While all of you are eagerly anticipating the release of Dark Prophecy this October, we here at Dare to Pass have already begun thinking of the third book in the series. That’s right, we’re thinking that far ahead.

We’re locking picture on the Dark Prophecy cyber-bridges this week, we’ve started working with our composer for the music, sound designer and color correctionist. And soon, we’re going to start ramping up our campaign for the Dark Prophecy release. You’ll see the brand new website we’ve created, the trailer for the cyber-bridges, photos, behind-the-scenes and all that good stuff.

We’re so excited to bring this stuff to you guys, it looks amazing and I can’t wait to hear your response.

That said, we haven’t had a contest in a while and as we begin development on Book 3, I wanted to get you, the community, involved again.

So here it is, the contest for the week:

We’re looking for riddles. Lots of them. And would love to hear what you guys have. We’re looking for the most puzzling, the most mind-bending riddles out there and you can submit as many as you want.

We’re not asking you to come up with your own. You can pull them from other sources, just be sure to credit where they’re from in your post. However, if you happen to have original riddles, we’d ask that you read the following disclaimer before you submit them:

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Use the forum for this thread for your submissions. Once the contest period is over, we’ll post the collection and have the community vote on who submitted the best riddle.

The deadline for this contest is Friday, August 6, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST.

Winners will receive Gold, Silver and Bronze Sqweegel awards.

Looking forward to hearing what you guys have for us.

Zuiker

Congratulations to Matt Blackerwolf for winning the Tarot Card Designer contest. I thought all of the submissions were really fantastic but the community of Level 26 has spoken.

Per Matt’s prize, he will be given the chance to pitch me his take on the Tarot card designs for Dark Prophecy and the cyber-bridges.

Thanks to all who submitted. We’ll have many more opportunities such as this in the future.

Zuiker

Level 26ers,

We have a new community challenge for you. As you know, we have begun work on Dark Prophecy, book two in the Level 26 series. Not only are we currently working on the novel but the cyber-bridges as well. Since Dark Prophecy is Tarot card centric, we’ll be featuring the card illustrations heavily in the book and we’re looking for a fantastic graphic artist to redesign the cards for the book and the cyber-bridges.

It’s really important to me that you, the community, feel like a part of this process, that you have a say in the book, so I’m putting my search for an illustrator or graphic artist out to you guys. Do you know someone talented who’s looking for an opportunity? Tell them to submit for the opportunity to design the ten Tarot cards that will be featured in the book.

Here’s the contest: The graphic artist should submit a sample piece of artwork to the site by uploading it to their profile and flagging it as cool. I will choose the top three finalists. We will then post them to the site and you, the community, will vote for your favorite.

The winner will be given the opportunity pitch me their take on the Tarot card designs for the book.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 2 at 11:59 PM.

A great example of the type of work we're looking for can be found above. This was done by our very own Matt Blackerwolf.

So get out there, encourage your friends to submit, and continue to be a part of this process.

Zuiker