Portalarium have published a new page on the Shroud of the Avatar website, which conveys a bunch of information about the upcoming Unity Scene Jams they will be hosting over the coming weekends (beginning with this weekend).

The grand prize winner (of the entire Scene Jam series) will receive a pretty amazing kit of stuff:

• Unity Pro License – $1500 value
• Oculus Rift – $300 value
• Alienware Grab Bag (Backpack, mouse, keyboard, headset) – $350 value
• UnityVS 1.2 License – $249 value
• Shroud of the Avatar Duke Pledge – $5300 value

Weekly winners will also score some neat prizes, including Knight-level pledges. The grand prize winner will be awarded to the single best scene of the competition.

Scenes will be judged by Richard and the team based on quality, creativity, how closely it matches the announced challenge, and how closely it resembles something that would feel right at home in Shroud of the Avatar!

The rules of the Scene Jams are fairly straightforward:

• We’ll provide some assets with each jam but you can also use any assets which we can easily license. Unity store assets, free or purchased are fine. We’ll have a section in our submission process for you to list what assets were used in the creation of your piece so we can purchase them if we decide to use your piece. Custom created art is also fine as long as you are willing to grant us a free license to distribute the art with Shroud of the Avatar.
• The final submission must be in the form of a Unity Package, run in Unity 4, and the upload must be started by 6PM on the Sunday after the start of the jam. We’ll include a document detailing how to turn a scene into a Unity Package. It might sound scary but it is really just a couple of clicks!
• Any version of Unity is fine. The free version will work fine. You can use an older version of Unity if you choose to but we’ll only be testing the assets we distribute on Unity 4 and we’ll expect all submissions to work on Unity 4.

Scenes can be submitted here once complete, during the span of the competition.

The first Scene Jam will be held this weekend, beginning on Friday at 6 PM CST. The other Jams will be held on the following dates:

• October 4, 6pm CST (UTC-6)
• October 18, 6PM CST (UTC-6)
• November 1, 6PM CST (UTC-6)

For more details, including answers to frequent questions, click on through to the Shroud of the Avatar website.