Submission guidelines
Hard and fast rules
- Submitting work you did not create is prohibited.
- NSFW content is prohibited.
Guidelines
- Content should represent an original work or notable effort.
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Derivative skins are allowed, but must be disclosed so that they can
be properly marked and attributed.
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Skins should resemble blocks, tiles, icons, or other discrete shapes:
random images, randomized pixels ('white noise' or any other color of
noise), and low effort memes (e.g. simple recolored tiles made of
trollfaces, 🤔, amogus, etc.) are likely to be rejected.
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Skins should score reasonably on the rubric below.
Skins uploaded prior to this guideline or under previous revisions are
exempt.
Author-page only submissions
Submissions can have restricted visibility, and will only be visible
when viewing your author page or when enabled in search results.
This type of content is more relaxed in terms of quality control, so
even if your content violates the guidelines you may be able to list it
here.
Formatting your import correctly
Submissions are handled using TETR.IO PLUS's
automatic imports
functionality. Your submission must import automatically in
TETR.IO PLUS (except for author-page only submissions).
Custom previews
Submissions can have arbitrary media set as their preview.
Only exceptionally high quality media is allowed to be used.
Make sure your preview is focused on your content with minimum
unnecessary detail.
For example, when previewing skins, use Zen mode with no extra UI,
levelling off, and no background.
When other content must be visible, use vanilla or invisible/silent
content (e.g. use an invisible block skin when your submission is only
for your board skin. Use the vanilla skin when previewing a music graph).
Skin rubric
This rubric will help you gauge whether your skin is considered to have
a reasonable level of quality. This rubric doesn't account for every
possible factor, so if you feel it doesn't properly evaluate your skin
feel free to try submitting it anyway.
Artistic
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Is the skin visually interesting?
0
+10
(e.g. low score: solid color or lazy drawing)
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How detailed is the skin?
0
+2
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Does the skin have a self-consistent artstyle?
+1
Technical
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Is the skin connected?
+2
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Is the skin non-trivially connected? +3
(e.g. puyos)
+3
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Is the skin non-trivially animated?
+2
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Does the skin include all applicable pieces?
+1
(e.g. all connections, ghost and topout)
Practical
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Does the skin tile properly?
+2
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Does the skin have meaningful variants?
+2
(straight recolors aren't meaningful)
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Does this creator have a history of high quality submissions?
-5
+2
Demerits
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Is the skin a meme?
-5
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Is the skin made up of non-block images?
-4
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Is the skin based on another skin?
-2
(Excludes game remakes. Derivative mark still required.)
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Is the skin unplayable?
-3
Scoring above a 10 will most likely have your submission approved.
Last updated: 2022-01-05
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