Pew pew! Welcome to our latest design challenge. This time, we're asking you to design a brand-new handheld gun for on-the-ground combat. While we'll be weighting our judgment more heavily in terms of the aesthetics of the gun design, we'll also take in account any cool supplementary text that tells us what your gun does, including any features that make it unique. Ideally, those details will be integrated in the design.

It's up to you how you choose to show off your weapon. You might want to mock it up in a video, you may want to digitally illustrate it, or you may want to make a blueprint.

Generative AI is strictly forbidden in this reward. So that we can be sure your design isn't AI generated, we ask all image-based entrants to submit a work-in-progress shot alongside the finished design. Failure to do so may result in your submission being disqualified.