Continued Discussion of 2023 Charles S Roberts Awards Part 3

howy folks it's me Mike the man cave of Menace it's the middle of the evening and oh down here in the little corner see me over here uh this is our continuing coverage of the Charles Roberts awards for 2023 nominees and various categories Etc uh last time we said we were going to cover another period award uh which we is going to be the gunpowder industrial uh era and in which there's six nominees and unfortunately one of those games did not arrive in time and I really want to have unboxings available for all the games that we're covering in a particular Topic at all possible so we're going to delay this one hopefully the game will arrive by next week so we are going to replace this category with another one uh we'll get to that we also mentioned last time that uh we're going to do one of the mode Awards we said we're going to do the hypothetical uh game award category and for that there are three nominees and I mentioned this last time I really think there should be five uh I believe that fantasy and science fiction qualify they're not explicitly excluded even though they're not explicitly included they had been categories in the past either separate categories or together or along with hyp other hypotheticals uh so be that what it is I'm I'm not you know bashing the words or the board or the but I think there's a little uh Missing Piece of definition here and their the process that this award is another example of one that should have a full five nominees but that being said let's just move forward so the three nominees are loral Commander published by the Deets Foundation designer is Sebastian Bay and we have red strike this is from vuka simulations designer Eve rattel this is a cold war gone hot 18 1989 sorry and the third one is Battle for the Balkans this is uh the second episode of the Doomsday product this is uh Compass games Adams dark weather is the designer so we're now going to discuss what the Capstone awards are capstones being Peaks or Pinnacles of of uh progress achievement Excellence Etc uh the first of such is uh outstanding presentation now this seems like this could have been a mode award however this is now titled the Redmond a Simonson Memorial award for outsanding presentation so it's a a special named award so I get why they put this in the the Capstone Awards so this is for the games exhibiting excellence in all aspects of presentation including quality of rules packaging art components physical systems design playing surface and visual interface so let's go on to the next of the four caps Awards and this is the James F dunan award for play building design another named uh category this is for a designer not game designer who has through Excellence of design had the most positive impact on playability and elegance in the field of conflict simulations now this doesn't say that the designers that are nominated have to have released a title in this year this is sort of like a Hall of Fame award uh and so they don't have to have any design out there um currently um even though you might expect that to be the case uh it's it's not listed as a requirement right now we're not going to cover this we're only covering game categories so we're crossing that off the list and the next one is another named one Chad Jensen Memorial breakthrough designer award kind of like rookie of the year however this is for a new designer or design team whose first or second game was released in the award WS year so unlike the uh previous one this one definitely has a requirement for you need to have a title in the award year your first or second game so you got a twoyear Ricky season instead of just one and hub Best exemplifies emerging excellence in design and who has not previously received this award okay we're not going to cover this one either so that scratched out and the last one the Pinnacle the Capstone of capstones is the Charles S Roberts award Game of the Year this is for the game that best exhibits the highest standards of excellence in design and execution that's very important um we'll discuss that more in our next video next week because we will cover this category then sort of as a Capstone of our coverage and uh I would say that maybe there's a little controversial and that maybe at least one of the titles probably shouldn't be on the list have been nominated because I don't think itm the standard but you know that's my opinion but we'll we'll look at that later so what what I'm going to cover right now I'm going to cover one of these and it's obviously not the Charles Roberts award and I'm not covering the to yes that leaves us with the outstanding performance award so what are the nominees there's four okay I don't sound like a broken record but I think there's a problem with the process every game out there has a presentation and there's no requirement for this award other than being a game that released in the award year and it's a a new game so every single game potentially could have been a nominee for this and if you're trying to select five nominees to fill a category this obviously should have been full your process should not fall short you should be able to fill the category so enough on that so there's only four this year and they are uh fighters of the Pacific and I'm not going to mention designers because this is about presentation so I'm going to mention the artists so fighters of the Pacific Alexandre bonot and Antoine Schindler the next game up is freezing Inferno artist yena pvik andik zisi hope I did Justice to the name pron ations there next up is red strike artist Pablo bzar now yes this was up for our hypothetical uh games can be in multiple categories The Only Exception is a game cannot be in more than one period reward it has to fit in one period or the other period um so that's okay well well I'll I'll cover next uh week's video some other mentions of games that managed to get in multiple Awards sort of like highlight those and the last one on the list here is undaunted Battle of Britain the artist being Roland McDonald All right so that's our four uh contestants the four nominees for outstanding presentation I have all of these unboxed and out on my channel uh they're all available for your viewing if you wish to see unboxing of these now do note that the unboxing that I did of undone Britain was a compare and contrast video that has two games that I was showing by the design team pair so the unboxing is not focusing on the presentation per se these all these unboxings are focusing on the games as a whole and the two most recent ones I did are focusing a little bit on the presentation in that in filming I realized they were nominated for this category but uh the previous two red strike and undaunted are not focusing on the presentation as such not not not even mentioned in other thing so there just a little note there so what am I going to do next uh we mentioned the gunpowder indust we will do that if the game comes and I can finish the unboxings for these uh if it doesn't come I may go ahead and do the category anyway or uh going to try to do maybe one or two additional or instead uh periods World War I era cover Medieval Era there's no way I can cover all these uh Awards before the end uh when the voting comes up on March May 13th that's the end of the voting uh and I think I mentioned elsewhere I I will try to continue coverage even after that just so people that are interested in in the topics and even though won't necessarily inform their vote it can still help them decide which games that they want to get which games that have been recognized and that so we will do that also I want to cover a um another mode award uh next week so I'd like to do the soliter or Co-op game uh category which has four Nomes in that so I want to thank you all this has been a mandering mic uction of my continued discussions on the Charles S Roberts awards for 2023 there will be one more uh video of this this nature coming uh next next week and like I said I'll I'll cram in as many unboxing as I can cover as many award categories as I can and I'll continue to cover those afterwards but so to all you folks that have been uh watching thank you for being a viewer hopefully that you'll subscribe and turn your notifications on and like and comment and all that good stuff I really appreciate it uh my channel is not monetized uh but someday I'd like to be and I could use the funds to get better equipment to lighting I'd like to get a sort of a steady overhead cam and things like that and potentially buy more more games that I can uh cover whether it's again unboxings how to plays playthroughs all that the compare and contrast the things that I do on my channel so again thank you all for uh supporting the channel take care all and ciao [Music]