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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: [IFComp2001] Details on special prize
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:17:58 GMT
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Andrew Plotkin  <erkyrath@eblong.com> wrote:
>Let me also add (I think someone else already said this) that this
>sort of prize would fit in better as a extension/companion to the
>XYZZY Awards, which already have categories for pre-defined notions
>like "puzzles" and "characters".

The prize might fit better, but I think a yearly-awards-issued
prize is less effective for trying to inluence the work people
are creating (which the prize-giver in this case has explicitly
said he's trying to do); the yearly awards go to games released
in that year, which could have been started at any time in previous
years; whereas comp games are (theoertically) made-to-order for
the comp, within a narrower time frame, which his announcment
can more easily reach and affect.

SeanB
