I really don't get the 1-votes for
Will Not Let Me Go and
Harmonia, either. Voters can vote how they want, I suppose, but to me
Harmonia's presentation alone ought to rule out any scores that low.
evouga wrote:
Harmonia had strong feminist themes. Maybe a voter strongly objected to this?
Will Not Let Me Go has the same two 1-votes, which indicates not. Although maybe the two 1-votes are from different people.
Future Threads also has an unusual distribution: Almost steadily increasing until peaking with lots of 9's, but then no scores of 10. Maybe voters thought it was too short - like litrouke says about
10pm? This gets back to Mathbrush's
Swigian experiment about length being one of the things voters (perhaps unconsciously) consider.
Right; I guess the only thing that's clear is that the 1 votes were political and not based on the objective quality of the work (and I encourage the authors not to put too much stake in them). I can speculate that "Will Not Let Me Go" was too "touchy-feely" for certain "hardcore" IF fans, but again, that's wild speculation.
It's well known that the IfComp rewards crowd-pleasers and penalizes games that take risks with either its themes or mechanics, and hope that nobody is discouraged even if their game didn't make the top 3.
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