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Well, this is my second year doing this, which means I have no life.

This was not a very good year for ZZT. I personally think it was one of the worst. Sure we got games put into the archive, however, the majority of the games were lacking a lot of effort. It is a shame that a lot of the well known ZZTers have stopped making games.
I also noticed that this year, there were more Demos from a variety of people. Last year, mainly every single one of them were done by Master Raze.
Also, it seemed like there was no standard categories, it was pretty much, whatever people wanted it to be. I mean, one person categorized their game as “show off” What the heck is that? Another categorized their game as “Display” These are good categories. Action, Adventure and RPG are good categories. Oh well, here are the stats for 2003

Games Released in:
January: 20
February: 14
March: 11
April: 15
May: 16
June: 9
July: 5
August: 15
September: 9
October: 3
November: 6
December: 6

Number of games released in 2003: 129
Number of good games: 20
Number of okay games: 33
Number of bad/horrible games: 76

Good Game List:
Final Fantasy (Chase Bramlage)
Vegetable Takeover II (Hazard)
CraNKGod RPG (craNKGod & _ry0suke_)
PancakWest Demo (Messiah)
Dinner Time (Messiah)
Wayne Adventure Demo: Level 1: (catfriedrice)
XZR:Exile (_ryOsuke_)
ESP (John W. Wells)
Backtrax (TriphEd)
Gunfire (Zagooky)
Torch (MadTom)
Village 2: Return of Mondo (Mrs. Claus)
MiniRPG Demo (Mr. Smith)
Fatal Quest: File 1 (eJECTION13)
Forest of ZZT (The Agonizer (old game))
Frost1: Power (Zenith Nadir)
Keve:SE (Zenith Nadir)
BoxClimber 1.3 (Nanobot)
Tale of ZZT: Part 1 (Nydark)
Wasteland (Commodore)


Most annoying series: ASCII Maker Collection
Wish List that didn’t come: Operation: Gamma Velorum: Part 4

Top Submitters:
Anarchy (10)
Develin (10)
Master Raze (5)
Darby Janssen (4)
Appliance (4)
Caspar (4)
Nixon (3)
Sam Vinci (3)

Action: 20.5%
Adventure: 19.1%
Other: 18.6%
RPG: 6.8%
Puzzle: 6.1%
Engine: 6.1%
Arcade: 4.7%
Trippy: 4.7%
Art: 3.5%
Magazine: 3.1%
Comedy: 2.7%
Simulation: 2.3%
Tutorial: 2.3%


Number of Demos: 22
Number of finished Demos: 2
Most Demos By: Master Raze
Number completed: 0 of 2

That's it. See you all again next year!

Jolly good show old chap!

Good job on the stats.

Excellent stats, indeed.

leamas wrote:Number of Demos: 22
Number of finished Demos: 2
Most Demos By: Master Raze
Number completed: 0 of 2

I assume by this you mean that 2 people each finished a demo that they submitted, master raze submitted 2 he did not finish, and 18 other people submitted one demo each.

AMASSING

So what's the difference between "finished" and "completed"?

finished is for eating turkeys, done is for humans.

CAKES ARE DONE, PEOPLE ARE FINISHED. NO WAIT!!!!

wow that is a little confusing. What I meant was:
there were 22 demos, but only 2 were completed into full versions.
MasterRaze created the most, which was 2... and he didn't complete either of them.
:P

i'm still confused. :(

CAKES ARE PEOPLE, DONE IS FINISHED. OH WAIT!!!~

eeyore finished, finish boy

Cakes are people too, y'know.

22 demos, but only 2 were completed into full versions.
MasterRaze created the most demos, 2 and didn't complete either of them.

Didn't Master Raze release a demo of TKP4, though? I seem to recall coming across that when I was compiling the list of this year's games for the Endgame awards.

Whoohoo! I made a good game! ^__^

I was surprised VT2 made it on the list, being all buggy and incomplete it was. But YAY.

leamas wrote:Good Game List:
Final Fantasy (Chase Bramlage)

AHHAAHH NO!

CraNKGod RPG (craNKGod & _ry0suke_)

AHAHAHAAH NO!

Tale of ZZT: Part 1 (Nydark)

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

ESP was ace. Frost was probably great because Zenith made it. Everything else either sucked or went unplayed by myself.