[GDS] JULY 2014 "This Game is Stacked" Comments and Questions

Personally, I’m happy with the “just for fun” framework of the showdown, nothing to loose by entering and nothing to win.

I don’t think adding monthly prizes would bring a lot to the showdown. The entry numbers are already high and adding in prizes may or may not increase participation. That said, I’m not sure if I could devote enough time to reading through the entries (and commenting on them after the results) if they where to double again or something.

One idea might be to run a separate yearly competition with a prize or prizes. This would require the design of a ready to run game vs a concept outline.

The competition outline would be posted in January and the entrants would have four months to design and submit their entries in a print and play format. 4 months would then be given over to people downloading them, playing them and voting for a short list, then the short list would go through the final process in the final 4 months of the year to determine the winner.

Alternatively the short list could be done by some other means > concept entry > shortlist voting > final entry for shortlisted games > vote for the winner.

In terms of a link with the GDS, entry to the competition could be limited to designers who have scored X points over the course of the monthly GDS in the year leading up to the competition.

That way the form of the current GDS could stay as it is (with a little revised tidying up) and the yearly competition could have more stringent rules for those eligible who choose to enter.

Yeah, I'm eager to see how it went, and start the critiques :)

Rich's last post mentioned Holiday. Maybe that's why it's taking longer than usual.