Prizes
Money and Gift Certificates
- A $50 gift certificate to Circuit City, CompUSA, or Best Buy, donated by Mark Musante.
- A $50 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble, donated by Doug Jones.
- A $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com, donated by Anonymous.
- A $25 gift certificate to mymusic.com, donated by Karl Ove Hufthammer.
- £30 (GBP) Amazon.co.uk gift card, donated by Ken Franklin.
- $500 US, donated by John Miles.
- $300 to be sent via PayPal, donated by Martin Braun.
Games
- Shogi for You and Me, a Java implementation of a Japanese game similar to chess, donated by Gene Davis Software.
- Dogs in the Vineyard, winner of the Independent RPG of the Year for 2004, donated by Victor Gijsbers.
- Six pre-owned PC games: Thief II: The Metal Age, Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, Everquest: Evolution (trial time gone), King's Quest 6 (on diskettes), Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier (CD and case), and The Infocom Comedy Collection, donated by Mike Snyder.
- Six pre-owned PC games in 2-for-1 reissue boxes: Planescape:
Torment, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator, Soulbringer, Fallout, Fallout 2, and Lighthouse: The Dark Being, donated by Mike Snyder.
Computer Hardware and Other Electronics
Books and Magazines
- 2002: A Palindrome Story in print form, signed by both authors, donated by Nick Montfort.
- A one-year subscription to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (US or Canada authors only), donated by Mark Musante, John Cater, and Stephen Granade.
- A leather-bound copy of the Inform Designer's Manual, 4th ed., donated by David Cornelson.
- The Inform Beginner's Guide in mint condition, donated by Martin Braun.
Stuff
Special Prizes
- The Golden Banana of Discord, Mark II, which is to go to the game whose scores have the highest standard deviation, donated by Daphne Brinkerhoff and Greg Boettcher.
Most any and all prizes are acceptable. If you have a prize you'd
like to donate, please mail
the organizer. I'll have you keep the prize until the competition is over,
then mail it directly to the author who chooses it as their prize.