Next Design Competition

["mschoessow" <mschoessow@...>]

Hello all,

   I'd like to solicit comments and suggestions regarding the dates 
for the next piecepack game design competition. If we keep it as 
aquarterly event, then the next one should end around the beginning 
of November. We could extend the time though and have the competition 
end sometime in January. A longer time would allow for more leisurely 
game invention, play-testing, and rule writing, and hopefully to 
garner more entries, but some people may not wish to reduce the 
number of contests per year. Either way is fine from my point of 
view. It also occured to me that a compromise would be to just extend 
it 3-4 weeks, however I don't want to be doing lots of play-testing 
right before Christmas, partly because of my own schedule and partly 
because I'm worried about finding sufficient co-testers to play with 
around the holiday season. So my preference would be to have the 
closing date for the next competition be either around the beginning 
of November OR sometime around the first two weeks of January.  

   I welcome all comments and suggestions!

   And, I encourage you all to think about game design! Once a date 
is set I will post the "official" rules of the next competition, 
including the new theme.

-Mike

mschoessow@...