The Game Plan
Albert Andersen
Jesse Burneko
thread served a utilitarian purpose beyond brainstorming and
enthusiasm building. So, if I understand this correctly if I want to
*run* something I should listed it on that page so that people have
the opportunity to request it. The schedule is built from participant
game requests rather than event runners posting events.
Interesting.
Jesse
On Mar 10, 6:36 pm, Albert Andersen <double...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there, Nerdlyites! Some announcements
>
> *1. Attendance -* We're in good shape for attendance this year. If you count
> all who have either registered or contributed to the Bring Some Game page
> (plus Paul), we're at *21* adults, plus a child and a couple of babies. This
> puts us neck and neck with Nerdly Beach Party II's record-setting 23
> attendees (two of which were kids, and one non-playing wife). There's no
> shortage of space, mind you, so don't hesitate to recruit another friend or
> two to come along!
>
> *2. Game Scheduling - *The next major step is to figure out our game
> schedule. Like last time, there will be three scheduled game slots: Friday
> Night, Saturday Afternoon, and Saturday Night. Mornings and interstitial
> times will be open pickup gaming. We've found this to be a good balance
> between planned and spontaneous. In general, most board games and
> shorter-form pick-up-and-play RPGs will end up in the pickup gaming time,
> while the scheduled events tend more towards the RPGs (though if we have a
> board game like Twilight Imperium, that will probably deserve a scheduled
> slot)
>
> NBPV's game schedule process worked pretty well, so we'll be doing a very
> similar one this time. Here's what it looks like:
>
> *Before 3 weeks out: *From now until three weeks before the event is for
> generating ideas. It's all about the Bring Some Game page, but feel free to
> chime in with questions or suggestions straight to the list. The more
> vibrant and varied contributions we have from all of you, the better. I urge
> every one of you to go over to that page to add some games you could bring
> and some games you want others to bring.
>
> *3 Weeks out: *Once we hit three weeks out, I will put out the Official call
> for requests. Each of you will email me with a list of games you would want
> to play in if there was a scheduled game of it, taken from the list of games
> people have offered to bring. I then take all of these e-mails and compile
> the Official Schedule. Unless you explicitly offer to run more, nobody will
> be asked to run more than one game. If everyone pitches in, this will be
> easy.
>
> *2 Weeks out:* With the official schedule posted (probably 4-5 games in each
> time slot), each of you will e-mail me with participation priority for each
> slot.
>
> *1 Week out: *I throw all those e-mails into a spreadsheet and hopefully
> come up with a schedule that satisfies everyone. For NBPV, all but 1 person
> got into at least 2 of their 3 first-choice games. I can't promise this will
> be as good, but I'm hoping it will be close. (also, if you haven't
> registered by this point, you get lower priority)
>
> *Zero Hour: *We all show up at San Simeon and have a great time!
Albert Andersen
Albert Andersen
Jesse Burneko
It just seems like a lot of work for you.
Jesse
On Mar 11, 5:19 pm, Albert Andersen <double...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, if there's something you really want to run, that means you have
> to sell it to the group, get enough people interested that it gets on the
> schedule.
> -Albert
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Albert Andersen <double...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > That's exactly right. This is a small enough con, with few enough scheduled
> > slots, that it works best if supply and demand can meet in the middle and
> > talk to each other, rather than just throwing stuff out there and hoping
> > enough of it sticks.
>
> > -Albert
>