GenCon 2006 Booth Menu Draft and Redraft

[timfire]

Shock: Social Science Fiction will be there, but you have to ask Joshua how much he's selling it for.

[LordSmerf]

Just so you know, according to the current GenCon event schedule (updated April 24), all the Indie Games Explosion games are going to be in room 205.  The Games on Demand track has been given tables 7 and 8 in that room for the duration of the convention.  So you can get rid of those X's.

Thomas

[Jonathan Walton]

Yeah, there's also Push: New Thinking About Roleplaying whose genre should probably be "journal/zine." It retails for $17.

[Iskander]

New draft of the menu is up. (You may need to refresh your browser - I'm overwriting the PDF as I go. This version is using a b/w Forge logo.)

Thanks again to everyone who's posted corrections, updates and confirmations.

Jason - my understanding (and I am - as ever - ready for corrections) is that the menu is a list of what is on sale. The idea being that people may wander off with a z-folded menu and crucify their wallets online later. Games that can be demoed will be indicated with an asterisk - see the latest version for how that might look. Of course, indicating which is which will be tied to the next phase, which is getting a list of games that each monkey can demo.

Cheers,
Alexander


Stuff I Am Missing
1001 nights - Price (also, please confirm publisher)
kill puppies for satan - Price
Mechaton - Price
Shooting the Moon - Price
Dust Devils - Price (is the revision going to be at GenCon, Matt?)
Shock: Social Science Fiction - Price
Drowning and Falling - Price

Games I Thought I Would See And Don't, But I May Be Being Stupid
Agon
Kazekami Kyoko Kills Kublai Khan!
Seadog Tuxedo

Stuff EVERYONE Should Do Now
Please check what I have listed for your games minutely at this point. If there is a typo here, it will likely persist. Also, please double- and triple-check your URLs. Let me know of any typos (or confirm that I am neurotically flawless), either here or in PMs, as you prefer.

[John Harper]

one.seven design
Agon $20
(http://www.agon-rpg.com)

Available for demo (I'll even have little demo flyer giveaway thingies)

[Jonathan Walton]

KKKKK and Seadog are casualies of the One Game Policy.  I might have limited numbers to sell to compadres, but it's not going to be for sale at the booth.

[Denise]

Nice job.  I know some other typos/errors have been pointed out (Veitnam,kill puppies, Forge logo truncated, Operation Quick Launch should be on one line, etc) and suggestions made, so please bear with me for one more:

It's Gen Con, not GenCon.  They get cranky about such things.  (I should know, I had my wrist slapped for an inaccurate press release!)

By the way, were you guys aware of the new no flyer rule?

[Justin D. Jacobson]

By the way, were you guys aware of the new no flyer rule?

My understanding is that you can hand out flyers at the booth but not to random wandering convention goers. My understanding is that this menu is intended for the former.

[Iskander]

Thanks for the updates, all.

Denise - it sounds like you were looking at an older version of the menu: the current version doesn't mention Gen Con by name (yet - if it does, later, I'll be sure to get the name right!) Thanks, also, for reminding everyone that there are Gen Con policies, to which we - being good citizens - will all strive to conform. (Except possibly Keith: he's still acting out adolescent Pole fantasies.)

The Forge booth menu is intended as a reference for people who come to the booth, and would rather browse what is on offer at their leisure - perhaps online, even after the convention - than buy games then and there. Most of the small press and indie game designers represented at the booth are keen to have their games bought by people who will play them, so there's little perceived value in this community in the random distribution of marketing material. As a flyer, it would be a waste: the vast majority of Gen Con attendees are, alas, at the convention for other fare than that offered at the Forge booth. This document is really for those who have already drunk the Kool-Aid... or want their first taste.

[Keith Senkowski]

They are Faux Pole fantasies... get it right...

I know for fact that Dust Devils will not be at GenCon as we spoke today.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

I don't have time to read this whole thread tonight, as I just got home from martial arts class with a pulled ass muscle and have to go heal, but:

Shock: Social Science Fiction will retail for $23.

Under the Bed will retail for $16.

Thanks to Tim for pointing out this thread.

Now, to go nurse my butt.

[joepub]

Perfect is:

also available at www.incitefulentertainment.com

[btrc]

Alexander,
I emailed you (on the 19th) a list of all the BTRC stuff for the flyer. Did you get it?

Greg
BTRC

[Iskander]

Fauxlack, Joe, Joshua - thanks (and sorry to hear about your busted arse, Joshua).

Greg, your email seems to have got lost in the transfer of information, when I took over on the 23rd - can you re-post it here, or in PM to me, please?

Thanks,
Alexander

[Iskander]

Latest version (again, refresh your browsers, if you must. This version includes BTRC for the first time.)

Stuff I Am Missing
1001 nights - Price (also, please confirm publisher)
kill puppies for satan - Price
Mechaton - Price
Shooting the Moon - Price


What You Should Do With the Menu. Now.
- Check that the games you are eligible and able to demo are correctly marked.
- If you have corrected something, check that I did not introduce errors in the correction.
- Check the spelling (again) of everything you publish.
- Check the URLs. Again. Really. Forget ye not ye longe tail.
- Start pointing out any general typos, design quibbles, and that sort of thing. Given that there are some markedly variable aesthetics on the Forge, mine will prevail.