Here are the Contest winners! Enjoy the video!
A note to everyone, please allow at least 3 weeks for delivery as we still need to receive some of the prizes and shipping information from all of our entrants. Once our top 3 prize winners receive their gift in the mail, we would appreciate a picture with you holding the prize which we can post on our website with a few words from you about what you thought of the contest and the website. Click to View Winners/All Entries

Posted by Anthony on Thursday 15 March 2012 - 03:46:01 | Comments: 4  |  

Please check your email inbox from the email address you sent us your Fan Art entry as there is an email waiting for you. We need everybody who entred to send us their name and mailing address as everybody who entered, not just the winners, will be getting a little something from us in the mail! So please check your email ASAP and email us back!

Also the winners of the contest have been decided as of last night and we will be announcing the winners on Thursday March 15th. So be sure to check in there. After that all of the entries we got will be put in a new fan art section with credit to each of the artists so everybody can enjoy them.

Thank you to all who sent us your entries. We didn't quite get 25 entries....but you will be happy to know that Anthony and myself have decided to do the give-away prize anyways. So be sure to check back on the 15th of March to see the contest winners and honerable mentions.

Thanks again everyone who entered and helped spread the word. Hopefully in the future we will be able to hold another contest and get an even bigger turn out.

You also will be happy to know that there will be prizes for the 1st, 2nd place winners!

1st place Grand Prize: A free copy of Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns DS

2nd place prize: A free copy of Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar DS

Seems we have been having some technical difficulties receiving emails for people to enter our contest. IF there is anybody who has sent us an entry and has NOT received a reply back from us confirming that we got it, chances are we never got it. If you are in this category please re-send your entries to our new email address we made hmpcontests@gmail.com Just follow the same procedure just attach a picture of your entry and name the email subject title HMP Conetest or HMP Fan Art Contest etc. Remember to change the © to the at symbol when you copy and paste the email address.

In light of us just discovering this problem now at the end of Feb, we have decided to have a grace period of 1 week for anyone who had tried entering before but got no reply to send us their entries again to the new email mentioned above. So you have until March the 8th to send us your entries now, or if you never got a reply from us send them again before the 8th! Winner will be announced on March 15th

Also just an additional message to the spammers that have been frequenting HMP. And we know these spammers are not Spambots because they are getting through our eCaptcha defense during sign up. So I know this will not be read but I have to say something because its driving me insane when everytime I check on the site theres been 3 or 4 new members and all of them spammed and left. Leaving me to clean up their crap they left behind.

This is directed to the spammers that keep signing up and messing up our help forum. Stop wasting your time posting your garbled posts advertising your products. We are just going to delete them anyways, and you could use your time, no matter how pathetic it may be, more wisely by constructing your OWN website to advertise instead of inconviniencing other websites where people arent going to read your posts anyways.

Ok now that that has been said, new poll & banner for the month of March. The new poll will be "How long have you been playing HM games?"

These are the results from last months poll:

1st place tie with Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life and Other with 13 votes each
2nd Grand BAzaar and Tale of Two Towns style animation 10 votes
3rd Harvest Moon 64 with 8

Which HM game do you like the graphics/animation the most?

HM:64 Votes: 8 | 14.29%

HM: Back to Nature Votes: 6 | 10.71%

HM: A Wonderful Life Votes: 13 | 23.21%

HM: Grand Bazaar/Two Towns Votes: 10 | 17.86%

HM:Sunshine Islands/ IoH Votes: 0 | 0%

HM: Save the Homeland Votes: 1 | 1.79%

HM:Friends of Mineral Town/HM:DS Votes: 5 | 8.93%

Other Votes: 13 | 23.21%

The HMP Staff

We will be uploading the news video for Febuary in the next few days as Im am down with a cold/flu thing and can barely speak to record the video. We will be adding a new poll for the month and the question will be:Which HM game do you like the graphics/animation the most? This will run to March 1st.

Once the news update video is finished we will put it in this news post, the Poll Results for January's poll will be discussed in the video.

Seeing as my cold won't give up Im gonna be doing the news post for feb the old fashioned way. 1st off as we already mentioned in the news post below this one, we have extended the deadline to Feb 29th and we will only be requiring 25 entries instead of 50. Additionally, if we get our 25+ entries we will be offering a copy of Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar for DS as a 2nd place prize, or 1st place if the winner already owns Two Towns, then 2nd place will receive the Two towns game. and 1st place can get Grand Bazaar.

We also want to point out and re-emphasize that you can do ANYTHING to make a contest entry! Make a Mii on your Wii console, or make a character on your Xbox if you want, we will accept it! And let us know asap as well. We have 7 entries so far that have been officially entered, we only need 25 to do the contest, and afterwards everybodies entry will be submitted and displays in our new fanart section for everyone to see. So please email us at hmp_staff@harvestmoonparadise.com

Remember Due to strange software problems, when an email is posted the "at symbol" typed by pressing "shift key" and "2" is displayed as a copyright symbol instead "©" If you copy the email direct from this news post, remember to replace the © with the "at symbol"

Lastly we have the previous poll results: The winner was "Going on dates" by a landslide

Be sure to vote on our new poll!

What is your fav activity on HM: 2 Towns?

Growing Crops Votes: 3 | 4.29%

Raising Animals Votes: 5 | 7.14%

Befriending Villagers Votes: 9 | 12.86%

Befriending the wild Animals Votes: 3 | 4.29%

Foraging Votes: 4 | 5.71%

Fishing Votes: 4 | 5.71%

Bug Hunting Votes: 2 | 2.86%

Participating in Festivals Votes: 5 | 7.14%

Going on Dates Votes: 22 | 31.43%

Completing Requests Votes: 10 | 14.29%

Other [Comment what you like to do] Votes: 3 | 4.29%

[Just a repost of the 1st news post about the contest to keepthe info on the 1st page of news with some changes. since we haven't got that many entries yet, we decided to lower the minimum entries we need to 25 and are extending the contest deadline to Feb 29th!]

