I lurk here but somehow missed which game won. So which game won? TBsr Sent from my iPhone , that's why there are typo's. Smart phone but not smart thumbs. On Jul 12, 2010, at 8:11 AM, "Ryan Hackel" <deeplogic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think this contest did something that the IDGC attempted to do: give good feedback to designers about their games. Many of the games that were evaluated, more than just semi-finalists, got at least a one-paragraph critique, and that is excellent. > > ---Ryan > > (By the way, email notifications on the IceWiki have been broken since Day One, and it would take someone with stronger wiki-fu than mine to fix it.) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Bryan Stout" [stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx] > Date: 07/10/2010 01:05 PM > To: "Icehouse Discussion List" <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Icehouse] ICE Awards 2010 post-mortem: Evaluation > > Looking back on the first ICE Awards experience, there are many > thoughts I have about how we can approach it next year. Please give > your own comments. > > Eligibility > > - I think the way we did it this year worked well; that is, a game is > eligible if > A) it is an amateur effort, ie designed by a fan as opposed to being > published by Looney Labs; > B) it appeared during the previous calendar year. > > - I believe that we can require that eligible games appear on the > IcehouseGames wiki. If anyone is aware of a game that appears > anywhere else (like BoardGameGeek, or individual websites), it is a > simple matter to add a wiki page pointing to it. > > - I have mixed feelings about limiting finalists to one game per > designer, but I ultimately agree with it. However, I do want to leave > the culling of multiple entries as late as possible. If a designer > has come out with several good designs in a year, I for one would like > to know about them, and the designer deserves the recognition of > having multiple games making the semi- or quarter-finals. > > - If a game from an earlier year has been significantly revised, I'm > willing to have it be considered eligible for an award in its revised > version. > > > Nominations > > - Because of the short time this year, we had to go through the list > ourselves. In the future we should let people nominate games they > think worthy of consideration. I don't care if it's the designer or > someone else who nominates a game. Perhaps we could add a wiki page > for nominees from the previous year, so people can list them there. > (The "New in 2009" page served that purpose this year.) > > - It would be good to have a better system of being aware when new > games are added to the Icehouse games wiki, so we can start playing > them and giving feedback once they appear. > > - In particular, I would very very much like the wiki to keep track of > the users' emails, like the Rabbit wiki and many other wiki sites do. > This would enable us to be notified by email when our pages on our > watchlist change, and contact designers of games (we never did contact > Robert Dudley, designer of Infiltrate and Stack Control), and probably > other important things. Ryan, is it possible to add the email > ability, or is that something that must be decided when the wiki > software is installed and unchangeable afterword? > > > Judging > > - I think it worked well to have volunteer Iceheads sift through the > nominees, to come up with the semifinalists and finalists. It would > be nice to have a bit more participation, though. > > - Having Origins in June leaves lots of time for judging. One way of > handling it that occurs to me is to have the nominees added to the BGG > database, and people can rate them there; this would help with the > winnowing process and allow lots of people to participate easily. > > - I would be good to allow a longer time for the finalists to be > played and evaluated; at least one month, perhaps two. > > > Participation > > - Many of us would like to see these awards become an annual > tradition, both to recognize and to encourage the creative efforts > done with pyramid games. Given the short time involved with this > year's effort, I jumped in and did much of the work. I'm glad to have > done it, but for the sake of continuity we'll need to set up system > with different duties spread around, so that as individuals come and > go, the awards continue. > > > > So, what do you all think? > > Bryan > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > > > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse