The Thirteenth Annual People's Choice Awards
Welcome to the
Thirteenth Annual People's Choice Awards (also known as
The Deadlies)!
Yes it's that time of year again! The time where the community gets to have their say in the best DROD events of 2016. Last year saw the release of all of the DROD games on Steam! So hopefully we can point our new expanded audience to the best that the DROD community has to offer. Also of particular note this year is the massive explosion in the number of RPG holds, achieving a new record!
What follows owes a great deal to gamer_extreme_101, RoboBob3000, CuriousShyRabbit, Trickster and RabidChild, all of whom put on this awards show in past years and helped to define the rules and categories. Thanks again to Nuntar for double-checking these threads before I post them.
So how does voting work? Here's the lowdown:
*You can vote for ONE AND ONLY ONE option in EACH category.
*There is the option in each category to not vote if you do not wish to cast a vote for anybody in particular.
*All of your votes must be submitted at the same time. You only get one opportunity to vote, so choose carefully!
*If you choose to view the results before voting, YOU WILL FORFEIT YOUR ABILITY TO CAST A VOTE! So don't do that if you wish to cast any votes.
*You are allowed to vote for yourself and your own holds if you wish.
*Voting will end on the 1st March, so you still have a month to play any holds that you've yet to try.
Here is a list in alphabetical order of all of the holds released this year:
DROD
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Annie's Half-Finished Hold by Lucky Luc
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Avos' Dungeon by GerAvos
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Beethro Budkin's Big Burrito Butt Blast by kieranmillar
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Blind Race #1: On Your Marks by Lucky Luc (Collaboration)
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Blind Race #2: Ready, Set, Go! by blorx1 (Collaboration)
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Blind Race #3: A Three-for-All by Nuntar (Collaboration)
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Chance for Paradise by Crimson Moon
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DRO by kieranmillar
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DROD Standard Compilation by hyperme (Collaboration)
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Gardeviance by disoriented
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Ghostsmiters by Bent
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Hold by blorx1
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Jmit' 2 by EvgeniyS
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Like Grains In An Hourglass by Jeff_Ray...
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Mini Mimicry by bomber50
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Persistence by Xindaris
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Rodents of unusual size by Red-XIII
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Secluded Sanctum by Doom
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Temporal Adventure by hyperme
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The Spacetime Kerfluffle by Xindaris
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Torus by Insoluble
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WYSISWG by Insoluble (Collaboration)
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Xindaris' First Hold by Xindaris
DROD RPG
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2016 Year of RPG Compilation by kieranmillar (Collaboration)
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Castle Repton by Nuntar
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Fetch The Pie by Chaco
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One way by Red-XIII
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Rock Candy Mines by Chaco
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RPG Anonymous 3 by hyperme (Collaboration)
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Ten-minutes distraction by Suwako
The 15 award categories are:
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: Here are links:
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More RPG HD Graphics by DezzTech
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Workshop Room Style by Chaco
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 of this posting) 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 of this posting) are eligible for this award.
9. DROD Hold of the Year
This award is for the best DROD hold published in 2016.
10. DROD RPG Level Set of the Year
This award is for the best DROD RPG level set published in 2016.
11. Best Voice Artist in a Distinct Role
This award is for the best voice acting in a hold published in 2016.
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. Previous winners of the Erik Hermansen Award are:
*Doom (2006)
*LarryMurk (2007)
*Jacob (2008)
*BoyBlue (2009)
*Rheb (2010)
*Chaco (2011)
*Dischorran (2012)
*mxvladi (2013)
*blorx1 (2014)
*Jutt (2015)
Architects who have not previously won this award, published their first stand-alone (non-compilation) hold or level set in 2014 or earlier, have published at least one stand-alone hold or level set in 2016, and have created at least four stand-alone holds or level sets with an average vote of 7.0 or higher "
fun"
(at the time of this posting) are eligible for this award.
Note: Here are links to each nominee's holds:
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bomber50
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Jeff_Ray... (RPG)
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kieranmillar (RPG)
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Red-XIII (RPG)
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.
Here are this year's candidates, along with an abridged list of the reasons why they were nominated:
* Chaco - Hold Admin work
* disoriented - Completing all holds
* Doom - Hold Admin work
* Dragon Fogel - Completing all holds, completing all challenges, contributing to Blind Race #3, being an all-round good guy, excellent beta testing and bug reporting
* hyperme - Hosting the RPG Hold Anonymous 3 collaboration, developing interest in RPG, working on the source code, contibutions to Entry Point
* kieranmillar - Hosting the Deadlies, hosting the 2016 Year of RPG contest, developing interest in RPG, Hold Admin work
* Nuntar - Taking on Contest Coordinator role, running the Entry Point project
15. Best DROD Let's Player
The Let's Play community for DROD has really kicked off this year, so this new award recognises your favourite Let's Player, who has dedicated lots of time and energy in helping you enjoy DROD in new ways!
Here are links to each Let's Player's Youtube/Twitch channel (or single video in some cases):
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Chaco (Leylite)
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Crimson Moon (DRODcentral)
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Jeff_Ray... (BeethroBudkin07)
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Lucky Luc (lutetiumpotassiumarsenic)
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Nuntar (SentinelProxima)
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Pearls (Pearls13a)
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Paragusrants (on Twitch)
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ThemsAllTook (Alex Diener)
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Wafflem
Happy voting!
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Links
History of the People's Choice Awards
The First Annual People's Choice Awards |
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Tiebreaker
The Second Annual People’s Choice Awards |
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The Third Annual People’s Choice Awards |
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Final Round |
Tiebreaker
The Fourth Annual People’s Choice Awards |
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Tiebreaker |
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The Fifth Annual People's Choice Awards |
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Tiebreaker |
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The Sixth Annual People's Choice Awards |
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The Seventh Annual People's Choice Awards |
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The Eighth Annual People's Choice Awards |
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The Ninth Annual People's Choice Awards |
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The Tenth Annual People's Choice Awards |
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The Eleventh Annual People's Choice Awards |
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The Twelfth Annual People's Choice Awards |
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