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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: you people are masochists: on quitting
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Neil Cerutti <cerutti@together.net> wrote:
>I get the feeling you aren't responding directly to me (you
>obviously don't know how I voted) but to the judges in general. I
>have some thoughts.

Yes, though it was triggered by your use of the word "but".

>You seem to be arguing that writing ought to be regarded as a
>possible negative, but not a possible positive -- like
>air-conditioning in the work-place is regarded by prospective
>employees.

I think my multiplication notion captured explicitly that I saw it
as a symmetric relationship between the two components.  Let I
be the interactivity; let F be the fiction (the writing);
value as IF = I * F.  [Divided by 10 for comp scoring.]

A 10 in the fiction and a 5 in the interactivity?  A 5 overall.
A 5 in the fiction and a 10 in the interactivity?  Still a 5 overall.

For what it's worth, because I tend to reserve "1"s for
"totally broken"--like lousy grammar or horrible programming--Rameses
scored a 5 from me.

Of course other judges are free to evaluate games in
other ways, but I'm certainly trying to provoke them to
explain it on *somebody's* terms.  (The aforementioned
multiplicative relation isn't something I'd ever even
consciously thought of while voting--I just assign things
a single number based on it as "IF", not as "I" and "F"--
but your use of the word "but" made me think of
averages, and I wanted to put it in those terms.  It
was actually sort of a minor revelation that I think of
it that way.)

Sean
