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David Fisher

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Nov 19, 2009, 8:12:15 PM11/19/09
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A while back, there was a mini competition called "GameplayComp" for games
that involved non-standard gameplay but were still IF ... there was a single
entry from Derek Sutcliffe called Fantastic Finale IV, so Derek is the
winner (yay!).

There are some reviews of this game at Brass Lantern:

http://brasslantern.org:80/reviews/text/gameplaycomp.html

This was the last in a series of six minicomps for 2009. The entries were:

SimComp - no entries
EnvComp - two entries (Dead Like Ants and La Seine)
AbilityComp - one entry (Prison Break)
NPCComp - no entries
SenseComp - no entries
GameplayComp - one entry (Fantastic Finale IV)

Thanks very much to all the reviewers; good stuff!

David Fisher


Aaron A. Reed

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Nov 19, 2009, 9:16:35 PM11/19/09
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On Nov 19, 5:12 pm, "David Fisher"

Thanks so much for running this comp series, David. I'm curious if you
have any postmortem thoughts to offer on how it went?

I really liked the idea of having a large, pre-announced panel of
judges beforehand. I would love to see this idea survive to a future
comp.

--Aaron

David Fisher

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Nov 20, 2009, 1:01:06 AM11/20/09
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"Aaron A. Reed" <aar...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 19, 5:12 pm, "David Fisher" wrote:
>> This was the last in a series of six minicomps for 2009.
...

>> Thanks very much to all the reviewers; good stuff!
>
> Thanks so much for running this comp series, David. I'm curious if
> you have any postmortem thoughts to offer on how it went?

Well, several new authors got some stuff "out there" along with some
excellent feedback ... and I'm aware of at least one person who was inspired
to write something that didn't end up making it into the competition, but
will probably get finished one day, so that's a good result too.

People had some other thoughts in this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/4978ff4eba013609

> I really liked the idea of having a large, pre-announced panel of
> judges beforehand. I would love to see this idea survive to a future
> comp.

Me, too ... the judges had plenty of interesting things to say.

(And thanks to Stephen Granade for hosting the reviews!)

David Fisher


Roger

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Nov 21, 2009, 7:22:05 PM11/21/09
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On Nov 19, 8:12 pm, "David Fisher"

I just wanted to say that I found this series of competitions VERY
interesting and I started putting together an entry for SenseComp, but
I just didn't have enough time at the time. I know it must be
disheartening to get little-to-know entries, but as others have
pointed out, I think there just BEING an enterable contest of this
kind lends inspiration to potential writers. So thank you, and I'm
sorry I didn't couldn't enter. :)

Roger

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Nov 21, 2009, 7:42:02 PM11/21/09
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*that should read "little-to-NO" entries not "-know". Sheesh.

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