Game designers are invited to attend the Boardgames Australia Game Designer Protospiel Session at Expo 2010

This event offers an opportunity for game designers, new or established, to bring a prototype game and play it with other designers. The chance to acquire for feedback from other designers, as well as sharing advice and contacts will make this a valuable and fun event.

Please spread this invitation to anyone you think may be interested. We are restricting attendees to game designers to minimize concerns around intellectual property.

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Date: Sunday January 24

Time: 10 - 5 pm

Venue: Upstairs in Coorong Pavilion in the Pelican Room, Exhibition Park In Canberra, Flemington Road, Mitchell, ACT

Contact: Richard Vickery  0431 664400

Cost: free

Format of the day:
4 ninety minute play-testing sessions.
We will assign you to groups for each session.
You will be asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement that you will not discuss the games you playtest outside of the event.
You commit to playing3 other games and providing feedback on them.

There will be a break for lunch with a published gae designer along for a Q&A session.


What you need to do and bring:

* Before the day
Complete the form below

* On the day
Bring your prototype to play.

The sessions will be 90 minutes long.
This time includes:

rules explanation
set-up
play
debrief

We suggest you allow 30 minutes to debrief your session. This means that if your
game takes more than 45-60 minutes to play, you will need to figure out a way of
truncating it for test purposes.

Bring paper and pen to write notes about the feedback you get.

We will provide a contact list of all participants to enable exchange of information after the event.

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