A Game By Its Cover: Results

By: Paul Eres

On: September 14th, 2010

The results of the voting for the A Game By Its Cover contest are up. Seen above are all 67 entries in a video montage. The results of the voting can be found here, and the games can be found here.

Posted in Community, Competitions

rinkuhero

(And yeah, I know I'm a couple days late with the “weekly” report post, it'll be up presently; probably within 12 hours.)
fartron

Only now that it is over can we judge A Game By Its Cover.
Guest

I had more fun watching the video compilation than I did playing most of the games. I'd hoped for higher votes for Sandy Evolution though. It's the only one I still play.
http://s.hryx.net/ hyrx

Nice showcase. For anyone who likes the first tune in the video, that's the eponymous “I, Cactus”. I think it's an ancient/so-good 8 Bit Peoples release.

… oh I get it now, “Cactus”. Har!
allen

first time I've seen the video compilation, it looks great.

funny how while playing my towlr he uses the arrow keys to move the thing, I totally forgot to turn those off.
Jasper Byrne

Congrats to Farmergnome – a solid win. Perhaps you should mention that he won in the post?
Dodger

Ya, Under the Garden looks pretty darn good. I remember seeing a preview of it a while ago and really liking the look of it but I never did download the version that was available. Now that it's finished I think I'll go download it. It very loosely makes me think of a 2D Side-scrolling Minecraft game with the resource gathering and managing.

After checking out the “A Game By Its Cover” contest page I'm going to have to download a few of these when I have the time. Lots of interesting tidbits in these games. Enough games there to dive into and cover at least a couple dozen coffee breaks.

Good work to everyone who participated! And as Jasper said earlier, congrats to Farmergnome!

Keep the games coming guys, even when there isn't a competition going on :-)
Dodger

Ya, Under the Garden looks pretty darn good. I remember seeing a preview of it a while ago and really liking the look of it but I never did download the version that was available. Now that it's finished I think I'll go download it. It very loosely makes me think of a 2D Side-scrolling Minecraft game with the resource gathering and managing.

After checking out the “A Game By Its Cover” contest page I'm going to have to download a few of these when I have the time. Lots of interesting tidbits in these games. Enough games there to dive into and cover at least a couple dozen coffee breaks.

Good work to everyone who participated! And as Jasper said earlier, congrats to Farmergnome!

Keep the games coming guys, even when there isn't a competition going on :-)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SPVGTQB3F6X7YP7DA6VOVHTJIU Michael

This competition seems to have produced quite a few gems. Hope to see more of this bizarreness in the future!
c.a. sinclair

This the first anyone has ever made a video of one of my games. ;)
0rel

Wow! Nice results…
zaphos

Since it's buried in the thread, here's a list of the games in order of votes, thanks to flimgoblin:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=14293.msg425563#msg425563

re-Pasted here for convenience:
1 Under the Garden Farmergnome 76 (11.2%)
2 Cat Poke JaJitsu 66 (9.7%)
3 8:Capsule Mr. Yes 33 (4.9%)
4 whale of noise increpare 27 (4%)
5 MADRIS Gary Dahl 25 (3.7%)
6 Tales of Unspoken World Santa Ragione 23 (3.4%)
7 Mt. Luke O'Connor 21 (3.1%)
8 NECO TOUCH J.R. Hill 20 (2.9%)
9 Guitarguy Rocks Out David Pittman 18 (2.6%)
10 flowEST John Nesky 17 (2.5%)
10 Love Letter Jonathan Whiting 17 (2.5%)
12 ? bit Vince Twelve 16 (2.4%)
13 For The Twin Hybrid Mind Studios 15 (2.2%)
14 International King of Wine Nicholas Paul and Kevin 14 (2.1%)
15 Love Trampoline James Cook and Jimmy “Zaphos” Andrews 13 (1.9%)
16 Burp'N'Shoot Bootleg Lurk 12 (1.8%)
16 Mediécross Astrofra Barr and Remi 12 (1.8%)
18 Sandy Evolution Kurt Waldowski (Pocketninja) and David Sleboda 12 (1.8%)
19 Walk or Die Jordan Magnuson 12 (1.8%)
20 2061 allen 11 (1.6%)
20 Color SPACE BEAVER Leonardo Cavaletti 11 (1.6%)
20 Love Love Favorithold 48 nitram_cero (2bam) 11 (1.6%)
20 Pink! Pink! Bunny Machine J. Kyle Pittman 11 (1.6%)
24 BOOMBOX damien 10 (1.5%)
24 ORANGE Theta Games 10 (1.5%)
26 Climb! Daver 9 (1.3%)
26 MEGA THUMB: DREAM MATCH Quazi GNRL nose 9 (1.3%)
26 Oh!! Tamanegi Yarou Chindouchyu!!! miconazole 9 (1.3%)
26 Onion Warriors Fabienne 9 (1.3%)
26 SLOTH Dugan 9 (1.3%)
31 Together Fight! Friendly Hat Spirit Elephant Kiss? 8 (1.2%)
32 Me and myself like the sun and the moon guillermo 7 (1%)
32 Monkey Freak: Ape-sanity mklee 7 (1%)
32 Pigeon Racing Tipp 7 (1%)
32 Super Forester bastian (hammedhaaret) & jeppe (monkeylover) 7 (1%)
36 Climb belbeeno 6 (0.9%)
36 Robolution Tzach Shabtay 6 (0.9%)
36 Söze Oddball 6 (0.9%)
36 The Key Toeofdoom 6 (0.9%)
40 Dot Order Tie Dylan Van Cleave (Vulf) 5 (0.7%)
40 Monkey Freak Chris Zamanillo 5 (0.7%)
40 Twilit Universe Brian Soulliard 5 (0.7%)
43 CandyBar for Atari 2600 Moon Goon 4 (0.6%)
43 KINOKO BOY Vs the space gardeners Jerom 4 (0.6%)
45 A Bit Of Garden dontkickpenguins 3 (0.4%)
45 Battle Girl : Area 61 DarkStem 3 (0.4%)
45 Kinoko Boy C.A. Sinclair 3 (0.4%)
45 Moonlight Flimgoblin 3 (0.4%)
45 Refus Q. Jibberjabber's Day Out Tipp 3 (0.4%)
45 Sushi Blade LandManatee 3 (0.4%)
51 8-bit Towlr Theory allen 2 (0.3%)
51 Ascenso agj 2 (0.3%)
51 Attaccante Grando Umberto 2 (0.3%)
51 Chess with Blood Zoltam 2 (0.3%)
51 Extra Heroes Jean-Francois Major 2 (0.3%)
51 GramaGeddon Jaron Shulver (Lightnix) 2 (0.3%)
51 MADRIS: A Real Estate Puzzle Game Chris Franklin 2 (0.3%)
51 NIJI Sengir 2 (0.3%)
51 Space Funk Hunter (beta) Canute 2 (0.3%)
60 Dolphin Noise 4 Black Hat Brigade 1 (0.1%)
60 FAMILY GENOM Zaratustra 1 (0.1%)
60 Little Bunny Foo Foo's Assault Jetbike Challenge Wilson Saunders 1 (0.1%)
63 Meeting: Psychic Cat Herd Adventure moop 0 (0%)
63 Parachute Pete Graham Roberts 0 (0%)
63 Ruins Leo Burke 0 (0%)
63 Super Sloth Soldier No More Entertainment 0 (0%)
63 The Diary Mirror Life Space_man 0 (0%)
rinkuhero

one of the reasons i don't enter contests like these is that i know i'll be one of the 5 guys with 0 votes at the end :)
Mike Hunt

There's nothing particularly wrong with that, is there? :D