Approved/Disapproved Games and Face-Offs

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Whodunnit
Game Owner: ansem the wise
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: [item] +/- [item] = [item] +/- [item]
Game Owner: Skamory7
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. You add some neat ideas like the minusing option, but all in all it's too similar to this.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Rate the above location
Game Owner: ansem the wise
Approved/Disapproved: Approved since the last version of this game is inactive.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Pokemon Ranger Quest!
Game Owner: ansem the wise
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. This is pretty scant on details and organization, particularly in the ranger war part. What's more... I'm not entirely sure what the object of this game is, for both the missions and the wars. If the object of the mission is, as in your example, just to knock out the tree's HP as a group... then there's no real "winner" in this scenario. If the object is to be the person that strikes the finishing blow, and therefore K.O. the tree, then it's very unlikely that anyone will go first, since they only get a chance to hit their target once. Casting attack by PM could, theoretically, solve that problem if the latter is the case, but you don't mention any of that. And what's more... even if that's "winning" it's hard to say what winning actually means in the context of this game. The ranger wars are an even bigger cause of confusion because they don't seem related to the mission concept at all. You don't get into how the fight would be organized or how damage would be calculated--which would be important things to know. But more than that... what, again, does it mean to be on the winning team? Do the losers get eliminated? Do the winners get something for winning? How does this relate to the missions?

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour!
Game Owner: Doctor Who
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

Game Name: Above posters Typing
Game Owner: SapphireBlueEyes7799
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: WHO`s THAT POKEMON???
Game Owner: shadow giratina
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. I'd like to see a whole lot more organization in the first post (rules + examples + winners' listing). But the main problem here is that games like this don't have a heck of a long shelf-life if it's just one person putting out these descriptions.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Describe the above location
Game Owner: Duranteater
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Which One?
Game Owner: Skamory7
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Achievement Unlocked!
Game Owner: TouyaBlack
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. I feel like it's all much too open-ended. I wouldn't mind seeing something along these lines if it had more structure and limitations... not to mention some level of interaction to make it more of an actual game would be nice. The only interaction I can see coming out of this right now is it turning into a chat thread... and that's not the kind of interaction we want here.

Game Name: Rate the song above
Game Owner: ShinyUmbreon189
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. The Entertainment section already has this concept covered with this thread.

Game Name: Ban the Person Above You [Must be Pokemon Related]
Game Owner: ShinyUmbreon189
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. If you really wanted to, you could use these Pokemon-related reasons in the You're Banned game that we already have, so there's no reason to have a whole nother thread.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Blastoise, use Hydro Pump!
Game Owner: ShinyUmbreon189
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. We've already got a game like that.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: This or That V3
Game Owner: SmartD
Approved/Disapproved: Approved since the old version is inactive.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: [RTUA] Rate The Username Above
Game Owner: Skamory7
Approved/Disapproved: Approved since the last version of this game I could find was inactive.

[Dramatic Melody]

Game Name: Is That A Threat?
Game Owner: Skamory7
Approved/Disapproved: Approved as long as you keep the threats in order.

[Dramatic Melody]

Game Name: Haunted Life: Last Resort
Game Owner: Dracoste
Approved/Disapproved: Approved. I've also closed the previous version.

[Skiyomi]

Face-Off Name: Best Looking V2
Face-Off Owner: Chrosion
Approved/Disapproved: Approved since the old version is inactive.

Game Name: The Amazing Poké-Race
Game Owner: ~SilverLugia~
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: pokemon family feud!
Game Owner: ansem the wise
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. I'm concerned about you relying on people not actually playing the game to make up your statistics. I mean, if you don't get many responses then you won't have a big variety of answers or patterns to make this game workable. For example, what if only three people answered your question "What is your favorite dark type?" and they all gave different answers? Then there's not really much of a "most common" answer to guess. I think you need 1. A group of people who are designated "survey answerers" i.e. they're not playing in one of the families, their sole responsibility is answering the survey questions (they can be shuffled into the families in later rounds so that people are taking turns in these roles). 2. There needs to be a specified minimum number of respondants to the survey before you'll ask the question (like, "15 people need to respond to this question before it'll go up before the families" or something like that).

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Gender Race | Boys vs Girls!
Game Owner: Lucario01
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. It already exists.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Pokemon Family Feud!
Game Owner: ansem the wise
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. I'm concerned about this idea of you just going around VMing people for survey information for two reasons. 1. Obviously that's public communication so anyone playing along can just follow the answer's you're getting to get a correct answer. and 2. It's one thing to VM/PM people if they sign up to answer your survey, but another thing if they didn't sign up for any such thing. People might find being badgered with questions they never agreed to answer annoying, and it could cross the line with forum rules about sending unsolicited messages.

[Skiyomi]

Face-Off Name: Type Elimination
Face-Off Owner: BNator92
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

Game Name: Pokemon Family Feud
Game Owner: ansem the wise
Approved/Disapproved: Approved.

[Skiyomi]

Game Name: Rate the drawing above you!
Game Owner: solpokemonfan
Approved/Disapproved: Disapproved. This could work, but it needs more rules and information so everyone knows where they stand before they post something. What level of drawing is expected here? Just a doodle or a full-scale finished piece? Are digital works allowed or only traditional? What level of criticism will be provided here? Is it going to be heavy criticism so artists can brace themselves for a negative response and beginning artists might not feel welcome? Or is it going to be light and friendly so that professionals might not feel welcome? How much commentary should be provided? There should be rules concerning art theft as well.