Get your rocks off, get your rocks off, honey
Shake it now, now, get'em off downtown
Get your rocks off, get you rocks off, honey
Shake it now now, get'em off downtown
Thanks for the votes chaps. I probably shouldn't be allowed to vote for my own game, but just to be clear, Asteroids RX recreates both Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe. Blasteroids is not technically a clone of Asteroids at all, it's a conversion of, well, Blasteroids.
Meteor Storm gets this by whisker, probably for nostalgic reasons as it was one of the first games I played. My uncle had the Argus Press 30 Games compilation and it was on that.
highrise wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 4:17 am
Thanks for the votes chaps. I probably shouldn't be allowed to vote for my own game, but just to be clear, Asteroids RX recreates both Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe. Blasteroids is not technically a clone of Asteroids at all, it's a conversion of, well, Blasteroids.
You can always vote for your own game and I encourage you to do so if you genuinely believe it deserves the merit.
Always loved Asteroids - Meteor Storm was one of the first Spectrum games I got. Cosmic Debris was my favourite Spectrum version for 40 years, but Asteroids RX is clearly the best
The 'discussion' phase of this is where people can suggest games to be considered for the poll. This lasts for seven days, we take into consideration all viable suggestions and we sometimes debate some of the 'fringe' contenders. You should have suggested this over a week ago!
That said, I've just given Afteroids a go, and it's not really an Asteroids clone. Sure, there's an element of Asteroids in it, but it's kind of mixed in with being a vertical-scrolling shooter. It wouldn't have passed!
The homebrew game Asteroids RX by Highrise and Blasteroids by Image Works are tying for top place, with 5 votes each! Oh dear, can we break the deadlock in the proportional results? Meanwhile, the rest fof the phpBB forum poll...
Second place goes to Cosmic Debris by Artic Computing, 4 votes.
Third place goes to Meteor Storm by Quicksilva, 3 votes.
Then we have joint fourth place, where 1 vote each goes to the Your Computer type-in listing for Asteroids and Sinclair Research's Planetoids.
Anyway, as we said, we need to find the definitive winner that could pop up in the proportional results and... oh... it's neither of those two! It's Meteor Storm by Quicksilva!
Meteor Storm by Quicksilva 11
Cosmic Debris by Artic Computing 7
Asteroids RX by Highrise 6
Meteoroids by DK'Tronics 5
Blasteroids by Image Works 3
Planetoids by Sinclair Research 3
Meteoroids by Softek 1
I think in general when you have a tie like this, you use the proportional votes as a tiebreaker don't you? i.e to 'break' the deadlock between the top two rather than reset the whole system? I realise that means Asteroids RX wins, but I would still stand by that method either way.
highrise wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 7:21 pm
I think in general when you have a tie like this, you use the proportional votes as a tiebreaker don't you? i.e to 'break' the deadlock between the top two rather than reset the whole system? I realise that means Asteroids RX wins, but I would still stand by that method either way.
I go for the winner of the proportional vote, so this one goes to Meteor Storm... even though I personally think Asteroids RX should have it!
well, you know, it's just for fun, but what i don't understand is that if the proportional vote trumps the entire original vote, why not just use the proportional vote in the first place? it doesn't really make sense because essentially in the event of a tie, you scrap the original votes completely. Anyway, your gaff, your rules.
highrise wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:10 am
well, you know, it's just for fun, but what i don't understand is that if the proportional vote trumps the entire original vote, why not just use the proportional vote in the first place? it doesn't really make sense because essentially in the event of a tie, you scrap the original votes completely. Anyway, your gaff, your rules.
There's never going to be a perfect way to determine it and I don't like it when, as we are in this situation, we have games X and Y tied in the forum poll but the proportional results throw up game Z. More people tend to vote in the forum poll than the proportional one.
I'd say it's not about finding the perfect way, but rather the best way - I think (1) using the proportional vote to break the deadlock between the most votes, or (2) re-open the voting with a 'golden vote' (i.e close when there is a winner), are both better than going back and changing the whole system.
and yes, bluespikey, most of them barely fit the description, in fact that was the conclusion that Paul from the Spectrum Show came to, which was part of the reason that i wrote Asteroids RX. I'm not saying I made the perfect version, but I hope you give it a play
