December is a "play a game you won on Steamgifts" month - Important question edition.

Challenge 12... and it chose Injustice.
EDIT: BEATEN. Twas kinda quick.

This month I will play most of my recent wins. Already beaten one of the wins.

I voted "Yes the same way they have been this year" but really what i'd mean is "Yes whatever is best for you, i'm just happy you'll keep it going" :3 Thanks for keeping this alive <3

And i'll come back later as I complete some SG wins (hopefully) this month.

Finished Iconoclasts and it was very good.

Custom Theme: Sandbox

Will be playing Tracks some more over the month but I made a pretty big Christmassy world, which was a town with a ski-ing area, farm and a visiting circus. :) 1 2 are a couple of screenshots, though it's faaar too big to capture everything! I also did the new Christmas bedroom map.

Final stats for the year: Finished 29 Wins/Gifted!
Jan: 11. Month/season themed games - Won/Played in January
Feb: 10. Number of days in a month (51 achievements)
Mar: 1. Oldest wins / 2. Recent Wins / 12. Random Wins
Apr: 9. Wishlisted wins
June: 5. Untouched wins
July: 2. Most recent wins
Aug: 11. Month/season themed games - Won/Played in August
Sept: 7. Neglected Wins
Oct: Custom Theme: Puzzle
Nov: 9. Wishlisted wins
Dec: Custom Theme: Sandbox

Beat at least one game every month and did all the challenges besides 3,4, 6 & 8! Am really happy with the results - enjoyed most of the games and played all but one (that I won near the end of the year) of my wins from this year. :)

11 - Month/season themed games (Games I have won in December)

January - 2. Most recent wins
February - 12. Random wins
March - 13. Custom theme - VNs
April - 3. Shortest wins
May - 8. Wins idled for cards
June - 9. Wishlisted wins
July - 1. Oldest wins
August - 5. Untouched wins
September - 10. Number of days in a month
October - 7. Neglected wins
November - 4. Long wins

So I was quite busy this month but I still want to play some games, so better start late than never ;)

I will do the "Most recent wins" challenge but will just choose games won between the 23rd and 27th, so basically my Christmas gifts of this wonderful community :)

challenge me :D , no more than 3 games tho please, might not have enough time this month

I knew I missed an option for the answers D: :P

Thanks for the support <3

Yes, them games will not idle themselves ... oh wait ;)

Buon Natale anche a te! ^^

I think the "pick your own theme" is not satisfying as someone else choosing a challenge for you. In 2017 I was looking foward the next theme every month, now I know will the same the whole year.

Same here, but from the poll it surprisingly seems most people prefer the way it is done now.

Some sort of competition, using a chart to show every participant and the ones with most games played/beaten every month.

A chart is a good idea and very much doable! As for the giveaways that are in the 2017 post, I would love to reward people people who play every month, but sadly I am afraid I do not have the ability to do it constantly or them being anything else but bundled/cheapo games.

Thank you very much for taking your time to write your suggestion :)

+1. I agree with everything you just said. I used to participate every single month, but since it was changed to the same thing every month, I just stopped caring about it. :/ I'm actually really surprised that people want it to stay like that...
I'm glad you liked september theme! It's still happening every month, we just moved it into to a group. Here's the stats from october

Thank you for the support ^^ From the looks of it, it will definitely continue :)

From the looks of it will definitely continue :) How exactly I am still not 100% sure, was thinking of some hybrid between the 2 ways so people who want different theme/challenges each month can have that and people who don't want to do that specific theme/challenge can participate too. Possibly mixed in with QueenB idea to have a leader board. Dunno, need to sit down, think about it some more and put some ideas down on paper. I will try to update the thread once I got a concrete idea to see what people think about it :)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, they are very much appreciated! ^^

Best of luck with the games you want to finish!
I definitely don't want to/wont exclude anybody, but I also want to make it a bit more interesting/diverse than the same list of 12+1 challenges every month. I will need to figure out a good way to do that. Well except if someone has finished all of their wins, then I can't really do much :D
Thank you for sharing your option ^^

About profitz from a different comment reply:

I would love to reward people people who play every month, but sadly I am afraid I do not have the ability to do it constantly or them being anything else but bundled/cheapo games.

I am not sure what exactly do you mean by making the challenges into scripts? Would you mind explaining please :o

Woops forgot to edit that link, thanks for pointing it out :) You can comment here.

