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

[Axerax]

If enough people are on board to give it ago I will try to reboot this next month to include Games Under Construction,
the reason we ran out of projects is because nobody was nominating any more, implying that nobody thought any other projects were worthy of Project of the Month.

I'm still geared towards Project of the Year and just having the best projects of this year nominated to vote for.

Perhaps a competition called something like Monthly Project Awards and rather than whole projects winning, certain projects are nominated for different categories?
Like Best Character, Best Mapping, etc etc.

I'm happy that you'll at least consider it. I can't begin to explain my beliefs as to why no one is nominating, but my suggestion is all I can muster on how to help.

I'd hope so.

That might work better, because then the top 5 nominations could be brought up and multiple nominations as well.

You're not being punked. Arguments against what you have suggested have been provided. Also, you have made unsubstantiated claims like "you didn't run out of nominations so quickly" with your version of Project of the Month.

I wouldn't have, had I not had to leave and drop the ball to someone else. Can you explain to me about 5 nominations from each category would run out? When some people are saying there are 500 completed games? Then there shouldn't be a problem there because that's 60 games. 60 from each category.

My problem is that RRR wants to call it Project of the Month, but refuses to use exactly what I'm suggesting to add... Projects... I made the point pretty clear that you, as in you the staff members, should be picking the nominee's. This would include being able to decifer a quickly put together topic from a project that has obviously had time put into it. Rather than only picking from Completed Games and Long Demos. This contest is more of a pissing contest than a contest of effort and value.

Because, as I said, when we say projects, we are talking about recent projects.

I understand the name thing, but I just don't think there are enough projects of quality to make it worthwhile to open it up to Games Under Construction.

So what you're telling me, is if it is older than a year in development you'd over look it? Seems rather selfish or better yet, biased. There are plenty of projects over a year that look way better than some of these completed games and demo games. And that's all i've been trying to say is that very thing, because it's what I believe is truth, whether you agree or not that's how I will always look at that.

You may not think so, but you shouldn't let your opinion rule out everyone elses, then you just look like a dictator. This is a community, if people had a chance to vote on those projects I'm sure they would, but you limit what they can look at as a project of the month by doing how it is.

It's like looking at some hilton hotel that is gorgeous, then looking at the trump tower. Sure the hilton is already there and nice, but dang trump tower will out match it once it is done. It's a similar analogy.