Games these days are sad. I am so motivated by all the sucky games out there that I'd finish Trap Designer's main editor, my ultimate 2D physics engine, or my Ultimate Combat Engine (C++ trial version) IF ONLY I HAD THE ****ING TIME!!!! Damn you guys, I've got so many ideas for interesting games that I can't even choose which one to work on and you people just keep releasing stupid little SNES clone games that are so outdated people who PAID for those SNES games don't even touch them anymore! What's even sadder is that there's so few decent games out there, almost no more active klik websites out there, that a TDC GOTY would probably be the most prestigious award in the Click Community.
I vote for the Kitty game.
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GOTY doesnt have to win GOTW to qualify. That was only the 100th GOTW. It did a match between all 100 GOTW winners. It just happen to be that GOTY was a GOTW winner as well. Its not hard to see why it wouldnt, I mean if it won GOTW, it must have atleast half decent quality, but a great game can slip past GOTW without winning. Expecially with all of those 2-3 week game of the weeks, because of the admins being busy. Alot of good games have the ability to slip through the cracks there. So no, I dont think a game NEEDS to have won a GOTW, its just a very good chance that a GOTW will be the winner.
I would go for either a game with a kitty (because it's so brilliantly made), sub zero conditions (because its the first example of a really decent top down/isometric typed shooter game ive seen in click) or crystal towers (im not too into that type of game, but the effort that went into that game was phenomonal)
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At the moment the double dragon game is winning the gotw. However people may change their opinion over time which of this weeks gotw candidates are better, say if they finish that game and suddenly become addicted to twitch dash.
They may like that better but it's too late they've already voted for DD. (i'm pretty sure most people don't always vote after playing all the gotw candidates, probably after just one or two.)
So that would make goty only being gotw games a bad idea. Also some click games aren't submitted at TDC, so will they be omitted too?