Before starting, you can directly cross "Accelerator" off. It's something I wouldn't even dare to name "game" in its current state... an idea that didn't work out how I had planned. Julien > Send Icehouse mailing list submissions to icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to icehouse-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx You can reach the person managing the list at icehouse-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Icehouse digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: 2009 pyramid game awards: who wants to help (Eric Wald) 2. Re: 2009 pyramid game awards: who wants to help (Bryan Stout) 3. Re: 2009 pyramid game awards: who wants to help (S Myers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:56 -0600 From: Eric Wald <eswald@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Icehouse] 2009 pyramid game awards: who wants to help To: Icehouse Discussion List <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <AANLkTimq-4lXlxfMRQG8fRKZl8XoGqmq4splc7IU1uN5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Mon, May 17, Bryan Stout wrote: > Your plan sounds good to me, Ryan, except that step 4 needs to be > fleshed out more. ?I think that for an initial pass, it's fine for one > judge to eliminate games that obviously aren't worthy of an award, but > there should be an intermediate step where remaining games are played > by more judges before narrowing down to the finalists. > > At any rate, I'm in. ?Who else? ?Many hands make light work. I'd like to think I can sign up, but I'm concerned about opponents. There are a few gamers in my neighborhood, but few who have even played Treehouse, and no real group to speak of. On the other hand, there are a couple of groups gathering this weekend, so I should be able to sneak in a few new games. - Eric ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:58:40 -0400 From: Bryan Stout <stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Icehouse] 2009 pyramid game awards: who wants to help To: Icehouse Discussion List <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <AANLkTikFxQEjU8J7hZI0BeEaRf8gFFwx8hfqd9fuXE5x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Eric, Thanks for your desire to help. Don't let the lack of opponents stop you: it is quite possible to play games solo, where you play each person's turn from his point of view, for most games. You can rather quickly weed out the weaker ones, and know which ones are the better ones you'd like to share with your friends. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to share poor games with friends, unless you explained that it's part of an effort to judge the quality of fan-designed games, so that they'd understand that a poor design doesn't reflect on the quality of pyramid games in general. Bryan On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Eric Wald <eswald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to think I can sign up, but I'm concerned about opponents. > There are a few gamers in my neighborhood, but few who have even played > Treehouse, and no real group to speak of. ?On the other hand, there are > a couple of groups gathering this weekend, so I should be able to sneak > in a few new games. > > - Eric ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 19:14:49 -0400 From: S Myers <iamthecheeze@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Icehouse] 2009 pyramid game awards: who wants to help To: Icehouse Discussion List <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <AANLkTimJdNaY4EwPsmb3Ngj7kajLBHaQ7HO3u4ejm0TM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Bryan Stout <stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now, back to *my* original question: would anyone like to help with > selecting the finalists for an award this year, either with an initial > pass, or an intermediate pass? Now that my big crazy weekend has passed, I can definitively say: Count me In! I have a couple fFellow players around me whom I can enroll in playing new games. As well as solo-playing. When do we start? =) -- A pizza with the radius 'z' and thickness 'a' has the volume pi*z*z*a. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Icehouse mailing list Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse End of Icehouse Digest, Vol 60, Issue 15 ****************************************