Demiurge Studios apparently isn’t happy with the amount of robots Shoot Many Robots has, so the studio has opened up a competition to gamers to design a robot for the game. Shoot Many Robots is a run and gun action game with RPG elements, most notably stats and accessory upgrading. Geoff Gibson played Shoot Many Robots at GDC and shared his experience with DIY-land earlier this month.

One of the game’s development teammates spoke with me at PAX East, and that will come shortly. Given Monday, Apil 4 marks the deadline of the team’s creative competition, I figured I should spread the word and give DIY readers a week to show them how it’s done! The winner will get some sweet swag and a free trip to Boston to help Demiurge make their robot come to life!

I can’t draw for crap (which is why I write), but the competition isn’t “write many robots.” Now writing code to program a robot, that COULD be cool, or it could totally be Skynet all over (again…).

Demiurge’s media man Job Stauffer said that the team has also given a breakdown of existing robots on their website and asks that players carefully consider building enemies that will be just as challenging as they are fresh and creative.

I particularly liked the toilet robot drawn and posted in Demiurge’s forums. It should shoot out warfare from at least one more place, though, no? Toilet humor aside, Demiurge seems to be embracing the indie spirit and asking fans and newcomers to do the same.

How can you turn down an offer from men dressed so eloquently?

Photo from ShotGunGamer

Inspired?? Horrified?? Horrifically inspired?! Feel free to post your submissions here to inspire other DIY readers and of course submit them to Demiurge. The full contest rules are here. Remember the winner gets to spend a week with these guys, who prove once again that all it takes is a beer hat (allegedly without alcohol, even) to make a man wear a dress.