The Fourth Ice Game Design Competition

This competition ran from April 23rd to June 5th, 2005. There were seven entries and 19 voters.

The Results

In order of their rank in the standings. We had a tie for second place.

1: Torpedo (HTML): designed by Jacob Davenport
(game home page)
(2): Cold Spell (text): designed by Jacob Valdez
(home page)
(2): Spectra (PDF): designed by The Labor Shed
(games .at. thelaborshed .dot. com) (home page)
4: Armada (HTML): designed by Dan Isaac
5: Ice Market (PDF): designed by Jonathan A. Leistiko
(jonathan .at. invisible-city .dot. com) (game home page)
6: Tranformartian (MSWord): designed by Kendall Johns
7: Simple Life or Death (text): designed by Fred Poutre

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

VOTES   19
Margins
         ARMA  COLD  IMAR  SLOD  SPEC  TORP  TRAN
ARMA        X     2     7     6     1    -3     6
COLD       -2     X     1     3     2    -2     2
IMAR       -7    -1     X     8    -2    -5     5
SLOD       -6    -3    -8     X    -8    -8    -2
SPEC       -1    -2     2     8     X     2     4
TORP        3     2     5     8    -2     X     3
TRAN       -6    -2    -5     2    -4    -3     X

There was a classic voting-paradox loop at the top this time. Voters preferred TORP over COLD, COLD over SPEC, and SPEC over TORP. There were also loops involving those three and ARMA. (All by small margins.)

I resolved these with my standard tie-breakers -- the number of other games each game definitely beat, and then the number of other games each game definitely did was not beaten by. Nonetheless, I can say that this contest was very close among the top four.

Most Improved From Previous Contest

No entries from previous Competitions were updated this round.

Last updated June 6, 2005.

Ice Game Design Competition