Contest
News
The
8-Bit Contest has come and gone, with results in this very issue?
What's next? The Terrible Games Contest! Or Ridiculous Games Contest.
Or Whale Game Contest. Whatever you choose to call it. Read the rules here.
Some
Words
from the
Community
Every
month,
we'll spotlight
some comments from the readers
regarding the previous month's issues. Here's what our readers have to
say about last month's issue.
"I love the puppets!" -James
Paige
"Lots of reviews of
old games... I'm
not really
in to those, but take what you can get I guess. The Dexmaster feature
was great. For some reason I was under the impression he had made a lot
more terrible games than that--did he have an alias MBS was not aware
of?
MBS states in the String Quarter review that comedic RPGs are rare
on the engine. How about no? I can name at least ten from this last
year alone, and at one point everyone and his mother was whining about
there being too many comedy games.
I'm not feeling the Game of the Year results, honestly. I know a lot of
this is based on opinion, but I couldn't disagree more with some of the
results. Tetris OHR, for instance, is by far one of the prettiest games
on the engine. I don't say this to rain of any of the winners' parades,
but I can't fathom picking Okedoke over it, as nice as Okedoke looks.
It also bugs me that Village People won out over so many complete
games, but what's there was pretty excellent so it isn't that big a
deal. " -JSH
"Re: Game of the Year 2009
It's a given that there was a severe lack of votes, but it still irks
me that Bloodlust didn't make it in the top 3 anywhere. Especially
the Best Writing category. That mess was deep.
But that, that's probably for a different reason than I'm thinking.
The masses aren't saying Bloodlust sucks, they're just
A) Ignorant of the game's existance
B) Too scared to finish it
C) Eager to have something else get points (like OHR House or Village
People)
Isn't there a poll going around that's asking everyone what games they
enjoyed? Maybe feature that and other people will catch the fever and
play more games. Even better, someone could take that a step further
and write an article about the OHR underdogs. " -Baconlabs
"I used to remember frequently seeing
Adventur's
screenshot with the floating head and everything in the random game
thing on CP and that must have been the one thing I didn't ever click."
-Twin
Hamster
"Hooray! I win! heh..
Seriously though, I'm honored. The attention Slimes has gotten is
really awesome. First, game of the month, now tied for game of the
year. Thank you.
The issue was entertaining aside from the results of course. That
puppet cover, was awesome, and just as I was going to ask about the
creation of them I saw the article about them. Nice.
The dexmaster article, honestly, made me laugh pretty hard. However, I
hope to god he
never sees it, it's pretty harsh. Poor guy, lol.
All and all a great issue. I always look forward to reading
HamsterSpeak, and I hope to read it for years to come." -Spoonweaver