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Welcome to the first round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the set generator at Random.org. There's no seeding, no ranking, and no preference or prioritization.

The results of the pools will determine how each game stacks up in the elimination rounds, coming later this year.

HOW TO VOTE

Voting is ranked, but it's not super intuitive, so listen up.

• You have 6 total votes to distribute.
• You can only select up to 3 options.
• You can only give each option up to 3 votes.
• NOTE: The number you pick is not the RANK of your choice (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd), but the number of VOTES you're giving it.
• The more votes (bigger numbers) a game gets, the better for that game.

EXAMPLES

• You could pick three games and order them by giving them 3, 2, and 1 votes.
• If you like three games equally, you could give them 2, 2, and 2 votes.
• If you only like two games, you could give them 3 and 3 votes (or 3 and 2, etc.).

This gives you a lot of granularity for how you assign your votes and thereby a lot of influence over which games can do well. Use your power wisely!

If you have questions, ask before voting!

Woops, I missed Katamari Damacy on here or I would have probably voted for it instead of the NES Ultima port. Super Hexagon is perfect so it gets full votes, and Spelunky is also an amazingly well-designed game. I got a whole new appreciation for it after reading Derek's book. I highly recommend the book to anyone who's interested not just in the game, but in game design in general, because he does a great job of extrapolating philosophy out of his experience.

Spelunky is very good as Kong said. That book is on my to-do list for sure. NBA Maximum Hangtime is just more Jam, but it does suffer from not having Tim Kitzrow in the announcer's booth. Super Hexagon is a great twitch game but one I didn't get into quite as much as I expected. Still worth a vote.

Super Hexagon is, in fact, perfect