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Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

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Nominator(s): PresN 00:58, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The next animal list is taking some time to sort out, so lets check out something different! Way back in 2012, I took the then-five categories of the Nebula Awards through FLC, following the 15+ lists on scifi/fantasy awards I'd already done. At the time, I thought I was done, but in 2019 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America added a category for "game writing". I let it sit and grow for a while, adding the Ray Bradbury Award in 2020 when they retroactively made it official, but at this point it's been around long enough to be counted alongside the 50-year-old+ categories that already have FLs. It's still a bit of an odd duck—the Nebulas are mostly followed by book-readers, so with this list sitting in the intersection of SFF writing and video games it doesn't get much mainstream press on its own. It gets to tag along with the other categories, however, so here we are. This list follows the same conventions as the other seven Nebula lists, as well as the other 30+ SFF award FLs I've done, so hopefully everything is ship-shape. Thanks for reviewing! --PresN 00:59, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comments
  • "is one of the Nebula Awards [....] defined as "an interactive or playable story-driven work which conveys narrative, character, or story background"" - as it currently reads it says the award is defined as an interactive etc etc, whereas in fact it is awarded for something defined thus
  • "The first year was won by" - he didn't literally win the year. Maybe "The first year's award was won by".....? (and similar for the rest of that paragraph)
  • That's it, I think :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:21, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comments Support by Gerald Waldo Luis
Resolved comments from GeraldWL 05:00, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hope it's okay if I step in and try to help. I'm not particularly the best in proses so please let me know if I made a wrong comment. Note that I tend to enjoy shortening stuff, hope you won't find this frequency being annoying. GeraldWL 08:03, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • There's a country parameter in the infobox.
  • "A game, for the purpose of the category"-- this kinda implies that the definition of "game" by the SFWA vary by awards, however this is the only game award in Nebula. I think "for the purpose of the category" can be removed and still present the same message, shorter and clearer.
  • There's a duplicate Nebula link
  • The first paragraph is kinda zig-zagging through various topics when I tried reading it. It starts off well, defining the awards and SFWA's criteria, but then overviews the overall Nebula awards and then to the game awards? I think it can be reordered, so it first talks about "The Nebula Awards have been described as" and so on, and then the SFWA's criteria. I did this with the Academy for Foreign in Latvia listicle: it provides an overview, and delves into the specifics.
  • "The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing has been awarded annually since 2019." This can be blended to the first sentence as "The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing is one of the Nebula Awards, presented each year since 2019 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy game writing."
  • "though the authors of the nominees"-- arent the authors the nominees? Could be "the nominated authors" if that's the case
  • "when the game was first published" --> "the game's release"
  • The rest looks great to me! Just wondering though, do you consider a date format consistency here, since the refs are in YMD format, also perhaps a language consistency.
  • Alsoooo, Techrepublic has a publisher, TechnologyAdvice.
Hey, sorry for the delay in response! I made a draft of what I think would improve the first paragraph at User:Gerald Waldo Luis/sandbox. But the other stuff looks fine to me already. If the lead concerns is addressed then I'll give a support. Sorry if I seem (or am being) nitpicky. GeraldWL 03:44, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerald Waldo Luis: Okay, integrated that ordering. --PresN 15:08, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comments and source review from MyCatIsAChonk

No spotcheck necessarry. Since there's so few sources, it won't take too long, so why not a regular review as well. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 15:00, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Interactive fiction developer Choice of Games has had the most games nominated with six over four years. - just to clarify this, I think "a total of" should be added before "six over four years"; otherwise, seeing these dates next to each other is a bit confusing
  • Why does "No award" exist in the key if it's not present in the table? Is there even a possibility of there being no award?
  • All refs must use same casing (title case or sentence case); the former looks more professional, and right now the refs section uses a mix. Since most already use sentence case (albeit the titles with proper nouns) just downsizing ref 3 to "Nebula rules" would do the trick
  • Ref 2 is dead

PresN, that's all I got, very nice job! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 15:00, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MyCatIsAChonk: All done, though as an aside, in 15 years here I've never heard of the idea that references need to have consistent title vs sentence casing, as opposed to mirroring the style of the cited source. --PresN 15:42, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - the casing rule was something I learned from other FACs and FLCs. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 16:20, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hey man im josh

Support: Not finding any issues (did a reference check and general check). Good job! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:19, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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