Post by Steve Farrelly @ 05:58pm 31/08/11 | 23 Comments
This is a very rare opportunity to get an insight into game development from a key member of the studio that invented first-person shooters, and it's at the freaking Opera House!
Anyone from Australia can enter this competition, provided you're willing to make your own way to the event. For the five winners though, entry is on us.
All you need to do in order to win is Tell us in 50 words or less your favourite moment in id Software gaming. It can be from Wolfenstein, Doom[s] or Quake[s], or even all three. We'll judge the best five entries and you'll be guaranteed entry for you and a friend to Tim's talk at the Sydney Opera House on September 14th!
Click here to get your entry in!
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Posted 06:05pm 31/8/11
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Posted 06:32pm 31/8/11
fixed
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Posted 09:13am 01/9/11
Hah. yes. I was there, at the ripe age of 14. I still have my QuakeII poster signed by Tim Willits and Paul Steed!
Posted 09:27am 01/9/11
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Posted 09:49am 01/9/11
Yeah I was very keen to enter this and got excited, then saw that and closed the page.
That whole 50 words of less thing is just a legal way for them to say 'if we like you, we'll give it to you instead of the other chumps'.
A random draw from the entries would be more fair, but once you have a human (Ausgamers admin) picking 'their' best ones there is no fairness at all.
Posted 09:57am 01/9/11
Even more awesome, the lottery licensing laws differ from state to state, so you have to get a license from each state depending on their own laws. Needless to say, it is an expensive and time consuming exercise. You are implying that we are doing it unfairly?
This is false; we have an admin page that just lists all the responses independent of any other user information. All the responses are read and judged on their merit - basically how funny and/or insightful they are (for some definition of "good" which the person judging uses based on the question and competition).
It also filters out the lazy so the people who are prepared to put in a modicum of effort actually have a reasonable chance of winning.
(I have to say I enter a LOT more competitions like this now especially on smaller sites where I feel there's a better chance they're doing it like us and not just using it as a way to cheat and give out random prizes, because the barrier to enter due to all the lazy people giving up early obviously means your odds are significantly increased).
Posted 09:59am 01/9/11
Posted 10:17am 01/9/11
If you had a better method then 'what we deem is the funniest oh and we promise not to look at your username' I might not submit my entry using a proxy server in another state and with a ausgamers account other then this one.
This kind of stuff is full of bias - but it's not like you would admit that publicly on your own website under your own name as it might reduce the people that come here and give you advertising money or whatever.
Posted 10:18am 01/9/11
hahahahahahaha
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Posted 10:35am 01/9/11
If you don't trust the admins, why would you enter any competition at all? I mean, you say at the start you would have entered if it was random chance, so somehow for you its easier to trust someone telling you they choose the winners randomly, than it is to trust someone who is completely transparent with the process used and explains to you exactly how its done impartially? Your mind scares me.
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last edited by scuzzy at 22:42:14 14/Sep/11
Posted 11:57pm 14/9/11
EDIT: If this was a real gaming forum I would have just won the competition with that cheat. Disappointed.