GenCon demo fest Wednesday night

[Clinton R. Nixon]

Peoples of the Forge,

Wednesday night, I will be organizing a demo-fest. I'm sure you've got a 10-minute demo of your game, right? I'd like to help you get better at it, and I'd kind of like to learn how to run a 10-minute demo of your game myself.

Without knowing plans, but knowing previous years and whatnot, I'm making an arbitrary time of 7:30 in the Embassy Suites lobby. Eat before then or bring food and gather. The more people we have, the more we can get out of this.

If you have a reason this is a bad idea (besides the DJA, already considered) feel free to bring it up here if and only if you have a solution. Otherwise, come on down to the Embassy Suites tomorrow night (!) and have some 10-minute demos!

[Justin D. Jacobson]

Thanks for organizing this, Clinton. I'll be there.

[Clinton R. Nixon]

Sweet, Justin. I want to play Passages pretty bad.

[JohnU]

General population welcome?  Or is this more for game designers tweeking their demos?

Thanks, really looking forward to the IPR/Forge booth.

[Clinton R. Nixon]

General population welcome?  Or is this more for game designers tweeking their demos?

John,

Demo-tweaking. My apologies - but there will be plenty of time for other play later. I don't expect this to be fun, actually - speed demoing isn't.

[TonyLB]

I'll be there with the new revision of the Capes speed-demo.  I'm eager to learn other people's speed-demos, too.

Clinton ... do you have a ten minute demo for TSoY?  That would be HAWT!

[Michael S. Miller]

Peoples of the Forge,

Wednesday night, I will be organizing a demo-fest.

As if anyone needed further proof that Clinton is THE MAN! I'll be there, With Great Power box in-hand.

[Nathan P.]

I'm in like sin, baby.

[Clinton R. Nixon]

Clinton ... do you have a ten minute demo for TSoY?  That would be HAWT!

Tony,

You meant the one I've run at every convention, including GenCon last year? Yes.

[TonyLB]

You meant the one I've run at every convention, including GenCon last year? Yes.

Ah, my bad.  Inattentive.  I definitely want to see how you get the system across that fast.

GenCon is definitely getting me buzzed.

[John Harper]

I'll be there with Agon.

[Ben Lehman]

I'm pretty happy with the Polaris demo, but I'll be there to play everyone else's.

yrs--
--Ben

[TonyLB]

And to teach yours, right?

Because, man, I don't want to do the sock-puppets thing any more.

[Blankshield]

I'll be there with the Death's Door demo kit.  The demo's pretty solid, but (I strongly suspect) runs over for time, so I need work there.

Plus, I want to get a whole whack of other folks' demos under my belt.

-J

[joepub]

You guys, I just want to say a big thank you for putting this Demo Fest on, wednesday night.
I, personally, got a lot out of it.

I had no idea what Dictionary of Mu was before Judd's demo.
I had no idea how Capes worked before Tony's demo.
I had no idea about a couple different games I sat in on.

Just those few hours of demo's gave me the confidence and understanding of the games to pitch them, to talk about them, and to get others excited about them.
And... in a pinch I could even have demo'd some of them.