WHAT TO SUBMIT ✅

Anything can be the source of inspiration for a great Idea! Item themes and clothing types are totally up to you. Here’s a quick checklist of what to consider as you design and share your item Ideas:

👚 Wearable Avatar Items

Ideas is currently only accepting items to customize your avatar’s features (eyes, noses, hair, body shape), clothing, and accessories.

☝️ Single Items

Ideas allows individual pieces only. To streamline the explore features of our Ideas webpage, every Idea is showcased using just one image of the item design. While some items might have built-in arms, legs, or accessories, we won’t approve any item that could potentially be released as multiple items. So if you design a hair item with built-in ears and hairclips, for example, your Idea may be rejected for containing three potential items instead of one.

💡 Original Items

Share your fresh item designs! We are not accepting any redesigns in Highrise Ideas - even if you’re using your own designs as your base. Additionally, an Idea may not be approved if it is too similar to an existing item – regardless of whether or not the similarity is intentional. Innovate and bring something totally novel to the Idea table!

🌈 Fixed Colors

We only accept items that are "naturally" color changing: hair, eyes, lips, and blushes are all acceptable. We do not accept item that wouldn't color change in real life (handbags, scrunchies, gowns, shirts, shoes, etc.).

• VALID COLOR CHANGE: hair, lips, eyes, eyebrows, facial hair, clip-in bangs, freckles, blush. Additionally, items with built-in body parts (posed arms and legs, rider items, crop tops with exposed skin, items that tweak avatar body proportions) are all acceptable.
• INVALID COLOR CHANGE: clothing, auras, makeup, or accessory items that change based on hair, skin, lip, or eye color. Items that color change according to an unnatural color dependencies are also not valid (ie, hair that changes color according to eyes; eyes that color change according to lips, etc.)

Body parts that typically have hair are considered valid for color-changing. Animal ears, tails, and other fur-or-scale-clad body parts may change color.

📄 Appropriately Categorized Items

As you create your Idea submission, you’ll define the item’s type and and rarity. Review the item type categories (shirt, aura, lips, bag, etc.) to ensure that your item will layer properly; then, pick a rarity that matches the item’s approximate value (ie, a dazzling, bombastic pair of wings should not be a Rare).

👛 Commissioned Items

Have a great Idea, but don't feel confident in your artistic ability? You may commission a fellow Highrise artist to help bring your vision to life. However, please note that commissions are considered "Trust Trades" – all payment or compensation must be handled prior to your Idea submission. Highrise is not responsible for ensuring commission payments are delivered. We are not able to add multiple designers to a single Idea at this time.

In your commissioned item submission, please either omit your artist's name, or use a tag like "Commission from..." so that our team doesn't accidentally remove your Idea!

WHAT WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING ❌

Ideas may be rejected by our team at any point! Here are some of the most common reasons why:

🛌 Furniture Items
Items that may be placed in rooms or Worlds are not accepted at this time.

🧸 Pets, or any type of Pet accessory

You can design static critters that can be worn on the avatar, or be posed next to your avatar: items "Pets" here specifically refers to animated companions like Moonpups, Hootkins, Snugglins, etc.

🔫 Guns

Handheld, slings, pistols, rifles, play guns, or holstered guns are not allowed. Get creative and come up with a fun, positive item to share!

👁️Contact Lenses

Any item modifying an avatar's iris in shape, color, or other unnatural change won't be approved. Other types of body modifications, like changes to an avatar's face shape or body proportions, are welcome.

🖼️ Profile Backgrounds

Stick to the wearables, please!

🔐 Account Bound Items

All Ideas items are released Tradable! We are not able to honor requests to make specific items permanently or temporarily Account Bound.

🦋Animated Items

Moving wings, bobbing antannae, flicking tails, etc. are not accepted. All Highrise hair is currently "animated" by default (ie, all hair sways slightly when an avatar walks).

⚖️™️ Copyrighted Material

No third-party Intellectual Property (IP) may be used in your submission. This includes...

• Trademarked logos or products
• Branded clothing, accessories, or items
• Fictional characters (anime, movies, games, comics, books, etc.)
• Franchise-based visual cues (colour schemes, weapon designs, creature designs, etc.)
• Celebrity likenesses or personas (No recognizable images of real people, celebrities, or public figures)
• Stock images or clip art

📹Stock Elements

Pre-fab brushes, templates, textures, or other graphic elements may not be included. You may use these tools in the creation of your Idea if they are licensed for commercial use, or if they do not compose the majority of your design. For example, you may use a free, publicly accessible sparkle asset to add an element of shine to a sequined dress that you designed yourself.

👭 Collaborations

Items may not be submitted jointly. These differ from commissions! Collaborations assume fair credit and compensation splits amongst both contributors. However, we are unable to add more than one artist to any Idea campaign. If you are interested in working with another person, please explore Commissions mentioned above.

NOTES

1. Ideas may be rejected by Highrise staff at any stage during the Funding or Production Phase for technical constraints, quality considerations, or community guideline infringements by the designer.
2. Highrise staff may adjust an item's details (name, rarity, and category) if necessary.
3. Submit under your own account! Duplicate entries submitted under alt accounts will be removed.
4. You may submit any single-item design to both Concepts and Ideas simultaneously! If you happen to win a Concept vote, we'll take down the Idea campaign for you.
5. To account for the volume of Ideas we receive, we may not share personalized explanations for why an Idea was rejected. Of course, we always welcome resubmissions, so take a look over this list, reassess your Idea, and resubmit!