Re: Ah Ha! The Results of the First Annual "Iffys".


7 Oct 1995 00:54:17 GMT

In article <812927452snz@antelope.demon.co.uk>,
Mark Green <Mark@antelope.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <44vgh8$fk6@wanda.pond.com> russotto@wanda.pond.com writes:
>
>> In article <44tbuj$fpa@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>> Gerry Kevin Wilson <whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> }Here ya go, folks. The results are in.
>> }
>> }-=-INFORM-=-
>> }
>> }1st Place: A Change in the Weather, by Andrew Plotkins.
>> } Andrew chose as his prize: The very first copy of Avalon,
>> } autographed and donated by me.
>>
>> So Evil triumphs over good :-). I don't want to see any
>> complaining on this group about the nastiness of coming games =:-O
>>
>> (I should talk.. I forgot to vote)
>>
> I'm not too surprised it won.. the quality of the writing in it is
>amazing. The only problem I had with it was that it was too damn
>frustrating to start playing - apart from being a tiny-turn-limit game,
>the fact that directions weren't reversible meant I spent a lot of time
>walking into walls... ;)
I'm not terribly surprised it won either, but *I* didn't vote for it. I
thought it went beyond the bounds of the contest, and beyond the bounds of
fairness in general, despite the warning. Although the prose was indeed
amazing, I couldn't bring myself to vote for a game with a puzzle like
(spoilers)

"push boulder" going the wrong direction, but "push boulder south" working
correctly. I consider this on par with the +=3 puzzle, or with the "pinch
me" puzzle in Curses. Plus, this game had time limits from hell, which
greatly annoyed me. (Ok, so I guess this means I'm a Puzzle Wimp (tm). So
sue me :P)

>Mg
>--

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