Community Voting Has Started!

Contests 4K Game Competition - 2013
#1

Community Voting starts on March 1st, and will continue for 2 weeks, ending March 15th (inclusive).

The form factor this year is slightly changed.

As usual, voters will be given a pool of 50 points to hand out to their most favorite games, 0 to 5 points.

New twitch is, voters will be able to write a short sentence/feedback about the game they are giving points to. This will be kept at minimum, twitter-length, but benefits both the game maker (getting feedback) and also the voter (giving feedback).
Giving feedback is optional, so those lazy-horses out there, no need to worry about a dreadful form to fill out :slight_smile:

#2

I like this idea

#3

Sounds excellent! Will there also be judges? I can’t recall what the original thread said… goes to check.

#4

Yes, I will announce the judges tomorrow…

I’ll open the community voting when I get home from work tomorrow… how late depends on how much beer I’ll have… don’t hold your breath :>

#5

Great! Thanks a lot for doing this ;D

#6

Nice touch with the feedback!

#7

Community voting has started!

http://java4k.com/

Once again, you need to have an account. I’ll add an “Oh man I forgot my password” feature tomorrow in case you forget your account password from last year.

#8

The Search bar is preventing me from selecting the Community Voting Tab lol. Can you look into it Appel… It is happening on all my browsers…

#9

Zoom out.

#10

Yea, I can reproduce, need to fix it. But until then… I’ve added a link on the main page as well, so you should always be able to access the voting page from there as well.

#11

Where are the judges?

#12

[quote]voters will be able to write a short sentence/feedback about the game they are giving points to
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Any reason that we cant give feed back on any submission? or is my understanding not correct? I gave a few entries 0 score… but that can only be achieved by leaving the score field blank… so how do you determine between a 0 score and a non-score?

I did leave feed back for all entries as i tested all entries.

#13

Any reason that we cant give feed back on any submission? or is my understanding not correct? I gave a few entries 0 score… but that can only be achieved by leaving the score field blank… so how do you determine between a 0 score and a non-score?

I did leave feed back for all entries as i tested all entries.
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Well, the idea was you give a game some points and optional feedback.
If you give a game 0 points and feedback, that will still be saved, but have no weight in the results.

#14

That is fine, i am sure the authors would appreciate any and all feed back… i know i did when I had participated in the past. I was a little bit worried that my multi-hour effort of playing each entry and giving feedback would have been wasted for those which did not get a points ( I ran out of points :frowning: )

#15

I’m seeing a flaw in the voting system - the games are sorted alphabetically. With a fixed pool of points go distribute, I find it very likely that games starting with numbers or an A will get significantly better scores than games later in the alphabet. I’d suggest doing such a comparison after the contest to see if this is the case. It might even be possible to calculate a curve representing this “multiplier” and normalize the results - perhaps not to use as actual results, but as interesting experiment.

For next year (and probably even for the remainder of the current year’s voting), I suggest making the list sorting randomized. The best way to do this would probably be to randomize it once for each user, meaning each logged-in user will see entries in the same order each time they look at the list.

#16

I have generated a randomly sorted list, and I’m working through the games in that random order. (I did the same last year when I was a judge). But yes, we can’t expect everyone to do that.

#17

Last year, I played all of the games, ranked them in order of descending awesomeness, then awarded points from my favourite downwards.
I’ll do the same this year.

/makes a mental note to write a game about aardvarks next year

#18

Yeah, I think it is more a moral issue than it is anything else if you just give the first 10 games 5 points and don’t check the rest. I think the random thing is a good idea.

I played all the games and did my points depending on what I considered great getting the points in general. I was disappointed that it was only 50 points, I think a lot more games deserved some points… but that is just me :P.

#19

Well, the reason for “only” 50 points is a psychological one. You’re more likely to spend 50 points than 500 points. There’s a whole lot of reasoning behind the scarcity of points.

#20

HURRY… UP… NOT… MUCH… TIME… :point: ;D