2015 "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Nomination Thread
Posted: 14 Jun 2014 20:33
Welcome to the 2015 "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project
The “BEST GAME EVER!!!” Project is not intended to champion any particular objective quality. The best game can be the best for any of a number of reasons: its earnings or critical reception, its influence and impact, the emotional resonance of its art or music, the playability of its mechanics or the thoughtfulness of its design, the immersiveness of its world, the quality of its writing and characterization, or the memories and nostalgia it invokes. All participants are invited to engage in their own ways, and nominate and vote according to their own criteria, however arbitrary and however personal.
Feel free to explain the rationale behind your nominations! That’s the heart of this Project.
The flexible structure of the Project ensures that there will be disagreements, whether about the rationale behind a nomination or about the personal criteria by which a game is being evaluated. Debate and discussion is encouraged, but please be alert and sensitive to the experiences and preferences of your fellow community of gamers. Something that's not important to you may be incredibly meaningful for someone else.
Rules
You can nominate games according to your own criteria. They can be the games that you think are objectively the best, or your favourites, or games you feel are influential. It is important that your nominations at least mean something to you. If you’ve simply read second-hand critical sources that claim a particular game is good, maybe that's a nomination you can leave to the judgment of others. But if you stayed up several long nights watching your sister play a compelling game, that could be a legitimate nomination, even if you never played yourself.
This nomination process includes all video games, past and present, on any platform (including various personal computer platforms, home and handheld consoles, arcade cabinets, mobile devices, etc.). Please don't nominate compilations of games that were also released as stand-alone titles. Nominate the individual games instead! Be sure to mention which platform your game is on, or we'll have to make assumptions for you.
You can nominate as many or as few games as you want. This is not a ranked list, so the order of your nominations doesn’t matter. You don't have to wait until you have a full final list before you post. You can submit your nominations in chunks. You can keep adding new nominations up until the deadline.
The nomination period will close on Thursday, 10 September 2015. After this first phase has ended, nominated games will be seeded into brackets and the voting rounds will begin.
Weighted Nominations
For the purposes of seeding into brackets for the voting rounds that follow the nomination period, nominations will be weighted. The value of every individual's nominations will add up to 1. If you only nominate 1 game, it will get 1 point towards its seed rank; if you nominate 100 games, they will each get 0.01 points, and so on.
This weighting system introduces a dynamic of risk that forces you to consider how many games you want to nominate. It also provides a balance, ensuring that people who only nominate a few games have as much impact on the Project as people who nominate many. Finally, it provides a disincentive to simply nominating as many games as possible without necessarily caring about the rationale.
At the end of the nomination phase, the weighted nominations will be totalled and the resulting values will determine each game's position in the voting brackets.
Prizes
Everyone who submits a list of nominations will be entered in a random draw to win a copy of N++ (PS4), Rogue Legacy (Xbox One), or a $20 Steam card. This Old Neon staff and their family members are not eligible to win.
For more information about the "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project, feel free to read the launch article at This Old Neon.
The “BEST GAME EVER!!!” Project is not intended to champion any particular objective quality. The best game can be the best for any of a number of reasons: its earnings or critical reception, its influence and impact, the emotional resonance of its art or music, the playability of its mechanics or the thoughtfulness of its design, the immersiveness of its world, the quality of its writing and characterization, or the memories and nostalgia it invokes. All participants are invited to engage in their own ways, and nominate and vote according to their own criteria, however arbitrary and however personal.
Feel free to explain the rationale behind your nominations! That’s the heart of this Project.
The flexible structure of the Project ensures that there will be disagreements, whether about the rationale behind a nomination or about the personal criteria by which a game is being evaluated. Debate and discussion is encouraged, but please be alert and sensitive to the experiences and preferences of your fellow community of gamers. Something that's not important to you may be incredibly meaningful for someone else.
Rules
You can nominate games according to your own criteria. They can be the games that you think are objectively the best, or your favourites, or games you feel are influential. It is important that your nominations at least mean something to you. If you’ve simply read second-hand critical sources that claim a particular game is good, maybe that's a nomination you can leave to the judgment of others. But if you stayed up several long nights watching your sister play a compelling game, that could be a legitimate nomination, even if you never played yourself.
This nomination process includes all video games, past and present, on any platform (including various personal computer platforms, home and handheld consoles, arcade cabinets, mobile devices, etc.). Please don't nominate compilations of games that were also released as stand-alone titles. Nominate the individual games instead! Be sure to mention which platform your game is on, or we'll have to make assumptions for you.
You can nominate as many or as few games as you want. This is not a ranked list, so the order of your nominations doesn’t matter. You don't have to wait until you have a full final list before you post. You can submit your nominations in chunks. You can keep adding new nominations up until the deadline.
The nomination period will close on Thursday, 10 September 2015. After this first phase has ended, nominated games will be seeded into brackets and the voting rounds will begin.
Weighted Nominations
For the purposes of seeding into brackets for the voting rounds that follow the nomination period, nominations will be weighted. The value of every individual's nominations will add up to 1. If you only nominate 1 game, it will get 1 point towards its seed rank; if you nominate 100 games, they will each get 0.01 points, and so on.
This weighting system introduces a dynamic of risk that forces you to consider how many games you want to nominate. It also provides a balance, ensuring that people who only nominate a few games have as much impact on the Project as people who nominate many. Finally, it provides a disincentive to simply nominating as many games as possible without necessarily caring about the rationale.
At the end of the nomination phase, the weighted nominations will be totalled and the resulting values will determine each game's position in the voting brackets.
Prizes
Everyone who submits a list of nominations will be entered in a random draw to win a copy of N++ (PS4), Rogue Legacy (Xbox One), or a $20 Steam card. This Old Neon staff and their family members are not eligible to win.
For more information about the "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project, feel free to read the launch article at This Old Neon.
