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Woodrat Gameblogging Award Nominees 2018
Dec. 2nd, 2018 09:20 amI was checking my archive posts to see what kind of timeframe the month of December looked like--I recall it being a busy month with the Gameblogging Award nominees post, the actual winners post, and of course the sentimental year in review thing, but which of those happened when again?
Turns out AAAA THE NOMINEES ARE TODAY AAAA
Okay. So. Gaming Year 2018 is officially closed, meaning even if I beat a new game tomorrow, that would count as 2019 for the purposes of next year's nominations and awards. (This also means that games from last December are included here.)
According to a quick rough count that may or may not be 100% accurate, in gaming year 2018 I completed 38 games and abandoned 5. (Note that these figures include one point each to Completed and Abandoned for Varenje and Escape the Game. The batch of 24 Hours of ZZT contest entries got lumped together and are only worth one Completed entry combined, but every IFComp game was counted separately.) In 2017, I completed 21-24 games depending on how strictly you want to count certain special cases, and abandoned 5. So, this was a good year for gaming.
This year, there is one major change to the format, which particularly eagle-eyed viewers might have noticed from the post title: It's not just Celine's Gameblogging Awards anymore. Sara wants to be involved! :3
Sara:
Hi! ^^
Celine:
And no, this isn't a way to cop out and split the votes on some of those really tough "pick your favorite child" decisions I had to make last year. We've already done some preliminary discussions and found a few cases where I would have picked two winners for a category if I could, because it was a really tough choice between several worthy contenders, but she's going to end up breaking the same way I probably eventually do. Likewise, there are a few cases I feel are the kind of slam-dunk obvious choices where I'd like to just vote for that one twice if I could, but she disagrees. :P No, we're both just approaching these independently, without worrying about how our picks look next to each other.
We keep an overall spreadsheet for at-a-glance info of this and previous years' nominees and winners all right here, if you're interested. Handy!
( And the nominees are... )
Whew. And there you have it. So, as always, we strongly encourage you to speculate on the picks either of us are going to make, and to discuss the picks you would make. We each have pretty good ideas what we're picking for at least a few of these already, but not all of them are 100% decided yet. Crowd participation making really good points why one particular game deserved a particular category actually did sway a few of my picks last year!
But mainly, I just look forward to the participation because... you know. Games are fun. Responses and comments and discussions are fun. This is all a big party and I want everyone invited.
Sara:
Including me! :3
Celine:
Absolutely. <3
Turns out AAAA THE NOMINEES ARE TODAY AAAA
Okay. So. Gaming Year 2018 is officially closed, meaning even if I beat a new game tomorrow, that would count as 2019 for the purposes of next year's nominations and awards. (This also means that games from last December are included here.)
According to a quick rough count that may or may not be 100% accurate, in gaming year 2018 I completed 38 games and abandoned 5. (Note that these figures include one point each to Completed and Abandoned for Varenje and Escape the Game. The batch of 24 Hours of ZZT contest entries got lumped together and are only worth one Completed entry combined, but every IFComp game was counted separately.) In 2017, I completed 21-24 games depending on how strictly you want to count certain special cases, and abandoned 5. So, this was a good year for gaming.
This year, there is one major change to the format, which particularly eagle-eyed viewers might have noticed from the post title: It's not just Celine's Gameblogging Awards anymore. Sara wants to be involved! :3
Sara:
Hi! ^^
Celine:
And no, this isn't a way to cop out and split the votes on some of those really tough "pick your favorite child" decisions I had to make last year. We've already done some preliminary discussions and found a few cases where I would have picked two winners for a category if I could, because it was a really tough choice between several worthy contenders, but she's going to end up breaking the same way I probably eventually do. Likewise, there are a few cases I feel are the kind of slam-dunk obvious choices where I'd like to just vote for that one twice if I could, but she disagrees. :P No, we're both just approaching these independently, without worrying about how our picks look next to each other.
We keep an overall spreadsheet for at-a-glance info of this and previous years' nominees and winners all right here, if you're interested. Handy!
( And the nominees are... )Whew. And there you have it. So, as always, we strongly encourage you to speculate on the picks either of us are going to make, and to discuss the picks you would make. We each have pretty good ideas what we're picking for at least a few of these already, but not all of them are 100% decided yet. Crowd participation making really good points why one particular game deserved a particular category actually did sway a few of my picks last year!
But mainly, I just look forward to the participation because... you know. Games are fun. Responses and comments and discussions are fun. This is all a big party and I want everyone invited.
Sara:
Including me! :3
Celine:
Absolutely. <3
