Hippodice

Yes - this would be why I didn't suggest it to you ;-))

Hooray! Die Wichtelmanner is into the second round! Thanks to bgdf for the inspiration and comments on our rules. Congratulations, Gil, on Wag the Wolf!

Off to find some Euro banknotes,

Mark and Brett

Edit: I found our score in the attached Word doc that you need to print off and sign. We scored 3.11 out of 6. The cutoff was 3.2. Phew!

Congrats you guys!

My email server is down, so I can't check my mail to see if I passed or flamed out.

Argh!

K.

I thought that might have been it. So the shoe-making game is in Hippodice? Nice! It'd be cool to see a GDS entry turn into a real game!

- Seth

I've just entered 'Gang War'. We'll see how it goes.

Well, I guess that means that 'Gang War' didn't make it. Now what was plan B, again...

You should be getting an e-mail one way or another.

If it turns out you didn't make it, don't let that stop you from trying again next year. My submission last year got a 4.11 out of 6, with the cutoff being 3 - and a low score is good!

Truth be told, I'm happy just to be a part of it. Hippodice gave me a strong goal, and now I've got a game that's close to complete. Though I do have these last few suggestions I should try out...

'Gang War' has the problem that it's yet another auction game with a not especially original theme. So writing something that makes people say 'Wow - I've got to try this game' is going to be a bit of an uphill struggle. It was always going to have problems with the first cut.

The same was true of 'Rally Car', actually. In many ways, I was more nervous about getting it accepted to be playtested than doing well in the competition. Because in the competition, it was playing to it's strengths, whilst in the acceptance phase, it was struggling with it's weakness.

But no, I wasn't planning on letting it discourage me from entering next year ;) Possibly not with 'Gang War' again, admittedly, but we'll see...

Thanks! And congratulations on Disciples making it in. Can we get a BGDF sweep? ;)

Bloc War made it with 3.11. Not pretty, but not bad for a game with only 16 cards and precious little else...

No word on Big Rig, which I assume means it tanked.

Congrats again to all!

K.

No word on Big Rig, which I assume means it tanked.

Congrats again to all!

K.

Hey Mark, is Bloc War the game we've talked about!
Congrats!!

Congrats, Jeph!

Good to see so many BGDF & Protospiel folks getting in.

Brett

Toot Toot!

das Spiel Megalopolis mit einer Gesamtnote von 2,78

Congrats to all of you who made the cut.

Thanks Darke for making this forum available; I don't know if I would have had the strength to stick with creating my game and working out the kinks if not for the couple of encouraging posts for my idea about a year ago. It was being called Empire State at the time.

Does anyone know how many games made the cut? I thought I read some year that about 50 make it to the playtesting. I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'm really excited.

Did anyone submit a game and NOT hear back yet? I haven't received any emails yet, and am hoping it's just because they have over a hundred emails to send out, and it's taking them a few days.

On Page 9 (!) of this thread, there's a note that I posted that I received from Oliver Kuhlwein from the Hippodice club that describes the evaluation method. Apparently the number system would be familiar to Germans, but even after reading his description I confess to still not completely understanding it.

-Jeff

Yes, it's how the German education system marks things, so it's natural to them. At Essen, "Fairplay" magazine have a system for rating new games that works in the same way - visitors are invited to rate the new games they've played at the show; this gives a useful initial pointer to the titles people should at least look out for. (The best rated game this year was "Caylus", at ~1.7; I think the best rated game in recent years was Puerto Rico which got something like 1.3!)