was the judge feedback ever sent out for this? i desire all crits
Yea, hopefully it will pop up. I was pleasantly surprised last year when it seemingly came out of nowhere (although that was April I think) and it was also shockingly useful. With two games, surely I'll get twice the interesting feedback this time?!
Amazing how it's not automated, where they can just export the comments and email em out. All in time I guess, their systems seem to be much improving year on year.
I'm not expecting to hear anything back from EGW, but that's cool as I think they were completely and unexpectedly swamped.
i think the key thing to realize is that nobody is going to "discover" your game and make you a millionaire, no matter how good your game is. you need to promote your game yourself. the igf's purpose by its own admission isn't to discover and promote unknown games, it's more of a popularity contest; if your game isn't that popular going in it won't become more popular magically by entering it
Nonsense. You can disagree with the tastes of the judges but this is silly.
It's also partly because IGF winners are never the best games
Opinions are subjective, who knew! There's no such thing as 'best' game, even in the eyes of this mythical "general public" consensus paul mentions (whatever that is).
I like the IGF openly embracing the partiality of the whole thing, that's fiiiine. So long as the juries are as diverse as possible and kept as fresh as possible.
I really appreciate the naming of the panels in recent years (I think it's a recent thing?), although I can't seem to find the jurors for the main prize. I mean, we don't want to encourage the cult of personality in such a small pond much further, but this kind of openness to the fact that the winners are the result of a specific group of people sitting down to discuss is a good thing (and much much better than them being averaged ratings as before, dear lord).
That each prize is awarded by a different, wholly separate group with their own peculiarities, and who know what they're talking about in whatever category. I'm thinking of Cannes for comparisons. Actually I wonder if it would be possible to move away from this 'genre' defined categorization and have more prizes suitable to stature and nature of the creator, ala Cannes (we're already developing the week long press hullabaloo of previews and features, which I honestly think is a good thing! If maybe perhaps more suited to its own event separate from GDC like Indiecade). That's an interesting thought, I wonder if IGF will ever spin off itself anytime.
that's partly because memories are short in general, no matter how big of a hit a game is people aren't going to remember it forever. for example gish was very big and an igf winner, but if you ask the average indie today what gish is they'd be like 'huh?'
This is more the fact that Gish came out before "Indie" as it exists now existed. Not many people cared back then. I remember reading the game being reviewed in PC Gamer and the idea of it was really impressive.