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Hi all,
It's that time of year again to decide 2014's Shmup of the Month calendar. As you all know, brunoafh now has real-life commitments that will prevent him from running this after the past couple of years, and has passed the torch on to me. Thank you for establishing and organizing it bruno.
Now then, I figure this won't be a difficult process, we all thought last year's "nominating committee" idea was the best way to handle it and I am in favor of continuing it this way.
Before we do that, there are a few things we need to discuss here.
Last year's nominating committee consisted of the following names -
ExedExes
dsheinem
Tyranix95
mjmjr25
dunpeal2064
pierrot
foxhound1022
o.pwuaioc
EllertMichael
hashirya1
noiseredux
Also, the main Together Retro calendar has Ikaruga chosen for the month of July next year. We collaborated with TR on DoDonPachi in December of 2012, and we handled the score updates on the TR thread and we discussed strategy and other finer points on the SOTM thread. I wouldn't mind doing the same for Ikaruga. That is a fine selection since we already played Radiant Silvergun. Plus, I think it would bring some people who were not aware of what we do each year over here to participate with us on the SOTM.
This year's community STGT was also a big success thanks to the efforts of mjmjr25. I agree that it brought out a few people who did not play shmups as much as us, and the in-community location made it a very big success. I wouldn't mind doing that again in 2014 and see it get even bigger.
So now, that leaves 10 months free, and we need 10 people to form this year's committee. But as of right now, we have 11. This is a pretty strong list of people. However, I also think that others who deserve to be here such as DocHauser (who joined as we were working on 2013's calendar) should have the chance to have a voice as to what they want to play.
Before we get to nominations, here are the questions I pose to the people here:
1) Will we have another community STGT in 2014? I'm aware the shmups.org STGT might make a return, but I would rather have one or the other, and I wouldn't want to have to do another late shift of the calendar like we had to this year once there was no STGT in August. I would rather keep our community STGT for November next year, if mjmjr25 would be up to doing it again. We had an excellent turnout and I would agree that we could have even more with another.
2) If we do keep the STGT, we would only need 10 names on the committee this year. Do we consider changing the active committee member list? Do we also consider active members from this year on the committee? I would like the committee to consist of people who will get me their nomination(s) in a timely manner so we do not have to wait.
3) EllertMichael brought up a point of having whoever the final committee is to put *one* game up per month. According to Noise, this was his idea, but who knows because I sure as heck don't remember
While this would eliminate a long voting period and I'd like that very much, I would suggest that the one game everyone picks to be community-minded, one that could be easily sourced through MAME, console, or a good mix of both. Homura didn't do well because as Ellert pointed out, people who aren't as active as us voted it in, and only 4 scores were posted all month. It also didn't help that it was available in Japan & Europe only. Not everyone has access to imports and the equipment to play them on.
Let's discuss these 3 points here and decide what to do quickly so that we may get started on acquiring these games for next year.
It's that time of year again to decide 2014's Shmup of the Month calendar. As you all know, brunoafh now has real-life commitments that will prevent him from running this after the past couple of years, and has passed the torch on to me. Thank you for establishing and organizing it bruno.
Now then, I figure this won't be a difficult process, we all thought last year's "nominating committee" idea was the best way to handle it and I am in favor of continuing it this way.
Before we do that, there are a few things we need to discuss here.
Last year's nominating committee consisted of the following names -
ExedExes
dsheinem
Tyranix95
mjmjr25
dunpeal2064
pierrot
foxhound1022
o.pwuaioc
EllertMichael
hashirya1
noiseredux
Also, the main Together Retro calendar has Ikaruga chosen for the month of July next year. We collaborated with TR on DoDonPachi in December of 2012, and we handled the score updates on the TR thread and we discussed strategy and other finer points on the SOTM thread. I wouldn't mind doing the same for Ikaruga. That is a fine selection since we already played Radiant Silvergun. Plus, I think it would bring some people who were not aware of what we do each year over here to participate with us on the SOTM.
This year's community STGT was also a big success thanks to the efforts of mjmjr25. I agree that it brought out a few people who did not play shmups as much as us, and the in-community location made it a very big success. I wouldn't mind doing that again in 2014 and see it get even bigger.
So now, that leaves 10 months free, and we need 10 people to form this year's committee. But as of right now, we have 11. This is a pretty strong list of people. However, I also think that others who deserve to be here such as DocHauser (who joined as we were working on 2013's calendar) should have the chance to have a voice as to what they want to play.
Before we get to nominations, here are the questions I pose to the people here:
1) Will we have another community STGT in 2014? I'm aware the shmups.org STGT might make a return, but I would rather have one or the other, and I wouldn't want to have to do another late shift of the calendar like we had to this year once there was no STGT in August. I would rather keep our community STGT for November next year, if mjmjr25 would be up to doing it again. We had an excellent turnout and I would agree that we could have even more with another.
2) If we do keep the STGT, we would only need 10 names on the committee this year. Do we consider changing the active committee member list? Do we also consider active members from this year on the committee? I would like the committee to consist of people who will get me their nomination(s) in a timely manner so we do not have to wait.
3) EllertMichael brought up a point of having whoever the final committee is to put *one* game up per month. According to Noise, this was his idea, but who knows because I sure as heck don't remember
While this would eliminate a long voting period and I'd like that very much, I would suggest that the one game everyone picks to be community-minded, one that could be easily sourced through MAME, console, or a good mix of both. Homura didn't do well because as Ellert pointed out, people who aren't as active as us voted it in, and only 4 scores were posted all month. It also didn't help that it was available in Japan & Europe only. Not everyone has access to imports and the equipment to play them on.Let's discuss these 3 points here and decide what to do quickly so that we may get started on acquiring these games for next year.
