Ronnies 2011, Round One results
Ron Edwards:
Hi everyone,
I'd chosen to use this set of four terms for the first round in part because they seemed straightforward. However, fortunately, they turned out to be also extremely punchy, perhaps partly because they didn't require exotic, demanding, or tortuous connections. Given that punchiness, which easily rivaled or exceeded that found back in the day with "rat," "hatred," and "girlfriend," I was sorta bummed that more authors didn't take a little time to find fonts or pictures to spice up the documents a little. I know that I said format didn't count, which is true, but some of the work just cried out for a little spice to make the physical act of looking at them all that much more fun.
Without further ado ... (order of titles within categories is not meaningful) ...
Ronnies
Cold Soldier by Bret Gillan, Death's Head by Rudy Johnson, Danse Macabre by William Durea
Runners-Up
Diary of a Skull Soldier by Callan Sweet, Sword of the Skull by Willow Palecek, Skull Full of Bong Hits by Nick Aubergine, Demilich by Noam Rosen
All of the above, Ronnies and Runners-Up alike, "had me at hello" for various reasons. All but one displayed excellent use of the two terms. The cut-off almost always concerns distinct holes or confusions very obviously found in what's otherwise wonderful. For what it's worth, two of the Runners-Up are probably the ones I would most personally like to see developed into published games, over and above the actual Ronnies recipients.
To clarify what follows, the two groupings below are equivalent in quality; they differ in type but one is not worse than the other.
Baking - the issue here is that the components of the game are sound, but don't quite work together or are missing some particular connection that would make them "jump" much better
Keen Edge of History by Cliff Horowitz, Knights of Twilight by Davide Losito, untitled jeepform by Ben Lehman, Facing the End by Lee Hammons
Mixing - the issue here is that the components themselves need to be traded out or around in some way, although the "baking" may well be in good shape
Veterans by Rush Wright, The War of the Sheaves by Zac Dettwyler, The Sword and the Skull by Troy Costisick, Swords of the Skull-Takers by Joe Prince, The Eye in the Pyramid by David Berg
Unlike previous Ronnies, there are no genuinely poor or inadequate entries in the whole batch.
Some patterns concerning the terms combinations are definitely evident! I'll post about that later in this thread, in the interest of getting these, the results, out there without further delay.
For those of you unfamiliar with the previous Ronnies, I will begin a thread in this forum regarding each and every game, in detail. Feel free to start discussions of your own as well, here or in Game Development, as Cliff has already done. I am composing the opening posts for all the threads simultaneously and will post each as they get finished, so there is no planned or emergent order for when they appear.
Best, Ron
Troy_Costisick:
Congrats to Bret, Rudy, and William! Great work, guys! :)
Peace,
-Troy
whduryea:
Quote from: Ron Edwards on January 05, 2011, 02:27:00 PM
I was sorta bummed that more authors didn't take a little time to find fonts or pictures to spice up the documents a little. I know that I said format didn't count, which is true, but some of the work just cried out for a little spice to make the physical act of looking at them all that much more fun.
This was absolutely true of my entry. I had hoped to do a lot more with it visually--or at least add a title page--but I procrastinated and ended up having to seriously prune my ambitions in order to submit the game within the time limit.
One small, meaningless nitpick: My last name is Duryea. The "y" has no real justification for being there, but it is none-the-less.
I was also really impressed by the quality of the games that were submitted. I'm hoping to get a group together to playtest a few of them in the near future.
FetusCommander:
Wow. I'm absolutely in shock!
Good games to be had all around. I'm also looking forward to playtesting several of the entries.
-Rudy
DocSavage:
Congrats to the winners!
I have been working to tie things all together in my game, and I have put in a lot more work since the initial draft. It is the same game, with better implementation of some things. I hope to see everyone's game get polished and refined.
What a strange adventure. I have had fun and the only cost was a night of sleep.
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