Saturday 13 December 2014

AIF Hall of Fame 2014 - Vote now!

For those who don't know, the Erins (the annual community-voted awards, which haven't been held since 2009 due to lack of games) included a write-in category called the Badman Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award, where people who'd made outstanding contributions to AIF or the community in general could be nominated. The person with the most nominations received the award, which was effectively a Hall of Fame since it could only be won once.

The cessation of the Erins meant that a number of deserving people never got recognised for their hard work, and this is my attempt to rectify that.

Vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-TcL4QM8rdwMnkyZPCM5xaQTtnccgWVh0WJ8RJ5okX8/viewform

The Badman Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award is given to the most influential figure in the AIF community, someone who has helped direct and shape it into what it has become today. This can be anyone, it doesn't have to be an author, and it relates to everything they've done for the community (rather than just what they've done this year).

Previous winners are Badman (2002), Choices (2003), NewKid (2004), Christopher Cole (2005), A. Bomire and Scarlett Herring (2006), BBBen (2007), and GoblinBoy (2009), so they are not eligible for this year's award. As the organiser of this year's voting, ExLibris is also not eligible.

Voting will close at 1200 GMT 31 December 2014. All going well, the results should be announced on New Year's Day here and on the AIFCentral subreddit.

If you want to campaign for someone, feel free to do so in the comments below.

13 comments:

  1. It's difficult to do a campaign only for one, only with a brief thinking i find more than one people worthy:

    A Ninny
    Lucilla Frost
    Purple dragon

    And even if Deus ExLibris hasn't produced a game and probably she will never does, her contribute in the aif community is undeniable.
    In a world like ours in which the majority is very quiet and post or contribute very little I appreciate very much her efforts.
    Probably without the hall of fame stop each of those would have won already a lifetime award and I am surely forgetting someone, while for others that i could think it's a bit too early for a lifetime award (for example 2-3 years one like another wannabe could be in the list).

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    1. Oh, Never knew Deus ExLibris was a women, even after reading the blog for over 2 years. Gonna have to stop the voice in my head reading the articles with a mans voice :D

      I think as far as contributions to AIF go she is up there.... I would certainly consider voting for her here.

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  2. I'm going to nominate Palmer. His work is clearly the most influential in recent memory.

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  3. Palmer is surely a person that will probably deserve a lifetime award very soon and if the award would have been for the importance in the last 1 or 2 years he would have been one my first choices even for me, but maybe it's a bit early for a lifetime award.
    In any case this is only a personal opinion and i admit to follow pleasantly his blog, waiting patiently his future works.
    XXX

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  4. One-Eyed Jack anyone? The Sam Shooter series is an AIF staple.

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    1. Good point. I forgot he never got an award.

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    2. I am glad you mentioned him before i voted, the Sam Shooter games is among my favourite series...

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  5. This might sound harsh, but Palmer getting a lifetime achievement award now would be a little like Barack Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize. That is, it would be for what he *could* do rather than what he has done. He *could* be the next GoblinBoy, but by the time GB got his lifetime achievement award he'd produced two games of the year (one of which basically redefined AIF) and won the Minicomp twice, not to mention his record haul of Erins. If Palmer goes on to release a couple more games of the same standard he's definitely in with a shout, but not until then for me.

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  6. Deus ExLibris i have read that you want be excluded from the poll, because you you don't want that someone could think that the vote could be rigged if you would win and you think that are people much more worthy than you.
    Personally I don't think that someone with a bit of intelligence could think that you would cheat for this award (actually I think you would be embarrassed in case of winning) and for other worthy people, like I had already said, we have to try to have this award for some years, we will need years for reward all the people that deserve this award.

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    1. Yeah. That's a pretty good point. I actually think if Exlibris hadn't taken himself out of the running, I'd definitely vote for him.

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  7. A more general question: How much detail would you like me to go into when I announce the results?

    My original plan was just to announce the winner, and list any comments they received. Should I also list anyone else who got a significant number of votes, and some or all of the comments they received (depending on space)? Is there any other information that it would be worthwhile to provide?

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    1. I think that would be great if you list others and at least some of the comments.
      Personally I follow the AIF community only from 1 year (even if i have read and played much in this period), so I don't know if I'm the better person to speak but probably this would be a good way to remember people important to this community even if they won't win this year and maybe could also be useful for future lifetime awards.

      XXX

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  8. Just a reminder that voting will close in a little under 48 hours. I've just had a sneaky look at the results so far and it's still very close. If you haven't voted yet, now would be an excellent time to do so.

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