Empire of the Ghouls by Wolfgang Baur
Six Arabian Nights, by Wolfgang Baur, David "Zeb" Cook, Clay Fleischer, Jeff Grubb, and Joshua Stevens
Naturally, I hope you vote for your favorites in this and the other categories, though I fully expect that Monte Cook is going to take the ENnie in this category. For a retired guy, he's quite a juggernaut, and deservedly so.
In the larger scheme of things, it doesn't matter who wins the Electronic Book category. I’m absolutely 100% thrilled to have two nominations in that category, given that Open Design released exactly two products eligible for nomination. It's like we're doing something right....
Congratulations to all the nominees!
UPDATE: Apparently I'm shortlisted for the Diana Jones Award for Excellence Gaming today as well (link).
It is, as Conan would say, a good day.
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And Congrats on the Diana Jones Award nomination too, Wolfgang!
http://muskrat-john.livejournal.com/213
From the press release (descriptions of other nominees trimmed by me):
London, 4th July—After much debate, the shortlist for the eighth annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, covering the year 2007, has been announced.
The Diana Jones Award is given to whatever the Diana Jones Committee believes has best demonstrated ‘excellence in gaming’ in the previous year. This year the committee has shortlisted six potential winners. In alphabetical order, they are:
Canon Puncture
By Rich Rogers, Chris Perrin, and Chris Norwood
Canon Puncture (canonpuncture.blogspot.com) is a podcast by Rich Rogers, Chris Perrin, and Chris Norwood...
Child’s Play
Child’s Play (www.childsplaycharity.org) is a charity appeal to gamers...
Come Out and Play
The festival Come Out and Play (www.comeoutandplay.org) is the primary showcase for the new movement of pervasive games (a.k.a. street games)...
Grey Ranks
By Jason Morningstar
Published by Bully Pulpit Games
Jason Morningstar’s roleplaying game of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, Grey Ranks...
Open Design/Wolfgang Baur
Open Design began as an experiment in funding the development of roleplaying game supplements. Wolfgang Baur—a highly respected, long-time Dungeons & Dragons editor and designer for TSR and then Wizards of the Coast—went back hundreds of years to dig up the concept of patronage, add a few modern twists to it, and apply it to the problem. He posts a project and publicizes it along with a monetary threshold. When the funding his patrons chip in reaches that threshold, he starts on the project in earnest. Baur supplements his exemplary work by letting his patrons suggest various directions for each project and then allowing them to look over this shoulder as he works. Each project becomes a master-level class on adventure design for those privileged to be a part of it.
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media
Edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Published by MIT Press
The fact that MIT Press is publishing serious work about roleplaying games and other “playable media” is a signpost for how far games of all sorts have come over the past 40 years...
About the Award
The Diana Jones Award was established in 2000 to celebrate the principle of excellence in gaming. Each year the Award is given to the person, company, product, event, trend, or item that in the opinion of the committee has best demonstrated “excellence” in the field of gaming in the previous year.
The award is announced and the trophy presented at a ceremony the day before the opening of Gen Con Indianapolis (this year on Wednesday 13th August). Winners receive the Diana Jones Trophy and the admiration of their peers. The award is administered and decided by a mostly anonymous committee of games-industry luminaries in three countries.
Previous winners of the Diana Jones Award include Peter Adkison, former CEO of Wizards of the Coast; Jordan Weisman, former CEO of FASA and Wizkids; the games Sorcerer, Nobilis, My Life with Master and Ticket to Ride; the game supplement The Great Pendragon Campaign; and the generosity of the charity auctions at Irish games conventions.
A fuller description of the history of the Diana Jones Award and its extraordinary trophy, plus details of all the previous winners and shortlists, can be found at the award’s website: www.dianajonesaward.org
I noticed Pirate's Guide to Freeport got a ton of nominations as well. It's a good year.
I'm glad I was right!
Congrats to you, patrons, and contributors alike.
-Zachary Houghton
When it comes to the voting, of course, I'm worried about the "split the vote" implications of two nominations, but really, "too many nominations" is the kind of problem that publishers love to have.
-Zachary