I want to just say that I would NOT like it to be a "back of the box" contest, because BotB blurbs never tell you what you need to know about a game to buy it, much less to critically judge it! I'm all for a short synopsis that covers what about it is interesting... basically, I support the 800 or 500 word limit, but with the intention that what you're writing is whatever you need to to explain your idea well, as opposed to some sort of advertising blurb. Anybody can say "it's a game where you have to carefully balance your fairy collection versus your greed for magical powers!", but that doesn't really tell you anything about the nifty mechanics involved. So pretty much short, incomplete, rulesets is what I'd like to see. Doesn't tell you how many Farmland cards there are, or what all the different Galactic Powers do, but it gives you the idea of what types of things there would be, so you can think about how it would play.
Does that make sense? Is it any different from anything anybody else has said? I don't know, I'm just sitting out at my garage sale enjoying the wirelessness of my laptop!
I want to thank everyone for the great discussion on these items. I think that hitting this thing with a hammer after these first few challenges is getting it into great shape!
The last two posts by Challengers and Hedge-o-Matic have struck enough of a chord in me that I will be withdrawing item #4 in the list ... at least this next challenge still won't have a required template.
So, here's my approach regarding these 6 points for this up-coming challenge:
1> will do
2> will do
3> will do ... and I'll set it at 800 words for the entire entry this first time
4> withdrawn (will not do)
5> will do
6> will do ... and I'll use the "list your top 3" voting method, giving 5/3/1 points to the items on a voter's list
For Hedge (and everyone else following along) ... the next challenge will be announced this coming Thursday (12-May) -- so no excuses this time!! ;-D
-Bryk