Here are some of my responses, leaving longer comments for last: Award name: That may have been determined by what was printed in the Lab Report. I've asked what they put, and am waiting to hear back from them. Supplies: In addition to chessboards, dice and Martian Coasters, we also need Volcano boards for Crosswalk. Rules: I think it would be nice to have 3-fold fliers for each game, similar to what was done for Zark City or Nothing Beats a Large. Poster: Sound good. Could you post a link to a a sketch of what your were thinking? Semi-finalists: I'm willing to have semi-finalists be available, too. They'd need their own fliers and supplies, of course. Trophy: I've started checking local trophy shops about making a 1-off trophy, similar to what I posted a while ago. It will cost less than $10, so I was willing to cover it myself. But what did you have in mind? We all might like that better. Voting: Actually, there several issues about this, so I'll save it for a separate response. VOLUNTEERS: We need volunteers to do several tasks. Some tasks may take more than one person, so look this over and see how you'd like to help: - Provide game supplies: Scott - Write rules fliers: Bryan (maybe) - Copy rules fliers: - Make poster: Scott - Make trophy: Bryan?, Scott? - Set up table: - Demo/play games: Bryan (when free, which may not be much) Sign on up! Bryan On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:02 PM, S Myers <iamthecheeze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We now have our 3 best contenders fFor the Best Amateur Icehouse Game > of 2009. (Or, it seems that way right this moment. The dust is still > settling, but I think we have reached a consensus.) > > Crosswalk, Quicksand, and Stack Control. > > Last thing to be done is sort out some procedures. It's easy to over > think this stuff, but some a decisions need to be made. I'm willing > to go along with whatever. Here's some things to put on the record > and commit to: > > Voting should be done as simply as possible: small slips of paper > which list the 3 games, and say "pick your 1 fFavorite." Place your > vote in a ballot box, to be counted Saturday afternoon. The winner is > the one with the most votes. > > We will need printed copies of the rules to all 3. Easy enough. > > I previously mentioned I could print up some nice promotional poster > things to have around the table, so people know what this is. > > Did we ever decide on an official name? I recall "Apex" being both > loved and hated. I like "Apex Ice Award for Best Amateur Icehouse > Game Design" Not actually that important, probably. But we should > agree to something. > > Stack Control requires a chess board, Quicksand requires a set of > Martian Coasters, and Crosswalk needs 1d6. I can supply some > chessboards and probably dice, and maybe the Looneys could donate some > coasters? There's generally some in the lab anyway, so maybe one or > two sets could live at the voting table. > > I am in fFavor of having the rules available to play some of the other > semi-finalists, as well. We have some really great submissions, and I > think it might help people who are interested in the system to see > that there's really a lot of great possibilities. Not to distract or > dilute the voting, mind you (Although, maybe: An option to write in > votes towards those not appearing on the ballot?) Useful, because I > think this is really about all the awesome game designers. > > And lastly, we need a trophy prize of some sort. I thought of asking > a glassblower I know to make something interesting. > > Cheers! > --Scott > > -- > 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 >