VOTE NOW! Chain Story - Broken Telephone Edition!

Stupot · Mon 31/05/2010 17:17:19

Chain Story - 2
Telephone - 3

Image - 1.7
Image - 2.6
Image - 3.7

I feel kind of bad that I've voted for both the stories I was involved in, but I'm really pleased with the way they turned out. Hats off to everyone though. Some great stuff all round :-)

Looking forward to the next game.

Vince Twelve · Tue 01/06/2010 05:26:21

Ok, I declare this activity officially over! Congrats to all the participants and to all the participants' pants. Also another big thanks to Jim Reed for the trophies I'm about to give out!

The wieners are:

Best Image Submission

Third Place (tie):

Story 1:
Submitter 5: Andail
Submitter 6: AtelierGames
Story 2:
Submitter 1: Bulbapuck
Submitter 6: [Cameron]
Story 3:
Submitter 4: Tuomas

Second Place (tie):

Story 2:
Submitter 3: Jim Reed
Submitter 7: Ascovel
Story 3:
Submitter 7: Babar

First Place:

Story 1:
Submitter 7: Wyz

Story 3:
Submitter 5: Wyz

Wyz went twice because of me having to skip a couple people and wound up spiking TWO first places! Well done!

Best Chain Story

Second Place (tie):

Story 1: The Steel Balance
Authors:
Jim Reed
Tuomas
ShiverMeSideways
Privateer Puddin'
[Cameron]
Babar
Akatosh

Story 2: When the Moon Doesnâ€™t Watch
Authors:
Stupot
AtelierGames
Vince Twelve
Andail
Wyz
tzachs
NsMn

First Place:

Story 3: The New Breed
Authors:
Scarab
wonkyth
Dualnames
discordance
Ascovel
Bulbapuck
discordance

Best Telephone Story

Third Place:

Story 2:
Authors:
Babar
Privateer Puddin'
Akatosh
Vince Twelve
discordance
Andail
AtelierGames

Second Place:

Story 1:
Authors:
Ascovel
Wyz
AtelierGames
NsMn
Bulbapuck
Dualnames
Jim Reed

First Place:

Story 3:
Authors:
[Cameron]
tzachs
Jim Reed
ShiverMeSideways
Andail
Stupot
Scarab

Congratulations to everybody! Let me know if I screwed anything up here. I'll be updating the HTML pages to show who did what for each story and image. Hopefully you all had a giggle. Now put your trophies in your sig and make everybody else jealous for not taking part in the coolest forum activity ever!

Andail · Tue 01/06/2010 07:52:21

Eh, "my" picture has to be disqualified, as I just picked a random Benjamin Carre drawing. I didn't have the time or inspirational force to draw one on my own, and Vince sounded so desperate, so, well...

Anyhow, thanks all for participating!
Congrats to those who managed to nick two or more golds.
And thanks to Vince for hosting

Igor Hardy · Tue 01/06/2010 11:25:06

According to my counting, Image Submission 3.5 had exactly the same number of votes as Submission 1.7, which means Wyz snatched 2 golden pens.

Also, thanks very much people for seeing something in my image - I thought it was rather ugly and unimpressive!

Finally, would there be anyone against if I linked to the 3rd set of stories on the front page of HardyDev? I think those 2 are really worth to be read by a larger number of people.

Wonkyth · Tue 01/06/2010 12:14:14

Suits me.

Andail · Tue 01/06/2010 12:53:12

I think we should vote for best individual contribution!
Using google docs.

Vince Twelve · Tue 01/06/2010 13:09:32

Sure. Are you setting that up?

Andail · Tue 01/06/2010 13:42:03

On a second thought, that should have been done before the authors were revealed...not sure it's a good idea at this point.

Bulbapuck · Tue 01/06/2010 13:43:49

I can't believe my picture won something

Anyway, thanks everyone! I had a lot of fun. Special thanks to Vince for hosting and Jim for the awesome trophies.

Stupot · Tue 01/06/2010 13:54:07

Yeh, this was a hoot. Thanks Vince. And Jim... Sweet, I've just realised I get a gold phone. Yay!

Can't wait for the next one. What did people think of my tie-the-mysteries-up-at-the-end idea? I'd be happy to host that if people wanted.

Vince Twelve · Tue 01/06/2010 14:55:26

As a postmortem on the activity, I think it went off relatively well. A few mistakes I made:

-Starting batch of sentences should have been larger. I had originally planned on just assigning one to each team, but instead decided to let them pick, which led to having two (four?) stories with relatively similar plots.
-Roping people into a writing activity and making them draw. I tried to make this as easy as pie, requiring only a google image search, but some people still had trouble with this step. Sorry!

Other than that, I think things went really well, despite the handful of people who vanished without a trace (or worse, kept saying they'd finish, got extensions and THEN vanished without a trace). I told myself I wouldn't do another one of these that required me to serve as the hub because it's kind of a lot of work, but then I had this wacky idea and it pretty much needed someone to serve as the hub.

If I host again, it will definitely be something where the order gets listed in the forum and when you're done writing you just send it straight to the next person. But maybe require them to CC me on the email so I could make sure people were meeting deadlines. Without someone serving that function, this activity stands too high of a chance of just falling apart.

Stu, if you want to host next, it's all yours. If you want to flesh out your ideas or talk about some of the lessons I've learned from hosting this, PM me!

Jim Reed · Tue 01/06/2010 15:05:20

Bulba and Stupot: You're welcome!

My thoughts....
It was a nice idea, handled very well (thanks to Vince), and I say we should have another one, with different rules this time, so it remains fresh.
I predict interest tapering off, so I suggest the next one should be a bit smaller.

Definitly the hardest compo to organise!

tzachs · Tue 01/06/2010 18:49:52

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks Vince for the hosting and whacky idea, I loved it!

Quote from: Stupot on Tue 01/06/2010 13:54:07
Can't wait for the next one. What did people think of my tie-the-mysteries-up-at-the-end idea? I'd be happy to host that if people wanted.

I'd be interested, the idea is cool. One of the themes should be an island

NsMn · Tue 01/06/2010 18:58:36

I can't believe I didn't win any section at all.... :

Vince Twelve · Tue 01/06/2010 19:05:45

Quote from: Ascovel on Tue 01/06/2010 11:25:06
According to my counting, Image Submission 3.5 had exactly the same number of votes as Submission 1.7, which means Wyz snatched 2 golden pens.

Holy crap. The man is right. Darn my finger counting!

Wyz got two golds! Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. 8)

Wyz · Tue 01/06/2010 19:19:30

Wow, I did not expect gold, and even less a shared first place with myself.

Cool! Thanks for voting guys. This was so much fun, I'm already looking forward to the next one. I hope to return them sooner then.

Speaking of a next time, maybe some sort of web trinket could ease the load. I'm capable of building something like that; I can't host it though.

Well, to the rest: good job all! I had fun reading the stories.

Vince Twelve · Thu 03/06/2010 17:33:24

I just labeled each section on those stories/pictures with the name of the submitter. If you're curious, take a look. And let me know if I mis-labeled any!

Igor Hardy · Thu 03/06/2010 17:55:49

Just published the 2 winning stories on HardyDev: http://hardydev.com/2010/06/03/the-new-breed-chain-story-3-blue-telephone-story-3/

Hopefully they'll generate some outsider comments.