Winter 2024-25 Condo Contest!

Hey everyone,

The 2024-25 Winter Condo Contest has started!

:snowflake: As usual, we’re doing a Winter / Festivity theme. :snowflake:

So, your build should be either:

  • winter-related

  • themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years)

  • or generally wintry and festive!

The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.

:information_source: Your build can be a Condo or Workshop Game World Map.

Be sure to look at the prizes and follow the rules below!


:gift: Prizes:

  • 1st Place - 2,000,000 Units
  • 2nd Place - 1,000,000 Units
  • 3rd Place - 750,000 Units
  • 4th Place - 500,000 Units
  • 5th Place - 300,000 Units
More Info
  • Participation prizes (100k) are usually rewarded to participants, along with other bonuses for close contenders
  • Depending on the amount of entries, prize amounts may be raised and placements may be adjusted

:bell: Rules:

  • Must be appropriate content (no hate speech, nudity, etc.)
  • Only make 1 submission post
  • You can update your post until the deadline
  • There is no restriction on when the Condo was built
  • Don’t re-submit something previously submitted to a Condo Contest.
More Info

You can submit an entry that uses a Condo of yours that was in a previous submission, as long as the Condo:

  • has been significantly altered, decorated, or redecorated to fit this contest’s theme
  • or has a significant addition that is the main focus of your images

:deer: How To Submit:

  • Post at least 3 screenshots of your Condo as a reply to this thread.

If you can’t upload images here, use an external image hosting service such as Imgur to embed the images.

  • Include your Steam ID or a link to your Steam profile

  • If you want a specific picture to be the thumbnail in the community vote, label it as the featured picture

  • NEW: If you are submitting a co-op entry, please say that somewhere in your post.

:evergreen_tree: Co-Op Submissions:

Info on Co-Op Submissions
  • For co-op builds, only one person should submit the entry, include all participants’ Steam IDs, and mention it’s a co-op build. Winnings will be divided equally and may be adjusted.

  • If people want to submit different parts of a co-op build as individual entries, the areas should be distinct from one another, there shouldn’t be pictures of the same things in multiple posts, and the post should only include one Steam ID.

:incoming_envelope: Voting & Results

After the deadline has passed, the submissions are judged by community voting.

I will post a link to the community vote form in a reply to this thread and in dev-updates on the TU Discord.

I will post the winner announcement in the same places.


Have fun, and if you need help with anything related to the contest, feel free to send me a private message or ask in the thread!

:cloud_with_snow: Past Winter Contests: 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

All Previous Contests

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OuTSMoKE (Steam Community :: OuTSMoKE)
Condo: Flashback Holiday Cinema

Info: Flashback Condos’ second annual holiday condo! Much like Fear Fest in October, the entire condo has been overhaul and re-textured, as well as fully decorated for the holidays. Enjoy, I’ve been looking forward to this contest and put a LOT of work into the decorations. Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays if you don’t celebrate it!

Unless there’s a specific Theater Contest, this will be Flashback Cinema’s 2nd and final showing in the Condo Contests!

Condo Features:

  • Complete re-skin and Christmas decorations inside and out.
  • 2 Customized Christmas music tracks.
  • Christmas Lounge featuring 60 of your favorite nostalgic holiday specials.
  • Santa’s Workshop Selfie Spot to get your picture taken with Santa.
  • Full schedule of events and operations through the holidays (see below).
  • IMAX Theaters, Comedy Club & Broadway closed for the holidays.

Condo Schedule:

  • Thanksgiving Night: Holiday Cinema Officially Opens.
  • Dec. 1st - 7th: Flashback Condos Presents: Robert Zemeckis
  • Dec. 8th-19th: Normal Holiday Operations.
  • Dec. 20th - Jan. 1st: Season’s Screenings, Our 2nd Annual Holiday Event.

Pictures: (First One is Featured)














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Steam: Steam Community :: merry anna♥
Condo: Anna’s Cozy Cabin!!
Info: I’ve always liked the idea of cozy cabins and wanted to build one so I started back in October and worked on it from time to time and just finished. So I figured might be as well go share my project, I had fun building it! ^o^

The cabin!

