Re: Next years Origins

From: Hugh Bayer <hughb@vbe.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:47:45 +0000

Jason Paul McCartan wrote:

> Okay, so there's some general agreement that the PBM community is disjointed
> and disparate in location and communication, and that the Origins Awards
> results for the past few years have shown this.
>
> What _could_ be done to improve the situation ?
>
> What would be a good thing to allow PBM/PBeM/PBW players to have more of a
> global community that kept them up to date ?
>

I've been involved in the Origins Awards process from the outside (as a non-GAMA
member), and now as a GAMA member. The first time my game did not get onto the
nominated list. As a GAMA member my game did get on the nominated list, but did
not win. Looking back, I suspect I could have increased my chances to win by
making a greater effort to court the GAMA members. But the award should be about
the quality of the game, not how well known I am among GAMA.

I think we could come much closer to reflecting the judgement of the
PB(whatever) community by emulating the currently comatose Paper Mayhem's rating
system. In it people submitted ratings of 1 to 10 for games, so a mediocre game
with a huge player base ended up with a mediocre rating. Let the PBM category of
Origins be heavily weighted by these ratings, and not the votes of GAMA members
that are most likely either extremely biased (not hard to guess how I voted) or
ignorant of the games in question.

Of course this concept is nowhere near perfect, as ballot stuffing and other
creative tactics could be employed. I still think it would be better than the
current Origins system. Making the vote summaries public would certainly give
the affair a greater air of respectability as well IMO.

Hugh
www.epmgames.com

P.S. If the person/company currently owning Paper Mayhem sees this please
contact me. Thanks.

References

Next years Origins
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:26:03 +0000

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Next years Origins
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:26:03 +0000