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My current hangout, VGG, defined a new set of goals for 2012, to which I'll contribute too. This, and frumpish's cool pledge, made me wonder about my own goals. Here's what I want to achieve in 2012, BGG/RPGG/VGG wise...
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Did you know there are currently over 1700 copper reviewers, but less than 100 silver?

I want to divide my contributions between wargames and videogames.
Two great initiatives are VGG's 'Monthly videogame review contest' and BGG's 'No wargame left behind: Wargames that need reviews 2'.

I do have a head start: in the past years I wrote 8 reviews for BGG and 7 for VGG:

BGG:Is it (still) fun to invade West Germany?, Awale: African chess, THE basic hex&counter wargame, Light weight epic battle for the Atlantic, Greek warfare in the Napoleonic age, Knowing what to buy, knowing what to give, Table top hockey at home, On the fence

VGG: The overlooked gem, Kael's longish review, Kael's review of MW2-Special Ops (only), King Richard's review, Why to stay away from this one, Kael's review of C64 classic Combat Lynx, Kael's review of "Total War: Shogun 2" - single player campaign
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Review #16, VGG: _Kael_'s longish review on DCS: A-10C Warthog (videogame)
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I got the golden one last year and that's because I write reviews on all domains. Love to have some more reviews in the database, not that I read them all the time but when I'm thinking of buying I always look at the reviews first.
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I'm already a bit behind. Anyway:
#17: _Kael_'s longish review on Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific (videogame)
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#18: _Kael_'s not so mild view on Pocket World At War (videogame)
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#19: _Kael_'s longish review on 1941 (boardgame)
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VGG's goals's 30.000 games in the database by the end of the year. At the start of 2012, it was just under 20.000.

That shouldn't be to hard. I'm some 30 games below platinum.

I can't see myself going for mb though. It's a massive amount. Although I did say that too, when I looked at platinum...

< --Most of the games I submitted were ZX Spectrum games
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I'm currently at Silver, but am plugging away to get my Gold submitter.... Hopefully pretty soon, though I'm not exactly sure what is included in the calculation.
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I'm currently at Silver, but am plugging away to get my Gold submitter.... Hopefully pretty soon, though I'm not exactly sure what is included in the calculation.
Franchises + Series + Games + (0.25 x versions)

So once all your stuff is approved, you'll be at 219,5. That's 25 games (with one release each) away from gold!
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I'm currently at Silver, but am plugging away to get my Gold submitter.... Hopefully pretty soon, though I'm not exactly sure what is included in the calculation.
Franchises + Series + Games + (0.25 x versions)

So once all your stuff is approved, you'll be at 219,5. That's 25 games (with one release each) away from gold!
That's what I thought... I was kinda hoping that publishers/developers counted too, as I have quite a few of those.
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You can do it. 750 is a breeze. When I used to work for another gaming website I easily uploaded information for hundreds of games. Granted, I was an admin so I could push through my own submissions much faster. Also, they didn't have as restricted rules (compared to the last time I uploaded anything to VGG). Last time I checked the rules for VGG you couldn't use publisher materials given out to the press, which was my major source of images.

While I did enjoy it, I don't have the time for that kind of thing anymore.
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I don't have any fancy reoccurring geeklists and I don't want to make lists just for the purpose of making lists, so this one will be a slow.
However, since my first geeklist in 2005, I already (hum hum) submitted some 18 lists, so 7 to go before the end of the year... Can't be that hard, can it?
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Geeklists are funny things, you can't predict which will take off and which will fall flat. Some of my favorite geeklists fell relatively flat and some I threw together in minutes are among my most thumbed.

Protip: If you want thumbs, make geeklists for the BGG audience. I think the most thumbed video game geeklist I have seen is around 30.

I will say that geeklists often take quite a bit of time and effort, but it really depends on how much you want to put into them.
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Yeah I even been looking for it, problem is that a lot of BGG just cross post their geeklist but that their isn't always a reason to put them onto VGG.
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Yes but we really need some VGG geeklist going, for instance I love the what's the last rpg book you bought geeklist and it really works fine but after starting the VGG one almost nothing gets added.


I've made some, and probably will make more. It's just so much more rewarding to make BGG geeklists.
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I agree geeklists on VGG get a lot less attention. I am still plugging away with my monthly Videogames New To You lists, and while they do get some really excellent contributions, it is still only a very small number of people contributing.
I wish I had something to add there each month!

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I agree geeklists on VGG get a lot less attention. I am still plugging away with my monthly Videogames New To You lists, and while they do get some really excellent contributions, it is still only a very small number of people contributing.
I wish I had something to add there each month!

You don't get chance to play any new videogames?? That is unfortunate. Now that I use steam more, I have a lot of games waiting to be played. plus there are lots of free browser games and stuff too.
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The "VGG needs help : Rated games without (representative) pics!" geeklist

Though this was a VGG 2011 goal and is not a 2012 goal, I still have over 300 geekgold left to hand out and there are still plenty of rated videogames missing a representative picture.

In 2012, I'll also reward finding and adding geekitems to this list (i.e.: videogames without a representative picture and which have a VGG ranking at the moment they're added to the geeklist)

This is not a 'goal' which I can achieve, since it's an ongoing affair. Let me define the goal as : "I'll keep doing this till that bag of gold is empty"
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This was a very laudable goal and one that looked quite time-consuming.
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[..]one that looked quite time-consuming.
It was. Hence my reward to get people to add new geeklist items. I think periodically ploughing through all pages of ranked videogames on my own and cross referencing it with the ones already on the list was the most time consuming part (if not, the most labor intensive).
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I'm not sure where else to say this, but I found it fascinating so I figured I'd mention it here:

My subscription to the VGG needs help : Rated games without (representative) pics! geeklist gave me a subscription alert for this post. That's pretty clever, in my book!

This also makes me want to set my own goals for this year.
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This was a very laudable goal

Although fatally flawed due to poor wording... the number of rated games will always continue to increase to some extent (and even more so at this stage of the site's development) so the goal started off with a moving target.

The goal really should have been tied to a starting date (all games ranked as of 1 JAN 2011) or a certain number of games (the top 200 ranked games).

Despite the flaws, Kael did a great job of driving the effort forward and calling out a number of notorious usual suspects for submitting images that were oversize, undersize, taken from other sites, or otherwise not in compliance with the image policy.

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6. Video Game: Progress Quest [Average Rating:4.88 Overall Rank:4092]
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And of course: keeping VGG informed about how we're doing in reaching our "30.000 videogames in the database"-goal. Updates at least once every 3 weeks, but mostly weekly.

VGG Goals - Games entered 2012
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Oh, Kael, I see you're currently in Spain? You used to feature a different flag.
Yeah, I'm still Dutch and in the Netherlands.

The Spanish flag is temporarily. We're trying to persuade Antonio to stay. See here and here, if interested.
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_Kael_ wrote:
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Oh, Kael, I see you're currently in Spain? You used to feature a different flag.
Yeah, I'm still Dutch and in the Netherlands.

The Spanish flag is temporarily. We're trying to persuade Antonio to stay. See here and here, if interested.


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Are you going to be updating this list in regards to your newfound lack of freetime?

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Are you going to be updating this list in regards to your newfound lack of freetime?
No.

the other admins promised to support me, so I'll just see where this is going!

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