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| AXE - Dark Temptation |
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| Beijing Conspiration |
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| Chicken Target |
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| Feist |
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| Laka Game Show |
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| Lander Commander |
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| Lies and Seductions |
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| Manta |
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| Mars Explorer |
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| Nuddz |
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| Oddball |
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| Pirates n Dragons |
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| Project Cloudwitch |
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| RastaMonkey |
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| Seamulator |
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| Traces of Illumination |
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| Tumbledrop |
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| Turret Master |
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Ulognep
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Ulognep
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Just for clarification:
We opted to only include the Unity Awards entries that had already opted to share their games publicly on the forum. If you submitted your game privately and do want your game to be played by the forum and voted upon, please fire an email to contest@unity3d.com and we'll add your entry to this poll. |
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robur
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What are the rules regarding who can vote?
Personally, I think voting should be limited to only Unity developers - and not the public at large - as allowing anyone with a computer to vote could give a tremendous bias to games with the largest marketing department (and therefore fan base).
Perhaps only votes from people with more than three forum posts - and who had been registered for over a month - should count?
If a rule like this was instituted, it might be a good idea to clean out illegitimate votes at least once a day to make sure that the poll results are not artificially skewed during the voting - which might cause those of us interested in game theory / tactical voting to choose differently than we we were planning to do.
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AngryAnt
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*phew* finally got through the list. Impressive host! 
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GargerathSunman
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Yup. The sheer number of entries is bound to spread the vote out quite a bit.
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HiggyB
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Voting is limited to forum users only. No, that doesn't stop someone from signing up and voting right away, but other than that it's difficult to limit or tedious to process. This is the "forum favorite" category so view 'em and vote! 
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defmech
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| There are 3-4 entries that I just can't decide on. In my mind they all deserve a vote equally. This is a really tough decision! |
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robur
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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So would it be considered "in good taste" for developers to post a notice about this poll on their sites, and give all their game's fans a chance to vote?
Just wondering...
Oh - and if this forum has a Mysql backend, I don't think it would be too hard to compose a multi-table query that would make processing votes however you chose to a cinch, if you wanted to go that route.
May the best game win!
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mkolb
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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I thought about the voting principle, and that came to my mind
Your vote marks the entry which you like, so with the way the poll is made (radio buttons) it implies that you don't like the others. (true or false decision)
I wondered if it would be possible to give a more distributed vote using points or you provide a ranking for your three best entries.
Either way the first place would be more consolidated and you won't have to decide in a black/white manner, IMO.
In my situation and one above, I liked more than one entry, but can't decide on which I want vote, since it is that terminal.
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aaron parr
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| mkolb wrote: | | I wondered if it would be possible to give a more distributed vote using points or you provide a ranking for your three best entries. |
Just like Ranked Choice Voting! I think this might be a bit of work to implement.
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Charles Hinshaw
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Your vote doesn't mark the one you like, it marks the one you think should have the Forum Favorite vote. You can like them all (and it is quite an accomplishment for everyone to have entered a game) but since there will be only one winner, a selection of a single entry doesn't seem counter to this.
Everyone should be proud of themselves just for getting an entry together -- and there are some really good games here. It is a tough vote for sure.
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bzarbi
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I might state the obvious, but with so few votes the whole 'forum favorite' voting formula seems flawed. A studio with half a dozen people will automatically be in the leading pack while a one man game will scramble to get votes. Not to mention the potential fake account issue.
There is no perfect solution, but one way that could be interesting next time is to limit the voting to developers who are submitting a game (register at the start) and not allow those developers to vote for their own games, but pick their favorite from the other submissions. |
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BigBrother
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Is it ethical if I get a bunch of my friends who like my game to make accounts and vote for it?
*Theoretical, I didnt submit a game* |
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Charles Hinshaw
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As a general rule, if you ever have to ask if a course of action is ethical, you probably already know the answer.
As for the number of votes, perhaps we need a forum "get out the vote" effort to help ensure that we have enough representation to make this fair.
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HiggyB
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Voting goes on for a bit still. If the vote count is low that is not necessarily a sign of a flawed system, it's a sign of an inactive (in the sense of voting on this topic) body of users. It's perfectly valid to simply vote for the one you want to win. And in doing that you're not saying you don't like the other content, it's just that you didn't like them as much as the one you voted for as winner.
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