Here are your finalists for in the RPG Challenge:
Our guest judge Jason Tagmire is already playing these games and scoring them trying to determine an overall winner. This is a lot of games to play and review so it will take some time. We hope to announce the winner in the next few weeks.
Here are your winners for the “Best Of” categories in the RPG Challenge. Each winner gets a prize of 10,000 crafter points.
The winner for Best Artwork goes to SWAT. Our guest judge, Jason Tagmire, had this to say about it:
The artwork in SWAT drew me in from the start. It’s very simple, yet wonderfully executed. The style is consistent throughout the entire game, and it feels like we’re looking at the final version. The fonts are just right, and the blueprint tiles really capture the feeling of the theme.
The winner for Most Creative goes to Trailer Park Papparazzi. Jason’s comments were:
This was a the hardest to pick, with a few really close runners up (Temporal and Road Trip Dungeons), but I would have never expected the big four monsters to flip trailers to avoid being photographed by the paparazzi. This one still boggles and blows my mind as I think about it.
The winner for Best Written Rules is Campaign Trail. Jason had this to say:
Campaign Trail has really well written rules, that are very easy to read and understand. The visual examples and bolded key words take away any possibility of confusion, which is key when reading rules for the first time. There were other entries with great rules, but this was the clear standout.
We will be announcing the finalists soon. Stay tuned!
Matt Worden Games is once again giving games away for free! This time he is giving away 2 copies of Subtilla. 1 copy of the game has been hidden and whoever finds it first gets to keep it! A second copy of the game will be awarded to a randomly-drawn winner from those who email him the correct location before it is physically found.
The details and daily clues can be found at: http://www.mwgames.com/?p=1307
The RPG Challenge has ended, and we got a pile of great submissions. We wanted to share those with you:
As a reminder, Jason Tagmire of Championland will be our guest judge this time. So he’ll be narrowing down this big list to a list of finalists. We’ll announce those finalists in the next couple of weeks.
If you’re entering the RPG Challenge, your submissions are due today!
T minus 15 days before you have to have your RPG Challenge submissions submitted.
Mick at Crush Story Games is currently running a review contest over on Board Game Geek for his new Game Crafter release, “Mail Order Mutants.”
To win a free copy of the TGC version of Mail Order Mutants, simply download a print-and-play copy from the ‘Geek, play a few games with your friends, and post a review on the Mail Order Mutants page. The BGG review with the most thumbs by the end of February is the winner, and will get their production copy sent to their mailing address. Pretty cool, huh?
Full details on the contest are available at:
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/764026/leap-year-review-contest-win-a-fabulous-prize
Jason Tagmire of Championland, the winner of our Resource Game Design Contest for his game, Sandwich City, has agreed to be our guest judge for the RPG Challenge. He’s also agreed to give each entrant some feedback about why they do or do not make it to the finals, and why they do or do not ultimately win the challenge.
Matt Worden, a long time TGC community member and designer of the 2011 Traditional Game of the Year, Jump Gate, is giving away a copy of his game! Matt has “misplaced” a copy of his game in Hennepin County, Minnesota and it’s your mission to find it! :)
Visit Matt Worden Games for more details and to get your daily clues!
Mike Petty is a TGC community member and the designer of the card game, King for a Day. It was originally created as a print-and-play game but when Mike found The Game Crafter he decided to make a new edition through the service. It’s now available on The Game Crafter and he’s excited to run a little contest to give away a free copy!
Mike is also passionate about games in education and has a blog about it at http://classroomgamesandtech.blogspot.com
The Game Crafter is pleased to announce the RPG Challenge! We want you to design a role-playing game in the form of a board or card game. It doesn’t matter whether you build a dungeon crawler like Descent, or more of a story telling game like Betrayal at House on the Hill, or a funny little card game like Munchkin; all that matters is that it takes the form of a role-playing game. It also doesn’t matter whether your game requires a game master, or if the adventure is random, or if there are predefined adventures.
Rules
There are very few rules to this contest, but for your game to be considered, you must stay within them:
Prizes
There will be many prizes awarded as part of this contest.
Good luck! If you have questions, reply here.
The winner of our Resource Contest is Sandwich City by championland. championland earns 100,000 crafter points, entry into our Hall of Fame and the right to judge the next contest.
We’d like to congratulate all of our finalists. In addition, this time we have published detailed results so that all the finalists can see how they did compared to everybody else. We’ve also included comments on how they can improve their game.
This is by far the toughest contest we’ve had to judge. There were some amazing games in this contest. The finalists in our resource contest are as follows:
* These are two variants of the same game and will be treated as one game. We have opted to play the Sumo version of the game for the finalist competition.
As you can see there were eight games that were closely ranked enough that we couldn’t narrow it any further. We will announce the winner sometime in January, but this will take longer than normal due to the holidays and the fact that there are so many games to play.
In an effort to be more transparent this time around, I’ve also attached an image below that shows the final rankings to determine the finalist. It was a 25 point system, with a maximum of 5 points in each of 5 categories, plus 1 edge point if they won “best rules”, “best art”, or “most creative”.
The winner for the best artwork category in the resource contest, and winner of 10,000 crafter points, is…Ahoy!
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