I'll only bug you guys about this after Friday if it's simply to thank you. I really need your help, though.
 
Okay, so, if you've read my Child of Eden review, you know I'm a huge Tetsuya Mizuguchi fan. He's my game design hero (not to be confused with the upcoming Activision-published Game Design Hero). There's a game development contest over at Kongregate that I've submitted three entries in to, and the top twenty games get put in front of Mizuguchi for him to judge.
 
I'm so absurdly and cripplingly emotionally invested in this contest. It might be silly, but it really is very important to me. Even though there's a total of $15,000 worth of prizes for first, second, and third place (to put it in more meaningful terms: 1.5 million Wii Points), my goal is simply to get one or more of my games in front of my hero. So, please go over to Kongregate, make an account if you don't already have one, and help rate my games up into the top 20. Two of them are right on the edge, and I think the other is a better game than what its current rating suggests. 
 
As I type this, my highest rated game is at #25 and there are only 28 hours left to rate games in the contest before the top 20 are locked in. For the past month I've been working really hard towards this contest and it's pretty much all I've been thinking about. Like I said, it's not about the money. I just want to get a game of mine in front of my hero.
 
Even if you don't like Child of Eden, Mizuguchi, or Kongregate...surely you don't want my Friday night to be mired in disappointment, right?  So, please help me by clicking the links below and giving my games at least 3 stars to bring their ratings up. I'd appreciate it more than I can express. 
 
Thanks, guys. Here are the links:  
ffShmup (37th as of this post)
foggy fields: Play, Create, & Listen (25th as of this post)
foggy fields: Kongregate Bonus Track (26th as of this post) 
 
Note to mods: I know this is pretty much just advertising. GIve me a break, please. It's not like I've contributed nothing to Giant Bomb. I've got a good many wiki points and I've had more than one well-regarded and/or spotlighted review. I love this site and its community, and I just hope (and believe) that people here are generous enough to help me by clicking a few buttons for me.