Lol, thanks for the ping! Just reentered my country of birth from internet isolation, what a lovely surprise! Will throw my blatherings into the mix. My WIP was making too much progress anyway!
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Quick update—we’re up to 41 games on the list, and seven reviewers who have signed up to be sponsored!
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What a fun concept! Thanks for organizing,@alyshkalia! It may be a bit before I’m able to get started but I’m looking forward to it.
I also love the bingo card, and am very much a planner, which brings me to . . . does anyone know if there’s an easily available source of info on game length? I looked at a few in IFDB and didn’t see a playtime field (trying to avoid reading reviews in depth b/c spoilers), so just wondering if I’m missing something obvious.
If there’s not any readily available estimates of length, than consider this a general invitation for anyone to mention to me games in the pool that are likely to take longer than an hour! God forbid I try too many and discovery that they take me 59 minutes, etc etc.
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About 1/3 of them I’ve reviewed before and all my reviews have a tag at the top that says how long they are.
You can check to see what competitions they’ve been submitted to. Single choice jam games and Neo Twiny jam games are both very small on average (by design).
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I’ll add length info for those that I can (based on Brian’s reviews and my own knowledge) to the spreadsheet!
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very helpful, thanks!
If it’s at all burdensome please don’t feel obligated, I was not trying to make more work for anyone. Just checking if there was anything readily available!
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Okay, approximate lengths for most games have been added to the spreadsheet! The vast majority are under 1 hour. There were only a few where I couldn’t find any indication of length; if those authors would like to DM me with an approximate length, I’ll update the spreadsheet accordingly.
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Has anyone successfully run Sunburst Contamination? It crashed for me under Lectrote, Gargoyle and local Parchment, as well as the Parchment link on IFdb. It was the first one my randomizer picked!
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Seems to work okay with Windows Frotz, though I have not completed it yet.
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Made some little banners, for people to decorate their threads with. I’ll put my thread up soon, hopefully, if my fever’ll break… In the meantime, graphic design is lower spoons, so I put these together!
A little something for @Zed and @alyshkalia. :3
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One-week-and-two-days update! So far…
- 10 reviewers have published reviews
- 30 reviews have been written
- 9 reviewers have signed up to be sponsored
- $141 have been raised!
It’s great to see both long-time and brand-new reviewers joining in, and seeing some games get their first-ever reviews! I’m so happy with how the Review-a-thon is going so far, and look forward to many more reviews to come!
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I’d love to join in on this to get a game of mine reviewed. Namely my new visual novel: Romance The Backrooms by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)
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I’ll add it to the list!
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Tysm!
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Is anything that goes on the poll put on the list? I added a game to the poll, but not the list…
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I saw that yesterday and added it to the spreadsheet!
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Fair warning: full card BINGO!! on games played, reviews written. (Have taken the tack that games can only apply to one cell, my choice which.)
Won’t formally announce till all BINGO reviews published, but you all are on the clock now… That sweet, sweet retirement home applause will soon be MINE!!
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I’m looking at the review sheet, what do the colored cells mean for everyone aside from Manon (since she explained what her cell colors mean)? I was assuming that means they reviewed the thing, but the count column only counts cells which have text in them, and some of the same columns have actual Reviews in the cells along with the colored cells so im confused. @alyshkalia @30x30 @Encorm ?
I was also wondering if there could be a column for “total reviews on IFDB” because according to Mathbrush some of the games started with >5 or >10 reviews on IFDB before Review a Thon and that’s going to affect whether I review them in comparison to games which started with 0
NVM I am not sure if that was supposed to be a citation about IFDB reviews in general
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Also curiously, how does the $5 or $2 work? Doesn’t $5 mean they choose the game you review?
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