Aetolian Game News
y470 Cultural Contest
Written by: Tiur, the Gnosis
Date: Monday, January 8th, 2018
Addressed to: Everyone
Culture Scores are here!
First, the raw data:
City Average Total
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Duiran: 421/450 1224/1800
Bloodloch: 378/450 1104/1800
Enorian: 376/450 1129/1800
Spinesreach: 375/450 1094/1800
Congratulations Duiran, our first place winners!
The scores above are provided so that you may see how close of a game we had here. Overall there was a great deal of impressive work done here, and we're floored by the quality our players put out. To keep that in mind, we want to acknowledge a few special categories, so that raw numeric scores don't whitewash the work you put in.
Best Denizen: an Ascendril apprentice, Enorian
- Great dialogue, made everyone laugh, great personality, and provided a ton of information
Best Rooms: Bloodloch
- Consistently great designs that nailed Appropriateness over and over.
Best Room: a modest, illuminated chamber, Enorian
- Great room, but the NPC chiming in on the items was brilliantly done.
Best Item: a trophy case filled with historic relics, Spinesreach
- So much historical information shown so succinctly
Honorable Mention Denizen: Fletcher, Bloodloch
- Okay, we laughed, we cried, but maybe just a bit too coarse. Deserves the shoutout.
Each item was graded on a 1-5 scale between our administration, on three categories:
Theme - Did this item/room/NPC fit the theme of a cultural exhibit to a foreign nation?
Quality - Simple: How well made was it?
Appropriateness - Did this fit in the event, was Delve scared of it, plus a few hidden topics we thought you might hit on (Delve hates the Dreikathi, loves motifs of freedom, and especially would love a city presenting themselves as a military ally)
Every room, denizen, item, denizen script, etc. You can see that there were a lot of things to grade!
Now, comments. We commented on everything, but that's not necessarily constructive. On the forums I'll try to put together a list of comments for the rooms overall. Too much to put here! That will take a little more time, but I'm on it!
Cityleaders, contact Me with where you'd like us to connect your new exhibits! After it is connected we'll accept changes via orgreq. Prizes will be distributed when someone who actually does work around here gets a chance in the next day or so.
-T
PS. Obviously, Duiran won without winning any of the smaller prizes. They consistently scored high on everything, but others edged them out in specific instances. While they may not have topped each specific category, their well rounded work was consistently so.
Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 4th of Slyphian, in the year 470 MA.