Naked Paul Toast’s Insights

In the YoYoGames Competition 4 Glog entry, Sandy Duncan, YYGs CEO, responded:

Comp03 results should be out soon. Can’t give an exact date as MarkO is away till next week and he won’t let us do anything unless he has a vote !! Problem we’re facing is there are a LOT more good games submitted than in previous competitions. Normally by now we would have a shortlist of 10. At the moment it’s still close to 30 !

I expect the following three entries to be shortlisted. At worst make honourable mention in the Competition 3 winner announcements, and probably take home some or all of the prize money.

Drop in the Bucket by KC LC.
Lost Snowmen by RedSystem.
Byteality Tower Defence by Erik Leppen.

What are my predictions based on?
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Earlier, I wrote about Conspiracy theorists and the Downraters. Today we’re going to look at a conspiracy theorist and demonstrate that his claims are manufactured, and could not have happened as he alleged it happened.

[EDIT] Links to GMC topic and YoYogames page intentionally removed, see comment for explanation.

The topic started out as a rant about how the game has been on the top page and then because of a downrater dropped into oblivion. The thing is, it absolutely could not have happened like he said it happened. It’s not feasible mathematically, it’s not feasible time wise, and it’s not feasible that a game that has gotten absolutely zero attention, suddenly got huge negative attention, and then all of a sudden get so much positive attention.

It just doesn’t work.

But I just watched it get continually downrated from a 4.0 to a 3.7 (about 20+ votes) within a matter of seconds

The topic states that he just happened to be on YoYoGames and just happened to witness a downrater downrate his game in a matter of seconds. He said it happened 20+ times, later in the topic claimed 25 to 30 times.
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My all time favorite Game Maker created game has been Seiklus, until now.

RhysAndrews, longtime and distinguished GMC member, has teamed up with his brother, TimAndrews, to create Caveman Craig.

Caveman Craig was created as an entry for the YoYoGames’ Ancient Civilisation contest, and I predicted it to be the winner, in my Red Carpet Day entry.

The game is a simulation / strategy game, starting you off in prehistoric times with three caveman credits. There are three flavours of cavemen:

1. Hunters: Used to hunt dinosaurs and war with rival tribes.
2. Gatherers: Used to gather dead dinosaurs and berries.
3. Preparers: Used to prepare dinosaurs and berries, for consumption.

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An excellent satire: Celebrating 30 Years of Video Games Killing Children

What the Politicians Said: Space Invaders will kill your children! This dangerous “game” gives players three “lives.” This will clearly make children think they can get another life after they die, thereby causing kids to start killing themselves in droves…

I picked up Mario Kart for the Wii, tonight.

Mrs. NakedPaulToast and I spent the night karting. I’ve always been a huge fan of the Mario Kart franchise, it’s one of the games that I was pretty good at. Mrs. NPT never liked pre-Wii Mario Kart. She could never get into the steering with your thumbs on buttons, thing.

I really like MK-Wii, I’m not sure how much I like the Steering wheel, it definitely takes getting used to. Everything else about the game is great. The courses are tougher, lots more distractions while racing, more Karts, more power-ups.
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