[Deptheads] Re: Play Testing at GAMEX?

[Eric Burgess]

We did Playtester's Corner the last couple of cons - it was more low-key at
Orccon because Norv Brooks, who normally runs it, wasn't around. It was
quite robust at Gateway.

I told Norv and David Mines that we could run it this con if they wanted
and advised them to put their events on the schedule so they would get
mention rather than just organizing among themselves. They're there now and
I told they we could probably work out prizes or Small tournament payouts
for their games to encourage people to play. Steve Jones from Blue Panther,
a perennial supporter of our SoCal Playtesters, offered to give out
discounts on Blue Panther products to participants as well.

This all came together in the last week so I'm a bit behind on laying it
all out. Sorry - work's been killing me.

Anyway, I'll write to Andrea. I'm sure we can add some of their events to
the schedule and treat them the same way. If we can't afford to designate a
room for the Playtester's Corner they are very happy to just run their
events in the main BG room and I figured if it comes to that, we can put
them on the side near the library and VIP/demo tables with Borg, Jolly and
AEG. They actually liked more exposure in the big room. Plus, we have the
Q&A event on game design with Borg and Jolly as well (which the playtesters
will all attend). I can only think this event will appeal to the students
as well.

I'll write a message (heck, copy and paste some of this one) to Andrea.

...ERB
www.boardgamebabylon.com
www.strategicon.net


On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Neil Figuracion <fadtwentythree at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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