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Why not? One or two extra votes might not seem like much, but if we all do it victory is assured!

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Why not? One or two extra votes might not seem like much, but if we all do it victory is assured!
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I'm not sure I understand what this award measures... if we win it, will people think DROD won because it's awesome, or recognize it for the creepy cult it is?

Also, I'm a bit confused about JtRH being filed under "Adventure > Quest" category in GameTunnel. Will TCB follow suit? Who does the filing and how did they fail to recognize it as a puzzle game? The review seems spot on, so it can't be the guy who did it. Also, the release date for JtRH is listed as April 15th, when in reality it was April 1st (2nd for the linux version).

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It's filed under 'Adventure' because we ask them to. That way people don't confuse it for the match-3 games commonly referred to as 'puzzle games'.

if we win it, will people think DROD won because it's awesome, or recognize it for the creepy cult it is?

The second one, but that's okay. They'll probably think it's a little bit of the first, and frankly the problem we have is not convincing people to play the game but having them hear of it in the first place.

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I guess so... Much like using the Torque engine for Marble Blast for example.
Torgue is made by GarageGames, however. So that's more like using the DROD engine for DROD. Except less is handled by the all-purpose engine. (Torque, I do believe, handles graphics and physics.) So it's more like using whatever engine Portal uses for Portal. Maybe.

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So it's more like using whatever engine Portal uses for Portal. Maybe.

Portal uses Valve's Source engine, so it's an in-house engine as well.

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That's what I meant. Marble Blast using Torque is like Portal using Source.

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Come on now, I know DROD has more than 44 fans. We're falling behind! We need 19 votes to take the lead.

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Come on now, I know DROD has more than 44 fans. We're falling behind! We need 19 votes to take the lead.
I was wondering about that too. IIRC, JtRH received about 100 votes two years ago. Seems we still have a large, untapped voting potential. Maybe Erik can mention it in the newsletter if one goes out in the next ten days or so.

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Since I was a big fan of Ahriman's Prophecy and Aveyond 1, I recently played through Aveyond 2. It seems to have been dumbed down for 8-year olds. I was very disappointed, and don't think it deserves first place at all.

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The City Beneath has plenty of its own flaws, but compared to Aveyond 2, it is well worth your vote for first place!
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Since I was a big fan of Ahriman's Prophecy and Aveyond 1, I recently played through Aveyond 2. It seems to have been dumbed down for 8-year olds. I was very disappointed, and don't think it deserves first place at all.
Thanks for that review. Was considering playing through it too having played the first one, and I won't bother now. Cheers for saving me lots of time :)
12-18-2007 at 01:13 AM
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Aveyond 2 has got a lot of votes because they have a huge forum community built up in a similar way to ours. I wanted to like Aveyond, but it was just a little too cute and simple for my taste. Still, Aveyond is known as an early success story for casual RPGs, which was a dubious market before.

By the way, Amanda, the author, lives up in the Seattle area, and I've ran into her a few times. Nice gal.

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Jatopian wrote:
Come on now, I know DROD has more than 44 fans. We're falling behind! We need 19 votes to take the lead.
In my case, I'm not voting because it would be dishonest. Out of the games on the list, DROD is the only one I know -- how could I call it the best one?
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Znirk wrote:
Jatopian wrote:
Come on now, I know DROD has more than 44 fans. We're falling behind! We need 19 votes to take the lead.
In my case, I'm not voting because it would be dishonest. Out of the games on the list, DROD is the only one I know -- how could I call it the best one?
Well, in that case hardly anybody should vote on it, since I'm pretty sure the number of people that know all the games is practically nil.

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In my case, I'm not voting because it would be dishonest. Out of the games on the list, DROD is the only one I know -- how could I call it the best one?
Blasphemy!

Well, actually as Erik explained, this is not voting for it as the best but rather voting for it as the game with most supportive community. Not knowing any other game is actually a good cause for voting DROD... I even considered voting Aquaria (which won the IGF 2007 by the way), but I am not active in that community.

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Jatopian wrote:
Come on now, I know DROD has more than 44 fans. We're falling behind! We need 19 votes to take the lead.
In my case, I'm not voting because it would be dishonest. Out of the games on the list, DROD is the only one I know -- how could I call it the best one?

As other people posted above, that's sort of missing the point. This is not a poll about you making informed choices about which game you like best. It's a way to express support for games you love. Winning this poll doesn't say "X people thought this was the best game", but rather "This game has more fans than any of the other games".

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I fotgot my username and password, but you need to fill in username & e-mail-adress.

After a bit of searching (read try and error),
I found my username again.

And so I finally voted!!!
(afcourse for TCB) :thumbsup

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Voted.
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And one more vote from me :)
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Two votes away from second place!

As far as the Illumination goes, I'm following the "eBay" strategy of bidding late. The Illumination will hopefully bring in a late surge in votes that the other game communities will not have time to react to. If I was the type of guy to laugh evilly, I would do it here. Hmm. I'll just tent my fingers together instead.

The other reason for putting out the Illumination late is a little simpler: I haven't had time to finish writing it yet. :)

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And I've put us into outright second.

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Keep it up, DRODers and forumites! ('oremites?) Go vote! :whip

I've voted, too.

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Great work guys! I've already voted, but keep it up! We can do it!

We only need nine more votes to put us joint first!

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I must confess that I voted for Loonyland 2. Mainly because I'm more tied to that community than this one. And it has the advantage of not making me bang my head on nearby blunt objects.

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We only need nine more votes to put us outright first!
Fixed. :) (Making me register for something is surprisingly effective at making me put it off for ages...)
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I must confess that I voted for Loonyland 2. Mainly because I'm more tied to that community than this one. And it has the advantage of not making me bang my head on nearby blunt objects.

*Runs and hides*

Hey, that seems like a perfectly good reason to vote for Loonyland 2. Which is a great game, by the way, even though I found madcap mode to be rather tedious and never completed the second playthrough. I somehow missed it on my earlier list of games I've played, so I'm glad you pointed it out...

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Oooookay... I voted for TCB, but Fashion Cents went up instead. Huh. :(
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Oooookay... I voted for TCB, but Fashion Cents went up instead. Huh. :(
A likely story ;)

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