For the 1st time in HMP history. We are holding a contest with a free give-away prize for the winner in celebration of getting 100 subscribers to our Youtube Channel! We will be giving away a copy of Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns to the person who submits the best fan art of a Harvestmoon Character of your choice! The Winner will get the regular DS version of the game, once they are chosen as the winner. If you are overseas from North America, we will give the winner (provided they do not live in North America) an Amazon Gift Card worth $30 US dollars for you to purchase the game yourself to keep shipping costs down as you will have to pay shipping. This applies for overseas contestants only. Canada and US residents will not have to pay shipping.

To enter our contest you can email your art entry under the email subject "HMP Fan Art Contest" to the email listed at the bottom of this news post. You can enter the contest before you actually have your artwork finished. Simply just email us still and let us know you would like to participate as soon as you can. We also forgot to mention, you must be 13 years of age or older to participate.

The criteria for your artwork to qualify for the contest is as follows:

- The artwork must have character(s) that are based on an HM game no older then Harvestmoon 64 and BTN to present. This includes all games for all systems up until the present that had the title "Harvest Moon" excluding the Innocent Life and Rune Factory games.
- The artwork can be any character(s) seen in the games, be it a main character, bachelorette, bachelor or regular villager, Harvest Sprites, or even farm animals and crops as well. However, if you draw the Main Character, we would like to see entries with the Main Character with another one of the game characters for variety.
- We will be paying close attention to detail and originality. The more interesting and detailed your entry is, the better chance you will have at winning.
- You must make sure there is some way you can prove to us that the artwork you submit is authentic and done by you only.
- Your submission can be in any medium you wish. Be it hand drawn, sketched, painted, done on a picture editing program or even make a Mii on your Wii console etc. you could even make a sculpture out of clay even. Just take a picture of your entry and email it to us
- Entries must be appropriate for all ages. No nudity, or vulgarity please. Any submissions we recieve that fit into that description will be immediatly disqualified

The contest will run for the next 2 months starting this Sunday December 11th 2011 to Feburary 29th 2012. Unfortunatly though, we will only have a prize for the 1st place winner since this is our 1st contest and have no idea what kind of a turn out we will get. If though we find that we do not get enough submissions for the contest we will not be doing the giveaway! So make sure to submit so we can give this oppertunity to you! We need to get at least 25 submissions to hold a fair contest, so be sure to do your part to enter!

Be sure to tell your friends to come check out the contest and to enter. There will be a special topic in the fanart board of our forum for the contest. If you wish to talk about your entries your welcome to post there. However, you must be a member of HMP to use the forum, so by all means, sign up! Here is a link to the fan art board: Fan Art Forum The topic is in the sticky section called "Fanart Contest!

After the contests ends on Febuary 29th, the staff here at HMP will need time to go through the entries and decide which one is best. The winner will be posted on March 15th of 2012! During the duration of the contest, we will post news bullitens notifying how the contest is going, such as how many entries we have and how much longer we have left. On MArch 15th 2012 we will post a news bulletin with the name of the contest winner and the artwork they submitted. All other entries will be added to our fanart section with credit to the artists so everybody can enjoy all of the hardwork everybody put in!

So be sure to enter! Remember, the contest starts Sunday December 11th. Send your artwork to the HMP email which is hmp_staff©harvestmoonparadise.com Be sure to include your name, nickname or username in your email so we can give you credit to your artwork when it is posted!

**Special Note** Due to strange software problems, when an email is posted the "at symbol" typed by pressing "shift key" and "2" is displayed as a copyright symbol instead "©" If you copy the email direct from this news post, remember to replace the © with the "at symbol"

If you would like to watch the information video for this contest which basicaly coveres what is in this news post you can watch our information video below by clicking the link.

Click Here to see the HMP Contest Info Video

We will no longer be allowing comments to be posted on the news posts once they go to page 2 of the news on the main page. This is because lately every single spammer that hits the site desides to post their spam posts in the comments. Additionally, due to the software HMP uses for the website there is no quick way to remove the posts and Im sick of spending 3 hours going through 27 pages of news and removing the comments everytime we get hit with a spam wave. But we will be adding a new sticky topic to the forum under Feedback & Forum Comments for any comments or questions you have regarding news posts that are on page 2 or later. The link to the sticky is below.

News Item Discussion Topic

We will be doing our monthly news updates in videos from now on. Click the video for the news

As you have noticed we have been changing a few things around HMP. 1st of all, to access our guides, you can find them under the buttons across the top of the main page, directly under the banner. Instead of having a button for each and every game, we catagorized them by which videogame system they are for. When you hover over the button a drop menu will appear listing the games. For example if you want to look up the guide for Harvest Moon AWL. Hover over the Gamecube button and a drop menu will appear, and then you click on A Wonderful Life. Nice and simple, and it looks alot tidier as well.

Also we will be slowly changing different icons around the website to give it a more "harvestmoon-y" feel to it. Such icons as the PM icons, the user icons on the "Online" panel have already been chanegd to a little icon of the main character on the classic HM games. And there will be much much more, so keep your eye out for them!

Thats all for now! But there will be more changes very soon, so we will keep you updated as they come along. Also no new updates on the progress of the contest. we are still sitting at 4 entries to far. So remember to tell your friends so we can give you a copy of Two Towns!