It’s the most wonderful time of the game!
This year’s beautiful Advent Calendar image is by Emily Horler on the Reedpop design team, and we thought that Horace The Endless Bear looks so cute snuggled by the fire there that we made his li’l face into a custom emoji for our work Slack chat. You can click on the window to go to each day’s advent post once they’re live, or, if the window links won’t work for you (because, e.g. you’re browsing on mobile) the days are linked in a little list under the image. Merry Gamemas!
Now, pay attention, ‘cos this bit has changed slightly. Previously each member of the RPS team had ten points to allocate, weighted however they wanted, in a shared spreadsheet of games. This year, in order to put a stop to the ludicrous tactical point shuffling in the final moments of the vote, Katharine has instituted a secret ballot. We each sent her a list of our ten best games from this year, with the first on our list getting 10 points, the second 9, and so on. She then collated our votes to make this year’s list. In the case of tie breaks we have a group chat - and indeed, this year’s game of the year was a tie broken by aneveryone is typingdiscussion.
