GW Awards: Best Blog Article/Series

GW Awards: Best Blog Article/Series (Read 1217 times)

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#1 December 25, 2008, 04:19:56 pm

Insane teacher
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not exact titles but you can figure it out. I may have made a mistake in attributions, please correct me. vote lasts three days.

brian chemicals

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JMickle

#2 December 25, 2008, 04:23:39 pm

I gots a lego!
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FREEWARE FRIDAYS is the best by far. man i've found some amazing games because of that.

www.jmickle.com

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Ryan

#3 December 25, 2008, 05:42:52 pm

thx ds k?
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Pidges college prep was pretty good. i really liked wc's Kazakhstan article too.

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Jayce

#4 December 25, 2008, 06:05:01 pm

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Inside the Gamer's Studio was a multi-staff thing also, I just made it look the prettiest :P
I voted the College Prep Course

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Carrion Crow

#5 December 25, 2008, 07:01:16 pm

I need to watch things die
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I think the rogue taxidermy was the most interesting as I had totally no idea it existed before reading it! Kazakhstan was also a really good read. Freeware Fridays was the series most applicable to this site. It's a simple article formula but at the same time so useful to people like us.

Facebook and you was highly amusing and true.

Esh wrote some GW olympics topics that were pretty involving. I seem to remember wasting a good few days over summer with Schmarius on Trackmania training for that

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Strangeluv

#6 December 25, 2008, 07:04:12 pm

HEEEEERRRREEE'S JOHNNY!!
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Voted for Freeware Fridays

Me and Tom Under the Boardwalk ... there is so much fun to have under the boardwalk

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DS

#7 December 25, 2008, 08:27:27 pm

DragonSlayer o_O
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Freeware Fridays, no contest.

To Never Be Known Is The Worst Death

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#8 December 25, 2008, 09:43:28 pm

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man there it is again. NO CONTEST. did you see crumply's lite-c article? catamites got an interview with the head of a record label. wash cycle wrote about shit probably no one in gw knows about. I mean there's flaws in all these, I voted for freeware friday because other than and perhaps more so than crumply's lite c articles it most embodies the spirit of gw's gamemaking (and crumply takes snail time to do even one of them) but I wouldn't say NO CONTEST at all! it's a good series but it's not the only one, no contest is when you've got like catamites vs mog whos the better member.

that being said CS Lewis doesn't deserve to be up there.

brian chemicals

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Carrion Crow

#9 December 25, 2008, 10:11:54 pm

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Speaking of lite-c tuts the new one is actually coming along.

Yeah that's right. WIP was ice skating his way to the office this morning.

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Cheesy Doritos

#10 December 25, 2008, 10:22:46 pm

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I really enjoyed Freeware Fridays but I thought the Iron Chef thing was really interesting and well-done and I liked that a lot, so it gets my vote.

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datamanc3r

#11 December 25, 2008, 11:27:04 pm

The Irrepressible
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Freeware Fridays is pretty reliable and the games are always great so my vote goes there.

"I would be totally embarassed to write this, even as a fakepost. it's not funny except in how you seem to think it's good. look at all the redundancies, for fuck's sake. "insipid semantics, despicable mediocrity" ugh gross gross. I want to take a shower every time I read your prose." -Steel

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Frisky SKeleton

#12 December 26, 2008, 12:11:57 am

aye ess dee eff el cay jay ache
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Freeware Fridays encompasses the most articles and i remember LOOKING FORWARD to them so it's got my vote

I USE Q'S INSTEQD OF Q'S

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DS

#13 December 26, 2008, 02:13:04 am

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Quote

man there it is again. NO CONTEST. did you see crumply's lite-c article? catamites got an interview with the head of a record label. wash cycle wrote about shit probably no one in gw knows about. I mean there's flaws in all these, I voted for freeware friday because other than and perhaps more so than crumply's lite c articles it most embodies the spirit of gw's gamemaking (and crumply takes snail time to do even one of them) but I wouldn't say NO CONTEST at all! it's a good series but it's not the only one, no contest is when you've got like catamites vs mog whos the better member.

I'm not saying the others aren't good, strictly talking about which one interested me the most. The rest weren't nearly as good (read interesting I suppose!) for me so it's no contest for me. There really isn't anything more to it so don't take it the wrong way. I have to say that the albums GW hasn't heard of would be a close second but it wasn't nominated and was finished really early which is a shame.

Last Edit: December 26, 2008, 02:14:41 am by DragonSlayer

To Never Be Known Is The Worst Death

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headphonics

#14 December 26, 2008, 02:14:09 am

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better get outta here ds......the thought police are on theyre way

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ase

#15 December 26, 2008, 03:00:32 am

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there were a ton of really well written/interesting articles written this year, but only three of them were good enough that I thought HEY I NEED TO SHOW THIS TO SOMEONE IRL: steel's facebook and freeware fridays (well, just a couple of games).

Voting for facebook because freeware (no offense to you freeware guys, they were very informative!) has info you could probably find on other indie gaming sites, but steel's writing style is really unique and hilarious

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_|^656

#16 December 26, 2008, 10:32:38 am

Now You Know
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freeware friday, thought I'm confused why more ff still coming out when we have the indie game list (I think regular update on the list would be better)

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#17 December 26, 2008, 05:09:11 pm

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i believe the plan when gw6 is up is to shift from the fridays into individual reviews of the games on the list.

brian chemicals

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dickface jones

#18 December 26, 2008, 05:19:25 pm

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i wanted to read some of these again but a lot seem to have disappeared????

i can't find ANY of the freeware fridays or know your GWs articles for example. why is this?

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#19 December 26, 2008, 05:28:39 pm

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they are being moved into gw6 atm.

brian chemicals

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dickface jones

#20 December 26, 2008, 05:32:37 pm

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oh cool. i'll read them on gw6 then, but i don't think i should vote in this poll because i don't remember those articles very well.

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Facebook and You, Pidgeotto221	1	2.2%
Hitchhiker's Guide, Carius	0	0%
College Prep Course, Pidgeotto221	8	17.4%
Kazakhstan, Wash Cycle	1	2.2%
Freeware Fridays, multiple staffers	24	52.2%
Know Your GWs, Pidgeotto221	1	2.2%
Inside the Gamer Studio, Carius	1	2.2%
Trip Report: Creation Museum, Wash Cycle	0	0%
CS Lewis, Pidgeotto221	0	0%
Rogue Taxidermy, thecatamites	6	13%
Lite C Tutorials, crumply	3	6.5%
Iron Chef, Wash Cycle	1	2.2%
Status: Voting has ended	46	Total Votes

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GW Awards: Best Blog Article/Series (Read 1217 times)