#BGE2020 - Round 1 - Pool 253

[This Old Neon]

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!

[Kong Wen]

Another strong pool! I had to give Uninvited a full 3 votes for being an excellent scary adventure on the NES. Desert Golfing gets 2 votes for being a brilliant and fun play-it-forever game. And my final vote goes to Borderlands for being a great Diablo-with-guns. Going to have to snub Castlevania III until the second round, I suppose. But at least it's my least favourite of the original classicvania trilogy, so I can't feel too bad.

[The Shoemaker]

Yoshi is a good solid puzzle game, real solid.

[Claytone]

Castlevania III whips ass, and Desert Golfing is less good than its sequel but still a perfect mobile game.