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The Sleeper Hit idea is very good in theory. In a best case scenario, it'd put various games that didn't get enough attention together, and get people to play them in order to decide which one was worthy of the award.

While I'm all for giving it a try, we're also going to have to step up our nomination game. Event games only got one game nominated, and there were a heck of a lot of events that produced some pretty great games. The Miasos, for better or worse, have always been a popularity contest and the Sleeper Hit award will fail if these hits are so sleeper that no one nominates them.

author=LordBlueRouge
You're forgetting BeetleNinja was released on October 14th - it never reached 100 downloads. The purpose of this category is to track those games and games like it. Great games on RMN that for one reason or another fail to gain any sort of traction during the year.

But this could also be a problem. It could bias this award towards games that specifically released late in the year. Would Beetle Ninja have even qualified for the award if it had released in January? Could someone release their game in November or December and be a shoe-in for the award even though its lack of downloads is only a matter of timing?

I think the 100 download number as a hard and fast rule may also be flawed. You specifically championed Beetle Ninja as an underappreciated game worthy of attention, and you were 100% correct in that assumption. I think the game would still be worthy of a sleeper hit award even if it had hit 102 downloads before voting. Do you get what I'm saying?

Perhaps a better metric would be how you promoted Beetle Ninja in the first place: games that members of the community have specifically found to fall between the cracks. Or at least use that as a supplement to the normal nomination process: say we had this category, and Beetle Ninja didn't even get nominated. Staff and people in the community could suggest it and get it added. (Actually I think that should be a thing for every category, not just sleeper hit, but that's a rant for another time).

Thanks so much, Housekeeping! ^_^

Thank you so much, Maki! Thanks for the awesome hugging art too! :DDDDD <3

Thank everyone for voting! And a huge thanks to Marrend, RpgmakerAddict and LordBlueRouge for working so hard to keep the Misaos awesome!!! Marrend, that breakdown of all the categories and games is incredible and is so nice to see!!!!

A huge thanks to everyone who voted for Weird and Unfortunate, I didn't expect to win multiple categories, much less game of the year! Thank you for such an incredible honor! I want to thank Sooz, Maki, Roden, JosephSeraph and everyone else who helped, and a huge shoutout to all the testers who helped make the game the best it could be!

I am so hyped for 2021's Misaos! Let's get even more great games out there, so many of them deserve so much more attention than they get!!!

Yeah, both Moonsong and Exile's Journey definitely deserve a feature, perhaps Moonsong this month and Exile's Journey in March?