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Its time for another round of awards. Call for nominations is open The timetable is: 2012-01-01 00:00Z: Nominations open. 2012-01-08 00:00Z: Nominations close and polling begins 2012-01-15 00:00Z: Polling closes, TAS of year and TASer of year polls open 2012-01-23 00:00Z: TAS of year / TASer of year polls close. No new platforms because there are only 2 movies (Cave Story and Mega Man 10 "megaman") for those. Hint: To see movie number on movie listing pages, hover mouse over the platform or game name and the movie number is shown in tooltip. Winners: Arcade TAS of 2011: [1807] Arcade Metal Slug X "2 players" by X2poet in 18:32.20 Arcade TASer of 2011: X2poet Computer TAS of 2011: [1917] Windows Cave Story "best ending" by nitsuja in 50:10.30 Computer TASer of 2011: nitsuja DS TAS of 2011: [1734] DS Brain Age "playaround" by Ryuto in 06:33.66 DS TASer of 2011: Ryuto First Edition TAS of 2011: [1917] Windows Cave Story "best ending" by nitsuja in 50:10.30 Funny TAS of 2011: [1734] DS Brain Age "playaround" by Ryuto in 06:33.66 GBA TAS of 2011: [1872] GBA The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap by Tompa in 1:48:09.75 GBA TASer of 2011: Tompa GBx TAS of 2011: [1840] SGB Pokémon: Blue Version "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" by p4wn3r & Mukki in 3:20:46.17 GBx TASer of 2011: Mugg Glitch TAS of 2011: [1925] SNES Mega Man & Bass "100 CDs" by sparky, parrot14gree & woabclf in 38:07.68 Lucky TAS of 2011: [1840] SGB Pokémon: Blue Version "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" by p4wn3r & Mukki in 3:20:46.17 N64/Wii TAS of 2011: [1851] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask by MrGrunz in 1:29:32.02 N64/Wii TASer of 2011: MrGrunz NES TAS of 2011: [1746] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 "warpless" by Aglar & andrewg in 18:29.26 and [1920] NES Battletoads "warps, 2 players" by feos & MESHUGGAH in 11:04.72 (tied) NES TASer of 2011: Aglar PSX TAS of 2011: [1796] PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night "Replay Mode" by arukAdo in 13:58.27 PSX TASer of 2011: sparky Rookie of 2011: agwawaf Sega TAS of 2011: [1779] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 by FuzZerd, Sonikkustar, upthorn, Aglar in 18:42.37 Sega TASer of 2011: Sonikkustar SNES TAS of 2011: [1898] SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island by Carl_Sagan in 1:33:40.18 SNES TASer of 2011: agwawaf Speedy TAS of 2011: [1760] DS Ivy the Kiwi? "100%" by Ryuto in 15:23.86 TAS of 2011: [1851] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask by MrGrunz in 1:29:32.02 and [1917] Windows Cave Story "best ending" by nitsuja in 50:10.30 (tied) TASer of 2011: X2poet
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What happens if 2 (or more) winning entries are tied at the end of the polling stage? Second poll with those entries only?
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Woot!
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Congratulations to all the fantastic winners of this year's TASVideos awards. You all inspire awe with your dedication and quality of production. Thank you for making these exciting pieces of work. :)
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Noob Irdoh wrote:
What happens if 2 (or more) winning entries are tied at the end of the polling stage? Second poll with those entries only?
No, they both win, like N64 TAS of 2010 last year (it went to SM64 "0 star" and OoT any%) and NES TAS of 2011 this year (Battletoads and SMB2 "warpless").
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Guess its going to be that time of the year where I need to find awards icons and replace 2010 with 2011? Or did I was enought smart to make 2011 in advance? Do we have something already for "first edition" thing? I assume the new categories are arcade and computer, maybe a cabinet for arcade and a keyboard/screen for computer ?
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arukAdo wrote:
Guess its going to be that time of the year where I need to find awards icons and replace 2010 with 2011?
Yup.
arukAdo wrote:
Or did I was enought smart to make 2011 in advance?
I don't know. :-)
arukAdo wrote:
Do we have something already for "first edition" thing?
