Voting

We want this compo as fair as possible. Therefore, we have a jury and public votes. 

How to vote 

Voting can be a very difficult task. Giving stars seems most appropriate to me, as it is similar to marks in school. 

  • You can give 1 to 5 stars.
  • 5 stars is the best possible vote. You can give it to a few or many entries.
  • No stars, means no voting.
  • Vote for all entries. But:
  • Do not vote for yourself (leave your own entry empty)
  • Stars:
    • 1 star is the worst entry. As everybody did his/her best, you should give this vote only, if you think that this entry is not worth being an entry. 1 star could be seen as equivalent of an F in school (failure /"not enough"). In short: avoid this vote.
    • 2 stars for pictures which could be improved  (so so)
    • 3 stars for average pictures (OK)
    • 4 stars for good pictures (you like)
    • 5 stars for very good pictures (you love)
  • When voting, consider several factors:
    • Use of characters
    • Use of colours
    • Effort and complexity
    • Idea / fun / message
    • Uniqueness (vs copy, conversion, ..)
    • Novelty
    • Style
    • Shapes within the painting (squares are easier to paint than circles or other more complex objects)

Public voting

  • Please refer to the "How to vote".
  • Do not vote for yourself.
  • Your votes are private. They will not be published.
  • Voting is not anonymous to the organizers, though. You don't need to be ashamed of your taste, do you?
  • So if you read until here, feel free to vote.

The link for voting (when open) can be found on the main page.

Jury

Our international jury consists among others of the following people:

  • Stefan Vogt is the creator of many text adventures like Hibernated and The Curse of Rabenstein. Moreover he is an expert in ANSI/ASCII. For example he took part in the development of ansilove. 
  • Wolfgang Bochar (wbochar): Made BBS GFX for C64 (PETSCII), Amiga and PC(ANSI). Programmed/GFX for Trogue64 a roguelike for the C64, designed and patched various BBS door's in the day and ran various BBS's (on c64, PC). Classically trained artist and still active in the scene. 
  • Lobo Spitoufs is a well known artist within the scene. Lately, he created a lot of art on the C64 for several games and demos. You may check his art on his homepage here.
  • Andy Zeidler (Shine) started 2013 with PETSCII and 2015 with PETSCII logos. He loves to work on the restrictions of PETSCII and founded PETSCII WORLD (on Facebook, Twitter, Discord). He is the owner of petscii.de, where you can find almost all of his PETSCII works.
  • Logiker the inventor of the AMSCII and ATASCII Compo himself. He also likes to create Directory Art and PETSCII. Moreover, he is very active at many places in the retro scene.