So I am getting all excited about releasing B-Movie at Games expo and have started thinking about how to demo it to people, especially as I will hopefully be demoing to families.
Now the full game can take only 30 mins or so, and so I have two options.
1) Let the play a hand, with cards prechosen by me and then do a selling phase. Demo done. This may only take about 5-10 mins.
2) Tweak the rules to make it a 15 minute game. I would probably just lower the win condition. However, this runs the risk of someone winning in one hand and that looking bad to the punter.
Any opinions on which I should go for. I am thinking 1) may be my best bet as I can get more demos in that way.
I am getting a demo mat done for the game as well as some promotional giveaways as well but more on that near the time as I get things together.
Cheers
Iain
Simple
Submitted by Malcolm Craig on Thu, 10/04/2008 - 04:43.
Deal cards.
Play game for 15 mins.
Done.
Seriously, I would just play the game for fifteen minutes. You'll easily get at least one person completing a film title by that point. The game is good and I don't think it requires any special tweaking in order to make a valid and engaging demo. As long as people are aware that you will only be playing for 15 minutes, then it's all good.
Cheers
Malcolm
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Fair point. Now I just need
Submitted by Iain McAllister on Thu, 10/04/2008 - 06:48.
Fair point. Now I just need to get my patter down!
Cheers
Iain
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The game's good, you don't
Submitted by Joe Murphy on Thu, 10/04/2008 - 08:26.
The game's good, you don't need to get to a 'win' in 15 minutes. If you did, there's a good chance some people would think every game was so quick.
Patterwise, practice saying some of it out loud. See how the words flow, or don't. Particularly the system and mechanics of it.
I will try it out on some
Submitted by Iain McAllister on Thu, 10/04/2008 - 19:30.
I will try it out on some volunteers, read victims, before the con. From the point of view of families I don't want to make things sound too complicated or babble!
cheers
Iain
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