Whither About.com Contest?

This year's theme: Deduction.
About.com Board/Card Games is sponsoring our Fifth Annual Game Design competition, this year with the theme of Deduction.

Regards,

Mitch

Hey Mitch,

I've been pinging Erik Arneson on and off about this. Last month, he said he hoped to have the results by "early August," but that ultimately the judges' would finish whenever they finished and there wasn't much he could do about it.

Erik started a forum post over at about.com regarding the contest. I used the thread to ask him about the status, and he replied within 1 day. You might want to saunter over and ping him yourself for more up-to-the-minute info.

Mark

Thanks, Mark.
About.com is worse than a MegaMall! I spent ten minutes trying to find the forums. Somebody (possibly me, way back when?) is registered as challengers, so I took cha - eleven - engers. Nobody messes with the challengers! ;)
Now, I took a break from trying to find the contest posting...
If you get this before I go insane, kindly point to it for me, please?

Thanks!

Mitch

After I posted I realized that I should've given the URL. I could barely find it the first few times I visited.

http://boardgames.about.com/mpboards.htm

You should be able to get into them from there.

Once you're in, you want to look for the "Designing Games (Inventors)" folder. It should be the topmost thread in there "2005 About.com Game Design Competition".

These direction may still not be enough, as I think the organization of the folders may differ depending on which threads you have visited previously. If that's the case and you still can't find it, let me know.

Mark

We don't have a standard "about BGDF" thing. I guess what is says on the home page, "Think of this site as a support group for game designers, both professional and aspiring," works fine.

Please do feel free to submit it. It would be great!

-- Matthew

Here's the latest from Erik at About.com:

I apologize to all for the lengthy delay. There are reasons for it, but they're not important.

Even if I am unable to finish formatting the games in time, I'll make the announcement of the finalists no later than Friday.

Good luck to everyone!

K.

Bit of copy and pasting from another thread:

From:

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=8&tid=5435&web...

"I hope to finish the coding and post all of the finalists tomorrow morning, but as promised -- with about 55 minutes to spare here on the east coast -- here's the list of finalists in the 2005 About.com Deduction Game Design Competition:

Coup D'Etat, designed by Scott DeMers
Decipher, designed by Zach and Amanda Greenvoss
Depth Charge, designed by David E. Whitcher
Don-Cha, designed by Mike Petty
Double Blind, designed by Bruce Glassco
Forsooth, designed by Mitchell H. Allen
Green Pipe, designed by Felix Lee
Hexagonal Black Box, designed by Eric W. Solomon
Hide and Guess, designed by Heinrich Glumpler
Jewels in the Sand, designed by Stanley E. Anderson
Liar!, designed by René Wiersma
Robot Maze Race, designed by Tim Mayse-Lillig

Cheers,
Erik"

I see that Challengers (Mitch H. Allen) and yours truly are in the list. Any other lucky BGDF souls that made the final twelve?

I was pretty casual when the contest went on and on just telling every one to relax and they would get around to it. Now that I am on the finalist list the suspense is killing me and I only found out about it a few hours ago. I hope they can wrap it us soon!