This is where the public gets to add a voice to the judging.
What you need to do to Win $20:
1. Thumb this list.
2. Thumb as many videos as you think worthy of the "People's Choice" (winner can be anyone on this list). A $20 prize winner will be randomly selected from the thumb section of this geeklist. If the randomly selected individual has not thumbed at least one of the videos listed, another individual will be randomly selected.
3. You might also leave compliment comments here for the video creators for all of their hard work and cleverness.
Frequently Unasked Questions:
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Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? (James 2:15-16)
[size=9]Honorable Mention: (Good for no cash but you get my personal congratulations on a job well done, and who can put a price on that?)
How to Play Zertz with Mark Blanco: Great Humor, well formatted and put together, and nice personality overall brought to the video, plus the name of the video Im positive must be an homage to my podcast, okay probably not.
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? (James 2:15-16)
Thanks to everyone who voted for my video, and thanks for all the kind comments that have been left both on the video page, and on the youtube page.
And thanks to the judges for taking time to evaluate a ton of video, and thanks to Cate for putting this all together!
EDIT - and thanks to all the other contestants who have helped to make BGG even more useful with some great rules videos!
Technically you place the last round card 16 cards from the bottom, IE there are 15 below it.
Well...the bottom most card is the bottom, and so it's zero cards from the bottom. The one above it is one card from the bottom, and so on. But maybe I'm just trying to defend my small mistake after the fact.
Frankly I'm a little surprised that this video won for the print-and-play category. It has the most footnotes and corrections of all my videos. I suspect the fact that it's one of the more popular print-and-play games that I covered helped it out.
No joke, it's harder to put a video together when YOU are the cameraman,the editor, the scriptwriter, etc. Most people don't have a group to call upon to do so.
I don't begrudge those who do - but it does give you a leg up in a competition.
OK, I see! Thanks for elaborating. I was just surprised at your first comment since calling it "unfair" sounded rather negative and accusing to me, as if they had violated some rule.
But honestly, I'd be surprised if most people really wouldn't be able to get some help from friends or family or fellow gamers, whether for filming, acting, narrating, editing, critique and feedback, brainstorming, whatever. If I'd made a video for the contest, I would have gotten some help (at the very least to borrow a friend's camera...), and it wouldn't have occurred to me that I was somehow unusual in knowing some friends willing to help, or that I was doing something unfair!
Hm, if an advantage is "unfair" due to it not being available to everyone, I would bet there are quite a few far more unfair advantages that some contestants had, e.g. prior experience filming and editing videos, or owning high quality sound and film equipment or even a home studio, or having a naturally beautiful voice and acting experience, good writing talent, etc.
A bit rushed. You could have used all the 5 minutes and spoken more slowly. This way I feel a bit "pushed"
I'll give him a nod for being the most prolific but that seems to come at the cost of his videos being a bit rushed. Perhaps they should be considered a supplement to reading the actual rules rather than a stand alone substitute.
It is partly a side-effect of my attempt to put out multiple videos. Because of the five minute time limit, I made an effort not to waste time so that I wouldn't find myself with a 5:02 video that can't be trimmed anymore, and thus having to record everything over again. On top of that, I have a habit of talking quickly to begin with.
I'd rather have a fairly quick-paced video like this rather than a video that is twice as long and keeps me waiting -- perhaps I'm just an impatient person. In the worst case, I can pause the video to look at higher resolution images from the image gallery, or replay a section to listen to something that I didn't quite catch the first time around.
Where were you guys a month ago when I put out my first wave of videos? I could have used this constructive criticism!
A bit rushed. You could have used all the 5 minutes and spoken more slowly. This way I feel a bit "pushed"
I'll give him a nod for being the most prolific but that seems to come at the cost of his videos being a bit rushed. Perhaps they should be considered a supplement to reading the actual rules rather than a stand alone substitute.
I take this back. This particular video does not seem as rushed as some of your others. For this one perhaps some annotations would help. For instance add something to say that the dots should be in a diamond formation. "slightly offset" does not seem as clear. Also you refer to "this symbol" and point in the general direction of something. Perhaps a closeup or better explanation of the symbols would help. Also there is no explanation of the faces of the playing cards and we see very little of them.
