This is an official YoVille Blog post by Zynga’s Emerald Ninja. Congratulations to the winners!
Time to unveil the winning designs from this fun Contest! Firstly, thank you all for taking part and making this yet another successful design contest on YoVille. We enjoyed going through all your entries. Your creativity as always, impressed!
Let’s get down to business, shall we?
MALE: Winners
1st Place : Jumba
2nd Place: Lionell Toro
3rd Place: Diamonds n Drama
FEMALE: Winners
1st Place: Jumba
2nd Place: iceagecoming
3rd Place: 
BelyBrazil
Thanks for all these wonderful entries! You guys are truly an awesome bunch of designers. Look forward to tons of fun contests with the upcoming themes. We can’t wait to see the 1st place winning entries in Stores soon.
NOTE: Winners will be credited with YoCash as well as the winning designs once they have been released in game.
Regards,
Emerald Ninja
We’re turning 4 on YoVille!
Hey YoVillians,
It’s that time of year again – YoVille just got a year older and as always we’re here to celebrate and party hard! That’s right, you heard me, we’re set to raise the roof on YoVille and we’re inviting you to join in on the celebrations!
Very shortly, you guys are going to get in on all the fun with some amazing new stuff that the devs and I have been working on just FOR YOU!
Here is an exclusive preview of what you can look forward to over the coming week (yup, we’re making it worth your while!):
Exclusive new Theme, Home & Content: All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey, lets go for a walk on a California street into a theme which is very close to Zynga’s heart. There’s some food for thought. As always we’re bringing you a brand new Home, Items, Decorations, Collectibles & Rideables and much much more! Wait for it…
Also look out for Surprise Flash Sales through the day! Here’s your chance to get a 30% discount on YoCash, Coins and Game Cards too! An offer we’re sure you won’t refuse! To find out when the Flash Sale is on click on the “Buy YoCash” button in the Navigation Bar or click on the “Get Cash and Coins” button within the game. Remember these Sales are going to take place at multiple times through the day so don’t forget to log in as many times as possible…. cos you never know when you’ll get lucky!
Clothing, Hair & Accessories: What’s a new theme without some superb clothing to match right? Here on YoVille we know how important Fashion is to all of you and we’re kickin’ it up a notch with some fantastic Tribute Clothing, Hair, Accessories & lots more. Watch out for back-to-back Clothing releases this week! We know that just got you even more pumped! 
We also know how much you guys enjoyed the Clothing Mystery Boxes so we’re bringing you more in honor of our Anniversary special 
You’re sure gonna love all of it!
All new Mystery Box: Did someone say Free YoCash on YoVille? (Hmm – my lips are sealed)
We can’t wait to see your reactions as soon as the Anniversary Party kicks off here on YoVille. So put on those party hats, turn up the music and turn it on loud! Happy Anniversary YoVillians!!!
-Emerald Ninja and the YoVille Ninja Community Team
Animal Reserve Costume Design Contest!
Hey YoVillians,
It’s time to take your creativity to the wild and let nature inspire you with some amazing ideas! We know alot of you are excited to design for this one, so make sure to get your heads together and think up a storm!
Let your ideas stream in from the beautiful things around you, animals, trees, flowers and most importantly the safari terrain.
You already know what kind of costumes we have so far, so make sure to do something different so everyone can enjoy your unique designs.
RULES AND GUIDELINES:
Step 1:
We want to see what your costumes will look like on a Yoville avatar so the first thing you will need to do is find an avatar to create the outfit for, this can be your own avatar or another avatar found on Yoville.com or in game. Then take a screenshot of that avatar. To take a Screenshot on a PC (Hold down CTRL, ALT, PRTSC) and on a MAC (Hold Down Command and SHIFT 3)
Step 2:
Then go to Paint or PhotoShop or any type of image editing program you have installed on your computer and Paste your Screen shot. From here please use the tools provided to edit your image and design your outfit. You may have to crop to remove any unnecessary parts of your screen shot so you only have the avatar to work with. Also rememeber to include all the parts of your design(accessories, makeup, handhelds) on your display avatar. Don’t be afraid to use color or get creative! Make sure to save along the way!!
Step 3:
Next you are going to have to upload your image to an Image hosting site like Tinypic or Photobucket. If you do not already have an account you will need to create one. Once that you have uploaded your picture to your account your image will be given links and codes for the image. Make sure to Copy the IMG Code provided for your image.
Step 4:
Paste your IMG code into this thread by clicking HERE . Please note that this thread is ONLY for submissions. Any discussions about the contest belongs HERE. Keeping these two threads separate will help us be able to sort through entries when choosing the top entries.
RULES & GUIDELINES
- Animal Reserve entries will be accepted from 26 April, 2012 @ 4:30 AM (PST) till 28 April, 2012 @ 11:59 PM (PST)
That gives you 3 days to submit your designs. After all of the entries are gathered our team will announce our top choices and will let the players vote for their favorites!
- All entries/ images files MUST be less than 150 KB only.
- Players may ONLY submit up to one Female Outfit and/or one Male Outfit. Entering more than one of each will result in disqualification.
- You will need to submit your entries on this can be your own avatar or another avatar found on Yoville.com or in game. Only YoVille Avatars will be accepted. Clothing and other Entries placed on other Avatars will be disqualified
- Please do not use any other trademark or copyright designs in your entries. We will not be accepting any entries that include such designs.
-The use of vector/stock type images are not allowed. The designs must be created totally by you. Using such images will result in immediate disqualification.
- Only ONE entry post per player. Please do not post more than once. Otherwise you will be disqualified! Spamming your entry will not be allowed.
- NO Copying of other player’s entries or original artwork. This will not be tolerated. All designs must be created by you! If we find that your work is not original we retain the right to disqualify you at any stage during the contest!
- Please note: designs that have the artists names in the image itself will NOT be accepted. Please do not put your name in your artwork.
- Please design only one handheld item for each entry only
- No insulting or making negative comments about other contest entries, this will not be allowed and may result in the disqualification of your entry.
- Please enter your submissions HERE **Please note we will only be accepting entries from this Entry Thread**
- To discuss this Costume Design Contest post HERE. All discussions about the Contest must be in the spirit of good sportsmanship. Any issues created by you in this thread will result in the closing of the thread by a Ninja at their discretion.
Prizes
Female Costume
1st Place – 100 Yocash, Your Outfit will be showcased and sold at the Clothing Store, and you will receive your full outfit!
2nd Place- 50 Yocash
3rd Place- 25 Yocash
Male Costume
1st Place – 100 Yocash, Your Outfit will be showcased and sold at the Clothing Store, and you will receive your full outfit!
2nd Place – 50 YoCash
3rd Place – 25 YoCash
As always thanks for reading the Blog and have a great Yo Day!
Regards,
Emerald Ninja