A Trogdor cheat sheet, and a dragon of a contest

Posted by Emily

December 10, 2008

With the epic Strong Bad finale less than a week away, we thought now would be a good time to share some of the influences behind the episode. Just to make sure everyone understands what makes it so awesome.

If you're new to the Trogdor experience, you should start by checking out Dragon, his first appearance in a Homestarrunner.com cartoon. Can YOU draw a dragon as well as Strong Bad? (Hopefully the answer is yes... keep reading to find out why!)

Here's some other Trogdor reference, cited by the episode's lead designer Chuck Jordan as influences for Episode 5: 8-Bit Is Enough:

Arcade Game - Watch this to understand why Strong Bad has been so bummed out about the Trogdor machine being broken all season!
Happy Trogday - Trogdor fan creations, posted in celebration of the dragon's third birthday.
Trogday 08 - A new spin on the Trogday celebration.
Trogdor game - Play the arcade game yourself!
Peasant's Quest - A retro, adventure game take on the Trogdor legend.

Now that you've immersed yourself in Trogdom, we have a contest tailor made for newly-minted dragon experts such as yourself! This is a variation of our the arts and crafts contests we hold every Halloween, but this time it's 100% Trogdor-centric.

Your entry can be anything, as long as it has something to do with Trogdor. A drawing, an MP3 of you singing the theme song, a video of your Trogdor LARPing crusade, macaroni art, you name it! Simply come up with something awesome, email your entry to contest@telltalegames.com with the subject 'Trogdor contest' by December 31, and you'll be on the road to win a wicked cool prize.

Trogdor contest grand prize

We'll pick ONE (just one!) grand prize winner to receive a prize pack containing the new Strong Bad merchandise we just added to Telltale's store - that's the Strong Bad hoodie, beanie cap, and DVD #6 (the brand new one, that goes up to email 200). You'll also get the full downloadable season of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People on PC.

In addition to the grand prize winner, we'll also choose a few runners up to receive the downloadable Strong Bad games on PC. Winners will be announced on January 13 - Trogday 2009!

The Fine Print
Please don't send attachments larger than 2MB. If your entry is bigger than that, host it somewhere and email us a link. You can enter as many times as you want, but we'll only choose one of your entries for a prize. Entries must be received at contest@telltalegames.com by midnight (Pacific time) on December 31 to be considered.

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30 Comments

	I'll do it!!...sometime soon...
	Comment by Strong Max December 10, 2008, 6:31 pm

	Wait, shouldn't we get the Trogdor beanie and the Trogdor hoodie?
	Comment by Strong Max December 10, 2008, 6:32 pm

	Yeah, that would make more sense, Strong Max.
	Comment by 16_BIT_MARIO1 December 10, 2008, 6:39 pm

	I'm gonna go with the sing the Trogdor theme.
	Comment by Strongsadioware December 10, 2008, 6:45 pm

	Wait, shouldn't we get the Trogdor beanie and the Trogdor hoodie? Yeah, well, we don't have any of those. :P
	Comment by Emily December 10, 2008, 6:53 pm

	I know exactly what to do! Oh, yes, you'll see... You'll ALL see!! MuhuhahaHAHAHA!!! I think I need to stop doing that now.
	Comment by 16_BIT_MARIO1 December 10, 2008, 6:56 pm

	This should've been a random drawing. :(
	Comment by Shazyzang December 10, 2008, 7:13 pm

	I'm Going To Draw The Burninator!!!
	Comment by Homsarrunner December 10, 2008, 7:53 pm

	How many can we submit? I have a couple ideas.
	Comment by abcxyq December 10, 2008, 7:56 pm

	Oh wait, I just read the fine print.
	Comment by abcxyq December 10, 2008, 7:57 pm

	Once the contest is decided, the entire season will have already been bought by most of the people entering. Just saying.
	Comment by Wait A Minute... December 10, 2008, 9:44 pm

	ahh! I can't think of anything particularly clever to do!! the pressure!
	Comment by octochan December 10, 2008, 9:53 pm

	Exactly how many runners-up will you be choosing?
	Comment by Holyxion December 10, 2008, 10:36 pm

	Once the contest is decided, the entire season will have already been bought by most of the people entering. Just saying. Believe it or not there are a lot of Strong Bad fans out there who haven't checked out the games yet, and we're hoping to reach some of them with this contest. But if the winners have already played the games, you can gift the prize to a friend.
	Comment by Emily December 11, 2008, 7:37 am

	Exactly how many runners-up will you be choosing? At least three, but maybe more depending on the entries.
	Comment by Emily December 11, 2008, 8:02 am

	I've got some good ideas.
	Comment by Yellowtail December 11, 2008, 10:26 am

	Please note: Sweatshirt is not to scale.
	Comment by David E December 11, 2008, 8:51 pm

	Oh but I'd love to get my pet all dressed up all cool! Or wear it as a glove or sock xD
	Comment by Vendela December 12, 2008, 7:56 am

	briliant but I probably won't enter.
	Comment by jaden551 December 12, 2008, 10:36 am

	um, i hope i win! i am the #1 strong bad fan! but, sadly,i do not have enough money for any of the episodes of sbcg4ap! or anything! i need this win! or at least an email dvd!
	Comment by antirikurox December 12, 2008, 10:16 pm

	Sweet! :D
	Comment by KayJay123 December 13, 2008, 1:04 pm

	will you releae a strong bad season dvd like you did for sam and max?
	Comment by ScottMorgan December 14, 2008, 9:14 pm

	yesh.....
	Comment by bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo December 15, 2008, 4:40 am

	hmmm, well i can do relly good 8-bit drawings (i even made an "icedor" 4 a mario cart 1) i might try 2 take a pic of it then upload, along w/ m other verisons of troggie
	Comment by Meg December 17, 2008, 4:13 pm

	That sounds cool, but I have it all on wii and wouldn't know what to do with the full PC version... at least there's all that other awesome stuff!
	Comment by MidtownCowboy December 19, 2008, 2:49 pm

	Yes I draw troggie all the time
	Comment by The Tire December 20, 2008, 8:10 am

	oooh I just had an idea that includes something from trogday
	Comment by The Tire December 20, 2008, 1:40 pm

	Geez, after watching the 3rd birthday video, there's a lot of ideas people already did.
	Comment by MeaningOfLife December 21, 2008, 12:35 pm

	I'm not going to do this competion even if I've made countless Trogdor claymation videos because I want nothing more to do with Tell tale games!
	Comment by Max the greenhorn January 6, 2009, 2:16 pm

	Damn! i wish id known about this earlier, i already have a piece of kickass trogdor art which i was going to send to the brothers chaps...sigh
	Comment by 8bitpixelpowerpunch January 23, 2009, 5:43 am

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