EGE Cape Town - Make Games SA Stand
Hi Guys,
We've been invited to have a stand to show off local games at the up coming EGE Expo later this month (http://www.egesa.co.za/).
Things have been a bit touch and go on whether we would be able to attend (mainly due to sponsorship), so apologies for the very short notice.
As it stands I've managed to negotiate us a stand that is 27m^2 right near the entrance of the Expo (see the floorplan here: http://www.impactexpo.co.za/downloads/egesa/EGE-2015.pdf ; we are C5, C6 and C8)
We've been given the floor space essentially for free, but we need to pay for things like the shell scheme, powerpoints, carpeting etc etc.
I'd like to have some of the space dedicated to Make Games (i.e. what we the organisation is about). The remaining space will be used to show off your games :)
So far Broforce has confirmed they will come, as has Desktop Dungeons (they have both contributed to cover our costs).
What we still need:
6 other local games that would like to be showcased (If you are going to show case your game, you need to be present to man your stand as well, given we are short some cash if you'd be willing to contribute to the outstanding amount that would be great. JHB guys if you can get down in time awesome :) )
R15,000.00
Volunteers to help run the stand.
Mobile Joust Station + controllers + speakers.
I'd also like to use this as an opportunity to dry-run some ideas for rAge this year, so if all the people present can commit to half-day meeting/workshop thing the week before the Expo that would be great :)
Any questions or if you'd like to showcase/help you can dm me or post on here
Nick
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Update
So responses haven't been overwhelming, which means we got space for everyone!
So confirmed attendees are:
FreeLives - Broforce, Mergazords
QCF - Desktop Dungeons
GameLancer - Goobie Labs
Made with Monster Love - Cadence
Clockwork Acorn - ?
Punk Arcade - Zx
Vietnam 65
Joust!
I'll be emailing you individually with the stand layout along with what you will need to bring.
We are still R15000 short, so if you feel like contributing in making this happen please let me know!
We've been invited to have a stand to show off local games at the up coming EGE Expo later this month (http://www.egesa.co.za/).
Things have been a bit touch and go on whether we would be able to attend (mainly due to sponsorship), so apologies for the very short notice.
As it stands I've managed to negotiate us a stand that is 27m^2 right near the entrance of the Expo (see the floorplan here: http://www.impactexpo.co.za/downloads/egesa/EGE-2015.pdf ; we are C5, C6 and C8)
We've been given the floor space essentially for free, but we need to pay for things like the shell scheme, powerpoints, carpeting etc etc.
I'd like to have some of the space dedicated to Make Games (i.e. what we the organisation is about). The remaining space will be used to show off your games :)
So far Broforce has confirmed they will come, as has Desktop Dungeons (they have both contributed to cover our costs).
What we still need:
6 other local games that would like to be showcased (If you are going to show case your game, you need to be present to man your stand as well, given we are short some cash if you'd be willing to contribute to the outstanding amount that would be great. JHB guys if you can get down in time awesome :) )
R15,000.00
Volunteers to help run the stand.
Mobile Joust Station + controllers + speakers.
I'd also like to use this as an opportunity to dry-run some ideas for rAge this year, so if all the people present can commit to half-day meeting/workshop thing the week before the Expo that would be great :)
Any questions or if you'd like to showcase/help you can dm me or post on here
Nick
*************
Update
So responses haven't been overwhelming, which means we got space for everyone!
So confirmed attendees are:
FreeLives - Broforce, Mergazords
QCF - Desktop Dungeons
GameLancer - Goobie Labs
Made with Monster Love - Cadence
Clockwork Acorn - ?
Punk Arcade - Zx
Vietnam 65
Joust!
I'll be emailing you individually with the stand layout along with what you will need to bring.
We are still R15000 short, so if you feel like contributing in making this happen please let me know!
Comments
sent you a DM.
Problem with a mobile Joust station is that we need some nice loud speakers for the game which means that we we're going to need to make a stand with a 12v battery and a something to grab power from it for the speakers. I doubt a laptop will have enough power for speakers loud enough for an expo.
