Checkers Results, Sliders Competition

Hey everyone,

The checkers competition has come to a conclusion after a long week of playing against other players and the winners are as follows:

1st Place - Sony; 7 days of citizenship, 10,000 bugs, 500 candy!

2nd Place - Bmx311; 5 days of citizenship, 7,000 bugs, 400 candy!

3rd Place - Adders1; 3 days of citizenship, 5,000 bugs, 300 candy!

Make sure to congratulate the winners for grabbing the first three places of this competition! If you didn't win this time, don't worry! We are opening another in-game competition in which you can participate until the 2nd of September: Sliders!

Make sure to make your way down to Academy Street before the date mentioned above and battle against players for some prizes!

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming competitions.

Thanks for reading,
Novo

Chess Results, Checkers Competition

Hey everyone,

How's your week been? On Chotopia, the past week had an in-game competition running which was chess. The competition has now concluded and we've got the winner! 

There is only one winner as the amount of players entering wasn't very large, and the winner is Twink!

Make sure to congratulate the winner! You win 7 days of citizenship, 5,000 bugs and 500 candy canes.

Before I conclude this post, seeing as chess has ended we are opening another in-game competition: checkers! The checkers competition will last from the 20th of August until the 27th of August. Head over to the Academy and compete against other players for a chance to win some nice prizes!

That is all for this post, thanks for reading!

Novo

Gamezone Night Results

Hey everyone,

Recently we held a games night in the gamezone where all the gamezone games were open for one hour. Whoever came in 1st place for each game got the chance to win a reward, and the winners are as follows:

Sony, Oldryan6872, Shower, Magicluna, Twink

Make sure to congratulate everyone who won the games night! You all win 7 days of citizenship, 5,000 bugs and 500 candy canes ($0.88) to exchange for $hop currency. We hope you enjoy your prizes!

Make sure to keep your eyes peeled for future posts regarding events and competitions.

Thanks for reading,
Novo

Advertisement Contest Results

Hey everyone,

After two weeks of players creating their entries for the Advertisement Contest it is time to announce the winners!

In this contest, we do not have 1st, 2nd and 3rd place but we have chosen a few entries that stood out and the creators of them will be rewarded a fitting prize item.

The winners are as follows:

Visionary with a Newspaper article shown in the image below. You win 600 candy canes (equals to $1.06), a new newspaper hand item, 10 days of citizenship and 7,000 bugs.

Sparkydude with a Chotopia poster also shown in the image below. You win 600 candy canes, a paintbrush, 10 days of citizenship and 7,000 bugs.

Visionary:
Link to entry

Sparkydude:
Link to entry

Please congratulate the winners and don't forget to enter the chess contest going on right now!

P.S Don't forget to check out the gamezone night details for the gamesnight coming up!

Thanks for reading,

Novo

Gamezone Night

Hey everyone,

How are you all doing? Are you enjoying the chess competition? If you haven't entered yet, make sure to do so as the competition ends on August 20th!

But before the chess competition ends, we are hosting a Gamezone Night on August 19th at 8 PM Cho-time for 1 hour! In this event, all of the Gamezone games as shown in the image below will be open for one hour and each player in 1st place at the end of the night will be rewarded!

Make sure to join us in the Gamezone on the day of the gamezone night for some nice prizes, fun and maybe a little bit of rain and magic! We hope to see you there!

P.S Don't forget to submit your final entries for the Advertisement Competition as today is the last day to enter and entries are being judged tomorrow. Good luck to everyone participating!

Thanks for reading,
Novo

Nichos winners, Chess contest

Hey everyone,

After a week of intense rope pulling the Nichos contest has come to a close, the winners are as follows:

In first place we have Sony, you win 7 days of citizenship, 10,000 bugs, a Nicho Crystal crown and a new Nicho Staff!
In second place we have Shower, you win 5 days of citizenship, 7,000 bugs and a new Nicho Staff!
In third place we have Sparkydude, you win 3 days of citizenship, 5,000 bugs and a new Nicho Staff!

Heres an image of the new Nicho Staff item!

Graphic created by Brush

Make sure to congratulate the winners if you see them in game!

As the Nicho contest has ended, the staff team and I have decided to open a new contest: Chess! This contest will run from the 13th of August until the 20th of August! Make your way down to Academy to compete against other players for some nice prizes!

Thats all for now!

Novo

Beach Party Recap and Fashion Winners

Hey everyone,

Last night the staff team and I held the beach party, there wasn't a vast amount of users but thank you to everyone who went out of their way to attend, I had fun and I hope you all did too!
Here are a few screenshots from the party:

Thanks to everyone for coming along to the party but before I end this post, please congratulate Sparkydude and Glowstar36 for winning the fashion contest for the best beach outfits! You both win 10,000 bugs and 3 days of citizenship.

Keep your eyes peeled for more upcoming parties and events!

P.S Don't forget to enter the advertisement contest for a chance to win some awesome prizes!

Thanks for reading,
Novo

Beach Party

Hey everyone,

Before I get into this post please give a huge thanks to Anna, whilst I've been away for the last two weeks shes been managing the blog so a big thank you to her.

Now to get into the post,
As its still summer vacation for most of us the staff team and I have decided to host a beach party!
The details are as follows:

The Beach Party will be hosted on the 12th of August at 9 PM Cho-time. Make sure to join us for the party and invite along your friends as we will be hosting a Summer themed quiz as well as a best dressed competition for a Summer themed outfit! We hope to see everyone there!

In other news, the shop catologs have been refreshed to allow you all to prepare your outfits for next weeks party! Enjoy the new items!

