What? How? You don’t know about our All Out Summer Contest?!!

Well it’s a contest we’re holding under the sun of the Gamocracy. It just started and each week and each month of the summer there’s stuff up for grabs for winners.

To enter, you simply have to let everyone know what you think about one or several PC games, in short form (200 chars + 4 grades), on Gamocracy. More details at the contest page

The full prize list is on the contest page. Today I’m announcing the prize that’ll be up for grabs next Monday at the first weekly drawing.

drumroll?.. drumroll!

I was so much into getting the contest up and running these past few days that I didn’t take the time to tell you: Nomalz pulled the plug on Influence a couple nights ago.

The sucker had too many flaws, it just had to die.

It was ambitious, maybe a bit too much, and the name kinda sucked, too. It was very good in other aspects though, first because it allowed me to discover Tunkrank and meet its inventor, Daniel Tunkelang. If you’re into social media influence measurements, you should take a look.

I also got to play with an algorithm, something I didn’t think was possible for my little brain of a litterature person. I wish I can do it again someday with the means to get more feedback tools to monitor results.

Finally, we’re getting away from the Influence experiment with something that’ll be useful again very soon: a way to measure the quality of your pwnz! and an equation that goes with it. That we’re going to keep close to the chest until the time is right.

While I’m not saying we won’t have some kind of user-related global measurement like Influence ever again, that won’t happen tomorrow, or even next year. That said, something else will soon come and take on Influence’s role, that is rewarding good writers and letting new comers know whose words are to be trusted.

Hopefully it’ll work better for everyone!

That’s it!

Starting at 16:00 CET, Gamocracy has entered All Out Summer Contest season! This means that from that point on, any Opinion published on Gamocracy automatically is entered into the contest.

To win stuff, your Opinion needs to receive a good numbers of pwnz! in order to enter the weekly and monthly random drawings. At each drawing, we’ll pick a winner who will receive a special Gamocracy token and a prize. Real-life one!

love PC games?
hate PC games?
words are sawed-off shotguns
come on and let it out

Gamocracy’s All Out Summer Contest
The Rules

Friends and strangers, we’re organizing a contest for you this summer!

It’s about writing Opinions on Gamocracy, pwnz! and luck.

17 special tokens and 17 marvelous prizes, including a Nexus One Google Phone and a Snuggie, will reward the winners.

Grab a keyboard, it all starts this Monday.

Gamocracy’s All Out Summer Contest

Last night, following an update by Nomalz, quite a few things changed at the 00:10 GMT+2 tick.

New Tokens
The initial set of tokens got a facelift and we created new ones too! Hope you enjoy them. In case you don’t have a Gamocracy account (that’s why you might see locks only), here’s a sneak peak.

Pwnz! now start at level 3
The numbers of pwnz! available each day now varies according to your level (from 0 pwnz!/day at levels 1 and 2 to 5 pwnz!/day at level 10).
check the table

Glinks now start at level 5
They also cost 2 Publish Points now (former cost was 1 PP).

Levels table update
It now takes a little longer to level up to 10. Sorry if you lost a level in the update…
check the table