1st edition was present in 2010.
arukAdo wrote:
I assume the new categories are arcade and computer
All categories are listed in the first post. Arcade isn't new category, computer is Two of three platforms in 'computer' were in 'new platforms' last year, one is new.
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Can this work for a Computer category? Or will Microsoft get mad at us?
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Im not sure if they will get mad lol, but yeah I was thinking to something similar, Ill try to look into icons before the 23th. Edit: Ilari, when I was asking about if I did the 2011 beforehand, it meant if I did then adelikat should have them, had to reinstall few times this year so ill have to crawl in the darkness of some archives to find em.
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How about something found in this search? https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=computer+case+icon
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Sprites (pixels), pictures dont fit well into a 30x30 sprites (pixels). The thing Warepire posted is what we want (i think?), should have no problem to find a linux one or something like that, just to avoid worry about licenses. More worried about what we really want, like I was asking, just a keyboard? a mouse? a screen? everything together?
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I posted what I posted because it shows some pixel art icons of computer cases, which I think would be ideal for the PC award.
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I'd be inclined to go with keyboard+mouse for the Computer icon, since they're really about the only constants in terms of what computers look like. But I recognize that would be harder to find than a generic computer case.
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It may be difficult to come up with a distinctive icon because we might want to distinguish between PC/Mac games and so-called "home computers" (such as C64, Spectrum, Amstrad...), which have their own games and history, and also have keyboards (usually connected to a TV). A mouse is pretty much unique to a PC (with the exception that the Commodore Amiga also had a mouse, IIRC, and it might be possible that in the future if we TAS Amiga games, we might want to make a distinction; OTOH Amiga had a distinctive logo that could be used to distinguish it as an icon). Perhaps a mouse icon would be enough. It would also better fit the size of these award icons.
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All winners are now announced (in the thread-starting post) Currently waiting for award images to be uploaded and will then add the awards to the database. EDIT: Also award categories are hardcoded into site code (instead of being in the database), so also waiting for changes to be deployed.
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Warp wrote:
Perhaps a mouse icon would be enough. It would also better fit the size of these award icons.
I don't think a mouse would currently be fitting, considering that none currently-published TASes of computer games use mice.
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Lex wrote:
Warp wrote:
Perhaps a mouse icon would be enough. It would also better fit the size of these award icons.
I don't think a mouse would currently be fitting, considering that none currently-published TASes of computer games use mice.
The icon represents the system, not the game.
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A mouse isn't a necessary controller for the system. Using a mouse for the PC icon would be almost like using a zapper for the NES icon.
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Keyboard? That's pretty classical computer input device (yes, I know that some consoles can use that as well, but it is much rarer).
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I still think a PC tower case is most representative of the system. Of course, most PCs were horizontal a long time ago, but the ATX mid tower or full tower case is almost standard among PCs nowadays, making it an easily-identifiable icon.
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Lex wrote:
I still think a PC tower case is most representative of the system. Of course, most PCs were horizontal a long time ago, but the ATX mid tower or full tower case is almost standard among PCs nowadays, making it an easily-identifiable icon.
All current-generation consoles support placing them vertically. I wonder if it could cause confusion. (And as I said earlier, a keyboard might be confusing if we one day start TASing C64, Amiga, Amstrad, Spectrum...)
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Warp wrote:
(And as I said earlier, a keyboard might be confusing if we one day start TASing C64, Amiga, Amstrad, Spectrum...)
I guess for those we may use their logos, while we can't use Windows logo. I suggest to use that for this year and think about future computers when they get the award, not now. EDIT: DOS games use mouse too.
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Why everything is doubled? I have only one "NES TAS 2011" award XD http://tasvideos.org/Awards/2011.html Or is it just me?
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feos wrote:
Why everything is doubled? I have only one "NES TAS 2011" award XD http://tasvideos.org/Awards/2011.html Or is it just me?
I screwed up the DB work a bit. I have since corrected it, but the incorrect data is cached and I can't flush it.
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There also seem to be missing a few awards like N64 TASer and TAS of the year. Computer TAS is also missing, I think.