I only wrote this because you mentioned constructive criticism. I hope this helps.
[size=9]Honorable Mention: (Good for no cash but you get my personal congratulations on a job well done, and who can put a price on that?)
Balloon Cup and Others by Samuel Peery: Sam did a great job of doing what I was talking about of doing more than just the rules. He also gave a few tips on typical play and how the game works. Sam framed his videos with introductions and conclusion. He made me very interested in particular the game Balloon Cup, I had never played or known the rules to this game and you made me very interested in playing the game and I feel I have a good knowledge of the rules.
Well, there is debate about which edition is better. But I didn't choose the first edition based on any kind of preference: it's simply the rules that were included in the copy of Carcassonne that I own and used to make this video.
Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There's a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
derrickec wrote:
Well, there is debate about which edition is better. But I didn't choose the first edition based on any kind of preference: it's simply the rules that were included in the copy of Carcassonne that I own and used to make this video.
Don't sweat it. I too own a first ed. of Carcassone. First Editioners need video rules too.
Carcassonne by Evan Derrick: Chosen for fantastic efforts in production, editing, scripting, and clarity in explanation. Some of the meeple shots were beautiful. Conscious choices were made about how to demonstrate the game to the accompanying audio. Wonderfully done great work Evan.
Ouch! Loud sound bite followed by quiet voiceover. WTB normalization
I've fixed that, but it doesn't look like I can upload it to Youtube as a replacement for the existing video. I'll upload it separately, and see if I can at least link the fixed version to the game's page here.
Unfortunately my wife borrowed my microphone and I can't find it now. And she took the good camera on a trip with her, so I had to record this with a Flip Mino HD. And it was my first time using iMovie. Didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but I picked a simple game because I expected this to be a learning experience.
Actually there were other videos submitted with quieter audio as well. That's not really as much a problem because I can just turn up the volume. It was the initial blast that made me jump out of my skin. It would be nice if everyone had perfect audio but you make do with what you have. So mainly I just think that the audio level should be as consistent as possible and preferably not blasting.
Thank you for fixing it. Let us know when you have the updated version and I'll watch it again.
Yeah, I just removed that clip entirely.
Youtube is still processing the video, so the 720p version is unavailable right now, but this is the fixed version:
If you watch the 720p version you can see the cards more clearly
I realize this video missed the deadline. I wanted to post it here anyway because I figured I might get some good feedback on my new approach to the concept of 5 minute tutorial videos.
I started this for the competition but just didn't finish it in time. Let me know if the format is better or worse than the live-action videos above.
I like this format for simple card games. It seems cleaner overall. However I don't think this would be as good for more complicated games as I think things would get lost in the translation.
Remove NINE cards? This would be awful with that many sequence breaks. I've played two ways: Remove 3 or remove 5. One of those was in the rulebook.
I've always played with 9 cards removed, so that must be what my copy of the rules said. It works fine with 9 removed, though I can't say if it'd work any better with 3 or 5. 3 sounds like it would be worse than 9.
I learned this game a couple of nights ago and 9 is what it states in the rules, and it seemed completely excitintg because of how many sequence breaks it caused.
good idea but your implementation is flawed. You will only award someone a prize from the thumbers of the winning item... This will cause people to thumb every video in the list. To be eligible for every possible draw.
Well it looks like my "quantity over quality" strategy didn't get me very far, though I am quite happy that my micropul video got an award for the print-and-play category. Plus, there's the value of satisfaction in introducing new games to people who would otherwise have not heard of the games (but I can't buy new games with satisfaction!).
Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There's a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
tatoolo wrote:
Well it looks like my "quantity over quality" strategy didn't get me very far, though I am quite happy that my micropul video got an award for the print-and-play category. Plus, there's the value of satisfaction in introducing new games to people who would otherwise have not heard of the games (but I can't buy new games with satisfaction!).
Hey Kevin,
Congrats!
You will get something for winning a category. Please geekmail me your Paypal address.
It is true that you will not be able to buy that mint copy of AH copy of Advanced Civilization with the prize cash but you at least can buy a small game.
Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There's a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? (James 2:15-16)
It would be nice if everyone had perfect audio but you make do with what you have. So mainly I just think that the audio level should be as consistent as possible and preferably not blasting.
