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REVIEWER NAME: Michael Selvaggio
1) CREATIVE AND EFFECTIVE INCORPORATION OF RULES (1-10): 7
Feedback: Wow! Neat Idea. All elements are met though, time and emotion are weak. Where is “emotion” as a game element? I missed it, also it is not a two hour game, to meet the criteria it is, but it is a full fledged RPG. I see a virtual Conan in this game.
2) CLARITY (1-10): 6
Feedback:
The use of so many technical terms is overwhelming to the computer challenged. Computer geeks will think it skimpy. If the Tec is familiar to you, a possible clarity of 9. If sticks and stones are your preference, the game has clarity of 4. I’m a Bronze Age man myself.
3) COMPLETENESS (1-10): 7
Feedback: For a game of this much breath there are the barest of guidelines. I feel if you love this subject there is enough here for a competent referee to build an adventure world. Again this game has sprawling potential and must be expanded by a referee to work at the level it deserves.
4) ESTIMATED EFFECTIVENESS IN PLAY (1-10): 7
Feedback:
Due to the rush of the contest; I think the need to slowly immerse the players with a first session was lost. This is where characters are on a training mission or in Spool School, or at their graduation High School “PROM”. The game is complete enough but I feel there is not enough staging in the work to facilitate clean play. Some people would be happy with a seven. I am not. This work needs more.
5) SWING VOTE (1-10) 7
Final Feedback: This game is so Tec that it will not appeal to many. This is sad because it is such a great setting. The game like its subject lacks softness. There is little humanizing here. Little emotion exists outside of the faction’s zeal. Of course this is what people who want to explore the “World of Micro” look for, or do they? I think I should give this game a six but I like it too much. Can this be converted to smaller “bites” for young children as an educational tool, with less Tec and more pathos?
TOTAL SCORE (add items 1 through 5, above):34