> From: Dale Sheldon <dales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > BUT [...] the IGDC is also a competition and, as such, is set up so that > > a game is judged as written at the time of Submission Announcement. > > So are you saying no one should answer these questions now, or that one > should not take the answers into consideration when judging the games? > Because I can agree with the second, but not the first. Oh, certainly the latter, as I wrote: "All that said, better games are, ultimately, the goal of any IGDC. Let's just be aware, generally, that the IGDC games are to be judged as they stand, even while they change and refine on their Talk pages (NOT on their main article pages!) during the judging round." Thus, judge games as they stood on August 17th (and, thus, do not change the Article page until after the 17th of this month or so) but feel free to refine, discuss, and even copy wholesale and paste to the Talk page, to rewrite it. But if that happens on the Article page then someone who shows up in a week to judge will be judging a totally different game than Doug (or you or I) already has (have) judged. And that's lame because, again: "It's only fair to those games which do not require clarification and which were "complete" at the start of judging." After the winner is announced, just copy all refinements back to the Article page and clean up the Talk page, for clarity; then go ahead and keep working to make the best game possible. Thanks for asking; David