Hi game designers,
I'm new member and I want just to ask you about the results of the contest 2005 organised by about.com.
Is it really serious contest or not?
Since february 28, no news about except that the results will be published soon after july 4.
Need help.
Thanx lot
I know Erik posted on the Yahoo Game Design forum that he was having trouble finding judges, but they were still slogging through the entries.
I'm pretty curious to find out the results myself. Of course, a couple of weeks ago, I made a small tweak to the rules that makes the game much better...
Hi game designers,
I'm new member and I want just to ask you about the results of the contest 2005 organised by about.com.
Is it really serious contest or not?
Since february 28, no news about except that the results will be published soon after july 4.
Need help.
Thanx lot
I raised this question on About.com's forums tonight. Within hours, Erik sent this reply:
Thanks for the note. The contest is alive and well, just painfully (for me, too) slow. Several of the judges -- each for different, but legitimate, reasons -- have asked for more time to finish evaluating the games. I'm now hopeful (but I've been hopeful before!) that early August will be the announcement of the winner.
Believe me, I know this must be starting to feel like the competition that will never end, but it WILL end. With someone winning it. Really.
Thanks (to you and all the other entrants) for your patience!
K.
Obviously you should feel free to participate or not in whatever you'd like.
I do want to say, though, that:
1. The About.com/Abstract Games Magazine contests have been fun and successful so far, and though the results have sometimes been slightly delayed, I don't see why that's such a big deal.
2. This is an all-volunteer effort. That means that sometimes things just go wrong. If you're a judge and you, let's say, have a sick child or have trouble at work or whatever, the judging realistically takes a bit of a back seat.
I suggest that you not enter any contests that are all-volunteer, if this is such a big problem for you.
-- Matthew
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