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 Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:27 am Post subject: November 2011 Spotlight Author Acceptance Thread |
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Greetings IFians!
The time has come, once again, to honor the next up and coming great Storygame with our Spotlight Competition!
You may have noticed a number of storygames have recently been recognized with Sticky status. This is because you have been selected for inclusion in our contest in recognition of your hard work and efforts (and skill and talent and so on.)
In fact, here are the actual guidelines for Sticky status establishment so those of you with other storygames on the site that would like to earn such a place in the forums may be aware of how you may achieve this for YOUR SG:
Any Storygame which has...
- Chapters submitted on a regular basis (at least 2 chapters every 3 months)
- Chapter length of approximately 1000 to 2000 words
- High standard of spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Spaces between paragraphs
- A decision point at the end of the chapter
- Subsequent chapters written based on the outcome of each poll
...is Stickied at the top of its forum. (Note - if there's not been a chapter posted in 3 months, Sticky Status expires!)
ALL stickied SGs are in contention for the prize and its up to YOU the author to accept or decline your automatic nomination.
So for the next week or so, you may chime in with your acceptance or denial of the opportunity to capture YOUR OWN FORUM and a spot on the FRONT PAGE!
Congrats to those already on this list.
In the meantime, all IFians should be getting familiarized with these local favorites so they can become informed voters. There's some great stories here!
Ok, so the list of possible contestants are as follows:
Line of Kavanagh – Andolyn - Accepted
The Children of Leyond – Kalanna Rai - Accepted
Eden's Call – Lilith - Accepted
HATE – Vikas Muralidharan - Accepted
Escaping Eternia – misterbiz - Accepted
Worms of the Wasteland - Lebrenth
Please post here if you accept of decline the nomination, or if you feel your story has been overlooked and would like it added to the list. I hope to hear back from you all soon!
*Note: To Andolyn and misterbiz. If you plan on pulling for Fading Immortality, you will not be able to run for your personal SGs Escaping Eternia and Line of Kavanagh, but will run together for Fading Immortality.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| i definitely accept one or the other...i'll let you know which one after talking to Biz.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| accepting for Line of Kavanagh. =)
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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accepting for Eternia
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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accepting for HATE 
My first nomination.. 
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:12 am Post subject: Re: November 2011 Spotlight Author Acceptance Thread |
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| PopeAlessandrosXVIII wrote: | In fact, here are the actual guidelines for Sticky status establishment so those of you with other storygames on the site that would like to earn such a place in the forums may be aware of how you may achieve this for YOUR SG:
Any Storygame which has...
- Chapters submitted on a regular basis (at least 2 chapters every 3 months)
- Chapter length of approximately 1000 to 2000 words
- High standard of spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Spaces between paragraphs
- A decision point at the end of the chapter
- Subsequent chapters written based on the outcome of each poll
...is Stickied at the top of its forum. (Note - if there's not been a chapter posted in 3 months, Sticky Status expires!)
ALL stickied SGs are in contention for the prize. |
Sorry, BBS, but those are the rules. I can't think of a single post of yours that meets those rules. You have some long content threads, but none of them even have decision points. Unless one of the future mayors decides to cancel it, that's how it works. I kinda like it- the rarity of the event makes it a very special honor. And TBird did offer a way to people to buy their own forums with fables.
If you keep working on one of your experimental, image-comic SGs, you might be able to argue that it would qualify for sticky status, and thus be eligible for a spotlight contest. Keep adding a few more chapters, make sure you're submitting quality art (as opposed to five minute sketches), and talk to the next mayor about the issue.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Doesn't Lebrenth's Worms of the Wasteland count?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:10 pm Post subject: Post |
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I don't think it meets the word count by chapter.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe not but I'd allow it since its a very valid SG imo. The wordcount issue was to keep lazy out of the picture but I don't think that can be said for an SG that simply chooses its words carefully to make sure the reader doesn't have too much to read.
And Kalanna... I'm about to PM you demanding you accept!!!
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F5 TBird on both counts.
I was going to accept Kalanna's nomination on her behalf without her knowledge.
I would also love to see Worms of the Wasteland nominated. Short sweet chapters is the way forward.
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If nothing else, Lebby's story was a Speed SG for most of its existance. It's not quite fair to judge it harshly just because its chapters are short. When it was an SSG, they were supposed to be short. It's to be expected. Special exceptions can and should be made for excellent stories that don't quite meet one of the requirements for whatever reason.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:02 am Post subject: Added |
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Oki, Worms of the Wasteland added!
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Well, I was hunted down and stabbed repeatedly by someone *no names will be mentioned for respect of the newly dead* that I needed to reconsider my acceptance on this one.
So I accept for Children of Leyond...I believe I have just barely made the deadline for doing so.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject: Spotlight |
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Alright, I think that wraps up the acceptance thread. As soon as get all the entries, I'll open up the voting thread! Good luck to all entrants!
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So was I :/
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:37 am Post subject: Sorry! |
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So so sorry all! Been hellashious around here, holidays and all. Not to mention housemate issues  Well, anyways, thread's up! Vote away!
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