Hi Scott, Those are some good suggestions. If I were to create a modern clone of Asteroids I wouldn't expect it to rank high in originality since the game has been around in one form or another since the late 70's. On the other hand good music, game play, replay value, and extra features that were not in the classic 1979 Atari version might all rank it high among voters. So I agree we probably can settle the genre and format question by putting together some criteria that spans all of them by voting on creativity, audio quality, replay value, originality, and personal like/dislike. I suggest a scale from 1 to 5 which seems to be a standard for polls like this.
Cheers! On 12/28/11, Scott Chesworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Whether there'd be enough interest (or indeed time in Philip's > schedule) to justify such a framework is debatable, but how about > this. > > People vote by rating games out of 10 on different aspects, as in a > score of 10 is "this is killer", a score of 5 is "it ticks the boxes" > and a score of 1 is "meh, not so much". A few categories that would > apply across the board to most genre of games I can think of would be > originality, replayability, sound design, stability (you'd need a > catchier title for that one), and perhaps round it off with a very > generalised "overall, how awesome is this game" question. That way, > the categories combine to make it fairer. A Bop IT clone might recieve > low marks from most people for originality, but there's room for an > inovative genius to step up to the mark with a Bop IT clone that turns > out to be totally addictive and they'll get the credit they deserve > for replayability. Similarly, games that are great can shine even with > bad sound design, or awesome sound design can still stand out as what > it is even if the gaming experience ends up being a bit drab. I > suggested the overall awesomeness category because, for me at least, > there have been games I've loved or gone back to time and again but I > can't always explain why. > > It'd be a balancing act, but with the scores being made public, I > think there could be a fair system here. > > Scott > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
