Let's actually do this so that we don't have to do another double Deadlies next year.
I'm planning on running this again this year. Voting with start on July 1st and run through the month of July, so you have all of June and July to play any 2023 holds that you have yet to try.
For categories 14 and 15 I would like help from the community.
For Community Contributor, if you wish to nominate someone, send me a PM explaining who you are nominating and what the reason for the nomination is. For DROD Video Presentation, I mostly just frequent YouTube, so if anyone has been streaming DROD on Twitch in 2023, please let me know.
Holds released in 2023:
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DROD:
A Walk in the Park by Pavol
Fendik's Fortress by mauvebutterfly
war: revisited by khaim
khaim100's war: finality by khaim100
war: afterlife by khaim100
One-Tide Shoreline by Rabscuttle
DROD RPG:
Stalwart Academy by Kieran Millar
The Tower of Chaos by azb
Quake and Quail by mauvebutterfly
The 15 award categories are: (copied from previous Deadlies)
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×1. Best Custom Game Element
Once upon a time this award was awarded to the hold with the best custom element. These days, there are so many more custom elements released, with many holds containing multiple elements, that we now vote on individual elements instead. Which was your favourite?
2. Design Excellence in a Modification or Addition
This award is for the best addition to DROD that is not a hold. This is mostly in the form of a graphical mod or new room style, but can also include utilities.
Note: this year there is only one eligible candidate, and so there will be no vote.
3. Technical Design Excellence in Scripting
This award is for the hold with the best overall scripting. What this means is up to the voter, it can be for cutscenes, custom elements, challenges, and so on. With scripting, the possibilities are endless!
4. Technical Design Excellence in Layout and Aesthetics
Making a good hold isn't just about good puzzles, aesthetics are also very important! Which hold had the best aesthetics? This can be in terms of level layouts, lighting, a unique visual style, or anything at all that was pleasing to your eye.
Note: You may find the map.php tool useful.
5. Technical Design Excellence in Concept
This award is to recognise those who come up with something unique in their holds. Ranging from general puzzle concepts to entire custom elements, if any hold this year made you think "Wow, what a cool idea!" then it will be the perfect candidate for this award.
6. Creative Design Excellence in Storyline
This award is for the hold with the best storyline.
7. Creative Design Excellence in Difficulty
This award is for the best difficult hold. Whether this means it was the best hold to handle a high difficulty, or the most fun while being hard, or any other interpretation, is up to you. Only holds or level sets with an average vote of 7 or more "brains" (at the time the stats were collected) are eligible for this award.
8. Creative Design Excellence in Entertainment
This award is for the best hold that isn't very difficult. Being easy doesn't mean boring, which hold do you think worked best without resorting to extreme difficulty? Only holds or level sets with an average vote of less than 7 "brains" (at the time the stats were collected) are eligible for this award.
9. DROD Hold of the Year
This award is for the best DROD hold published in 2023.
10. DROD RPG Level Set of the Year
This award is for the best DROD RPG level set published in 2023.
11. Best Voice Artist in a Distinct Role
This award is for the best voice acting in a hold published in 2023.
12. Novice Architect Award
Which new architect was the best? To be eligible for this award, an architect must have released his or her first SOLO hold this year, any previous contribution to a collaborative hold does not count.
13. Erik Hermansen Award for Lifetime Architectural Achievement
This award is for architects who have been creating great holds for years. To create one good hold requires creativity and skill. But to keep on creating good holds, year after year, requires special dedication and inspiration, well worthy of an award. This award is so prestigious, it can only be won once in a lifetime.
Architects who have not previously won this award, published their first stand-alone (non-compilation) hold or level set in 2021 or earlier, have published at least one stand-alone hold or level set in 2023, and have created at least four stand-alone holds or level sets that each have an average vote of 7.0 or higher "fun" (at the time the stats were collected) are eligible for this award.
14. Best Community Contributor
The DROD community receives a number of excellent contributions from the community that are not necessarily directly related to architecture. This award is here to celebrate and honour those who make the DROD community a better place in their own ways. This award is entirely nomination driven and members are eligible for any reason provided somebody else nominates them.
15. Best DROD Video Presentation
Playing DROD isn't the only way you can enjoy DROD, you can watch other people enjoy it too! This award celebrates the Let's Plays and live streams about DROD.
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106th Skywatcher
