Congratulations to all the teams and especially for the winner!

MSXdev'14 has brought us a bunch of new MSX titles and that was the original spirit that materialized the MSXdev contest: to let us all enjoy brand new productions for our first generation computers in this century.

Of course, different teams have produced different titles, according to their available spare time, knowledge and resources. Sadly, and as in any contest, it is the result that has to be judged and not the relative efforts. I hope that you all understand that.

In its now already long history, MSXdev has changed and adapted, but some problems are, in a way, hard to solve: how to deal with "compatibility issues" and the jury/voting system. In my opinion, compatibility is important but not paramount at the time being. And about the voting system, I think that the one currently used is quite good: an overall score not directly related to the individual aspects, that is cast, shared and explained/justified in a public forum. This provides transparency but can also lead to people trying to "game" the system.

I'd also like to thank the organizers, that's it, Jon aka viejo_archivero, for keeping the contest alive and devoting long hours to the management of the forum and contest. He has had to take difficult decisions and he has been forced to deal with controversies that were born far from this forum and brought here. Please be supportive: as a moderator/organizer is not easy to deal with these situations and *any* line of action would be eventually misinterpreted by some. Even if he doesn't need it, he has my full support in this particular case and in any future controversies. As organizer he has to assume difficult decisions and I want to publicly thank him for doing it.

And let me just ask you one question: which of the following options do you prefer?

1) No new games at all.
2) New games, even if some of them could be a bit buggy, not that good and/or have some compatibility issues under some circumstances.

I'd vote 2. And I guess that most of you will also choose the same.

And, in any case, keep the fun and please don't bash neither the programmers nor the contest itself.

Thank you all.

P.S: Looking forward for MSXdev'15!

Btw... almost forgot!

Congrats to the winner!

I wrote from my mobile phone as I was working but it seems something went wrong 

So again: congratulations to all participants and specially to Nerlaska and his team. We now have some good new games to play with

I don't have seen any unpolite things, but I consider insulting for the coders who have given so much time and passion to create a new game to get only 1 point as final score when the concerned game is really playable on almost all MSX (and higher) machines, with exception for a few machines equipped with the Toshiba VDP. This extreme severity is an obvious sign of no-respect of their work. When I compare attitude of coders, I prefer the positive approach of Imanok and Jon for example.

We can agree more or less with Jon's decision but I think it's good to keep in mind that who is adding, creating and dedicating efforts (and not breaking) for the MSX scene is Jon.

Well, I don't understand why to make a game -on purpose- that doesn't work on all MSX when you can make a game that works on all MSX as rules say.
And as I don't understand that, I can't vote with more than 1 those games. I understand and respect if you vote with more, but I can't vote myself with your opinion, I have to vote with mine.

And you, and all the contestants, and Kralizec, and me...

Hey, you can vote what you want, but I think all games can have errors because developers are all human.

In any case, the big error for me is comparing them with the big companies' games, like Konami, Compile, etc, in a development contest.