[RPG]: 2004 24 hour RPGs (first 12), reviewed by Evan (5/5)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10565.phtml

Evan's Summary:

Here are the first 12 of this years 24 hour RPGs reviewed. There are one or two doozies in this lot too. Take a look and see!

Go to the full review for more information.

Post originally by simon washbourne at 2004-08-20 06:38:34
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Nice reviews. Just a couple of points Dreamcape & Have-a-go-heroes are by Simon Washbourne and SPAM is by Charles Smith.

Cheers
Simon

Post originally by Shanya Almafeta at 2004-08-20 06:55:06
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I submitted it as a .txt file, assuming that's how it would be put up on the site -- everyone can read .txt and print it up as they see fit, right?

I don't know why he put up a .pdf...

Post originally by Evan at 2004-08-20 07:05:59
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Many Apologies. This was my bad eye for detail manifesting itself, and a copy and paste incident...

Post originally by Evan at 2004-08-20 08:02:05
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Honestly, text files require formatting, and have no organizational structure built in. Sure anyone can print them, but this is not what I would call a useful format. Whoever made it a PDF for you did the game a favour. It was a pain to have to format the two text files that were saved as such in order to be able to read them.
With how I grade them, sending a text file drops two marking categories to 0/5 immediately.

Post originally by clive at 2004-08-20 08:18:20
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Thanks for the review. Looks pretty fair. Frankly my sad effort barely warrants a review, anyway.

But since you bothered I would say that Tim Traveller, afaict does not require any 'recollection after the facts', and I wonder why you think it does.

Also, while I can think of a thousand pejoratives for the system 'buggy' is one that I would not have thought of; it's hard to be buggy when things are so simple. What bugs do you think it has?

regards

clive

Post originally by Shanya Almafeta at 2004-08-20 08:51:14
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Guess I lose a letter grade, then, 'z that's how I wanted it posted.

Post originally by RemyDuron at 2004-08-20 10:05:34
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No... You didn't. .txt files can get really screwed up, diffrent systems and such. Reading Mac .txt files on a PC can be... uhg... and I imagine the opposite is true.

Post originally by John at 2004-08-20 15:21:49
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Aren't you bitter. Your game sucks. Deal with it.

Post originally by Thunder_God at 2004-08-21 11:17:22
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I believe having score fields for both Formatting and Appearance is a bit redundant, especially seeing how they get more or less the same score. You give a third of the total score for RPGs created merely to send the idea across on appearances.