Castle Paradox

djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

I'm looking for 3 judges to judge the first round of the 48 hour contest. Judging will be very simple.

Each judge will give scores to aspects of each game, and the final score will be tallied up to give a final overall score. Of course, that means the game with the highest score will be the victor. Simple? The scorecard will look like this:

Graphics: out of 5
Sound: out of 5
Story: out of 5
Gameplay: out of 5
Relavence to theme: out of 10

Thus giving a possible 30 points from each judge, and a whooping total of a possible 90 points.

Also, judges will be changing each week (given that there are any takers). So pm me if you want to be a judge (for this round or any other rounds that may take place)

Blue Pixel · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject:

can i judge and enter?
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djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

Moogle1 · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject:

How much of the game are the judges required to play before judging? 48hr games are usually pretty short, but let's not forget that And& was a 48hr invention.
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TMC · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

Is there any possibility of people waiting to see whether they will enter depending on the theme before they offer to judge? A lot of the people interested enough to judge, and interested enough to consider enter, will probably be the same people.
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djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

Moogle1 · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

I told RMZ I might lend a hand on his game, but if you're short judges, then I'll do that instead. Better than forfeitting the contest, no?
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djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

If i'm short judges, i have alternatives, so i'm not too worried. I chose to do judges now because i wanted the voting to be just for the finals, but if all else fails, i could to a voting system for each round.

djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

Keep in mind that, even though each round will honour a new victor, every game still has a chance to be outstanding in a different aspect from the victor.

After the last rounds of judging, everyone will get a chance to vote for their favourite games, and vote for specific design qualities of the game. Don't think you're game will be the best in gameplay? Then out do everyone else with the graphics. Everyone has a chance to prove their worth.

So what are the titles up for grabs? Let's take a look.

Graphics
-Overall Best Graphics
-Best Battle Graphics
-Best NPC Graphics
-Best Maptiles

Music
-Best Original Soundtrack
-Best Single Score

Design
-Best Overall Game Design
-Best Narrative
-Best Map Design
-Best Gameplay
-Best Use of Plotscripting

(and finally...)
Overall Best Game

Generally the OHR is designed to make RPGs, so the catagories would do so well to reflect that. But also, like the OHR, you can always work around to keep from making an RPG and still fulfill whatever qualities that the contest demands. But anyways, keep these catagories in mind when you're making the games.