That's all for now, we hope to see you at the party!

P.S Don't forget to enter the Advertisement Competition for a chance to win some awesome prizes!

Thanks for reading,
Novo

Sweet Battle Results, Nichos Competition

Hey everyone,

The Sweet Battle competition has ended and the results are as follows:

Congratulations to Sony, Adders1 and Smores for winning this competition!
Sony will receive 7 days of citizenship, 10,000 bugs, a new Sweet Battle costume and a new Sweet Battle bant!
Adders1 will receive 5 days of citizenship, 7,000 bugs and a Sweet Battle bant!
Smores will receive 3 days of citizenship, 5,000 bugs and a Sweet Battle bant!

As mentioned above, there is some new items being used as prize items for Sweet Battle specifically and here they are:

Graphic made by Brush

We hope you like the new idea of adding new prize items, but if you are a fan of the medals, don't fear! They will still be given out for some competitions.

We hope you all enjoyed that competition and are opening a new in-game competition, Nichos Kingdom Mission!

Make sure to head down to Mission Agency to compete against players in Nichos until the 13th of August! Stay tuned with the blog for more updates on competitions and a potential game night and party coming up!

Before I finish this post off, make sure to congratulate Adders1 on his Agency!

Remember that hard working who participate in activities throughout the game, are helpful, active and overall enjoy Chotopia always have a shot at Agency!

Thanks for reading!

Achievements Update

Hey everyone,

The Chotopia team has been working on a new update for Chotopia.

Introducing "Achievements"

The achievements system is designed to give you, the users, more things to do within the world of Chotopia. The achievements update is bringing more rewards and more fun to completing things. Some of the achievements consist of earning specific items, completing quests, playing games and more. For each achievement, you will be rewarded 500 bugs and specific achievements will have different prizes. For example, owning or adopting a pet will give you bugs and citizenship to help you take care of your pet.

For every achievement you get, you will receive a notification alongside your 500 bugs:

You can also win a boost for bugs, citizenship and bugs for achievements:

"Congratulations! You have got 3 days of citizenship for: 100 Friends Achievement!"

"Achievement unlocked! Good work, you've been rewarded 500 bugs. Complete tougher quests for better prizes!"

Here is an image of the achievements page which can be accessed by clicking this button:

As you can see in the following image of the achievements, there is multiple different achievements to unlock that can range from earning a crazy about of bugs to just completing a quest or winning a prize item. 

There may be more achievements to come so keep an eye out for that!

We hope you enjoy this new update and have a good time unlocking all of these achievements and earning some awesome prizes!

Novo

Agent's Meeting

Hey everyone

Today, we have an announcement for you or should I say, the Agents. 

The Chotopia Team is calling all the Agents to join us at the Agents HQ on the 6th of August at 9 PM Cho-time.

Agents, make sure you attend! We hope to see you all there.

Thanks for reading.

Chotopia Advertisement Contest

Hey everyone

It's time for a new out of game contest! This contest will be an advertisement contest which will be based on advertising Chotopia to new AND old players. The advertisement you create can be shown in the following ways:

• A video - Create a Chotopia advertisement video outlining what Chotopia is and the unique properties of it such as games, quests, contests, Nichos, etc. 
• A poster - Create a Chotopia advertisement poster once again outlining what Chotopia is including some pictures of parties, players, unique items you can win, quests, etc. The poster can be done digitally or manually by hand.
• An animated video - Create a Chotopia animation of Chobots doing activities that can be found in game such as dancing or completing quests.
• A news article - Create a Chotopia news article outlining a story of your own of an event that you may come across on Chotopia such as parties, a unique item being rained, someone being Agented/gaining other position, etc.

These are the main ways of creating your advertisement but if you have your own unique idea of advertising Chotopia, feel free to leave it in the comments!

The contest guidelines are as follows:

• Every contest entry has to be family friendly which shows that Chotopia IS a family friendly game. This means no adding/recording any inappropriate things that are against the rules and that players would not be okay with such as vulgar language, adding inappropriate things about things/people, etc. The entries must be kept under a safe age rating. 
• Images must be posted as an imgur link in the comments section.
• Videos must be posted as a YouTube link in the comments section.
• Stealing other contest entries will not be tolerated.
• If you create your own advertisement idea and not one mentioned in the list, make sure it is advertising the game.

To help some people who may not know where to start with the contest entries, here is a list of things that you can use to create your advertisements:

• Camtasia, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premier, Bandicam can be used for screen recording and editing your videos. Your video may also be manually recorded and created by hand.
• Adobe Animate, Flash can be used for animations. Animating manually by hand can be done also.
• Paint Tool Sai, FireAlpaca, Paint NET can be used for drawing posters digitally. You may also create your poster on paper using pencils, markers, paints, etc.
• Templates found online can be used for news articles. You can also create your own template, digitally or manually.

Bonus points go to players who advertise the game on social media also whether that be posting the link to social media or their friends/family or posting the advertisement they created. If you do this, make sure to provide links or screenshots proving that you've advertised and we ask players to post these links in the comments section, also.

The prizes to this contest are going to be new prizes that have not been given out before, such as being prizes candy canes and a brand new item that will only be given out or this contest.

If you are not aware of what candy canes are, you earn candy canes by completing Choproff, 2 for each time you answer the questions right. Candy canes can be exchanged for currency that you can use in the $hop to buy premium items and/or citizenship.

You have 2 weeks to create your advertisement which gives you time until the 16th of August to create your contest entry.

Make sure to join this contest for some awesome prizes as mentioned and keep an eye out for even more new prize items and updates coming to Chotopia!

Thanks for reading.