So it would be good to know if we should try to get these people to vote on it in the other thread or if the 13 votes are accepted? The nomation thread has currently 6 votes but only two of these are unique, so that gives a total of 15 votes.
So, you either need the two wayward unique voters on the former post to also like the latter, or you need someone like @mathbrush to agree it should count and hand-waive it. Do I have that correct?
ETA: And it literally resolves itself while I’m typing. Please carry on and disregard.
Apparently things are becoming more relaxed now, though Mathbrush might not agree
In the nomination thread, @pinkunz proposed the name
IFDB Awards
I think that is a good but also honest name considering the approach.
You could also consider calling the main award “IFDB Game of the Year” as “outstanding” is implied in Game Of The Year (GOTY) and as GOTY seems to be an industry standard now, I think.
We may have to do another poll. I’ve actually considered ‘The IFDB Awards’; the main reason I didn’t start with that is because I hadn’t consulted with other IFDB mods beforehands and didn’t want to presume I could use the name on my own. I think it would be really fitting.
I’ve also thought to change the name ‘people’s choice’ to ‘player’s choice’, as we’re now (based on the last poll) planning on only having people vote if they’ve played the game they’re voting for.
So maybe we can do one last poll with the different names, but in a few days to give people a break (and a chance to suggest other names).
I’ve only skimmed the topics about this new set of awards, so apologies if I missed something.
I saw there were talks about awards for works in languages other than English and that there were discussions about how the voting process would take place. If I understood correctly, anybody (satisfying some criteria like being on IFDB) would be able to vote for nominees? I just want to be sure that other languages are not forgotten. (Say, if everything is decided by some kind of jury with only English-speaking people.)
I don’t want to start a debate, but I believe the community as a whole moved a bit away from the term “game” so it might not be the best name? (But then “IFDB IFOTY” is a bit repetitive.)
The current languages I have planed are German, French, and Spanish. If you know any other languages that have 5 games on IFDB published in 2022, I can add them!
Somebody probably should start a game review thread “IF Games You Missed”, and start reviewing not only low ranking games, but also foreign language games. Who knows? Maybe that will encourage someone to start translation process.
@mathbrush do you know how many games people will need to play in a category to be able to vote, and how many votes they will have? Or is that to be determined?