headers
Ron Hale-Evans | 23 Jan 2008 04:34
Gravatar

Re: Suggestion for future design contests.

Hi all,

A few comments.

1. I would love to see what Gary Pressler will choose as the new
contest. He should be good to go. He has most of his prizes now too,
including the Trophy Cloth, so he can pass that on. I owe Gary some
feedback for his game, but it's really hard to get hold of him on the
phone, not least because he lives three time zones away and seems to
go to bed when I'm getting home from work.

2. I owe Jorge some feedback too, but since he lives in Spain, he's
/really/ hard to talk to on the phone! :-) So having rejected sending
a detailed email to everyone who participated, and since I'm having
trouble reaching people on the phone (only about two people sent me
their phone numbers), why not try Plan C: please send me a way to
contact you via instant messenger, such as Yahoo, AIM, Gmail, and so
on. I'll add you as a buddy and ping you when I see you online, OK?
Then we can talk about your game.

3. I agree that publishing the games from Good Portsmanship is
extremely desirable. However, if I recall correctly, I promised the
contest entrants I'd give them feedback so they could fix their games
first. Consider this a poll. What should I do if I never hear back
from the contest entrants? Should I just go ahead and publish the
games anyway? I can add them to the Piecepack Wiki, no problem.

I welcome feedback.

Ron
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 8 comments |
headers
Jorge Arroyo | 23 Jan 2008 10:17

Re: Suggestion for future design contests.

Hi

  Ron, I sent you an email about the feedback.

  About the contests, I think that although the way the contests work now is
nice in theory, it's not working well enough. It's been about a year and a
half since the last contest started, and I think we need more contests to
stimulate the creation of piecepack games. If we look at the Icehouse
community, there's a Summer contest and a Winter contest. There are no
prices and the organizer only handles the task of informing people and
counting the votes, as the task of judging the games falls on the community.

  Now, I'm not sure how such a system would work here, but It may be nice to
try having more contests. I'll admit that I'm thinking about organizing one,
but haven't worked the details out. Still, these community judged, seasonal
contests are perfectly compatible with the classical ones...

  Another type contest that may be useful is a review contest (maybe on BGG)
to encourage people to try and write about existing games. I can offer a
copy of my lasered sets as a price... I'm still thinking about how to do it,
but I think it can work nicely.

-Jorge

On Jan 23, 2008 4:34 AM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A few comments.
>
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 2 comments |
headers
Andy Leighton | 23 Jan 2008 10:52

Re: Suggestion for future design contests.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:17:25AM +0100, Jorge Arroyo wrote:
> Hi
> 
>   Ron, I sent you an email about the feedback.
> 
>   About the contests, I think that although the way the contests work now is
> nice in theory, it's not working well enough. It's been about a year and a
> half since the last contest started, and I think we need more contests to
> stimulate the creation of piecepack games. If we look at the Icehouse
> community, there's a Summer contest and a Winter contest. There are no
> prices and the organizer only handles the task of informing people and
> counting the votes, as the task of judging the games falls on the community.

Yes I would agree that we need at least one contest per year.  But more
importantly we need to see all of the games submitted as well.
Personally I would like to see the raw submitted version as well as
the polished version after judging.  If the polished game isn't
available then the raw submitted version should be published anyway.

We still cannot see some of the games submitted for the Good Portmanship
competition (one I would be interested in seeing in particular).  If the
game rules do not become visible to all then it doesn't help the community 
much.  To make this happen I would make it a rule of the competition
that the games as submitted will be published to the wiki although the
author may replace them with a more polished version after judging.

Personally, I didn't get my Piecepack set until to late for that 
competition.  I will try to design a game for the next one depending on
work pressures.
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 1 comment |
headers
steve | 23 Jan 2008 12:32

Re: Suggestion for future design contests.

Good day to all: 

Blue Panther would be happy to sponsor a piecepack contest once or twice per 
year,   We will be adding forums to our website soon so we should be able to 
handle any of the formats for posting/commenting that I have seen posted so 
far. 

Steve Jones
Blue Panther LLC 

Andy Leighton writes: 

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:17:25AM +0100, Jorge Arroyo wrote:
>> Hi 
>> 
>>   Ron, I sent you an email about the feedback. 
>> 
>>   About the contests, I think that although the way the contests work now is
>> nice in theory, it's not working well enough. It's been about a year and a
>> half since the last contest started, and I think we need more contests to
>> stimulate the creation of piecepack games. If we look at the Icehouse
>> community, there's a Summer contest and a Winter contest. There are no
>> prices and the organizer only handles the task of informing people and
>> counting the votes, as the task of judging the games falls on the community.
> 
> Yes I would agree that we need at least one contest per year.  But more
> importantly we need to see all of the games submitted as well.
> Personally I would like to see the raw submitted version as well as
> the polished version after judging.  If the polished game isn't
> available then the raw submitted version should be published anyway.
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
porter235 | 24 Jan 2008 00:18
Picon

Re: Suggestion for future design contests.

Hi Ron,
I would love to get feedback about my entries. My instant messenger
contact info is available on the wiki
http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/JonathanDietrich

I suggest that you go ahead a post them, with a note that it was "As
submitted for the Good Portsmanship Contest".

In the future I would like to see the games go up prior to even being
accepted as an entry, or maybe as soon as the contest entry date as
passed, so that the community can play along. If not that soon, maybe
just prior to, or immediately following the announcement.

--- In piecepack@..., "Ron Hale-Evans" <rwhe <at> ...> wrote:
>Plan C: please send me a way to
> contact you via instant messenger, such as Yahoo, AIM, Gmail, and so
> on. I'll add you as a buddy and ping you when I see you online, OK?
> Then we can talk about your game.
> 
> Should I just go ahead and publish the
> games anyway? I can add them to the Piecepack Wiki, no problem.
Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |

Gmane