Castle Paradox

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Hey all. It's nearing the end of the year!
Everyone know about Nintendo Power's yearly Nintendo game awards?
How about we have OHR Game awards?
I'm willing to run voting again, since I didn't really have any
problem with it last time. I spent a while thinking of awards suitable
for a ceremony like this, and this is what I came up with.
Who's all for this? Anyone against it?
If you're for it and there's another award that you think should be on
the list, tell me about it! This is all just a bunch of ideas now,
but hey, it could be something great to do yearly.

(Don't vote :p)

The Awards

- Graphical Awards -
(All graphics must be original since we are grading by skill of the
author)

Best graphics overall:
Which OHR game has the best graphics? When you play this game, it
looks better than any other OHR game out there.

Best sprites:
Which OHR game has the best sprites? Heroes, enemies, NPCs, etc.

Best maptiles:
Which OHR game has the best maptiles? Self-explanatory.

Best backgrounds:
Again, self-explanatory. This includes cutscenes and battle
backgrounds.

Best battle graphics:
Which game's battles look the best? This takes battle sprites, enemy
graphics, attacks, weapons, and battle backgrounds into account.

- Musical Awards -
(All music given an award must be original)

Best music overall:
The game with the best original music altogether.

Best battle music:
Self-explanatory

Most emotional music:
Any OHR game's music brought out any emotion? Any of them came close?
I'm considering dropping this one. BAM can only do so much...

Most inspiring music:
Which OHR game's music has inspired you to do something in the game?
Also considering dropping.

- Writing/Story/Character Awards -

Best story overall:
Which game has the best, most well-told story?

Best story event:
Any events in a game stuck out in your mind? (Like the opera in FFVI)

Most original story:
A game with a story so unusual or uncliché that it's great.

Best cast overall:
Which game has the most solid cast of characters(personality-wise)?

Best character:
Is there one character that is just that darn lovable?

Best hero:
Which OHR Hero is the greatest?

Best villian:
Which OHR Villian is the nastiest?(No, we can't vote for newbies! Raspberry!

)

- General Design Awards -
(Most of these awards go to games with battles)

Best battles:
Which OHR game has the most entertaining, interesting battles?

Best balance:
Which OHR game has the best equipment, hero-enemy balance, etc?

Best enemies:
Best-designed enemies in an OHR game.

Best heroes(battle):
Bst-designed heroes in an OHR game(in battle).

Best maps:
Best-designed maps in an OHR game.

Best individual map:
THe BEST map in any OHR game.

Best puzzle in a map:
The best puzzle on any particular map in any OHR game.

- 'Out there' Awards -

Game most likely to be mistaken for a commercial game:
Self-explanatory

Game that most deserves to be remade commercially:
Self-explanatory

Best game author overall:
Who makes the best games over and over in your mind?

Most irritating game author:
Who just plain gets on your nerves?

Most improvement in a newcomer:
Who started out 'n00bish' but has gradually become interesting and
well-respected? (Might need to drop THIS one too)

Best game author graphically:
Self-explanatory

Best plotscripter:
Self-explanatory

Best musician:
Self-explanatory

Most bizarre author:
Who is just plain WEIRD?

Author you really want to see make a/another game:
Self-explanatory

Game you really want to be updated:
Self-explanatory

Best dialogue overall:
Which game has the best dialogue?(Conversations, etc)

Funniest game:
Self-explanatory

Outstanding plotscripting:
Which game just blows your mind, ie "HOW IN JAMES' NAME DID HE DO
THAT?!"

Best non-RPG:
Which game which is NOT a RPG is the best?

Best mini-game:
In any OHR game.

Most bizarre:
Which OHR game is just plain weird?

Best reference in a game:
Best pop-culture reference, other game reference, author reference,
etc.

Most replayable game:
Any OHR game you can play more than once?

Worst game:
Self-explanatory

Best 48 Hour game:
Self-explanatory

Best underrated game:
Any game that really need recognition?

Game you hate so much that you want to kill it:
Self-explanatory

The Spam Man Award:
Best OHRRPGCE programmer!

Me · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:21 pm Post subject:

I would support this. Although it's a bit close to the top 30/15, I like the amount of possible categories. However, I'd suggest removing the ones like Most Irritating, Game You'd Like to Kill, etc. - the ones that are derogatory in nature. While it would be fun to bash people you dislike by voting for them there (I can think of a few myself), it just wouldn't promote the sense of community that we're trying to maintain here. Leave those awards for Scyree and BSOHR.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Hehe, I was mainly kidding about those anyway. Besides, the same people/games would win every year!

Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

So this is just for 2003. Ok.

DDDDDDDDDAAAAANG! Me and Mr. B dropped our super-sexy project because we both feel inadequate...our next project is more medium sized then large I hope (as soon as school calms down) but you never know, we might have something by the end of the year *finishes Stop^-10's story*

Um...maybe we should do this in January, after we are sure all the games of this year have been submitted. Mr. Nintendo said he'd have some stuff later on...

YEah. Sounds good, thought. That is a lot of catagories
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jabbercat · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 1:40 pm Post subject:

I back that very much so! Seems good fun but as Me said try not to do anything unpolite

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Well, that's one reason that I forwarded the idea before I actually started planning; I don't want to be the sole person behind this.

Shadow- It isn't just '03 games; you can vote for any game. Maybe I should include separate categories for games made in '03 only?

Squall · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:02 pm Post subject:

I support the idea. Go JSH!

TMC · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject:

I say go for it. Because its categorised, its quite different from the top 15. Reminds me of the OHRympics.

But I think that that's far too many categories, and some of them are repeats, such as several of the general awards which go on about battles.

Also, I think you should drop the Most emotional music and Most inspiring music.

Maybe you could have it that this year we vote for all games up to this point, and next year we vote for 2004 games only. (Or maybe we vote for games from the last 2 years, so that any particularly good games that override everything else eventually drop out)
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:21 am Post subject:

I don't see any usefulness in that. Most people already know that they're old games because they're better than other games.
Plus the fact that the game's author is probably long gone with his "life" or something.
Edit: Er, this is in response to Fenrir.

Setu_Firestorm · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:43 am Post subject:

Yeah, what the hay? Doesn't sound like a bad idea. You're gonna have a huge list of winners though...
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LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 7:41 am Post subject:

Does someone really make one game a year??? I am working on 5 or something. Most people get all, "OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY", and release all 5 games in a year. Of course that depends on how fast they are. My point is, maybe release them sparingly and that way we will have something to look at 5 years from now. (Although some people may not look that far ahead of time) GO CRAZY! AHHH!!! Ha ha ha!

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Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

...I tend to work on two projects at once...a short one and a longer one. I'm currently beginning a REALLY short project I hopefully with have completed by the end of the year. Consider it a Christmas Present...I'm sure you guys will...eh..."love" it...MWHAHA.

Uh...yeah.
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Pepsi Ranger · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:05 pm Post subject:

Not to dampen anybody's spirits on the matter here, but the OHRlympics, which was the last awards ceremony to attempt this, only had six voters participate, and those voters could choose any games they wanted. Having said that, I think that limiting the votes to only the games released in 2003 will have a highly undesirable adverse effect. Instead of encouraging people to play new games, I think it'll drive people away from voting entirely.

For example, there were only four games released this year that I played all the way through, and two of them were Halloween games. Do I really want to vote for those same four games over and over all the way through, when most of them probably wouldn't be eligible for certain categories (like original music for example)? I can tell you right now that it's highly unlikely that I'll be picking up any new games before the end of the year, so my desire to vote in this capacity would not be very high.

Figure if most of the community chose not to vote having had the freedom of picking from the entire OHR library, then I'm not so certain that limiting the votes to a single year will make it better.

Granted I don't want to shoot down this idea of keeping it yearly completely. Professional awards ceremonies manage to make it work, so there's a chance that this could work too. But what you need is people committed to vote (who have played all the new releases of 2003), and games that are worth voting for (which the professional markets have). If either is missing, then I'd suggest keeping it as a general vote for all OHR games until the day comes when making it yearly is worth it.

And if it's free range for all games, then maybe it'll be yet another excuse for game designers to produce better games so that Wandering Hamster, etc. won't dominate every category, all the time, every year.

So there you go.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

I was throwing around the idea of having separate awards for recent and unrecent games, but the more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards sticking with my original idea. So what if the same games always win? If they're better, they're better, and only a fool would vote for the same game if a better game came out.

But assuming this award ceremony goes on, how should voting work? We could do a 'pick your top 3' method, but I would need at least one other person to help with tallying simply because of the amount of votes. We could have one vote per category per person, but would that produce accurate results? Hmm.