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=== Alcott Conference Room for Saturday === | === Alcott Conference Room for Saturday === | ||
I have a meeting room reserved at the Westin for Saturday from 12 noon until 12 midnight, connected to the convention. It's 1,035sqft (41ft x 29ft) and seats up to 100 people. We'll have a theatre (rowed seats) layout. | I have a meeting room reserved at the Westin for Saturday from 12 noon until 12 midnight, connected to the convention. It's 1,035sqft (41ft x 29ft) and seats up to 100 people. We'll have a theatre (rowed seats) layout. I ([[David Cornelson]]) am currently covering the cost of the room, but would appreciate a few people chipping in, if you're inclined and able to. | ||
==== Internet Connectivity ==== | ==== Internet Connectivity ==== | ||
The cost of a dedicated line is prohibitive ($1,300). Individual Wi-Fi connections can be purchased for the day at $50, but I think I need to notify the Westin ahead of time. | The cost of a dedicated line is prohibitive ($1,300). Individual Wi-Fi connections can be purchased for the day at $50, but I think I need to notify the Westin ahead of time. | ||
==== Food ==== | ==== Food ==== | ||
Revision as of 22:29, 20 January 2011
PAX East is an annual convention put on by the team at Penny Arcade. You should go. Last year rocked.
Things that will happen
We all go out to eat before PAX (Thursday night).
Official PAX events
PAX has confirmed the following two events on their schedule. Neither is IF-specific, but these are the ones including IF people:
- "Interactive Drama: Dialogue as Gameplay" -- Jonathon Myers, Stephen Dinehart, Evan Skolnick, Emily Short, John Gonzalez
- "How to fund your game development project with Kickstarter" -- Cindy Au, Andrew Plotkin, Joshua Newman, Evan Balster
Alcott Conference Room for Saturday
I have a meeting room reserved at the Westin for Saturday from 12 noon until 12 midnight, connected to the convention. It's 1,035sqft (41ft x 29ft) and seats up to 100 people. We'll have a theatre (rowed seats) layout. I (David Cornelson) am currently covering the cost of the room, but would appreciate a few people chipping in, if you're inclined and able to.
Internet Connectivity
The cost of a dedicated line is prohibitive ($1,300). Individual Wi-Fi connections can be purchased for the day at $50, but I think I need to notify the Westin ahead of time.
Food
We must order food/beverages 15 days ahead of time from http://bostonwaterfront.westinemenus.com/. We cannot bring any of our own food or beverages into the meeting room. There's a union rule that bars outside food. I'm trying to get a barrel of soda and water setup and possibly veggie and chip trays.
SpeedIF
I'd like to propose we do an open Speed-IF on Saturday. We'll do the madlib topic selections in the early afternoon and people have until 10pm to submit their works to me. - David Cornelson
Other events
- An IF play event. (Basically a real-life ClubFloyd -- we throw a game up on a projector screen and give somebody the keyboard. Someone else reads the output out loud.)
- Grue Street IF writer's workshop. (Somewhat modified to be a public event. People bring in-progress IF work, we play them together and critique.)
- Suggestion: IF-room discussion on puzzles as a way to tell story, not just a pacing device or way to control access
- "Setting as character in narrative games" -- I proposed this as a PAX panel (Andrew Plotkin, Rob Wheeler, Stephen Granade, John Gonzalez (Obsidian), Dean Tate (Harmonix)). It wasn't accepted, but we should do it for our own program. I've emailed everybody on the original list.