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Have you entered the latest Creative Continuum: Minion Madness?  If not check out the description below and enter to compete with some of the already awesome submissions from the community!  

 Description:
Behind every dastardly devil, evil-doer and conniving villain, there are those that do his dirty work. His loyal and trusted servants. His tried and true friends. His minions!

Only the baddest of the bad have minions surrounding them, doing their dirty work and keeping the gears of their very own Doomsday Machine running. Here in the Newerth Community, we're going mad for minions in celebration of our new hero Klanx, who is delighted to have his very own minions attend to his every whim on the battlefield.

In this creative continuum, we want to see you create your own minions. What kind of minions would you want to have? The fluffy, cute type that distract your enemies into a false sense of security right before you attack. Or the intimidating bruisers that strike fear into the very core of your enemies.

Tap into your creative talent and create your ideal minions!

Rules:
The rules are really simple, create your own minions. Design, draw, sculpt, etc. You may use any artistic outlet you want to create your loyal servants.

The submissions will be judged on quality, creativity, and originality.

The guidelines to follow are:

It must be appropriate
It must be your own work

We will review all entries and choose the top five submissions as winners.

Submit your work to the submission thread found on the forums

Important dates and deadlines:

Contest starts: Wednesday November 20, 2013
Submit your creation by: Wednesday December 11, 2013
Top 5 winners will be announced: Wednesday December 18, 2013

Prizes:
The top 5 entries will receive their choice between: Debut edition avatar - Sky Pirate Klanx OR Ultimate avatar - Doomsday Klanx

In addition to the top entries receiving prizes, for every 10 entries, 1 random person will receive 100 GC and 1 random person will receive 100 SC.

 Some awesome entries that have already been submitted:

Hello there, my name is WZA and I want to talk to you about our latest addition to Heroes of
Newerth, Klanx.

After the release of Circe the Deceiver, which is a relatively difficult hero to master, I decided
to look at creating a simpler hero; something that would have a lot of pop and feel, but not
have overly complicated abilities or play style. After much deliberation, we decided on a Ranged
Agility Carry that would focus heavily on good positioning.

So the earlier iterations of Klanx involved a turret that would gain copies of whatever item
Klanx had. This proved to be just as frustrating to play against as old Engi. For those of you who
were around then, you know it was a dark time indeed. We tried adding all sorts of rules and
stipulations to the turret to make it more balanced, but in the end it just became frustrating and
overly complicated, which goes against my original design for the hero. So the turret "GOT THE
AXE."

Now after some time and deliberation, we fleshed out some really poppy, fun abilities in
B.A.N.G, Lackey, and Goon Squad. They gave the hero interesting choices and they facilitated
the position-based play style we were going for. We just needed something to tie it all together.

First stop invisibility! Why invis? Well what better way to gain good positioning than being
invisible? This didn't work out as expected. First thing players decided to do was to use the
invisibility to get right on top of the enemy and unleash their full fury. This removed all the
positioning interaction with the Goon Squad and the Lackey abilities, so in the end it had to go.

We then tried an idea that was presented to us by SBT (Super Beta Testers), which involved
giving Klanx a fly mechanic. This mechanic would be new to HoN and at the same time give him
a very solid position-based theme. Klanx would always need to think about where he was and
how he needed to get there.

All of a sudden the hero's fun factor went through the roof, but players were complaining that
he was fun to play but not so fun to play against. So after talking with everyone who had played
with and against Klanx about what made him so awful, it was universally this new fly mechanic.
The major complaints were that there wasn't much you could do against it and that Klanx could
almost always get away from a gank; its defensive capabilities caused the huge frustration. We
then decided to add some much-needed mechanics to help this: a fuel system where the player
loses duration on his flight when he is attacked, and a disable of the ability when taking damage
from a hero.

After all the many iterations of Klanx, this final version is a lot of fun and quite possibly the
most fun I have had on any hero I have ever played. I really hope you enjoyed this look into the
development of Klanx the Gadget Master. Look for this awesome addition to HoN on November
20th!