Hey there,
In preparation for this year's Game Chef design challenge, I'm trying to find information about the contest that Jared Sorensen and Clinton Nixon ran in 2001 on the old Gaming Outpost fourms, the contest that inspired Game Chef as it exists today.
Searching through Wayback and some other archives, all I can find is a thread started by Jared (Memento-Mori) in April 2001 called "Lets kick it up a notch. BAM!" That sounds promising (27 replies), but I can't find the text of the thread, just the title.
For example, you can see it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010418141009/www.gamingoutpost.com/forums/index.cfm?Action=ShowForum&ccurrentforum=26&site=GO
But I don't even know for sure if that was the main thread for the contest.
Any help anyone could offer in this search would be greatly appreciated.
I'm mainly interested in the following details:
What was the contest called?
What were the rules?
How many games were submitted?
Who won? What were the game(s) called?
Thanks!
Jonathan
Welcome, Jonathan.
I've moved your post to the Gaming Outpost Talk section. GO has been through a couple of rebuilds, and not all the old threads were restored to the forums, but we'll have to get Aaron (or Jacob or Dutch, but usually it's Aaron) to let us know whether those threads exist. He should see it now.
--M. J. Young
Thanks, M.J. I appreciate it and apologize for barging in and not knowing the right place to post.
This might be a problem on my end (maybe?), but I'm still seeing this thread in Role-playing Games and not in Gaming Outpost Talk.
I seem to recall that those old threads are irretrievably lost, but you shouldn't take my word for it.
Thanks for catching that; it does not seem to be moving for me.
I'll flag Aaron.
--M. J. Young
All of the old threads that are archived somewhere are archived here:
http://discussions.gamingoutpost.com/