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[raw] LD18MiniLD 07. Sep 2010 · 04:15 UTC · 18 days after compo start by bluescrn · 0

Cool, came in 5th in a compo that I almost abandoned halfway through due to isometric sorting woes :)

But looking at the scores in general has reminded me just how much the Humor category needs to be nuked from orbit!

Being hit with a load of 1’s and 2’s in this category (which isn’t relevant to a lot of games) isn’t much fun. It’s obviously not just my games that suffer from this – even Notch’s epic Metagun was given a couple of 1’s in this category, and that was a solid 4-5 game. How about just removing the humor category, if a game would have scored high here, that should add to the ‘fun’ score, shouldn’t it? (Maybe even score Fun out of 10, instead of 5?)

Also, there’s been a bit of what I can only describe as ‘troll scoring’ going on – with solid 4+ games being given 1s and 2s across the board by at least one voter (in a lame attempt to vote down the competition?)

I’d almost suggest filtering out the highest and lowest couple of ratings for each game when calculating the final results?

Discuss…

Comments

07. Sep 2010 · 06:12 UTC
Humor does not affect your Overall score. In fact, none of the other scores do – Overall is calculated purely from what each person enters in that specific category. So it’s possible to get 1’s in every other category and still “win” LD.
07. Sep 2010 · 08:36 UTC
Just as a note before I jump into this, I definitely don’t mean to imply that the results for this LD are unfair in any way. They aren’t. It doesn’t hurt to look at ways we can make the voting work better for future competitions.
07. Sep 2010 · 08:40 UTC
The voting categories could be simplified. How about:
stqn
07. Sep 2010 · 09:57 UTC
For me the important categories are:

– innovation because it’s nice to see new things

– theme because it’s the basis of the competition and the only way to check that the game wasn’t made before the compo in 3 months (short of making detailed timelapses mandatory and having someone check them frame by frame.)

– fun for obvious reasons :)
Martoon
07. Sep 2010 · 13:20 UTC
“Also, there’s been a bit of what I can only describe as ‘troll scoring’ going on – with solid 4+ games being given 1s and 2s across the board by at least one voter”