
General rules:
- IV games are disqualified.
- There will be different categories, more on that later.
- First, we will collect nominations. Everyone can nominate as many games as one likes. A nomination consists of the game's name, the categories you nominate it for, a short description (one paragraph at most) of what it's about, and another short reason why you think it's an awesome game worthy of being declared best of its category later. Or just one paragraph with both. Just remember you're writing it to convince others to vote for it later. You need to have played the game in question.
- Category assignment is going to be moderated by yours truly.
- The game you nominate needs to actually have been released in 2010 in one region on one relevant system and must not have won a previous AIVCGA (not an issue this year, of course).
- Nominations need to be posted here before the end of December 2010.
Vote process: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introv ... 6983#96983
What follows: Celebrations!
See next post for a list of categories, here rules to be applied.
For the 'Best game, price X, all platform' categories: no ports from releases of previous years are allowed. Bit.Trip Beat can't be here just because it came out on the PC this year, it can only be nominated as "Best game on PC".
For the price ranges: the price is the regular launch price, no promotions, no sales, no later price drops.
Freeware games: no cost at all, ever, apart from what you pay for internet access
"Free to play" microtransaction based games don't fall in the 'for X$ or less' categories because a) the average player will pay for them and b) they may get better the more you pay and we can't have "I'm filthy rich!" win the Freeware category because it collected votes from all those who chose to spend a fortune on them. They should be in the highest price category unless you can bring up specific arguments why they shouldn't.
A game can only be in one price category.
Feel free to make up your own new category if the above don't fit at all, but there will only be polls and celebrations if the category actually gets several serious nominations. And no further subcategories. No "Best PC RTS". No "Best 2D Platformer". No "Best XBox 360 Sci-Fi Shooter with Space Battles and Jetpacks". You know you just want those categories to make sure your favorite wins at least something. Also, fight Genreism! No "Best Graphics" categories, either. What matters is the fun that comes out at the end. Does single vs. multiplayer matter to you a lot? If yes, those would be subcategories to allow, but not for the individual platforms. Do the platform differences matter to you at all? If no, the individual platform awards can be removed to tune down the vote thread spam. Just 'best PC/stationary console/mobile', perhaps?
Post will be edited when rules need to be changed, typos corrected or categories added/removed.
Edit2: changed nomination rules (no count limit), category list is now only in the next post to ease editing.