I was thinking earlier about another format. Walrus Squared. Here is how it would work:
You would have X entrants - and each entrant had to do one category reveal. Obviously you don’t enter your own category, but every contestant is in the same boat. Ideally it would be anonymous.
So, before the game starts each person lists their category and a few suggestions about what they like. We would have one awesome person act as a middle person to collect all submissions for each host and pass them on for the person owning each category.
Then basically each person does their reveal in whatever order we decide on.
Pros:
The hosting is shared, so it is less overhead for any one person.
Since each person is nominating a category of their choice you are still trying to cater to particular tastes.
Cons:
It obviously loses the longer narrative of a singular host.
A little more organization before the game starts (I dont think this would be too bad as I would probably write a template to try and make it easier)
Thoughts? Let me know if I didn’t explain it very well.
I’d be interested to hear from @Lawnmower_Man, @ChrisV, @miliboo, @LouisCyphre and others who played in early games but not since. Did something about the game turn you off? Do you just not have time to participate? Or something else?
Also @6ix but my guess is that he’s enraged by the forum’s disinterest in beep boop music.
Mostly a time thing for me. Also the last one I entered was the somewhat trainwrecky Rivaldo one, which took the wind out of my sails a bit. I looked at one since but found the categories challenging. Also, I tend to just read subscribed threads and not look at new threads, so I have no idea if there is even a signup happening right now, for instance. Might be an idea to have one thread where signups happen.
I regret my performance as host. It was a turn-off to others, too, I’m sure. The community would love to have you OG contributors back, and I’ll opt out of participation if necessary.
I’ve tried to mute my abrasive manner since that debacle, but you guys shouldn’t have been made to feel that way.
Not so keen on verdict by small committee. An important part of the enjoyment for me is reading/writing the write-ups. Not many will read everyone’s appraisal of each track.
If it’s the weight of critical opinion you’re after there’s plenty available on wiki.
Otherwise the current format works pretty well imo, and looking forward to what microbet’s enhancements will do.
I’m down for trying whatever the community thinks might be enjoyable. That said I actually don’t think I’m going to enter many more walruses because my music knowledge feels vastly inferior to ans narrower than most of the forum and I’m going to struggle to not be in the bottom for most judges. I did want to host one but time is a problem for me - perhaps if next week when I have a little extra alone time I’ll do one if there’s nothing doing on here. I will also be here to rail!
It was mostly bad timing. Walrus 6 and 7 came along and there were only a few days for submissions. I was very busy and didn’t want to half-ass it so I skipped them.
Since I wasn’t involved and still busy I haven’t kept up with those or later rounds. I will read up on them at some point and I will be back to participate.
Can we think up a format for a running walrus that is similar to that picture guessing game? In other words, the walrus does one entry at a time and the winner is the next walrus. Something like that. People can come and go as they please.
This is definitely pre-Beta. There are still non-fatal errors that I know about that show up on the screen. There is still debugging info that shows up. The server gets knocked off line occasionally when I do something else on the machine. The formatting is … well, not right. The interface may be confusing.
My goals are to get some suggestions, find bugs, get this project to a place where I can leave it for a period, work on some other projects and then come back to this with some stuff to work on.
I have a sample game up on whoisyourwalrus.com which will be seen by people who register. The game takes 2 players. There are only two categories. If you do sign up for the game you should probably PM me here. We may need to discuss things live - in which case we’ll get on the secret slack channel, which we can ask gregorio to put you on if you aren’t.
I have some test games up on whoisyourwalrus.com if you want to take a look - start a new game - explore the wide world of walrus (that would have been a good domain name).