Porch!

Living room!

Fireplace area! (Please use this as featured picture!)

Dining area!

Dining table!

Bathroom!

Attic area 1!

Attic area 2!

The igloo!


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Steam: fruzstrated
Workshop: Steam Workshop::The Midwinter Express

I wrote a poem for my train.


The Midwinter Express

In the middle of winter
late into night
A train traveling northward
barely in sight

The great roar of the engine
whistle aloud
Clacking of wheels and steel track
driving through clouds

Free ginger bread and pastries
cocoa in mug
Dressed up for the holidays
cozy and snug

As The Midwinter Express
nears it’s station
The passengers disembark
with elation

When next the express depart
Why not hop on and take part


This was a lot of work, but i’m really happy with it.
The map is built without workshop models.
There is one custom texture and some custom sounds.












:tada: Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Everyone :christmas_tree:

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My steam profile: Steam Community :: the wizard
Link to condo itself: Steam Workshop::A Wizarding Yuletide

Info: Very much inspired by the likes of Harry Potter, as evident by the big hogwarts castle in the background lol. I’m not too sure on what else I should add to the condo without making it all seem cluttered and whatnot, so I decided to just submit it now. It’s not a very physically large condo, but I did try to make it look as nice as I can.

Featured thumbnail screenshot:

Village:


House:




Tavern:



I may or may not update this, but for now I might not.

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Steam ID: 76561198076264400
The North Pole










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Caleegi’s Christmas Cabin(s)
Steam: Steam Community :: Caleegi
Featured picture:

Rest of Pictures:





































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Alright, everyone, the submission period is over! Thanks to all of you who participated in the contest! The vote should start later today or tomorrow, apologies for the long submission period and the delay with voting. Hope you all had fun, and I’ll keep you posted as I’m able to get the vote out :slight_smile:.

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The vote is open! https://forms.gle/R9DzLCZTS8FAb3MG8

It will be open from now until January 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM CT.

Thank you all again for participating in the contest!

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The vote has ended and the results are in! There were 51 responses this time! :slight_smile:

Here’s how the 6 contestants placed in the contest:

1st place (2,000,000 Units) - @fruzstrated

2nd place (1,000,000 Units) - @Cayla

3rd place (750,000 Units) - @the_wizard1

4th place (500,000 Units) - @anna

5th place (300,000 Units) - @OuTSMoKE

6th place (200,000 Units) - @Mrs.Insomniac

Thanks so much to everyone for participating in the contest and the vote! Units will be distributed soon!

Keep an eye out for the next contest soon as well!

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2 months of contest period & only 6 entries? Only 51 votes?! It’s obvious that making the thing last that long lead to people outright forgetting about it. Hell my community alone has over 200 people in it and even over 75% of them couldn’t be bothered to participate. The voting period was also ridiculously short considering how long the entry period was.

Hopefully this format is not repeated in the future.

Congrats to the winners.

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Thank you so much everyone :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Great entries everyone! So glad to see the creativity.

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congrats to everyone that won!! this is my first time entering the contest and it was pretty fun; i’m happy i won something :slight_smile:

i personally like midwinter express and caleegi’s christmas cabin a lot! i’m surprised we didn’t get enough entries though- i’d love to see more for future; might be because it was a busy time for everyone?

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Tacking on to this, I think it really didn’t help that there was no notification on the main menu saying to vote for the condo contest, which led to similar results of last year’s Winter Condo Contest—not a lot of entries and not nearly as many votes.

Personally, I didn’t enter the condo contest since I (correctly) predicted that the vote form wouldn’t be put in the main menu in favor of the Birb plush’s place. I’ve never seen more than one ad space be used in the Main Menu, so I assumed that it just wasn’t going to be possible during the voting period.

Considering last year’s Winter Condo Contest had a similar length in both submission time and voting time with not much else of a difference in posting for votes, I can’t say I’m ultimately surprised by the vote count not being too different. I just hope that next year these problems—at least on the voting side of things can be addressed.

Congratulations to entrants who did participate! :tada: