@TFM: Well, as you may imagine, asking judges to change their decision after having announced it is completely illegal and also quite unfair. Moreover, doing it on the opinion of a third person, it's even much more questionable. That's something I wouldn't do in any case.
I understand your opinion, and I'm sure that lot of people will share it. However, that's not inherently good or bad: it's just an opinion. I respect it completely, but I'm sure you'll understand that it's impossible to take a decission compatible with everyone's opinion. Judges have made a decision, and if it is based on different criteria, that doesn't make it wrong: it only makes it different. As comparing relative values of technical developments has a high degree of subjectiveness, there is no way to find universally valid criteria. Then, only one has to be used amongst all the possible criteria, and that corresponds to the jury, not to your opinion or my opinion.
I know you have experience on making 2D and 3D games. I also have more than 20 years of experience on that: I've created 2D and 3D engines from scratch and I know the cost. But that doesn't change the point. My criteria counts the same as yours: 0. The only valid criteria in this contest is jury's. Every participant sending their game to the contest accepts the rules, and the rules state clearly that jury's decision is final.
Also, I'd like to ask you not to make assumptions on 1 out of 5 members of the jury being related to a podcast about Spectrum. That seems like an unfair way of discrediting the jury, and seems inappropriate to me. Being related to Spectrum doesn't mean anything about their knowledge on Amstrad: I also like Spectrum, have some of them and have developed things for them myself. That doesn't discredit my Amstrad knowledge and experience.
My personal opinion on the work done by
@ervin is that it's incredible in many ways. I've had the opportunity to test it, as I've got to prepare the master for producing the tape, and I really love it. It moves really fast and produces a nice sensation of speed and 3D movement. I'm really happy to see such a great development coming from
@ervin and I'm impatient for seeing people's reaction on playing it. However, I reckon that I woldn't be fair if I was to judge it against other productions, as I've followed
@ervin's development process and have much more information and relation with him than with others. I'm not able to fairly state that he actually deserves nomination more than others, because I'd be biased. And, like me, I think most of us in this forum would also be biased to favoring
@ervin against unknown people.
