[Event] Johannesburg Community Evening - 8 May 2018
This event happens monthly, is free to attend and anyone may speak at the meetup - just comment in the thread below to let us know!
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Tuesday 8 May
Where: Microsoft Campus Bryanston, 3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston, Johannesburg. Auditorium 3
Content
- 6:00 - 7:00 Grab food elsewhere + bonding time (Microsoft serves food at 6pm and it generally goes quite fast.)
- Introductions
- Community News (5 min)
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- @TheCorinthian - Entelect Challenge (15 min)
- @Moon - Useful Gamification: from theory to practice (15 min)
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- Demo Slot 1 (10 min)
- Demo Slot 2(10 min)
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- Playtest Pitchathon (if you're playtesting a game, we ask that you give a 30 second pitch to the room about what the game is, before we all break off and play things).
Bring your games and set them up inside the auditorium before and after the meetup!
Board game prototypes can and will be played so bring along your prototypes!
If you intend to attend, please indicate so on the Facebook event (Not mandatory, so don't worry if you don't have/use Facebook)
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If you are interested in giving a talk or demo for a meetup, drop a reply in the thread with what you'd like to do or send me a PM :)
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Tuesday 8 May
Where: Microsoft Campus Bryanston, 3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston, Johannesburg. Auditorium 3
Content
- 6:00 - 7:00 Grab food elsewhere + bonding time (Microsoft serves food at 6pm and it generally goes quite fast.)
- Introductions
- Community News (5 min)
==
- @TheCorinthian - Entelect Challenge (15 min)
- @Moon - Useful Gamification: from theory to practice (15 min)
===
- Demo Slot 1 (10 min)
- Demo Slot 2(10 min)
===
- Playtest Pitchathon (if you're playtesting a game, we ask that you give a 30 second pitch to the room about what the game is, before we all break off and play things).
Bring your games and set them up inside the auditorium before and after the meetup!
Board game prototypes can and will be played so bring along your prototypes!
If you intend to attend, please indicate so on the Facebook event (Not mandatory, so don't worry if you don't have/use Facebook)
===
If you are interested in giving a talk or demo for a meetup, drop a reply in the thread with what you'd like to do or send me a PM :)
Comments
We may even have the design team come along to answer questions around how they did the video for the challenge.
We may be able to explore this, not necessarily for the meetup, but perhaps for the post discussions, where agenda vote is replaced by topic vote. Just throwing it out there as a consideration, as I think with Lean Coffee it can make the discussion more valuable for more people.
I like the idea of the panel. Much like when Luke brought the industry guys from the States through to have a chat. That Q&A or topic approach could be very useful I think.
My main reason for the suggestion is that I would like to ensure everyone at the meetup feels invested in the discussion and not as on-lookers. People sometimes sit there quietly, so getting a gauge of how they feel would be great.
It worked very well, with almost all of the attendees getting involved in the discussion.
So, for a bigger group what helps is that the person / people who's topics are chosen for discussion have to speak first and set the scope for the discussion, to prevent hour long tangents.
The facilitator also needs to be strict, to keep discussion on topic and manage the space properly.
The only thing that can take some time with a big group is the voting on topics. Splitting the groups could work as well.
The panel style discussion could work, but you may end up with the same people on the panel everytime.
I think there should be a purpose to the discussion, someone that actually needs information on the topic, maybe posting in the thread and getting the topic ready beforehand would be good, could even lead to some preparation?
They'd walk past the board and mark two topics. It was pretty fast, about two minutes. What helped is that all the topics we're announced as they we're being stuck up on the board. So people got a chance to start formulating what they wanted to vote for while queueing for the voting.
Currently I'm leaning to a hybrid of presenter organised talks and lean coffee mix:
If we have someone that wants to present a topic then they'd do a pitch on the topic, and those interested go and talk about the topic.
If there is a lack of a dedicated speaker then we do a lean coffee / design salon type thing.
That said these will be opt in, and happen after the general section of the meetup, so at the same time that people are milling about playing games and just chatting.
I'll have slides and graphs to better illustrate this when I speak at the next meetup, and as above this is what I think will happen, but I want a feedback from the community about the changes before we go making them.