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Welcome to the second round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the sequence 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... realistically in early 2021.

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!

Full marks for You Have to Win the Game—the first game in Kyle Pittman's series of CRT-obsessed retro platformer-explorers. This one is the most relentlessly retro, and also the simplest and most stripped-down, reminding me of the kinds of adventure games I would play on the Amiga back in the day. But it's very smooth and well-designed, not bogged down by some of the expansive trappings he felt like he had to include in later games in the series.

One vote each to Post Void and a Short Hike for being interesting PC games that I am very interested to try out based on their core mechanics and/or design language.

Post Void gets full votes from me. I've only spent a little time with it, but I really dig what little I've played. I know I'll like it more as I play it more.

Yakuza 5 gets two votes even though I haven't played it by virtue of being Yakuza and because there's nothing else in here I wanna vote for.