Project of the Month, May 2k11 Options

[Harryb412]

\\\Project of the Month///
\\\May///

||| CLOSED |||

\\\Rules:
- Games from Long Demos and Complete Games can be nominated only.
- The full project title with a link to the original project thread is required to nominate.
- You cannot nominate your own project.
- You can nominate a project from Long Demos and a project from Complete Games, but only one from each.
- The maximum amount of nominees is 10, 5 from Long Demos and 5 from Complete Games.
- Previous winners can not be nominated.

\\\Schedule:
- From the 1st to the 10th of the month nominations will be taken in, if all slots are filled voting begins.
- From the 11th to the 24th of the month the votes will be taken in. [done via two seperate polls, one for Long Demos and one for Complete Games, allowing users one vote for each category]
- 25th to the 28th the winner from Long Demos will go against the winner from Complete Games.
- 29th to the end of the month, the winner is announced.

\\\Nominees:
\\Long Demos:
- Twilight Dance - Tsutanai
- Reincarnations - Krosk
- Beneath - St3rnb0rn

\\Complete Games:
- Spellbinder -OriginalWij

\\\Previous Winners:
-Twice Upon a Hero
-Vacant Sky
-Leo & Leah
-The World Is Made Of Paper

\\\Prizes:
- Userbars for runners up and nominees.
- Userbars for winners, along with an automatic entry to Project of the Year.
- A forumwide announcement for the winner.

This post has been edited by Harryb412: May 15 2011, 08:57 AM

[KD648]

Well, I for one would really hate to see PoTM disappear because it's really the only thing that keeps me playing other people's games. I think one of the problems with the competition right now is that no one on this site (myself included, don't get me wrong) plays anyone else's games because we're all so busy developing our own. That said, I've downloaded all the previous winners because I knew that they had a special quality that I could examine.

I don't know if this would work because I don't know the inner workings of RRR, but could it just be a staff pick? Each month, the staff picks a single demo or completed game and makes the announcement and userbar? I feel like most of the people involved in the process right now are staff anyway. As a developer, I think some of us, including myself, feel awkward because we all want our own projects to win. It might be better to leave it out of our hands.

I don't know how much work that would be for you guys though, so maybe it's an unrealistic suggestion. I'd just hate to see it disappear because I feel like I'd stop downloading games entirely.