The First Ice Game Design Competition

This competition ran from August 14th to September 10th, 2004. There were eleven entries, and ten voters.

The Results

In order of their rank in the standings. Note that there were ties for sixth place and tenth place.

1: Sprawl (PDF): designed by Jonathan A. Leistiko
(jonathan .at. invisible-city .dot. com) (home page)
2: Missile Command (HTML): designed by Geoff Hanna
(Geoff .at. HannaSolutions .dot. com)
3: Turning Points (HTML): designed by Joseph Kisenwether
(joe_kisenwether .at. hotmail .dot. com)
4: Moscow Ice 'n More (MSWord): designed by Kendall Johns
(original Moscow Ice contest entry -- PDF)
5: Breakthrough (HTML): designed by Ken Leyhe
(Toren .at. icepack .dot. cjb .dot. net) (game page)
(6:) Martian Shogi (HTML): designed by Ryan McGuire
(6:) Venusian Bowling (HTML): designed by Jason Brannen
(storyteller .at. fuse .dot. net)
8: Antshouse (PDF or text): designed by Olle 'Gardener' Johansson and Martin Ackerfors
(Olle .at. Johansson .dot. com) (home page)
9: Limn (HTML): designed by Will Jennings
(will.jennings .at. gmail .dot. com)
(10:) Arena (text): designed by Christoffer Fogelström
(joe_cannonball .at. hotmail .dot. com)
(10:) The Icehouse Null Game (HTML): designed by Dale Newfield

Here is the marginal vote table. (What does this table mean?)

VOTES   10
Margins
        ANTS  AREN  BREK  NULL  LIMN  MSHO  MCOM  MOSC  SPRW  TURN  VBOW
ANTS       X     4    -2     7     1    -2    -2    -3    -4    -3    -1
AREN      -4     X    -4     0    -4    -5    -7    -6    -7    -4    -4
BREK       2     4     X     7     5     2    -6    -3    -6    -3     1
NULL      -7     0    -7     X    -3    -6    -6    -7    -7    -7    -5
LIMN      -1     4    -5     3     X    -4    -4    -7    -7    -4    -1
MSHO       2     5    -2     6     4     X    -5    -4    -5    -2     0
MCOM       2     7     6     6     4     5     X     2    -3     2     4
MOSC       3     6     3     7     7     4    -2     X    -3    -2     5
SPRW       4     7     6     7     7     5     3     3     X     0     5
TURN       3     4     3     7     4     2    -2     2     0     X     6
VBOW       1     4    -1     5     1     0    -4    -5    -5    -6     X

Last updated September 11, 2004.

Ice Game Design Competition