LIBERTY'S PROFILE

author=Toaster_Team
I just don't see what kind of wrong idea they might get from my comment. Not that it matters it's just puzzling to me how you think about things sometimes.

It was more that you were trying to say you didn't want to get spotlighted so often, added with Luchino's comment that you and she get a prize - just seemed to insinuate that people were being picked all the time. I just wanted to make it clear that that wasn't the case - that it is based only on the blogs. If you or Luchino wrote blogs that weren't so great one week, I wouldn't add them (I think that's happened to both of you before, actually), but because you both keep a steady stream of great blogs, you make the list.

There's no harm having a larger number. Just shows that there's a lot of quality games to check out, which isn't a bad thing, but yeah, like I said, numbers-wise it's usually more like last week. I wanted the tenth edition to be bigger so I asked that people challenge themselves to write better blogs this week, and they rose to the occasion.

Your and Luchino's byplay kinda hinted it a little. Best to just get it out there in case anyone was wondering. It's not about the people, just the blogs themselves.

author=luiishu535
What are the things you look for when you pick blogs here? Is it length, overall quantity of progress/news reported or is it generally good, overall competent writing/disposition?

I like blogs when they are both somewhat entertaining and informative. Writing isn't the only medium which can utilized when making blogs, so I suppose showing content/stuff you've worked on lately is an extra plus.
One thing I also enjoy in blogs is when the developer shows personality and writes on some of the things that's going through his/her head will working on the game. That might just be me, though.

A bunch of things, really. Length and content and how well written it is and interesting writing/content.

I start off by going through every blog and getting rid of the ones that are just announcements, two sentence deals, only screenshots or a video (we have a media/screenshot section for a reason people!) and lists of updates. After that I read the left overs and get rid of ones that are:
- Meet x character! Yep. That sure is a character. Here's a spell list and this is their image and here's a logo just to jog things up a little!
- This happened this week that has nothing to do with the game at all. Nope, that's all I got to blog about.
- Check out my twitter!!! Oh look, I have a facebook too! Woo! Greenlight me!

The left overs are then read through again and I pick the best ones - usually ones that are humourous, engaging, interesting, have different content and contain both graphical and written stimuli. Oh, and longer than a paragraph.


The numbers, if you're interested:

Last time - 9/85 were shown off. That's 10.5%
This time - 22/98 were shown off. That's 22.4%
Keep in mind that I actually asked people to post better blogs this fortnight, and they delivered. I have no issue feeling happy about the increase, nor showing them off. They deserve to be shown off, because they're good blogs. That's what this series is about, after all. The best blogs shown off. Sometimes there will be more, most of the time it'll be smaller.

Ah, well it shows for me on the 1st in the blog area, so... next month maybe~ XD

It always helps when people give their input and suggest stuff. Of course, not everything suggested will happen but if it makes sense and others support the idea, it might.

Nice! I look forward to it~ >.<)b