Well, I'm going to be there so I will

(a) be more than happy to help staff the booth
(b) be desperate to run D&H demos to anyone and everyone (I have legos and I am not afraid to use them!)
(c) chip into costs
(d) help in print production stuff and anything else I can

I don't think I'm quite up to running the IGT though!!!

Cheers
Neil

Take the King's shilling at http://www.omnihedron.co.uk/dutyandhonour/

I'd be happy to run games, particularly Shock, Bliss Stage, Breaking The Ice, and The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach.

If by some stroke of luck my game is in a fit state soon, I might even consider that.

I'd be happy to help in other ways, but I've never even been to a con, so I might be a bit out of my depth for a first go 'round.

Getting very excited for my first con! Yay!

What does running the Indie Games Track entail?

I'll happily buy into the booth, for Play Unsafe, and pay for part of an advert.

Graham

It'll be great, Pooka.

Running the Indie Games Track just involves someone being the point man/woman for getting a schedule organised or figuring out how you're going to do the games during the weekend.

The timing of the regular RPG slots is up on the website: http://www.conpulsion.org

You might want to break the longer Indie Games Track games "in phase" with those times so that people can switch between games easier. You might also want to organise games that are only an hour long or whatever?

The con has set aside the gaming area on the now-really-easily-accessed balcony in the Mezzanine (i.e. above the CE booth accessed via the stairs next to the CE booth) for demo games, the Indie Games Track and free play/open tables. So there are plenty of small round tables that a 2-4 person game could run around (or put two tables next to each other for more players/space). So, we have a gaming area but I think it would make sense to have some sort of schedule so people know what their committments are (and also so that you can advertise the games that will be on and rope in players).

Someone might even want to do a Games On Demand thing. That's cool too and folks might want to do that. There could be a demand for a playtest track. (Edit: playtest track...)

Events-wise... Vincent is pencilled to do a games design thing on Sunday at 11 to 2. Then John Wilson's 24-minute RPG competition will kick off (with an artistic twist this year) and run during Sunday afternoon.

(edit: crossposted with Gregor)

Running the IGT would be getting GMs and games together, plan a schedule for track games during the two days. Last time I participated, interested players signed up for games at the reception, and there was a central place for IGT games. I believe this year we have a whole balcony, so we could have several games running along each other.

Sometimes we had to chase people around or even persuade onlookers to join for a demo.

I'm up for working with someone on it - maybe Joe the Murph is interested as well - he was thinking of doing some kind of games on demand add-on as well.

Per
http://darkplaces.squarespace.com

Just as a quick tangent from the main purpose of this thread, but I think that a Games On Demand section should seriously be considered. The weekend just past was Kapcon here in Wellington, where the con saw the first ever GOD room. It's a small con, about 120 - 140 people, but the GOD room was rocking. We had at least two tables playing in each session and lots of cool games got played.

Attendees were really enthusiastic about it and it generated great buzz. Some people even spent most of the con there!

The follow up thread where we talk about our experiences can be found here.

Thought this might be a useful reference point.

Cheers
Malcolm

Contested Ground Studios

...go about organizing a Games On Demand thingmy? It sounds great, I'd be happy to help with that.

It all went very smoothly. We had a room with enough space for three gaming tables, we had 'facilitators' (at least 2) on hand during every session and a table displaying an array of games. Prior to the con, the four of us had said what games we would be bringing along and what games we were comfortable running/facilitating.

We allowed people to browse the games prior to each session, express their preferences and then we wrote up the list of nominated games. It was then a process of finding which two (or three) people would most like to play in. It was all very convivial and easily managed. One important thing was that you signed up for GOD like you would for another games session, it wasn't a 'wander in half way through kind of thing'. So, you turned up at GOD wanting a game, knowing that this was your game for a given session.

Oh yes, and we had pile of character sheets, work sheets, and so on. Plus pre-gens for games that required them.

It all worked very well, really.

Contested Ground Studios

I'm looking forward to this more and more! :D

I'm sold on the GOD thing (pun intended). I think it could work as an even more effective IGT - plus it would roll and bend with the general mood among the punters.

I'll even help organising it.

Per
http://darkplaces.squarespace.com

I'm interested. I'll even help organising it, too. I'll start up another thread later on.

Joe.

From my POV:

G.O.D. sounds like a great idea. I'd love to see it in action, it seems like one of these things which sounds like it ought to be really cool yet I cannot personally fathom how it could possibly work. Obviously it does, because various cons make it work and quite organically from what I can tell. So yay!

Not sure how much I can contribute to G.O.D. I'm not familiar enough with and have not run a massive variety of indie games. But could be easily persuaded to play almost anything. I imagine that Claire is in the same boat.

I'll organise the IGT if nobody else has time/can be arsed to do it. How hard can it be, right? Someone more familiar with the con might be a better choice mind you.

Count me in for the stall and I fully endorse putting an ad in the programme. Not that we need any more bloody members from Edinburgh mind you ;^)

I might even have a version of Urban Mythos worth testing by then.

There's no way I can get to Edinburgh to help out on the day and I've no books in the country at the moment to send up for sale (darn fulfilment house taking forever to get things done *grumble*grumble) but I'll gladly chip in a bit with costs for the stall anyway. That said, it'd help a lot if I could send my part of the donations to someone via Paypal. How are payments like that usually handled?

Ash

Is the Ad/Stall price per person or per ad and stall?

At £10 an ad it's very tempting to put aside a little beer money and slap together a D&H ad as a 'coming soon' trial.

Neil

Take the King's shilling at http://www.omnihedron.co.uk/dutyandhonour/

...but I'll probably chip in on expenses to get a bit of promo, if someone drops me details at the appropriate time.

Tim Gray
Silver Branch Games
www.silverbranch.co.uk

Actually, it looks like my attendance might be less than definite all of a sudden.

Probably best not to rely on me for anything Conpulsion related at this stage.

And equally happy for someone else to do it.

I'm happy either way.

I am a generally happy person.

Graham