2022 IFDB Awards are now open!

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 4:02pm

It’s Feb 1 in Japan, and I had time to open all the polls, so I’ve set it running on IFDB. The polls will remain open until Feb 17th. They may remain open during some part of Feb 18th as I close them down.

Good luck to all entrants, and thanks!

Rules can be found at IFDB or at the official announcement here.

Language-based Polls:
Outstanding German Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Outstanding German game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Outstanding Spanish Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Outstanding Spanish Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 4:21pm

First votes are already in, but I just wanted to add that you don’t have to feel obligated to vote in every category. There are way too many right now, so this is a sort of survival of the fittest where categories no one votes in or cares about will die next year.

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 4:55pm

You can follow along with the voting here:

rovarsson · January 31, 2023, 5:32pm

The search for “Outstanding Debut” is wrong. It links to “Published in 2022” again.

EDIT: I must be missing something. The list provided is “Published in 2022” for all categories, and we need to narrow it down further per category ourselves?

That would make sense. I have no idea how to make a search-command for some of the categories.

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 5:36pm

There wasn’t any search that I know of that goes to first time authors. If you know of a search that brings up whether someone is a first time author, we can add that, but otherwise people will just have to investigate it on their own.

Also, I noticed no game has more than one vote now, even though some polls have 11 votes. I think people are remembering the For Your Consideration polls where you couldn’t vote for the same game twice. But these polls definitely only work if you vote for games more than once!

vivdunstan · January 31, 2023, 5:43pm

Crikey what a lot of categories

I’ve started putting my votes in but will carry on another time. This is definitely a situation where pacing myself looks wise!

Thanks for setting this up @mathbrush

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 5:45pm

Thanks! And take your time, we have a couple of weeks!

kaemi · January 31, 2023, 6:04pm

Thanks for organizing this! Just a quick note, the Author’s Choice poll for sequel-worthy games isn’t anonymous.

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 6:09pm

Okay, I fixed it! I’ll transfer the votes from the old one to the new one. I can’t correct links in Site News on my own, so I’m leaving up the old poll with a note to use the new one, and fixed the link here on this page.

sophia · January 31, 2023, 7:42pm

Cast a handful of votes, and added in some Twine games, as those are the ones I am most familiar with. Really fun! I’ll probably saunter on back periodically through voting to see if any other games catch my eye that didn’t immediately come to mind.

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 7:43pm

Sounds great! Especially with so many categories, feel free to take as long as you need.

Jade · January 31, 2023, 9:20pm

I have votes almost half of the entries by now. Very awesome great work creating and implementing this 2022 IFDB awards!

Jade.

vivdunstan · January 31, 2023, 10:34pm

I’m finding that I’m having to edit quite a few games I want to vote for in IFDB to add the relevant genre so they come up in the search results for specific categories. For anyone else who struggles to find the edit option for a game it is at the very bottom of the game page. Eg I’ve just been adding two games as mystery and fantasy. So folks should definitely not be afraid to add missing genres.

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 10:34pm

I didn’t plan with it in mind, but if games get tagged better in general with year, genre, system, etc. I think it will help a lot with just day to day IFDB searches.

vivdunstan · January 31, 2023, 10:56pm

I’ve been sharing the fact that these awards are seeking votes on Twitter, Mastodon and with my friends on Facebook and the UK IF group there. Definitely share the word out there folks! As I’m saying if people have enjoyed even one IF title released last year please vote

vivdunstan · January 31, 2023, 11:01pm

Also just shared on the interactivefiction subreddit.

inventor200 · January 31, 2023, 11:44pm

I might be a bit thick, but what exactly is the difference between player’s choice and author’s choice?

mathbrush · January 31, 2023, 11:54pm

Players choice is open to everyone and is public.
Author’s choice is anonymous and only voted from people who have games listed on their ifdb profile will count.

Part of this first awards tryout is to see if having that distinction is useful and makes sense. If it doesn’t, we’ll just combine them next year.

nilsf · February 1, 2023, 12:18am

Should authors vote in both polls? As I read the rules we are allowed to but it feels a bit unfair.

mathbrush · February 1, 2023, 12:30am

I intended authors to vote in both polls.

Basically the public polls serve as a kind of faster voting that lets a lot of games get nominated but which is more vulnerable to gaming the system by groups of friends.

The anonymous polls require some verification and some experience so should result in more measured opinions. It should be hard for people to game the system as a group of friends would all have to have created games of their own to vote in a bloc.

It may be a bad idea, but that’s we are trying to see. So far I’m not really seeing the value in separate polls for next year, but it’s still early.