So if there is any place left I would be interested
What I'm wondering is if we could set up any other games there. Possibly Merger Zerds, or Trip the Light Fantastic (which being an Occulus game does blow a few minds). Although Broforce works pretty well on a show floor, I'm not sure that we'd need to demo anything else... just wondering.
Though there are the "eSports" events, which I'd hope would be entertaining as well as bring in a few people.
And I can possibly take a shift as well
So we've recieved some responses, thanks to those who have show interest and have volunteered.
Given the time issues, you will have till this Wednesday to let me know if you want your game to be at the booth or not. After that I'll look at who has expressed interest and then decide the line-up from there (though by the looks of it, everyone who has expressed interest will be able to show).
Nick
Thanks to Rodain who has contributed R3k as well :) We're down to R9k to cover anyone else?
Is there anyone who, in exchange for money, would be able to help? Or know of someone who would be willing to help?
We're hoping to display Merger Zerds on one computer (which was quite a hit at Super Friendship Arcade) and Broforce on another.
We're trying to have someone from Free Lives there during the entire conference, but even that is stretching us thin. Ideally we'd like for our stands to be manned by people who love our games and want to promote us, but, if a person is willing to be physically there, we're willing to compromise for a person that hates our games and seeks to sabotage all our future plans (in exchange for money).
Typical, just typical...
We've got to make sure you've got exhibitor's passes. Could you PM me with contact telephone numbers, names, probably ID numbers... I've got to get them to @LexAquillia today, unless @LexAquillia already has these details.
We do have a shift sheet... though I don't have it myself (and shift sheet barer is not in the office right now).
We will help out as much as we can since Gloobies Lab is easier to manage, but we just need to keep eye on our mobile devices since we can't lock them to table. Also all 3 of us will be there 24/7 so we not going to have much rest, but we any case plan to play test all your games and point out all the bugs in it ha ha.
If anyone has a super HD android tablet we can use to demo on, it will be appreciated?!
Morne@GameLancer.net if anyone needs to arrange with us.
It was a small convention. There wasn't a lot of stuff to see. But certainly some attendees had a rad time at the Make Games stand.
All in all. It seemed like a solid proof of concept. It far surpassed my expectations and I'm glad we could be involved.
Also, thank you to all the volunteers and helpers at Make Games SA!!!!!!!!!!
Starting to realise the value of expos isn't exposure, it's getting to practice your marketing pitch hundreds of times with ultra rapid iteration. That and watching people play your game for three days is a really intense playtest bootcamp!
Also well done to the Gloobies stand. The had a win a plushy competition, and now have a mailing list of over 200 odd people. That's a pretty great win!
It looks as though EGE will definitely be happening again next year, so I hope we will be attending again :)
Yes we got an email list of 245 emails (and a few installs also), now I have to go through them and see how many are readable and type it into excel. Then we will ask Nick to do an independent selection for the winners. Thanks Nick for keeping our Gloobies safe as well!!
Probably the best thing was the exposure, and 2nd best the feedback we got from our customers on the game. Thank you so much for all whom played our game, and we tried to play all yours. Now we know what to improve in the next iteration as well as what we did well.
Looking forward to more of these with you in future!
DD itself is out of the feedback phase, but it felt good watching the tutorials do their job and we didn't really feel like we had empty demo stations for very long at all. The new thing we were trying was selling keys directly at our stand: How do you introduce that, when are people likely to buy, etc. We ended up selling 31 copies throughout the expo, with quite a few people coming back after drawing money to get the game at a reduced price (compared to Steam). Lots of people assumed we could accept cards, which I guess means they think we're professional :P Snapscan hadn't occurred to us before the show, but could easily be worthwhile thing to look into if you're looking to sell a bunch of stuff. @damousey wins the everything for being great at getting people to look at the game and just obviously being super hyped all weekend.
I also had a lot of fun introducing people to the other games in the stand (and blowing their minds when I told them every game here was from a different South African games studio). Lots of advertising MGSA, telling people about the forum or how they could make their own stuff, people sounding really excited about the meetups, etc.
Looking forward to the next one! Although I have to admit that I'm glad it'll only be next year ;)
This community of game developers are really some of the nicest people I've ever met, and I hope that I can make the same meaningful contribution to the community in the coming year.