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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!

I see Clay's new nomination sneaked in just in time! I can't give it full Picross votes because it's a tiny reward game, but it is Picross.

Also casting a couple votes for Quenzar's! Who nominated this?!

Wow a good handful of games on this list on my todo list but that I have not actually played. Maybe next time!

Kong Wen wrote: ↑11 May 2020 21:04 I see Clay's new nomination sneaked in just in time! I can't give it full Picross votes because it's a tiny reward game, but it is Picross.

Conversely, regular Picross puts me to sleep! I have only really enjoyed the themed ones.

Claytone wrote: ↑11 May 2020 21:08 Wow a good handful of games on this list on my todo list but that I have not actually played. Maybe next time!

Kong Wen wrote: ↑11 May 2020 21:04 I see Clay's new nomination sneaked in just in time! I can't give it full Picross votes because it's a tiny reward game, but it is Picross.

Conversely, regular Picross puts me to sleep! I have only really enjoyed the themed ones.

Did you play the freemium Pokemon one? I would rank that one above this, even though I prefer Zelda as a franchise, simply because the Pokemon one has so much content! The Zelda one is tight but very small.

Kong Wen wrote: ↑11 May 2020 21:14 Did you play the freemium Pokemon one? I would rank that one above this, even though I prefer Zelda as a franchise, simply because the Pokemon one has so much content! The Zelda one is tight but very small.

I did! I liked it, but the freemium nature of it kinda wore on me. Maybe I'll bust it back out as a before-bed game. Certainly nothing wrong with it other than that.

Claytone wrote: ↑11 May 2020 21:32

Kong Wen wrote: ↑11 May 2020 21:14 Did you play the freemium Pokemon one? I would rank that one above this, even though I prefer Zelda as a franchise, simply because the Pokemon one has so much content! The Zelda one is tight but very small.

I did! I liked it, but the freemium nature of it kinda wore on me. Maybe I'll bust it back out as a before-bed game. Certainly nothing wrong with it other than that.

I played it exclusively as a puzzle-before-bed game over a span of a couple months, completely free, and I think that's what prevented the freemium nag from driving me nuts.