Another announcement made in Dallas Snell’s massive update to the Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter page today is the Challenge of the Avatar, a scene-creation challenge that will take place in one of four development jams held later this year:

We are also excited to announce our first Challenge of the Avatar: 48-hour Scene Creation Jam! With over $10,000 in rewards! We’re still working out the exact details, but the challenge will work something like this:

• At 6PM CST on a Friday we will announce the details of the challenge for the weekend. We will post a link to a YouTube video and documents revealing the details of the challenge. Think Iron Chef meets game scene creation!
  You will have until 6PM CST on Sunday to start uploading your completed scene!
• There will be 4 challenges on every other weekend starting September 6th and going through October 18th. The Friday after each challenge we will reveal the scenes we have chosen. On October 25th, we will select the overall best scene created during any of the 4 weekend challenges.

Currently-announced prizes for the winner(s) of each development jam include Knight-level ($800) reward packages and t-shirts. The grand prize includes a Duke-level ($5,300) reward package, a Unity Pro license, an Oculus Rift development kit, and more!

So, if you’ve been playing around with the recently-released Unity asset kits from Portalarium, and if you’ve been dying to show off your level-creation chops, pay thou rapt attention come September!