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2015 Misao Voting has begun!
Start: January 1st, 2016
End: January 18th, 2016
2015 has come to a close and with it comes the annual voting of the Misaos. The nominations were a tad light this year, so a few of the categories are rather underrepresented. Oh well.
What are the Misaos?
The Misaos are an annual award event given to indie games made in the RM community. 'Misaos' is the general name for the awards such as 'Best Atmosphere', 'Most Technical Prowess' or 'Game of the Year'. You can liken it to a "People's Choice" award, as the games are nominated and voted upon by the community-at-large.
Why are they called 'Misaos'?
In aeons past, the Misaos were organized and run by the good folks at #rm2k on irc.dynastynet.net and hosted on The Queen's Court website. iishenron (a.k.a. FinalDragon) came up with the name based on a character from one of his favorite animes: Rurouni Kenshin. Specifically, the character Makimachi Misao. The name has stuck, despite the fact that every year people wonder where the name Misao comes from (and they say that the name is silly). For better or for worse, this is what the awards are known as. Besides, the less-than-serious nature of the name suits the less-than-serious nature of the awards!
Misao Nominations / Voting
How does voting work?
At the end of the year on December 31st at midnight, all the nominations are tallied up and a voting period occurs for the top nominations in each category.
Voting has begun! Click here to cast your votes!
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
9192
I wonder who's going to win Most Puzzling Game?
Racheal
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author=Red_Nova
I wonder who's going to win Most Puzzling Game?
It's a real puzzle, that one.
author=Sated
I wonder who's going to deserve their win the least!
I'm sure you'll have the "answer" to that about 0.03 seconds after the results are anmounced, so don't worry about it.
I don't think I've played enough games (as always) to know jack or shit about the misaos. It would be nice if it wasn't such a small group of sweeps this year though- more devs deserve recognition and reward.
author=kentona
Most Cynical Member of RMN 2015is in for a tight race this year
Can I get the award for "Most Depressed Member" or perhaps "Most Apathetic Member"?
author=Sated
I wonder who's going to deserve their win the least!
I think this is a better year for this particular thing though because it doesn't seem like any of the nominees were outrageously popular, all over tumblr, etc.
Everyone was too busy with Undertale
EDIT: I assume you're talking about stuff that gets nominated/voted based on raw popularity and end up sweeping.
Housekeeping
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Ooh, Born Under the Rain got nominated for a couple of Misaos! I actually uploaded the soundtrack a while back, so if you don't have time to play the game and want to give it a listen, here it is:
https://kaseyozymy.bandcamp.com/album/born-under-the-rain-soundtrack
And if you do have time to play it, then do it!
https://kaseyozymy.bandcamp.com/album/born-under-the-rain-soundtrack
And if you do have time to play it, then do it!
Muhahaha! DYSTOPIAN ZOMBIES! is gonna' sweep the floor this MISAO. :) I wanted to vote for Hero's Realm and Final Fantasy: Blackmoon Prophecy, but RMN said no. :/
I would recommend people play Blank Dream, Brave Hero Yuusha and Grist of Flies. You know, before voting everything either Free Spirits or April was a Fool.
(also, A Traitor's Hold was legit funny. Try that shit. It's short, too.)
(also, A Traitor's Hold was legit funny. Try that shit. It's short, too.)
author=luiishu535
Muhahaha! DYSTOPIAN ZOMBIES! is gonna' sweep the floor this MISAO. :) I wanted to vote for Hero's Realm and Final Fantasy: Blackmoon Prophecy, but RMN said no. :/
Whooooo! Yeeeeeah! :D
For me, MISAOS is the time of the year to support your gam-mak bros and hoes gals. It's the time of giving, and for some, receiving. :)
Indeed it is! I need to get into nominating more. This is the first year, well last year now that I have played more RM games then I ever have lol
This year for sure, I will be voting my heart out
This year for sure, I will be voting my heart out
Goooood. Let the voting flow through your body. Give in to the MISAOS. Only then will your transformation be complete.
author=Satedauthor=luiishu535You realise this makes people like me light-sided, right?
Goooood. Let the voting flow through your body. Give in to the MISAOS. Only then will your transformation be complete.
haha, I thought this too. People who actually play games and vote are sith and those that don't and only work on their games are jedi?
A bit backwards but I like it!
