The Skin Studio

Dress a pig.
Get the credit.

Pick a garment, set a colour, stick an image on it and spin the result around in 3D. It runs in your browser and it is free. You do not need an account to try it. You need one to submit it.

Free · Six garments · Textures only, for now · Read the studio guide

Six pigs in a row, each in a different outfit: striped t-shirt, camouflage trousers, a black and yellow hazard coat, a purple dress, a red tartan long coat and orange shorts with a sun on them
How it works

From your browser to the battlefield

Four steps. Only the first one is up to you.

1 · Design it

T-shirt, pants, shorts, dress, short coat or long coat. A base colour, a texture if you have one, and as many images as you can fit. The pig turns while you work, so you find out the back is a mess before anyone else does.

2 · Someone looks

A person reviews every skin before anyone else sees it. Rough is fine. Rude is not. If it is refused, you get a sentence saying why.

3 · The barn votes

An approved skin can go to the community gallery, where signed-in players like it. At 100 likes it joins the game's collection, for everyone.

4 · It is in the game

You get your own skin for nothing, and a share of the truffles whenever someone buys it. Your name stays on it.

Truffles

Truffles, and what they are not

Truffles are the in-game currency. You earn them by fighting, and you spend them on skins. You cannot buy them: nothing in PigWars sells you an advantage, and a skin is not one. When you submit a skin you choose whether it is free or costs 50, 100 or 250 truffles. A free skin can be won at random from a reward after a battle. A paid one is bought in the pig's wardrobe.

Earn

12 truffles for a win and 5 for a loss, up to 240 a day from battles, plus 5 you collect yourself once a day. Those are today's numbers; the game is early.

Spend

On any skin in the collection: open a pig's wardrobe, tap Edit, then Community. What you buy shows up as a Skin button on that garment.

Authors

You keep 20% of the price of every copy sold, up to 500 truffles a day. It is a number in a game, not money, and the terms say so.

Not only clothes

Build a battlefield

The map editor is open to every account with a verified email. Design a map, send it for review, and let the community fight on it: at 500 likes it joins the game and you earn 200 truffles. How it works · See community maps

The gallery

Fresh from the barn

All community skins

The rules

What gets through

Short, because most of it is common sense. Full wording is in the terms.

Fine

  • Patterns, colours, jokes at the pig's expense.
  • Your own art, your own logo, your own handwriting.
  • Images you are allowed to use.

Not fine

  • Logos and characters you do not own.
  • Anything hateful, harassing or sexual.
  • Anyone's personal information.
  • Anything that is really an advert.

Anyone signed in can report a skin. Enough reports hide it until a person has looked.

Questions

Before you ask

Do I need an account?

Not to design. The studio works for anyone and keeps your draft in your browser. To submit a skin, like one or buy one, you sign in.

Where is the long version?

Three guides: the Skin Studio, how a skin reaches the collection, and truffles.

How long does review take?

As long as it takes one person with a day job. You can see where a skin stands on the skins page.

Can I change a skin after I submit it?

No. Withdraw it and submit the new version. Skins that are already in the game cannot be withdrawn, because people own them.

Can I make my own 3D clothes?

Not yet. Skins are textures on the six base garments. If this catches on, new meshes are next.

Who owns the design?

You do. You give PigWars permission to show it in the game and on this site. The terms have the exact wording.

Go on

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