Steve, I haven’t seen you on chat recently. I probably I should have e-mailed you.

Don’t get to worries about Worst in Audio. That just means that the audio was the part that ranked the worst, but I doubt it ranked that much worse than anything else. I don’t think it was anything against your sounds.

Have I mentioned this above? It was hard to strike the right tone with this video. I think I came off a bit whiny. Seriously, I’m pleased with how well ASCIIpOrtal did, but when I think about the literally hundreds left out in the cold I just gotta think the IGF needs to do something about that. Mind you, I’m sure that many of the entries were crap, but I’m guessing there were many that could have and should have been recognized if IGF would expand their categories or have more frequent contests or something.

I know it’s been a week or two since the results, so I’m a bit late, but congrats Joe on achieving the Honourable Mention. I think you’re right on the money with the stale air argument, and I don’t think it has anything to do with sour grapes (mixing metaphors for a second). I suspect most people see IGF as a platform to get proper money out of someone, which means they generally conform to what’s expected of “proper” games today… ie, boring, generic, derivative, 3d etc etc. For the most part, anyway.

Looking forward to seeing what’s comin’ next…

It also sounds to me that the majority of the judges are students themselves having never experinced any form of BBS or type in games and that’s way ASCII Portal only received honorable mention. The judges didn’t know how to categorize and score it.

Keep up the good work.