I finally received my Gaming Ganius Award for In Harm's Way: StarCluster today. It came as a certificate, a Golden Pawn, and an explanation of why it took so long to get to me.

Seems they created the physical Golden Pawn award out of Canadian wood, turned and finished in gold flake, with a gold G on one side, and weighted by washers made from US scrap iron on the base - all renewable and recycled, right?

They sent them out, but... no one received them.

Turns out the scrap metal washers contained trace impurities of something else, and that something else caused the Post Office to dump the mail - I don't know what it was, but it was probably XRF analyzers made by the company I work for that found it. They do that...

Anyway, they forgot to mention this to either the sender or receiver, and everyone was left scratching their heads. Eventually, the Gaming Genius Award folks started an inquiry through the Post Office in Canada, and the truth came out. They remade the awards, and checked for trace metals before shipping them out.

So I am gleefully holding my award - finally! Now to submit the games I released last year!

-clash

Just submitted Tools of Ignorance and Outremer.

-clash

So... which one is more ingenious, in your mind?

Neither one of them. They're just games. Nothing ingenious about them. I think they're good games, and I put a lot of work into both of them, but nothing I do is ingenious.

So why did I submit them? Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not the best judge of my own work.

-clash

True genius is manifested in things that work. Cleverness for the sake of cleverness is not genius. It's just mental masturbation. You know what genius is? It's a fork, or a paper clip. (Or if you want something on a bigger scale, a suspension bridge.)

So I wholly support the practice of submitting good games, without worrying about whether they are "genious" or not.

Congrats man.

Thanks, pseudo!

That's pretty much my position, doomfistmonk. I'm not in any position to judge anything for others. All I can do is put the best games I can make out there.

-clash