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[Melly]

MAIN VOTING

This is it guys, time to vote for best game of the compo! Each one of you has 7 VOTES to spread, so spread them wisely!

Remember, everybody spent a lot of time and effort into making these games. If you made a game for the compo, it's common courtesy to not vote for yourself and instead spread your votes to everybody else.

The poll will run for 3 weeks. More than enough time to play all the whopping 67 games of the compo! ...I hope.

Holy crap that's a lot.

Check all the entries here or here! And be sure to offer feedback as you play!

[Soulliard]

That time limit seems a bit short. You'd need to play over three games a day to play them all in that time, and some of them are quite long. I'd rather not have to rush through them.

I'd also suggest a rule against voting for your own game, since it's impossible to judge your own work without bias. It's just too familiar.

[Melly]

Not voting for your own game is kind of common sense, isn't it? There's no way to even enforce that, so why bother? If someone wants to be a douche, let them. I doubt anyone that put the work into making a game for this would do something like that anyway.

The compo's been going for very long already. If it's necessary and enough people request it, I can extend to poll later, but for now I think it's good enough. There are plenty of games out there that are playable in a few minutes. Long games are rare in these compos.

[J. R. Hill]

Honor system!

[Pocketninja]

Melly, are you still going to hand out other awards as well as discussed earlier?

[David Pittman]

I always figured voting for yourself was a given.

(But I won't do it this time.)

[Melly]

Melly, are you still going to hand out other awards as well as discussed earlier?

I'm thinking. Making these huge polls are a pain in the asshole, so I'm thinking of doing something a little different. Maybe. We'll see soon enough.

[miconazole]

Thanks for giving us multiple votes, Melly! I was trying to toss up between probably objectively the best game, the game I personally liked the most and about 10 other titles I thought were interesting enough to warrant some recognition. Now I can vote for all most of them :D

[Rumrusher]

Not voting for your own game is kind of common sense, isn't it? There's no way to even enforce that, so why bother? If someone wants to be a douche, let them. I doubt anyone that put the work into making a game for this would do something like that anyway.

The compo's been going for very long already. If it's necessary and enough people request it, I can extend to poll later, but for now I think it's good enough. There are plenty of games out there that are playable in a few minutes. Long games are rare in these compos.

wait so does this include hidden "in-game special thanks" as well?

[Melly]

What do you mean?

I have the feeling I'll just answer you with "don't think too hard about it".

EDIT: edited the "whooping" on the first post. Droqen's fault.

[deathtotheweird]

You should make a front page post, reminding people to come in and play the finished games and vote.

[Melly]

I'm not an editor.

Maybe you can help me pester one of them to do so. Paul said he would eventually, but he might have forgotten about it.

[ness io kain]

I don't think there's any way I'll be able to play all of these (classes start this month, and my free time is going to decrease significantly), so I feel like I shouldn't vote.
Everything I've seen so far has been pretty great, though! It's impressive how much work so many people put into this competition.

[Melly]

Dude, I'm already halfway through. Just get playing, you can do it. I'm pretty sure if you use a whole Saturday or Sunday you could play nearly everything easily.

[miconazole]

I already played 'em all. A sign I have too much free time, perhaps.

[Flimgoblin]

I have a full time job and two kids and I've made it to MADRIS already :p

[György Straub]

Nice cover, Melly!

I always figured voting for yourself was a given.

(But I won't do it this time.)

Well, I dunno about the given thing. Times I was pleased with what I've created, I voted for myself. When I wasn't, I didn't. But the more I think about it, the more I reckon that voting for self should not be allowed.

I have a full time job and two kids and I've made it to MADRIS already :p

I wants your job.
OR your kids.
No, the job.

[Oddball]

I'm struggling to play them all because my current Windows setup is giving me a DirectX error with most of the Windows entries. All my drivers are up to date so I don't know what that's all about. Not sure if I'll be able to get hold of another machine before the voting deadline.

[Dacke]

I always figured voting for yourself was a given.

Me too. It is common practice in political elections, where you are supposed to vote for your own party. I see no reason why it would be wrong to vote for yourself, if you think your game is good enough.

Either put up a rule saying "don't vote for yourself" or a rule that says "you may vote for yourself". Apparently it doesn't work to assume that everyone reasons the same, without clear instructions.

[guille]

The difference here is that you have 7 votes, also there's no prize, so I don't see why you should vote for yourself. Still I don't think a single vote will really make a difference.

To me these compos are like running a 10k race or something. Is not about beating the others it's about beating yourself in one way or another. Also to have tons of fun.

So spread the votes, it's a given you liked your own game. After all, you spent a lot of time making it.