I actually agree with you. I am trying to think of the best way make it a bit different every month but still allowing anyone who wants to participate (aka they don't have any games that would fit under XYZ or just don't like any of those games) to do so, like some kind of bonus theme of some sorts.
Thank you for your 2 cents, they are definitely appreciated ^^

Thank you <3 I hope you will get the chance ^^

First of all thank you very much for taking your time and writing an extensive comment! ^^ I will try my best to reply to it, but I got a whole lot of 1,5 hours of sleep tonight so sorry in advance if any parts of the reply don't make all that much sense because my brain does not make sense either :/.

I dont have the biggest selection of wins to use with a theme.

A couple of people mentioned that already. I definitely would want to continue in a fashion where everyone can participate, just make it a bit different and exciting every month.

of spending ages going nope, nope maybe? nahhhhh oh what about this, i dont have the rest of it so not really an option. then i just get to nothing!

I am glad (or not so glad) to hear I am not the only one that does that. I swear I spend more time trying to figure out what I want to play than playing games.

While i wont be following your little "extra info" Ill

I am not 100% sure what you mean with this one, the part under "Extra information (let’s not call it rules):" maybe?

I do weekly posts on blaeo anyway so marking it down here to isnt that much more effort

Yea I do the same so what I basically did for this year is to look which SG wins I have played on BLAEO at the end of the month and then pick a challenge where I could put the biggest number of games under.

So I continued looking after I posted this and it continued to amaze me what it used to be like. It felt like it was loved. So much effort was being put into it with the custom themes but mainly as I mentioned before posting down how many people took part. Like people can easily look through to see but it would be nice to see easily the old challenge me markings where it was like 100 people took part but only 60 did 1 game at least. Of course its better with more people. Plus that was just an example since thats what I noticed before anything. Was that top bit of info.

Yep, a lot more people seemed to participate in the first year or so. I only "inherited" (for the lack of a better word) this thread this November so no changes could have done for this year, but I hope to find a way to make more people interested in it again in the new one.

With anything of course it would be take effort. Whether its coming up with a new theme or marking down how many people took part, so its really up to how much effort you could put into something like this where you arent getting much from doing this every month now. As you mentioned the interest in this has gone down which is to be expected for anything.

Honestly I don't mind putting effort in it at all. I love to see people actually play their wins (yea yea, I am hypocrite, but I am trying my best at least), I wouldn't put as much time into moderating Playing Appreciated already if I wouldn't, or take a look at almost all BLAEO posts even if I very rarely comment on them. So to me it is worth it as long as some people participate :)

Which does have its own set backs, like how often? can you do it/have a good enough game? How would you decide who takes part? Giving it a chance to anyone who did a game would give no reason to try harder but having to do to much could make people not even bother to try. So then you could instead consider, especially if you could get someone to help contribute if need be, is do a prize for people who do a few games and then later on (be like 3 months or so) do a bigger giveaway for the people who were more active in taking part alot.

I have hoarded up a decent amount of bundled but actual games, not shovelware keys for games during this month so while it would not be a problem have a prize(s) every month it would sadly not be anything amazing unless someone would be willing to make some giveaways for the cause as I am not currently in a position of being able to do fancy GAs at the moment sadly (hopefully that changes sometimes soon). I was thinking maybe making a smaller giveaway for everyone who participated and then something a bit better for the top X amount of people ala chart/leaderboard system that was suggested earlier in the comments.

I would love to put a more concrete plan together today but all my body wants to do is to take a nap on the keyboard. Once again sorry if any of the parts are weird and confusing and I hope I addressed all the main points. And thanks again for taking your time and writing that out :)

Christmas themed HOGs? Mind sharing the names in advance? ~A HOG lover :)

First of all: merry Christmas and happy holidays to you as well! ^^

Î really enjoy this thread so I would be sad if it wouldn't continue next year.

Good news then, it is definitely continuing :)

Give a theme for a challenge each month in one comment but as now with the "challenge me post" another comment where people can choose one themselves if they can't find something for the ongoing theme challenge.

This is about what I wanted to do. A theme for those who want and free choice for those who can't/ don't want to.

Let people make suggestions for the theme challenge of the month after the next month. In the next month you take the suggestions as poll options and the most voted theme will be the theme of the next month.

Oooooo I never thought of this, I really like this idea! I would have to come up with something for January and February myself (if you have any good ideas I am all ears), but from then on it should work :)

Thank you so much for taking your time and writing down your suggestions! I greatly appreciate it ^^