It is unfair, If there is a heavy parameter in a flash game is Size. It is the Ectocomp 4 hours you instead use 6 and sell the remaining two hours as a game intro. Is dishonest, and goes heavily against the spirit of the contest. 250 words that are the challenge the limit of size. If you add extra wording to clarify you aren’t doing 250 words. Because you heavily use that advantage to give extra emphasis on the cool your set is. You are heavily advertising campaign in that explanation. If you can’t doing so in 250 words the fault is on you no in the rules.
Eric can open the thread when he is ready.
I did not want to argue process; only explain my position. I think everything should be left there.
I won’t even give this any thought for at least a month. It’s NaNo time and 100% of my brain needs to go to that. Only 733 words thus far, but they are all goodish ones. And code is clean.
Honestly I could try to design a scoring rubric or something, but that would create additional layers of complexity. As was said earlier, I’ll likely just go with the five that speak to me the strongest on a holistic level, with protags I can envision being part of the Dozen.
So let’s all get to writing! I’m closing this thread for at least November, but I promise everyone who entered that your entry WILL be read and evaluated. It will just take a while.
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While my new game is being reviewed by CoG, I’ve spent this week redoing what I have on CCH3.
I’ve decided to shake up some expectations and mechanics to take advantage of what I’ve learned from CoG’s house style, and I feel like I need feedback before I push into Issue 10.
So be on the lookout for Issue 9 here sometime this winter. I won’t post until the entire Issue is completed and pretty clean.
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Well, I’ve submitted some of my last production tasks on Zip!, and I’m shifting my focus back to CCH.
I’m (finally!) reading the flash fiction stories from last fall’s contest. I’m reading 10 per night to space them out. Honestly, I’ve liked quite a few of them, but my wife and I are going to have to narrow it down to 10, or perhaps even 5, for public voting, which will be held on my redesigned (work-in-progress) website later this month.
I apologize for the delay in judging, but we’ll be posting the finalists soon, hopefully in the next 10 days. I’m excited to see who will be joining the Dozen!
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Voting is LIVE for the Flash Fiction Contest.
You can read the six finalists’ stories and vote on the most recent post here: http://fictionbyericmoser.com/
The final tally will determine which lucky(?) villain joins the Diabolical Dozen in Community College Hero 3. You can only vote once, but you can vote for either 1 or 2 entries. Voting lasts until noon EST on Jan 20th. These are flash fiction stories, so you should be able to read the whole bunch in less than 10 minutes.
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Good luck to those finalists that made the cut.
I did not see my entry, so obviously these are a cut above mine and all of them present interesting villains.
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It was very difficult. I ended up doing all the picking, because I didn’t want anyone to view my wife as “the bad guy.”
I tried to consider lots of stuff; writing craft, the story itself, the compatibility of the villain, their powers/motivations/vibe with the Dozen, etc., but in the end it’s admittedly subjective. I especially struggled to whittle it down from 10-15 to the final 6.
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The fact that you received 58 entries should be proof of how strong of a core audience you have for this IP … it is a very strong showing and should provide you comfort when doubts arise…
My biggest regret is not being able to get feedback on my story, once all is said and done.
Oh well; back to writing the murder of an innocent and lovable ballerina I have been working on this week 
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Why would you remind me about that?
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The voting is already a rollercoaster and its only been a day. For most of the day it was 2 stories leading the way and now a third as shot into the lead. Watching for new votes is almost as exciting as the stories themselves lol
Thank you for coming up with a great universe that inspires people 
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I bet it was Crook
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