Re: Inform Competition ?!!


Sat, 13 May 1995 07:35:16 GMT

Paul Bowler (Paul@mdown.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: As I started this posting, it is probably right that I finish it, so on \
: behalf of everyone interested..... LETS DOOOOOO IT !!!

: Sorry, I didn't mean to shout, I'm just a little excited.

YAAAAA! Let's just do it! (oops, don't mean any copyright infringement
there...)

: May I suggest that the first entries are in by the end of June, or do you
: all think that is a little too soon ? I suppose I have a slight advantage of
: having a piece almost completed, but it has only taken me about four days
: so far (and not full days at that), so I personally don't think a month is
: asking too much.

End of June sounds good to me. A less than 10 room game shouldn't take too
long.

: Most of the rules mentioned so far seem very reasonable. I know I first
: said it was to be an Inform competition, but that was primarily because I
: write using Inform rather than TADS, but mainly because of the freeware and
: portability aspects, but I now think it fair to let you any entries so long
: as they can be executable on the main systems. It may be worth mentioning
: that it is your own interest to get as many people playing your IF as
: possible. That way you have the chance of gaining more votes.

Lets leave it open. If it only runs on one OS, then it will lose out, but
we should leave that decision up to the author.

: Which leads us on to scoring. May I suggest setting up a competition thread
: where anyone can place their top (say) three votes. These votes can then be
: added up after the voting period expires (say one month after the closing
: date). I personally think aprize isn't really necessary; the exposure and
: fame resulting from such a prestigeous event will be reward enough !!

I would set up a mailinglist, but my UUCP connectino isn't up yet. If its
active before anyone else takes control, I'll volunteer to run a competition
list, with summaries posted here.

: Before we (I ?) ask Volker to go ahead are there any questions/problems/
: objections ??

Need an official list of rules, just to keep things kosher.

My main points:

10 rooms or less
Solve in less than a week of moderate playing(of course this will vary
somewhat).
Fun!

Brian

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