Quicksand won. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Terry Bailey Sr. <tbaileysr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse >