[Deptheads] Re: Play Testing at GAMEX?

[Neil Figuracion]

We haven't had a person to run playtesters corner in a year. If we take
that up again it's in Shane's court. We'll have to recruit a staff member
to run it.

twenty-three-skidoo,

Neil Figuracion
On May 8, 2012 4:15 PM, "Tim" <tim at stugiii.com> wrote:

>  Anyone know how to contact the folks who ran Playtest Corner?  If not
> anyone want to take a stab at this...  It is exactly the kind of thing I
> think we need and it gets us exposure to what might be a different set of
> possible attendees...
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 5/8/2012 12:56 PM, Andrea Phillips wrote:
>
> Hi Eric!
>
> I've been volunteering at Strategicon for 2 years--usually at board game
> HQ, but this time I'm volunteering under Eric Downing as the Community
> Outreach rep.
>
> I've invited a game design class from Mt. San Antonio College to Gamex,
> and the professor extended the invitation to a few of his other art/design
> classes so I've got about 50 kids interested in attending under the
> invitation (although I'm counting on maybe only half showing up).  There
> was also interest expressed by the initially invited class, who design and
> develop their own board/card/computer games, to have their games
> play-tested at the convention.
>
> Do you know if Playtest Corner will be running at GAMEX this year?  I
> believe I remember there being one at Gateway last year, but I don't know
> who was running it or how to contact them.  If there isn't going to be any
> official (amateur) playtesting event, could you please let me know so I can
> inform the professor that his students should not submit games?
>
> Thank you for your help!  Feel free to call or e-mail me your answer.
> (Also, I think it might be helpful to volunteers and staff to have a forum
> to communicate with one another, which would help with the organization of
> events.)
>
> Andrea Phillips
> amphillips87 at gmail.com
> (909) 706-2485
>
> cc: Chris Carlson, Tim Keennon, John Paiva, Eric Downing, Shawn Hendrix,
> Kryssie Mackey, and Taralyn Frasqueri-Molina, Tanya Aldrich, Neil
> Figuracion, Shane Sauby, Karl Kreder, and Dan O'Farrell
>
>
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