidays. Are you going to make a holiday-themed delivery van? Perhaps a pizza delivery car? Or maybe not even a car at all? The choice is up to you!
Contest Details
Submissions are open from now until 29 February 2024.
The following categories are accepted:
Vehicles/props, vehicle/prop modifications with accompanying configs
Automation creations
Maps
Gameplay (missions, scenarios)
Submission Criteria
Entries must be submitted through the BeamNG mod repository. Due to the holilday break, BeamNG mods are not being approved on the repository until 04 January 2024.
Each entry must be original and represent the theme of the contest.
The quality of the mod and the repository page should be as high as possible. Please try to take at least a few pictures of your work in both Automation and BeamNG!
You cannot continue an older project for this challenge.
Prizes and Judging Criteria
We are still working out the prizes and judging criteria for this challenge, check back for more information later; we will be including some very special prizes for the category winners and runners up though!
Entries will be judged in BeamNG primarily, and should at least be drivable!
Team entries are permitted for this challenge.
For more information, please refer to the official BeamNG post here.
We can’t wait to see your submissions and wish everyone the best of luck!
The turbo badge on a naturally-aspirated vehicle is worth…some horsepower, right? It’s fast as hell definitely, but it really kinda misses the mark, not the least of which because it’s so fast that it’s basically undriveable. The design is simple, and the colour scheme is a bit…garish, to say the least. Not bad for a first car, but in comparison with the rest, it doesn’t quite stack up.
My goodness this is…something. It’s nice to see people embracing the various trim description commands we’ve included in Automation! Unfortunately, this one doesn’t get particularly high marks for how it drives; the skinny tires brings that slippy, slidey winter driving sensation to dry pavement at all times, and…is that a cannon on the back?
It’s a van alright…and a bit of a silly one at that! Inspired by a real-world minivan (we’ll leave it to your imagination which one), this one spares no expense in the go-fast parts, it seems, except…where it actually counts! It drives reasonably well, but it writes a cheque with its appearance that its performance can’t cash otherwise. Not particularly holiday-themed either.
Lots of stuff going on with this one. Great use of the trim description commands and some tasteful modding done to the base Automation car, and a wide array of holiday-themed trims! The performance is a bit scary…the suspension tuning in particular will give us nightmares for a long time! A reasonably good effort, all things considered!
Hey! Creator of the 3rd place entry, I was hoping to make it drive better but the game said the wheels were bursting or something. So it had to be that when I finally fixed it : P
