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How do I read the One Page Dungeon Contest 2011 submissions? How do I put together my nominations?
One of the reasons for picking a diverse group of judges is that I hope to prevent the contest turning into “write what Alex likes best”. I want diverse opinions. Nevertheless, as a judge I need to form my own opinions and satisfy myself that I’m being fair. How do I do it?
1. I write down a list of things I appreciate in an entry. The first thing I’ll do before I start reading is I’ll go over a list I wrote a while ago and see what I still agree with. 🙂
2. Using this checklist of my personal preferences I start reading and take notes. Usually these notes are simple stuff like “nice map” or “cool: intelligent opposition” or “potential ally!”
3. I also try to figure out how many entries I should be reading every day. Assuming we have three weeks for our first pass, that means I need to read and takes notes on about three entries per day. This is how I discover whether I’m ahead of whether I’m falling behind.
4. Several authors told me they’re hoping for more qualified comments from the judges, some sort of mini-review, I guess. We’ll see about that. The 1PDC category of this blog sometimes mentions entries from previous years that I have actually used in game.
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I elected to go all out and read through all 71 entries yesterday. I took very brief notes on all of them; the ones I starred were either entries that really shined for one or two particular reasons, or entries that were overall solid.
I think now I need to go back and further refine my list and revisit a few ones that fell right on the fence.
– Adrian 2011-04-04 17:29 UTC
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Wow! You certainly put the pressure on.
– Alex Schroeder 2011-04-04 20:59 UTC
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Haha, it is just easier for me to get it out of the way in one marathon go.
Out of curiosity, should we be aiming for a particular number of nominations? It looks like last year you had each judge go for 20 picks the first time around.
– Adrian 2011-04-04 21:19 UTC
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Yes, 20 is about right. We have so many prizes to distribute and I feel that there are so many good entries – there’s no need to emulate sport events where we only care about the top one or the top three. 🙂
– Alex Schroeder 2011-04-04 22:59 UTC
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Hello! I’m just curious to know how things are going with the judging. This was the first year I submitted a dungeon for review and am excited to see the winners! Thanks, !ThomW—2011-04-19 15:34 UTC
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A dozen left to go! by kensanata, on Flickr
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I’m old fashioned and keep my notes on paper.
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– Alex Schroeder 2011-04-19 22:19 UTC
