Yay, I got a 'best of the rest' for the game I entered into the YoYo Competition 03, The Lovers. It also sits here, but got no substantial comments. It is strange, but I keep thinking that if this is a good game (which I think it is, and the YoYo lot seem to agree) there might be some other reason why it doesn't seem to get a response. Doesn't even get a negative response, really. The clanging silence that is more or less the internet version of 'meh', perhaps.

So either it is because it just doesn't seem to entertain the core demographic at either 64D or YoYo (which might be a content issue), or that the act of entering it into a competition means that it is treated very differently by the audience. On YoYo at the minute it has been played 54 times, rated 14, and has a rating of 2.4. Here it didn't even get enough attention to have its rating published. I am left wondering if it would have been so ignored (and I do think it was quite original in its flipping between dimensions in which blocks are owned by one character or another) if I hadn't entered it into competition 03.

Which leaves me pondering about whether I will enter any competitions again – not whingeing about the downrating that gets everyone so upset, but that it seems counterproductive if your intent is to get a game played.

Ah, what the hell, I just got a LBP Beta key off IGN, so maybe I can divert my game making energies somewhere else for a while. :)