Spring Thing results
Adam Cadre
Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short, MAX BLASTER AND DORIS DE LIGHTNING
AGAINST THE PARROT CREATURES OF VENUS
Runner-up:
Kathleen Fischer, INEVITABLE
Honorable mention:
Anssi Raisanen, PUDDLES ON THE PATH
Matthew Carey, THE CROSS OF FIRE
Thanks to all the entrants and voters!
-----
Adam Cadre, Holyoke, MA
http://adamcadre.ac
Boluc Papuccuoglu
I just read Cedric Knight's review of Parrot Creatures Of Venus, and I
came across the following passage:
<quote>
Somehow I just didn't get into the rhythm of playing. If you didn't do
the right thing at the right time, the messages may make it plain that
the action hasn't been implemented, but they don't always give a good
reason for why you can't do what you want to - it really feels very
constrained. And I hit what seemed to be a couple of major bugs.
I decided to play as Max, experimented with his James Bond-like
gizmos, and doing so got an error
[Runtime error: invalid comparison]
Then I seemed to be fundamentally stuck at the first puzzle
<unquote>
I thought the whole point of the Spring Thing competition was that an
entry would be disqualified if it contained a bug like the one
mentioned above. This one won the contest. Wasn't Cedric a judge?
That's what I thought was the case from his post.
Cedric Knight
> I just read Cedric Knight's review of Parrot Creatures Of Venus, and I
> came across the following passage:
>
> <quote>
> I decided to play as Max, experimented with his James Bond-like
> gizmos, and doing so got an error
>
> [Runtime error: invalid comparison]
> Then I seemed to be fundamentally stuck at the first puzzle
> <unquote>
>
> I thought the whole point of the Spring Thing competition was that an
> entry would be disqualified if it contained a bug like the one
> mentioned above. This one won the contest. Wasn't Cedric a judge?
> That's what I thought was the case from his post.
(Checks rule 3 & footnote 3). It's the organizer who decides what gets
disqualified on these grounds, not the voters. Also, Adam wrote here on
6 Apr:
"I've been really pressed for time, and so cannot guarantee that the
games are completely bug-free, but I've had a go at all of them and
they all seem solid."
The above bug is replicable (on TADS 3.0.6d & 3.0.6g), but I don't think
most people would encounter it. Best-laid plans of mice and men (and
parrots)....
Congratulations to Dan, Emily and 'Timothy Lawrence Heinrich'.
CK
Kathleen
alternate rules ("pre-approved" concepts, organizer "tested", testers
can vote...) I'm curious if anyone cares to offer an opinion on it?
It seemed to me that things went pretty much as they do for the
fall comp.
Oh, and Adam, would you be willing to share how many people
actually voted? Just the overall total number, nothing fancy
or by game or score or anything. (1, 50, 100? Bigger than a
breadbox...)
> Winner:
> Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short, MAX BLASTER AND DORIS DE LIGHTNING
> AGAINST THE PARROT CREATURES OF VENUS
Congradulations!!!
Kathleen
--
Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG
David Welbourn
> As this Comp was (I believe) somewhat of an experiment with
> alternate rules ("pre-approved" concepts, organizer "tested", testers
> can vote...) I'm curious if anyone cares to offer an opinion on it?
> It seemed to me that things went pretty much as they do for the
> fall comp.
Well, mostly. People were free to comment and post reviews early for this
one, but strangely did not. I have not done so mostly for lack of time,
partly for lack of enthuiasm for review-writing. I suppose I shall write my
reviews eventually; in brief, my votes agreed with the final results.
As a player, the things I liked about this comp: a) bigger games, b) no time
limit on playing. I dislike being rushed when I play; I spent several
sessions playing with both Inevitable and Max & Doris and quite enjoyed my
time with both.
Things about this comp that I was less than crazy about: a) that it came on
the heels of several other comps, and I was almost "comped-out", b) not
quite enough time during the playing period to really play quite as much as
I wanted to. If there had been a fifth game, I would not have had time to
play it.
-- David Welbourn